What if taking better care of yourself didn't have to feel so hard?
You already know what you should be doing. The harder part is making it stick.
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Maybe you don't need more health advice.
There's never been more information about being healthy. We know we should move our bodies, eat well, sleep enough, and manage our stress. And yet knowing what to do doesn't mean we actually do it.
Knowing how to be healthy and actually living in a way that supports your well-being are two very different things.
I spent twenty years as a family physician. I gave that advice for a living — and I believed in it. Then, at thirty-seven, I got seriously unwell myself, and everything I thought I understood about change was turned inside out.
In this free excerpt, you'll discover
The Introduction and full first chapter of Redesigning You — the thinking that reframes change as a blueprint problem, not a willpower one.
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The personal health crisis that changed how I thought about wellness.
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What "effortless wellness" means — and why well-being doesn't have to feel like a lifelong battle.
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Why information, motivation, and willpower often aren't enough.
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The overlooked piece that explains why some habits stick and others fall apart.
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How your beliefs, stories, expectations, and sense of self quietly shape your behavior.
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A simple reflection exercise to begin uncovering your own Inner Blueprint.
A different way to think about change.
Most wellness approaches focus on those three questions. But they leave out the most important thing of all: the person actually trying to change — a lifetime of beliefs, habits, fears, and internal stories that come along for the ride.
In Redesigning You, I call this your Inner Blueprint. Once you understand that blueprint, you can change far more than a habit.
Medicine, meet reinvention.
Kim Foster, MD, is a medical doctor turned entrepreneur, bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and thought leader in behavior change and personal transformation.
After twenty years as a family physician, she left clinical medicine to pursue the question of why people struggle to make changes they genuinely want. Her work brings together medicine, behavioral psychology, wellness, habits, mindset, and personal reinvention.
She is the author of Redesigning You: Change Your Inner Story, Transform Your Health.