About the Author

Renata Taylor-Byrne has an honours degree in psychology, plus diplomas in nutrition, stress management, CBT and other systems of coaching and counselling. She taught health and nutrition courses, as well as counselling, stress management, self-assertion, and other personal development courses, in further education, with adult students, during a thirty-five year teaching career. As a Lifestyle Coach, she has a very strong interest in the link between diet, exercise, health, and emotional wellbeing. Jim Byrne has a doctoral degree in counselling and a master's degree in education; plus a diploma in counselling psychology and psychotherapy. He has been involved in counselling psychology and psychotherapy for almost twenty years; and he's studied optimum nutrition and balanced exercise approaches to improve his own physical and mental health for decades. He is the creator of Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy (E-CENT), which emphasizes the interactionism of body-brain-mind-environment as a whole system, which is what underlies the phenomenon which some see as 'the life of the individual', and which he has characterized as 'the embodied and embedded social-self'.