My Happy Avatar

You have two powerful tools to help you achieve and maintain happiness and health: your mobile device and your personality strengths. Learn how to use them together to transform your habits and feel better. This short book is packed with practical guidance and advice. Develop important skills to help you feel happier, have more energy, lose weight or achieve any goal! Apply the HealthType™ model to make progress on your own and actively engage with others who have similar strengths to learn from and support each other.

You have two powerful tools to help you achieve and maintain happiness and health. Chances are you are not taking advantage of these tools: your mobile device and your personality strengths. Learn how to use them together to transform your habits and feel better. This short book is packed with practical guidance and advice. You will be able to identify and apply your strengths so that any behavior change feels more comfortable and natural. Learn to harness what experts know about our behaviors and use the device that is literally in your hands to achieve your goals. This book provides important skills to help you feel happier, have more energy, lose weight or achieve any goal! Actively engage with a community of people who apply this novel personality-based approach. You will be able to apply the HealthType™ model to make progress on your own and also connect with others who have similar strengths to learn from and support each other.

Dr. Liana Lianov is a national leader in the lifestyle medicine community which emphasizes healthy lifestyles as a way to not only prevent, but also treat, chronic medical illness. She gives talks and workshops across a variety of venues inspiring professional and public audiences to make health and happiness habits. She is the current president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She also serves on the board of the American College of Preventive Medicine and leads their initiative to provide training and tools to health providers offering lifestyle medicine services. Dr. Lianov has spent much of her career studying how to apply one’s Myers-Briggs personality to achieve and sustain habits that promote health and happiness. She leads the Health and Wellness Interest Area for the Association of Psychological Type International. She has recently focused her company HealthType™ on harnessing mobile technology and personality to drive health and happiness habits, culminating in this book.