Health Shift is more fun with friends!
At each meeting, invite everyone to answer at least one of the week’s reflection questions. There are no right or wrong answers. The goal is to encourage thoughtful discussion, explore different perspectives, and deepen your understanding of the concepts together.
Before concluding your meeting, choose one practice or strategy from the week’s reading to intentionally apply during the coming week. Begin your next gathering by sharing your experiences with the week’s practice. These conversations reinforce learning, encourage accountability, and create opportunities to learn from one another’s successes, challenges, and discoveries.
While you can certainly complete the Health Shift Book Club on your own, you’ll gain even more by experiencing it with others. Invite friends, family members, coworkers, or neighbors to join you. Meaningful conversations often spark new ideas, broaden your perspective, and remind you that you’re not alone in the questions and challenges we all face with our health. As you learn from one another’ experiences, you’ll often discover new insights about yourself as well!
Questions:
Questions designed to spark conversation about each week’s chapter topics.
In Motion:
Practical, experimental ways to put ideas into motion. Each week, discuss how it went!
Book Club Discussion Questions
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Q: Are there any biases that you find yourself applying more frequently to your health? Which ones stood out to you?
Q: What’s one behavior (good or bad) you picked up from your upbringing that you still practice today?
In Motion: This week, as you come across health information (perhaps from a friend, an article, or on social media), notice what you immediately accept or dismiss. Then ask yourself: What influenced my decision? Was it evidence, experience, emotion, trust, habit, or something else?
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Q: If you had to distill your health philosophy into one or two sentences, what would it be?
Q: Looking at the Personality Dimensions, which ones are you? Go through each, and discuss a few Personality Dimensions that have helped you, and hindered your health progress.
Q: Take the 30-second C-BAD quiz. Which of the C-BAD are you? Did you find the results accurate?
In Motion: Pay attention to how you make decisions in light of your C-BAD decision-making style. Notice how this might be positively or negatively impacting your decisions.
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Q: Have you ever used an official decision-making tool to make a health decision before, like the ones listed in Chapter 7? Which one of these tools might be worth considering in the midst of a health decision you’re currently facing?
Q: Name the emotion using the emotion wheel that you are feeling in regard to a current health condition, symptom, or concern you might have. Explain why you think you feel that way.
Q: How much control over your health destiny do you believe you have?
In Motion: Pick a health mantra from the list on the HealthShiftBookClub.com Week 3 or come up with your own. Say it out loud at least once a day, every day. How does this make you feel?
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Q: How has your health changed over the last 10 years? Five years? One year?
Q: How can you see the Health Spectrum Pyramid relate to your current health status?
In Motion: Use the CREECS Health Decision Filter and rate each factor from 1 to 3, with 1 not being a good fit, 2 being acceptable, and 3 being a strong fit with your preferences. Keep it handy when you are in a position to make your next big health decision.
Q: Looking at the Venn diagram of the Health Optimization Zone, how much of each type of intervention feels like a good mix to you when faced with a health concern?
Q: How do you see food quality, quantity, and timing being helpful in your health journey?
In Motion: Think about one health issue or symptom you have been experiencing recently or in the recent past. What is one lifestyle or complementary intervention that might help improve it that you haven’t tried before? Explore some options on the HealthShiftBookClub.com website if you’re not sure where to begin.
Q: Thinking about your own experiences, how well has healthcare aligned with your unique needs, goals, circumstances, and preferences?
Q: Have you ever tried a health intervention that left you disappointed? Looking back, was it the wrong intervention, the wrong timing, or were your expectations simply different from what it was designed to do?
Q: Where do you feel you are on your health journey today? Are you primarily working to stay healthy, improve your health, restore your health, or simply make it through a challenging season? How does recognizing where you are today influence the decisions you need to make next?
In Motion: Share one idea from the Health Shift Book Club with someone else this week. It could be a family member, friend, coworker, or neighbor. Sometimes the best way to strengthen our own understanding is by helping someone else think differently about their health.