The Christian's Guide to Holistic Health: Pursuing the Abundant Life in Christ Through Vitality in Body, Mind, & Spirit

I am in the process of becoming a certified holistic health coach and was feeling a little overwhelmed by some of my LARGE text books with big words. I fully believe in holistic health, but it’s hard to find resources from a Christian perspective as opposed to more new age approaches. This book was exactly what I needed. David Sandstrom writes from a truly biblical perspective and this book is loaded with scripture. He also takes big word topics and ideas and breaks them down so they are easy to understand. Things that I was struggling to make sense of in my textbooks simply clicked when I read this. I will be coming back to this book as a reference again and again. Awesome book!

I recommend this book to anyone that's confused about a holistic lifestyle, it gives In depth clarity how too, love it.Benny Mobley

This book is one of the best books on “true” health I’ve ever read. Definitely worth the read 👍

This book is well written and very informative. Health requires effort and guidance. This book provides the guidance. Well worth your effort.

This is a great resource for health for the entire person: spirit, mind and body. Many people focus only on the body and neglect the other aspects of who we are. I especially enjoyed the section about our mind and thoughts. Thanks for this valuable book.

The wisdom is this book is so important to a healthly life. As you read, you will find key steps to build the best version of yourself.

It’s just a guide, don’t take every word literally. Somethings will apply, some won’t!

I have struggled with health issues for several years now, diagnosed as Lyme and co-infections. I have sought treatment and help from every doctor there is for my myriad of symptoms- even several in the same specialty: internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, osteopathy, rheumatology, psychology, etc. Realizing the lack of full understanding and help by traditional doctors and usually being dismissed with a fistful of RX's, I started to turn to holistic medicine, chiropractic care, and natural remedies. I also started to see a LLMD. I know I am not alone in my walk of finding dead end streets with traditional medicine with band-aid solutions and witness the explosive way that holistic and natural medicine has taken off because of so many people like me not getting true help or answers with our traditionally trained, RX-pushing MD's who don't address the whole body or root causes of issues. I am thankful for finally getting help, relief and answers from holistic practitioners willing to be frontiers in medicine and look outside the box and into other proven ways of healing. This has helped me more than years of traditional diagnostics, treatment and tons of money on visits and RX's. That path turned to prove far more helpful and getting to the root of and treating my issues, but even in the holistic realm, I realized that a huge component of my health & well-being was being neglected by these natural doctors - my spiritual health. As a Christian, I am fully aware of how much our physical and mental/emotional being is affecting by our spiritual health. I have experienced first hand relief of physical and mental illnesses when I address my spiritual state with my CREATOR. I also noticed that some well-intending holistic practitioners dabble in and rely on "new age" type of spiritual solutions like crystals and reike, etc. that can actually be very dangerous for us spiritually and lead to more health problems. Finally, when I learned about David's book, "Christian's Guide to Holistic Health" and started to read it, my heart skipped beats and I got so excited because I had found someone with so much experience and training finally addressing ALL that needs to be addressed with health and healing! David is so knowledgeable and experienced in biological science with excellent references to scientific studies but he is also spiritually wise and discerning and is able to articulate all of this information to show so many correlations between the two in a way that is easy to understand and apply. I was blown away by the information about how much negative thinking and our spiritual state affects our mind, which affects our brain which affects our body because the brain controls the body. David makes such great compelling cases with much scientific evidence that proves how much our mind is over matter. These are things I had some ideas of, but David brings this crucial revelation front and center and makes the Bible and what God has always told us come alive and build my faith even more. When I read David's book, I realized this is a guy used by God to share so much insight into how our Heavenly Father created us and how to have the abundant life He wants us to have that requires being healthy spiritually, mentally and physically! I have been more encouraged to grow more in my spiritual walk and actively live out this faith which does affect us physically, mentally, emotionally - even more than clean eating and exercise if I want to truly be in optimal holistic health. As a Christian I also see how much we can neglect the command to take care of our temples that the Lord has given us. To focus so much on the spiritual that we neglect the physical that eventually impacts our spiritual health. David does a great job addressing all of these issues. I have not read a book like this yet that addresses such a important topic not just for the Church but for everyone!

The book helps you how to get health from the spiritual to your emotion thought and body! Holistic!

Biblically and holistically health aligned. Every page is written well and thought through,with biblical and scientific references.I bought a copy from kindle but will be purchasing a paperback copy just to have on my book shelf.This book will not only expand your knowledge in God & health,it will also heal you in the process.