Prescriptions for Life

How to Attain Your Goals, Great and Small, and Create a Life You Love

by Susan Biali, M.D.

Is It Time for You to Finally Step Up?

Help build a better community, workplace, and world. Encourage tolerance and kindness. End bullying. Improve morale. Save your relationship. Is it time for you to step up? Dr. Susan Biali, M.D., shares concepts and tools from Stepping Up for Change, a new book from bestselling author John Izzo, Ph.D. Read More

Longing for Change? How to Turn Nothing Into Something

The experiences or achievements you long for the most can seem so overwhelming (and so far away) that you never even start. Life coach and self-development expert Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. shares tips from the great Jim Rohn, as well as her own strategies, for turning what seems like nothing into that great big something. Read More

Don't Try to Reason with Unreasonable People

Tired of being belittled, misunderstood, or having your words twisted around by a bully? If you're a "normal" nice person, when you encounter someone difficult your natural reaction is to try to reason with them and win them over. Forget it! Medical doctor and life coach Dr. Susan Biali explains simple strategies for dealing with these types once and for all. Read More

How to Manage the Anxiety That Comes With Change

Most of us associate fear with danger, yet there are key times in your life when feeling fear actually means you're on the right track. As medical doctor and life coach Dr. Susan Biali explains, understanding this fear and knowing how to manage it can be the key difference between running scared from your dreams or reaching the top of your most prized personal mountain. Read More

10 Habits to Keep You Out of Trouble

Want this year to be your best ever, with less (avoidable) pain and more success and happiness? Read More

Confessions of a Reformed Night Owl: Phase Shift into Peace and Productivity

Are you a lifelong night owl? Do you make fun of people who are up jogging or write book chapters before the sun comes up, but secretly envy them? Dr. Susan Biali shares a phenomenon that unexpectedly shifted her out of 40 years of late nights, into mornings of peaceful productivity previously known only to those "morning lark" types. Read More

Do What You Love, Money Follows: The Coffee Cup Artist

A passion is worth pursuing for its own sake. Yet if you accidentally discover that people love paying you to do what you love, it makes it that much sweeter. In this post, Life Coach Dr. Susan Biali, M.D. shares the unlikely story of how an artist's whimsical drawings on her used coffee cups became coveted and celebrated fine art. Read More

8 Ways to Put Off Decisions - and Life

Are you truly moving forward in your life, or are you unwittingly deceiving yourself with "decisions" that hold you back? Life coach Dr. Susan Biali shares eye-opening insights from a wildly popular lifestyle guru, The Art of Non-Conformity's Chris Guillebeau Read More

10 Fabulous Nutrition Tips I Learned from Dr. Andrew Weil

Ten favorite nutrition tips I learned from time spent with wellness legend Dr. Andrew Weil. Read More

10 Awesome Health Tips I Learned From Dr. Andrew Weil

Medical doctor and life coach Dr. Susan Biali shares ten favorite wellness tips she learned while presenting alongside her health hero, Integrative Medicine pioneer Dr. Andrew Weil Read More

One Week to Live: How Would You Spend It?

Inspired by the Joshua Jackson movie "One Week", life and wellness coach Dr. Susan Biali explores how imagining and planning your last week of life can profoundly inform your life choices today. Read More

Need More Time Alone? How to Beg, Borrow and Steal It

In today's crazy world, most of us fantasize about getting more time to ourselves. Time and again, we watch that wish get crowded out by other people and life's demands. Life Coach and Wellness Expert Dr. Susan Biali shares unique time recovery techniques that help her and her clients seize more of this precious rare commodity. Read More

Food and Money: How to Change Your Self-Defeating Habits

Will the cupcake win almost every time? Does your credit card grow wings and fly out of your wallet and into the chip-reader terminal? Dr. Susan Biali shares practical, easy-to-apply tips to help you start winning common self-destructive battles with food and spending. Read More

Take it or Toss it? How to Evaluate Criticism

When someone criticizes you, how can you figure out whether to accept it or reject it? With help from leadership legend John Maxwell, Life Coach Dr. Susan Biali, MD demonstrates a practical and compellingly simple framework for evaluating negative feedback. Read More

Uninspired and stuck? Use boredom to unblock cramped creativity

If you're finding it harder and harder to be creative, feel blocked when it comes to initiating fresh change, and rarely feel inspired, the problem might not be you. As life coach and self-development expert Dr. Susan Biali points out, you may just not be bored often enough. Read More

Scared to Move Forward or Change? A Surprising Revelation About Fear

According to life coach Dr. Susan Biali (and Seth Godin), fear may be much more than just something you need to push past to get to your dreams. And if you expect it ever to go away, you may be in for a surprise... Read More

Relationship Red Flags - Are You Ignoring Them?

Successfully avoiding toxic relationships isn't just about noticing red flags. According to life coach Dr. Susan Biali, you'll protect yourself more effectively by noticing - and changing - what you usually do with those red flag observations. Read More

The New Sexy: How to Sensualize Your Life

Sensuality is much more sexy than sex. With the help of Danielle Kershaw, "The Inner Bombshell Coach," we explain how to live your everyday life in a rich, delicious way that may even reduce your stress level. Read More

7 Simple Ways to Get More Sleep

Do you keep promising yourself that tonight you'll go to bed earlier and get more sleep - only to find yourself waking up exhausted again the next day, regretful and wishing you could find a way to keep that promise to yourself? Dr. Susan Biali, MD shares some simple sleep strategies that can get you on the fast track to a healthier, happier, more well-rested you. Read More

Prepare to lose your excuses! This story will blow your mind

Think your dream is impossible? Ready to give up on it? Prepare to be inspired - and hopeful - like never before after reading this man's story. Read More

Depression, Anxiety, Life Stress? Beware the “Just Getting By” Habit

Have you gotten into the habit of seeing your days - or your life - as something to survive or "get through"? In the short-term this perspective can be adaptive, but if this becomes a way of life it can subtly steal from you your joy and the rich experience of a life lived fully and proactively. Read More

The inauthentic life: A threat to your physical and financial health?

It can be easy to stay stuck in a life that's not really "yours", a life that doesn't honor your greatest gifts and dreams. It may even seem like it's safer, both personally and financially, to stay where you are. According to Dr. Susan Biali, MD, sustaining an inauthentic life may be more costly to your life and health than you realize. Read More

Top 10 Survival Tips for the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

Are you easily overwhelmed by noises, crowds, smells and chaos? Have people always told you you're "too sensitive"? You might indeed be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). These survival tips from wellness expert Dr. Susan Biali, M.D., can help take the edge off an overly stimulating life. Read More

Cancer and the Psychology of Eating Like You "Should"

We all know how and what we should eat, but our psychology about food often keeps us from enjoying optimal health (and preventing diseases like cancer). Medical doctor and dietitian Dr. Susan Biali shares a few facts that might scare you into finally keeping your nutritional promises to yourself. Read More

Women, Food, God and a Piece of Cake

Have you been trying to control certain eating habits but find that the piece of cake, tub of ice cream, or bag of chips beats your best intentions every time? The secret to success with food could be right under your nose (or fork!) Read More

The Quick Fix: How to renovate an important relationship

Is there someone with whom you've had so many misunderstandings and hurt feelings that you don't know how to get out from under it all? Read More

Do you need to speak up?

Whether it's standing up to a bully or telling the truth to a friend, being honest frees you, increases self-respect and respects the relationship. Read More

What Your Clutter, Big or Small, Is Trying to Tell You

Whether it's your desk, your house or your entire life that's cluttered,here are some surprising things that mess might represent. Read More

Have you given up halfway?

Have you given up on a dream? If it still pulls at you, if daily reminders beckon to or grieve you, you may owe it to yourself and the world to go all the way. Read More

The Seven Keys to Creating Your Best Year (and Life)

Tired of letting yourself down with half-hearted resolutions that are doomed to fail? Creating a fulfilling, passionate year (and life) is easier than you think! Read More

Susan Biali, M.D., is a health and happiness expert, speaker, coach and professional flamenco dancer. She is the author of Live a Life You Love!: Seven Steps to a Healthier, Happier, More Passionate You.

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About Prescriptions for Life

Blogger Dr. Susan Biali is a medical doctor with a diverse background including wellness, psychology, coaching, nutrition and dance. Prescriptions for Life expresses this diversity with posts on life balance, self-actualization, health and wellness, personality, mental health, stress management, spirituality, creativity and other topics to help you create a full, rich, passionate life that you'll love.