**Winner of 10 book awards**
**Revised and updated edition, 2020**
Four Quadrant Living provides simple, natural, and fun ways to live a healthy and happy life. It offers a practical, balanced approach that can be used by anyone, regardless of age, previous health, or family history. Many people worry about getting cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, or heart disease because it "runs in the family." This attitude encourages a passive, out-of-my-hands approach. Fortunately, our health is not determined by our genetic makeup alone, but rather by the combination of our genetics and our nutritional, lifestyle, and environmental influences. Four Quadrant Living offers a new prescription for health--one that emphasizes positive steps readers can take to create health in all areas of their lives.
As Dina Colman Mitchell writes: "Every day we make choices that impact our health-the foods we eat, the products we use, the exercise we get, the stress we allow, the people we surround ourselves with, and the environment we live in. We may be eating well and exercising, but we cannot truly be healthy if our mind is stressed, our relationships are toxic, and our world is sick." Living healthy doesn't need to be complicated.
Four Quadrant Living shows readers how to take responsibility for their own health by providing logically organized and easily implemented ideas and suggestions for nourishing the "four quadrants" of our lives-Mind, Body, Relationships, and Environment. The book includes ways to reduce stress, laugh more, take fewer medications, sleep better, live mindfully, eat well, exercise more, sleep better, engage in healthy relationships, and reduce toxins in your environment.
In this revised and updated edition, Dina Colman Mitchell provides updated statistics and information and shares new insights from her own cancer journey. The author illustrates that even with disease, we can still be healthy.
Mitchell, Dina Colman: - Dina Colman Mitchell, MA, MBA, a widely published health coach, founded Four Quadrant Living to inspire others to live healthier and happier lives by nourishing their Mind, Body, Relationships, and Environment. She emphasizes a balanced approach that can be used by anyone, regardless of age, previous health, or family history. Dina graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Cum Laude from Pomona College with a BA in Economics. Following graduation, she worked at Price Waterhouse before obtaining her Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She then spent over a decade in the high-tech corporate world in a variety of marketing and business strategy positions. After her sister was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 1999, Dina was told she had an 87% chance of getting the disease herself. This motivated Dina to earn her Master of Arts in Holistic Health Education, learning how to counterbalance her genetics with healthy living. Dina first published her book, Four Quadrant Living, in 2013. Six years later, she was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. She credits living a four quadrant life with helping her go through treatment with grace, strength, and health. In her revised 2020 edition, she shares new insights and provides updated statistics and information. She illustrates that even with disease, we can still be healthy. Now cancer-free, Dina continues to devote her time to helping others around the world live healthier, happier lives.
