Feel Better, Live Longer, Enjoy More
70% of chronic diseases are preventable.
Yet most of us have never been shown how much influence we can have over our health. Faced with conflicting advice, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure where to begin.Life Prescriptions cuts through the noise. Combining lifestyle medicine with positive psychology, it helps you to turn evidence into small, enjoyable changes that fit your life. Across the six pillars of food, movement, sleep, relationships, stress management and risky substances, you will discover what supports better health and how to design your next step.No one-size-fits-all prescription. Instead, you will learn to create your own Life Prescriptions that are uniquely right for you.Are you ready to feel better, live longer and enjoy more?
What Readers and Professionals Are Saying
Discover what others have to say about Life Prescriptions and its practical approach to health and wellbeing.
“Lifestyle medicine is a rapidly growing medical discipline that uses science-backed approaches to help to prevent, treat and even reversal of some long-term conditions. Doctors are using these techniques in clinics alongside medications in modern medical practice; you can use these powerful interventions too. Hilda Barrett distils the science into practical steps to guide you through what works and how to navigate the noise in the wellness space to achieve real, sustainable results. She delivers this with humour and compassion in this superbly researched book that reflects years of practice as a positive psychology coach, her own lived experience and an understanding of the research in this field.”
Dr Ellen Fallows
Obesity and Lifestyle Medicine Expert, Past Vice-President of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Editor, Essential Lifestyle Medicine
“Life Prescriptions is a warm, practical and evidence-informed guide to the everyday foundations of health and wellbeing. Hilda Barrett brings together lifestyle medicine, positive psychology, and lived experience with clarity, compassion, and realism. This is not a rejection of medical care, but a valuable companion to it, helping readers to identify small, powerful, sustainable steps towards better health, stronger relationships, greater agency, and a more enjoyable life.”
Brendan Kelly
Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin
“Life Prescriptions makes the science of lifestyle medicine accessible, practical and inspiring.”
Dr Dean Ornish
Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
“In a world where non-communicable diseases remain the leading cause of death, Life Prescriptions offers a hopeful prescription by showing how evidence-based lifestyle change can help us to create health long before we need to treat disease.”
Pádraic J Dunne (PhD)
Associate Professor, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Centre for Positive Health Sciences
“Life Prescriptions is a wonderfully hopeful book that reminds us it is never too late to make positive changes, and that even small lifestyle choices can transform both our health and our lives.”
Darren Morton
Director, Lifestyle Medicine and Health Research Centre, Avondale University
A little Life Prescriptions inspiration each month
One thoughtful email each month, bringing you practical ideas, inspiring talks, helpful books, simple recipes and new research to support the six pillars and help you feel better, live longer and enjoy more.
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Free Life Prescriptions Resources
Explore downloadable resources designed to help you keep writing your own prescriptions.
The Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine
The Lifestyle Medicine Assessment Wheel
The WellBeing Mindset
Bring Life Prescriptions to Your Community
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Facilitator training is in development for anyone who'd like to run a Life Prescriptions group in their workplace, practice or community.The training will run as two to three 90-minute online sessions, with an active WhatsApp group between sessions so support continues beyond the calls.Dates and pricing are still being finalised. Register your interest below and you'll be the first to hear when both are confirmed with, no obligation to join.
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Hilda Barrett
Hilda writes at the meeting point of lifestyle medicine and positive psychology, with a simple belief at the centre of her work: people don't need more information, they need a way to make it fit the life they already have.Through Life Prescriptions, Hilda Barrett brings together an accessible and practical approach to health and wellbeing, helping people turn positive intentions into realistic everyday actions.
