Self-Health Andragogy: Self-Directed Learning Approach to Mental and Physical Self-Care - Softcover

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Are you tired of quick fixes that don’t fix anything? Overwhelmed by anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, low energy, or lingering trauma, but don’t want to rely solely on medications or guesswork? Self-Health Andragogy is a powerful guide to taking ownership of your mental and physical well-being through a self-directed learning process rooted in real neuroscience, adult education theory, and time-tested wellness strategies.

Written by Christopher W. Pierce, a military veteran with years of service and a clinical mental health counselor, this book is part field guide, part therapy manual, and part brain science made practical. Whether you struggle with stress, burnout, PTSD, emotional fatigue, or sleep problems, this book shows you how to rewire your life without waiting for someone else to do it for you.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Understand your brain’s built-in healing systems—and how to activate them

• Apply andragogy (adult learning science) to take charge of your health

• Overcome insomnia, chronic stress, anxiety, and low mood with actionable techniques

• Personalize your self-care using neuroscience, journaling, and self-observation

• Rebuild confidence, discipline, and emotional resilience from the inside out

Packed with real-life examples, therapeutic insights, and tools that anyone can use, this book helps you become the expert on you.

Whether you’re a military veteran, a first responder, a parent, a student, or someone who’s just plain exhausted, Self-Health Andragogy offers hope: not in magic bullets, but in learning to trust and retrain your own body and brain.

Chris Pierce’s Self-Health Andragogy addresses one of the major problems in our society, the lack of quality sleep. In particular, his advice for the self-management of insomnia and improving sleep quality will improve both mental and physical performance. His straightforward style makes it easy to use for anyone interested in improving themselves. The advice is evidence-based and will enhance your quality of life.
—Colonel Brian Robertson (U.S. Army Retired), Former Chief of Sleep Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Chief Medical Officer for NightWare, Inc.

With chronic mental and physical illnesses on the rise, Self-Health Andragogy is a book for our time. If you are looking for a self-reliant approach to addressing psychological and physical difficulties, this book is a must-read. Written in a nonscientific style, Christopher Pierce offers a comprehensible self-help process that anyone can understand, visualize and personally implement. The adult learning model used in this book offers a timely approach designed to improve mental and physical wellness.
—Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen Jr. (U.S. Army Retired), 59th Superintended of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and co-author of The Character Edge: Leading and Winning with Integrity.

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