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Think Eat Move Thrive

The Practice for an Awesome Life

About The Book

Forget the fad diets—this program integrates mindfulness, eating with intention, and interval-based movement to help you live an inspired, healthier, and longer life.

In Think Eat Move Thrive, Dr. James Rouse and Dr. Debra Rouse offer a simple piece of advice that goes a long way: stop looking at your habits and body as obstacles and start looking within. By replacing quick fixes with mindfulness techniques and simple practices, you’ll feel better immediately and find lifelong wellness.

Based on science-supported medicine and healthy living research, Think Eat Move Thrive provides an easy formula integrating three key components: mindfulness, eating with intention, and interval-based movement. Flexible enough to be personalized for any lifestyle, this program will become as easy and natural as breathing. When we identify the source of our attitudes and redefine our intentions, we can actively move toward realizing our goals.

Complete with practices, recipes, and exercises, Think Eat Move Thrive is a proven, life-changing program for optimum wellness and longevity. The time for lasting change is now, and Think Eat Move Thrive is your prescription to reclaim the life you’ve always wanted.

About The Authors

Photograph by Katy Moses Photography

As a naturopathic doctor, entrepreneur, wellness magazine founder, motivational speaker, trainer, author, Ironman triathlete, father, and husband, Dr. James pretty much does it all.
Dr. James is well known for his highly engaging “Optimum Wellness” TV segments that highlight all areas of a wellness lifestyle, balancing mind, body, and spirit. He served as QVC’s Wellness Specialist from 2008 to 2013. Dr. James’s messages have been seen by audiences across the United States and around the world through both television and live appearances.

His wellness knowledge and passion for helping others live life optimally extends to creating healthy food products. Dr. James is cofounder and product formulator for Skoop, a functional nutrition line. He is cofounder of Clarity Beverages, an all-natural line of functional beverages. He was the founder and formulator of mix1 all-natural nutrition shakes. He consults for and is highly sought out in the world of nutriceuticals and functional nutrition.

Dr. James is passionate about the outdoors and all things related to mindful movement. He especially enjoys CrossFit, mountain biking, telemark skiing, hiking, weight training, and yoga and is the author of eight books, including the award-winning cookbook Colorado Fit Kitchen.

Photograph by Katy Moses Photography

Dr. Debra Rouse is a naturopathic doctor with extensive clinical experience in nutrition, botanical medicine, women’s and children’s health, and lifestyle medicine. She is not only intuitive but is a skilled diagnostician, who relishes getting to the cause of any problem.

Her passion for healthy living began at an early age and has continued to expand into entrepreneurial adventures. She is the cocreator of the Optimum Wellness media program, which includes television, web, and retail presence, as well as a quarterly magazine.

Debra is dedicated to educating and inspiring others to take charge of their health through community outreach seminars, articles, retreats, radio, and creating healthy recipes. She served as senior writer and editor for alternative and complementary medicine for Thomson Healthcare, and continues freelance writing and editing. Her writing and recipes have been featured in such magazines as Delicious Living, Better Nutrition, Vegetarian Times, and Alternative Medicine. Debra has coauthored two cookbooks: Not Just for Diabetics, Naturally Delicious Recipes for Optimum, and the award-winning Colorado Fit Kitchen.

Debra is passionate about cooking healthy food and daily movement. She is a certified NIA and R.I.P.P.E.D instructor, has completed marathons, triathlons, including a half-Ironman triathlon, and loves tennis, biking, skiing, snowshoeing, and hiking with her family. Debra has two daughters, Dakota and Elli, and recently celebrated twenty years of marriage with Dr. James.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words (September 2, 2014)
  • Length: 336 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781476796543

Raves and Reviews

"James has an amazing way of celebrating life and sharing the infinite possibilities that a healthy and vibrant life can bring."

– Cynthia James, author, speaker, teacher

"Rouse and Rouse's advice is supported by meticulously cited studies, and their exuberance is charming, rather than zealous. This self-improvement/diet hybrid will appeal to a wide audience."

– Publishers Weekly

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