Being Well: A Positive Path to a Healthier, Happier You

You already know what you should do to be healthier and happier. The real question is: How do you actually make it stick?

In Being Well, Dr. Beth Cabrera presents a science-backed approach grounded in positive psychology and behavioral science. The core insight is simple yet powerful: feeling good fuels sustainable change more effectively than guilt, pressure, or willpower.

Rather than relying on discipline, this book shows you how to design habits that are enjoyable, meaningful, and aligned with your values. Drawing on research and real-world application, Dr. Cabrera guides you through:

• The six evidence-based lifestyle factors essential to physical and emotional well-being-and how to integrate them into daily life.
• Why your brain's present bias undermines your best intentions and how to outsmart it.
• Practical strategies for making healthy habits rewarding, not restrictive.
• How to shape your environment and relationships to support-not sabotage-your goals.
• Techniques for rewriting limiting self-stories and strengthening your connection to your future self.

This is not another "what to do" wellness book. It is a practical guide to how to do it-closing the gap between intention and action so that change feels energizing rather than exhausting.

If you're ready to build sustainable well-being without constant struggle, Being Well offers a refreshing, research-driven path forward.

Praise for Being Well:

If you want to lead a healthy, fulfilling life, read Beth Cabrera's brilliant book, Being Well. Filled with psychological depth backed up by confirming research, her book gives you the pathway to well-being, joy and happiness. And share it with your friends!

- Bill George, Harvard Business School, former Chair & CEO, Medtronic and author of True North

Being Well does what most wellbeing books don't: it bridges the gap between knowing and doing. I've spent my career watching brilliant, motivated people struggle to turn good intentions into lasting habits - and Beth Cabrera has finally written the guide they've been searching for. Her science-backed, positive approach doesn't lecture or overwhelm; it meets you where you are and makes the journey feel genuinely enjoyable. This is the book I'll be recommending to everyone.

- Jen Fisher, Founder & CEO, The Wellbeing Team

We all yearn to be healthy, whole, and vital. This book will lead you to that path with simple, yet powerful practices backed by science. Being Well gives you a roadmap of daily habits designed to improve your overall well-being.

-Nance Lucas, Executive Director & Chief Well-Being Officer

Beth Cabrera has done something new: she's brought positive psychology and behavioral science together into a unified framework for building well-being. Where most behavior change books focus on what's broken, Being Well focuses on what's possible. The result is a book that leaves you not just informed, but energized and empowered.

- Steve Gladis, executive coach, professor, author

You probably know what to do to feel better but have a hard time doing it. In Being Well, Beth Cabrera charts a positive path to closing the knowing-doing gap. A genuinely useful guide for anyone who's tried the willpower approach to feeling better and come up short.

- Scott Eblin, best-selling author of The Next Level and Overworked and Overwhelmed.