Expanded Awareness: A Health Psychologist's Journey Beyond the Mind-Body Duality

By Sophie Guellati-Salcedo

"Open-minded readers will find Guellati-Salcedo's extensive, often eye-opening work a welcome challenge to conventional ideas about healing."

-BookLife, Publishers Weekly

"An inspiring holistic wellness guide, Expanded Awareness calls for new perspectives and practices in the evolving realm of healthcare and healing."

-Clarion, Foreword Reviews

What if healing is not about fixing what is broken, but understanding what the body is trying to say?

Expanded Awareness - A Health Psychologist's Journey Beyond the Mind-Body Duality invites you to reconsider how you think about symptoms, illness, and recovery. Blending scientific insight with lived experience, it offers a multidimensional view of healing-one that honors biology, intention, energy, and consciousness.

Drawing from health psychology, functional medicine, energy science, and systems-thinking approaches, the book explores how the interaction of mind, body, spirit, and energy systems shapes our internal terrain. It reframes symptoms as signals, coherence as a foundation for healing, and consciousness as an active force in the transformation process.

Rather than offering a fixed protocol or one-size-fits-all model, this book encourages inquiry, agency, and a deeper engagement with the meaning behind physical experience. It highlights the limitations of conventional models and presents a more systems-based view-one that supports personalized approaches to healing and helps readers move from diagnosis to empowered action.

Grounded in a health psychologist's perspective, Expanded Awareness bridges research, personal insight, and integrative frameworks to challenge inherited assumptions and open new possibilities for healing.

If you have ever sensed that healing is more than managing symptoms-that it involves rethinking the terrain itself-this book offers a coherent and accessible foundation. It is an invitation to move beyond reductionist thinking and toward a model that honors the intelligence of the body and the complexity of the human experience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1968465014
• ISBN13: 9781968465018
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: SGS Quantum Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"