Dr. Peter J. Weiss

More Health Less Care Dis­cus­sion Guides Now Avail­able For Free Down­load

Con­grat­u­la­tions on tak­ing action to improve your health.  You can do it.  But you could prob­a­bly use some help.  Find­ing oth­ers to help you is one of the key mes­sages in the book.  Peo­ple have asked me, “Can I cre­ate a health team/support group at work?” Of course.  Here’s what I rec­om­mend:

• Form a group of like minded indi­vid­u­als.  The most impor­tant aspect is cre­at­ing a trust­ing and open envi­ron­ment, where peo­ple can really talk about their prob­lems.  Unfor­tu­nately many, per­haps even most, work envi­ron­ments are not like that.  So you may need to limit your group to just one or two close friends.  That’s okay.

• Also, because you have lim­ited per­sonal time at work, a group of just two or three peo­ple might be more prac­ti­cal.  Three peo­ple can have a mean­ing­ful dis­cus­sion over a 30-minute lunch break.  Seven peo­ple prob­a­bly can’t.

• Find a quiet place to have lunches or breaks together sev­eral times each week.  You could even make it every day.

• Now that you’ve formed the group and set the sched­ule, make sure every­one has a copy of “More Health Less Care” and down­load the free Dis­cus­sion Guide at More​Health​Less​Care​.com.  In a small group, you can just fol­low the guide together.

• Plan on work­ing through the book fol­low­ing the down­load­able guide over about six weeks or so.  But, of course, you can choose your own pace.

That’s it.  Like I say in the book, you don’t have to be per­fect.  Just get started.  And after you’ve worked through the guide, why not stick together and con­tinue help­ing each other on your way to well-being?  You can do it.