{"id":2330,"date":"2010-08-17T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html"},"modified":"2010-08-17T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T06:00:29","slug":"the-sum-is-more-valuable-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html","title":{"rendered":"An 8-Step Lifestyle Management Regimen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you lose sight of the forest (your diagnosis or token illness) because you are too busy fighting your symptoms? Bill Chipur of Chipur.com has this 8 step &#8220;lifestyle management regimen.&#8221; I thought it was worth sharing:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Self-honest insight as to our disorder(s)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Understanding how our distress has impacted our lives in the past<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Knowing what&#8217;s comfortable, as well as what isn&#8217;t<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Knowing what to expect if we don\u00edt self-manage<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Having an arsenal of self-proven relief strategies and techniques locked and loaded for immediate use if needed<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Knowing when it&#8217;s time to put our prepared strategies and techniques to work &#8211; instead of flipping-out<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Understanding that we have a proven track record of emerging from the depths of our ick<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Staying in relationship with a counselor and folks enduring the same stuff<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"color: #888888\">Your thoughts&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you lose sight of the forest (your diagnosis or token illness) because you are too busy fighting your symptoms? Bill Chipur of Chipur.com has this 8 step &#8220;lifestyle management regimen.&#8221; I thought it was worth sharing: Self-honest insight as to our disorder(s) Understanding how our distress has impacted our lives in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An 8-Step Lifestyle Management Regimen - Beyond Blue<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An 8-Step Lifestyle Management Regimen - Beyond Blue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ever feel like you lose sight of the forest (your diagnosis or token illness) because you are too busy fighting your symptoms? Bill Chipur of Chipur.com has this 8 step &#8220;lifestyle management regimen.&#8221; I thought it was worth sharing: Self-honest insight as to our disorder(s) Understanding how our distress has impacted our lives in the&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beyond Blue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-08-17T06:00:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Beyond Blue\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"An 8-Step Lifestyle Management Regimen - Beyond Blue","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"An 8-Step Lifestyle Management Regimen - Beyond Blue","og_description":"Ever feel like you lose sight of the forest (your diagnosis or token illness) because you are too busy fighting your symptoms? Bill Chipur of Chipur.com has this 8 step &#8220;lifestyle management regimen.&#8221; I thought it was worth sharing: Self-honest insight as to our disorder(s) Understanding how our distress has impacted our lives in the&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html","og_site_name":"Beyond Blue","article_published_time":"2010-08-17T06:00:29+00:00","author":"Beyond Blue","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html","name":"An 8-Step Lifestyle Management Regimen - Beyond Blue","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-08-17T06:00:29+00:00","dateModified":"2010-08-17T06:00:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#\/schema\/person\/47318cdf8063cc052eccff0c99db4e75"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2010\/08\/the-sum-is-more-valuable-than.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"An 8-Step Lifestyle Management Regimen"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/","name":"Beyond Blue","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Therese J. Borchard","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#\/schema\/person\/47318cdf8063cc052eccff0c99db4e75","name":"Beyond Blue","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/45c\/45c6e619a20a364bd981e9dda64eaa02x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/45c\/45c6e619a20a364bd981e9dda64eaa02x96.jpg","caption":"Beyond Blue"},"description":"Therese J. Borchard writes the daily blog, Beyond Blue, on Beliefnet.com. She is the author of Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression &amp; Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes and The Pocket Therapist. You may find her at her personal blog, her website, or you may follow her on Twitter @thereseborchard.","sameAs":["http:\/\/thereseborchard.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/author\/tborchard"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}