NLP Podcast Extract : Peta Stapleton on Health

Dr Peta Stapleton has 14 years experience as a registered Psychologist in the State of Queensland, Australia and has completed a Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma of Professional Psychology and Doctor of Philosophy. She divides her time between lecturing for the School of Health, Griffith University, coordinating psychological research trials into new therapies, and private practice, specialising in addictions and eating disorders.

(Photo Dr Peta Stapleton and Terri Sheldon)

"I guess my official title is Dr Peta Stapleton, I'm a registered and qualified psychologist here in Australia, and have been for about fifteen years. My official job is as one of the lecturers in medicine at Griffith University which is one of the universities here in Queensland."

"My specialty areas I guess, as far as health goes, is that for fifteen years I've worked in the areas of eating disorders, addiction, obesity - and in line with being a psychologist, I'm a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Time-line Therapy and EFT, or the Emotional Freedom Technique."

"And I'm also a member of The Health College of the Australian Psychological Society, which I guess sums up that most of my work clinically is in the health area."

"I guess for me, because I'm in the area of particularly physical health, with eating issues and obesity, health for me is all encompassing - it's not just about health as in physical health, so how you eat, you eating habits, your physical exercise. "

"But to me it's also your connection with your mind, so it's very much about how healthy things are in between your ears - how your looking after yourself in many ways. Listening to your own body and your own needs is very high up on my list of importance - and my understanding and definition of what health is. "

"So it might be that it's not only resting when you need to rest eating what your body wants to eat, drinking good water. but for me health extends into lifestyle things like finding happiness in life, or in your job or your career - it might be meditation or relaxation, it might be spending time with your family or any daily activity that suits you."

"So health for me goes well beyond what we might do physically, with our bodies and what we feed ourselves, but also stretching into that area of emotionally how sound we are as well."
"For me it would encompass some of those ideas that you'd have somebody that listens to their own body physically. So they would obviously look after their nutritional needs, drink good water and make sure that those needs are being met."

"But also finding some physical activity that suits them - it might not be that they join a gym to get their activity everyday, but it might be that they're into yoga, or love walking down the beach with kids in the pram, that kind of thing."

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