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We specialize in working with people with various challenges including:
- Life Enjoyment
- Life Integration
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Chronic Illness
- ADHD/ADD
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic Pain
- Weight Management
- Diabetes
- Chronic Illness
- Cancer
- Dementia
- Low Energy
- Life Purpose
- Life Planning
- Sports Performance
- Sport Psychology
- Focus
Here are some of our testimonials about the WholeFIT approach:
“This book is a reflection on the important things in life and how to recognize and
appreciate them. It is easy to read, and everyone can relate to the real and sometimes
personal stories. This is a ‘must read’ and a reminder for all of us that we each can
live a more balanced and healthy life . . . if we choose to.”
—Terri L. Kane, BSN, MBA, regional vice president, Southwest Region,
Intermountain Healthcare, CEO Dixie Regional Medical Center
“WholeFIT: Wellness for Life is one of the best books I have seen in integrating
principles of life, health, and fitness as it relates to the general well-being of an
individual. The editor’s approach of connecting the sociological aspects of life to
physiological outcomes is one I feel will greatly benefit the reader. This rare approach
provides the reader with useful tools in addressing healthy lifestyle choices that are
easy to understand yet will result in healthy outcomes.”
—Richard B. Williams, PhD, president, Dixie State University
“In an era where the epidemics are not so much infectious agents as diseases of
lifestyle, this book is a welcome offering. Utilizing the expertise of a variety of professionals
who contribute easy-to-understand advice on everything from motivation,
exercise, diet, and relationships, it harkens back to the wellness movement of the
1970s with a new and modern flavor. What Drs. Donald Ardell and John Travis did
then to introduce the concept of ‘wellness’ instead of a focus on illness in that era,
DuPree and colleagues bring to us today.
This book will be a useful guide for individuals seeking life change as well as
those such as health coaches, counselors, and other health professionals seeking
to facilitate their progress toward wellness and change. The complex interplay of
body, mind, spirit, work, relationships, emotion, love, leisure, and community all
must be balanced for a fully healthy life plan. The achievement of salutogenesis, the
generation of health, as opposed to pathogenesis, the development of disease, is the
ultimate goal, and this lovely book offers a roadmap to such a goal.”
—Victor S. Sierpina, MD, ABFM, ABIHM; director, Medical Student Education
Program; WD and Laura Nell Nicholson Family Professor of Integrative
Medicine; professor, family medicine; University of Texas Medical Branch
“It’s clear beyond reason that true health is more than just diet and exercise. To
perform better, align with purpose, and experience contentment, we must capture
and activate a collective effort of all energies and resources that surround us on a daily
basis. WholeFIT is the method for making this happen. Jared and his colleagues
create a principle-centered and wholistic approach to complete wellness, inside and
out, in small steps. Get WholeFIT today!”
—Joe Jacobi, Olympic gold medalist, Whitewater Canoe Slalom,
performance coach, professional speaker, network television
commentator, and former CEO of USA Canoe/Kayak
“When I consider all there is to learn and all there is to do in this life, [this book]
reminds me of what is truly important. We are all connected. The different areas of
our lives are connected. Life fulfillment and peace comes from living our lives in a
way that is meaningful to us, considering all the opportunities we have to expand
our wellness. WholeFIT tells us that true wellness is more than avoiding disease or
sickness. Wellness is about all the parts that make us who we are—our relationships,
hearts, minds, bodies, spirit, resources, careers, passions, and life purpose. I highly
recommend this book for those that want to become better. Not in the stressful,
guilt-ridden way of, ‘I need to do better.’ Rather, this book is a warm invitation, a
gentle embrace, a support, and a friend. Whether you are someone looking for better
life balance or an employer that wants to help their employees find more happiness
and purpose in life, WholeFIT is a welcome change of pace and outlook on how to
truly be well. Read it—you will love it!”
—Mary Michelle Scott, PhD, president of Fishbowl,
and contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes
“The authors offer a theory of living that is informed by research, practice, and
thoughtful reflection on the experience of living. These are not experts instructing
from the ivory tower. The authors walk alongside the reader, inviting the reader to
reflect upon their own process. The careful reader will come to know something
about the life choices of the authors, which in my judgment, enhances their credibility.
Each chapter offers step-by-step guidance on how to create a new, healthier
homeostasis, and encouragement to start now.”
—Candyce S. Russell, PhD, professor emerita,
marriage and family therapy, Kansas State University
“WholeFIT: Wellness for Life is a must-read that is uniquely and masterfully written
by several authors and then integrated and organized into a WholeFIT approach for
lifelong wellness. It is rich with ideas and invaluable insights that could have a huge
impact on your life. It is a book of knowledge containing recipes for real life success,
integrating our minds, our hearts, our bodies, our health, our relationships, and
our spirituality. It provides tools that one needs to achieve better health and more
passion in day to day living. This is a life-changer must-read book that will help map
the journey of wellness for the rest of your life. A book I will share with both my
personal and my professional friends.”
—Coleen M. Andruss, MD, Board-Certified Internal Medicine and Bariatrics,
owner, Healthy Lifestyles Clinic, Saint George, Utah
“The road to better health is something that we are all searching for, but we don’t
always know how to find it. As resource, WholeFIT: Wellness for Life provides readers
with multiple on-ramps to begin (or continue) their own journey to well-being and
happiness. Dr. DuPree and his coauthors do a great job of highlighting the research
associated with physical, mental, spiritual, and relational health and making these
complex concepts approachable and immediately applicable. Each chapter is motivating
because the overall tone is, ‘You can make important changes and here is how.’
I will recommend this book to my students, my family, and my clients.”
—Roy A Bean, PhD, associate professor and program director,
marriage and family therapy, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University
“Gone are the days where we compartmentalize health, separating the mind from
the body and spirit, the individual from the family, and the family from the community.
This book is an excellent compilation of ideas from scholars and mental health
professionals who share what they have learned personally and professionally about
rebalancing one’s life to achieve whole health and wellness. Authors offer personal
stories to complement their professional ideas in an easy-to-read resource that you
won’t want to put down!”
—Jennifer Hodgson, PhD, LMFT: professor and director of the
Medical Family Therapy doctoral program at East Carolina University;
past president of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association;
past member and chair for the Commission on the Accreditation for
Marriage and Family Therapy Education; past member and chair
for the North Carolina Marriage and Family Therapy Licensure Board
“The WholeFIT program is a toolbox for change. What do you want out of life? I
am sure you can pull a tool out of the WholeFIT toolbox to improve or correct what
ails you. The WholeFIT program is a no-fluff approach to real change. I have known
Jared (W. Jared Dupree) since we were both ‘knee-high to a grasshopper,’ and I am
impressed with his sharing of candid personal life stories in order to help inspire
change. I hope you enjoy your pathway to a better life in this book!”
—Brandon J. Hart, MD, licensed pediatrician and neonatologist
“WholeFIT is an amazing example of what happens when one brings together
leaders in multiple fields with the sole focus of helping individuals achieve a healthier
and more balanced approach to living. The practical examples and action items provided
throughout the book makes it easy to apply the concepts and ideas discussed.
This is the first book that takes a truly wholistic view to one’s life, looking at everything
from our eating and exercising habits to how we manage finances to how we
manage work and relational stressors, and it helps us understand just how interconnected
these aspects of our lives really are. A busy professional [myself ], spending
way too many hours at work, with a wife and four children at home, this book and
its wholistic view on life hit the mark for me, as I think it will for many others.”
—James C. Billings, PhD, dean, School of Psychology
and Marriage & Family Science, Northcentral University
“In a world where we are being bombarded with information, images, and self-proclaimed
experts all shouting their expertise of extremes, absolutes, and the latest
fads, WholeFIT: Wellness for Life provides and promotes clarity, comprehension, and
detail from true experts on how to live one’s best life. WholeFIT is beautifully written
for anyone who is looking to find more balance in his or her life with a distinct road
map on how to do it. This is a book I will continue to read over and over for myself
as well as recommend to all my clients.”
—Miki Eberhardt, BS, registered dietitian nutritionist, NSCA-CPT
“At some point in our journeys, most of us gain enough life experience to recognize
the limitations of ‘magic bullet’ thinking. We come to understand that one great
effort in a single direction will not sustain health or happiness. Instead, we sense the
multiple streams of influence flowing around us all the time. I’m grateful to Dr. Jared
DuPree and this strong writing team for this volume that stands on the recognition
that human beings are integrated creatures. Readers can use this book for making
progress toward health in many areas of life, combining for an integrated approach
to growth. Thank you, Dr. DuPree and colleagues for such a valuable contribution to
the health and wholeness movement.”
—Mark Tidsworth, MDiv, President, Pinnacle Leadership Associates
“What I like about WholeFIT is that it brings everything together in one book.
Rather than reading one book on nutrition, another on exercise, and still others on
leisure, work, relationships, etc., WholeFIT has it all and, most important, shows
how a person cannot concentrate on just one area. It takes more work, but to be
healthy, one must look at the whole as everything is connected. WholeFIT doesn’t
just give a person a bunch of scholarly information; it also provides action items. It
gets the point across that intent to improve is meaningless without action.”
—William H. Meredith, PhD, asociate dean and
professor emeritus, Kansas State University
“WholeFIT: Wellness for Life is a comprehensive, well-balanced, and practical
handbook! More important, it is more than just a book; it is a word of wisdom
written with grace, passion, and integrity. It speaks deep to the heart. Dr. DuPree is
a colleague and a dear friend. I have witnessed his life. What he wrote in this book
reflects his personhood and lifestyle. This book will give the readers more than just
valuable head knowledge, but also courage for a pursuit of transformative life! This
book is a real gift—a must-read!”
—Andrew Imbrie Tezuka, PhD, LCMFT, founder,
Life Design Counseling of Japan, faculty, Department of Counseling,
Reformed Theological Seminary of Indonesia (STTRI, Indonesia)
“A few words spring to mind when I think of WholeFIT—incredibly insightful,
perceptive, expansive and practical. WholeFIT is packed full of seamless knowledge
of the body with soulful, humanistic wisdom woven in between. It is clear and
constructive, while giving achievable solutions to complex problems. The authors
offer up a vast amount of knowledge and experience in an organized way that shines
a bright light on all parts of health and wellness. This kind of clarity and relevance is
certain to be a catalyst for a slew of positive shifts and changes in readers’ lives. For
readers who are looking to become healthier and happier, WholeFIT helps to peel
back the layers of overall wellness and connect with a more intuitive, inspired, and
expansive self. As a therapist myself, I’m left with an abundance of information and
ideas to integrate into the treatment of my own clients. Because WholeFIT spans the
entire potential of treatment toward overall well-being, its value is enhanced to anyone
who is searching for an easy-to-understand, information-packed, and applicable
resource.”
—Andrea R. Baker, MA, LMFT, owner of Soul Sesh, WBFF fitness competitor
“W. Jared DuPree, PhD, offers a wonderful perspective of the systemic nature of
wellness. I especially appreciate the attention given to relationships and the relational
nature of life. WholeFIT values the role of faith and family. In a world that often feels
fragmented and disconnected, WholeFIT is a voice calling us to live integrated lives
that elicit our best in all aspects of who we are and what we do.”
—Kurt Attaway, MA, associate pastor, The Vineyard Church Pearland
“I loved it. WholeFIT ’s approach to the focus of balancing every aspect of your
life is fresh and right on track. I found the life experiences and examples intriguing,
diverse, and inspiring. So few of us recognize how one area of our life is so deeply
impacted by other areas of our lives—body does affect leisure, and leisure affects
mind, and so on. WholeFIT is the perfect guide for defining the needed change and
provides the road to get there.”
—Dixie Bullock, coach team manager and certified
professional job search coach, NextJob, Inc.
“WholeFIT: Wellness for Life nailed it! As a licensed social worker, I have witnessed
firsthand the importance of assessing and addressing the whole individual
to find meaningful and long-term solutions to most of the problems we face as
individuals and families. As founder and CEO of See Opportunities and Achieve
Results, Inc. Comprehensive Program (SOAR Wellness), I have seen the huge
need to assess and address the whole individual when it comes to identifying and
solving issues that affect an employee’s health and well-being in addition to their
performance and productivity on the job. WholeFIT: Wellness for Life eloquently
illustrates not only the importance of looking at the whole person, but it also gives
great practical and easily applied information on how to do it. Anyone looking to
make long-term and sustainable positive changes to all aspects of their life should
read this book!”
—Shaun Bills, LSW, CEO, See Opportunities and Achieve Results, Inc. (SOAR)
“I was so impressed as a therapist reading WholeFIT: Wellness for Life because there
were many suggestions that offer immediate application for my clients. The way it is
written is a perfect blend between the theoretical and the practical. I feel this book
is a must-read for those interested in living a more balanced, fulfilled life or as they
help others strive to achieve the same.”
—Chad D. Olson, MS, LMFT, clinical director,
St. George Center for Couples & Families
“WholeFIT immediately lit up my mind and fueled my desire to relentlessly pursue
a life of wellness in mind, body, and soul. Insights into my own human nature
supported by extensive academic and real-world professional experience in physical
and mental wellness shines a light onto the path toward wellness by offering an
organized, action-oriented approach to this beautiful struggle. This book holds the
formula to changing the course of a reactionary, depressed, pleasure-seeking society
to one of personal accountability and proactive dedication to wellness. We truly have
the power within us to live a life of true joy.”
–Melinda Yeaman, entrepreneur, XIBA program director for XOJO SPORTS
“ ‘Living well is much more than the absence of disease.’ ” So states Dr. Jared Du-
Pree, who knows whereof he speaks: While earning his doctorate in human ecology
at Kansas State University, DuPree developed theories and approaches that address
weight management, chronic illness, and general wellness. But at the age of thirtyone,
DuPree—by then a professor at the University of Houston–Clear Lake, and a
respected family therapist—learned that he was (literally) a heart attack waiting to
happen. Vowing on the spot to transform his life (and share it happily with his wife
and small children) DuPree worked his way back to health and fitness through an
integrated program emphasizing wellness for body, mind, and soul. Six years later,
with the publication of WholeFIT DuPree now shares the cumulative expertise of
multiple experts in the fields of physical, mental, and spiritual health. Curated with
the eye of a behavioral scientist, and accompanied by his own insightful commentary
and engaging real-life examples, this comprehensive compendium offers an easy-toconsume
guide to creating wellness in ourselves, our relationships with others, and
our lives.”
—Marianne L. Hamilton is a Utah-based veteran journalist and content creator,
and a contributing author for St. George Health & Wellness magazine, where
she focuses on the senior demographic. A multiple gold medal–winning athlete
in Senior Games race-walking competitions, she is also a member of the St.
George Arts Commission and active in volunteerism. Along with her husband,
Doug, she is the coadministrator of the St. George Wine Club
“This book has something relevant to everyone. The use of systems theory and interdependence
help bring to light how we can find solutions that work for each of us.
So often only we know the things that will be easy or hard for us to incorporate in
our lives. The approach of this book provides confidence and understanding how to
bring that about. With the variety of authors, topics, and examples provided, there
is something for everyone in the book. After reading, you’ll find at least one example
that causes you to think ‘Wow I never thought of that’ and ‘I found something I can
try that will work for me.’ ”
—John Busch, MBA, entrepreneur
“Jared DuPree shares insights to the enjoyment of an elevated life. Clearly, he
expresses that one’s joy and happiness is under their control healthily while so many
issues and distractions are not: “When we look at what we actually worry about, we
find that only a small percentage of our worries are actually in our control.” This
simple and direct message will help many discover the peace they seek. The concepts
that direct you to an improved lifestyle are doable and reachable. WholeFIT increases
your understanding of manageable life habits that will improve your outlook and
results.”
—Jeffrey T. Sherman, Brave Leadership trainer
and speaker, ShermanSpeaks, LLC
“WholeFIT: Wellness for Life is a fantastic book, filled with ideas and helpful information
to improve the reader’s overall health and wellness. I highly recommend this
book because it is insightful and the information shared is simple yet highly effective.
Dr. DuPree has written a truly fabulous and life-affirming book, and I believe
that it will have a tremendous impact on all who read it.”
—Ever Gonzalez, CEO, Outlier Magazine and
host of the Outlier On Air podcast
“I love the approach WholeFIT takes in discussing every aspect or area of importance
in my life. I have always looked at health as simply exercising and watching
what I eat, often neglecting other areas. In reflecting on the ebbs and flows of my
own health, I’ve noticed feeling my better when I am getting along with my wife,
but I have never articulated it the way Dr. DuPree does in this book. Great read,
great principles to live by.”
—Craig Morris, entrepreneur