The Heart of Well-being

The Heart of Well-being - Seven Tools for Surviving and Thriving

‘The Heart of Well-being is a crystal-clear, no-nonsense, immensely practical guide that conveys the importance of managing ourselves on the four dimensions of our being – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.’

Neville Hodgkinson, Medical Journalist

As we go through life, the challenges and changes we meet can either help us move forward, or undermine our health and resilience - often without our even noticing.  The purpose of this unique guide is to discover a way not just to survive the knocks in life, but to positively thrive and enhance well-being on every level.

The Heart of Well-being is a beautifully illustrated self-help book with inspiring audio CDs to enable us to be more in touch with and responsive to how we feel - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.  The information, CD tracks and simple, practical exercises will help to recover, protect and improve personal well-being, in order to: 

  • feel energetic and well
  • cope with worry, stress, change and loss
  • care for one’s self and develop self-confidence
  • sustain good relationships with others
  • discover personal fulfilment and inner meaning


Author: Jan Alcoe
Jan Alcoe is a registered hypnotherapist, writer and trainer in holistic health and well-being.  She was one of the core group that designed and wrote the training programme Values in Healthcare: a spiritual approach (The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care, 2004). She is author of Lifting Your Spirits: seven tools for coping with illness (Janki Foundation, 2008), which she developed following treatment for cancer.  In this new publication, Jan continues her journey towards discovering well-being, drawing on personal experience, her work and latest research in the field.


Editor: Dr Craig Brown
Dr Craig Brown is a general practitioner and Chair of the British Holistic Medical Association.  He is the author of Optimum Healing (Rider, 1998) and was one of the core group that  designed and wrote the Janki Foundation’s Values in Healthcare programme.  He trains facilitators for that programme in the UK and other countries.

'Many people will find something of real and lasting value in this tool-kit for well-being.'

Dr David Peters, Professor of Integrated Health, University of Westminster