Book excerpt: Courage to Change Building a strong, healthy community through education, training, and fellowship With Courage to Change you can bridge the gap between your physical and spiritual health losing 30 pound every 12 weeks in the process. Begin a weekly courageous journey of self discovery and life change with the 12 week Book and Life Application Journal. Dive into weekly lesson plans designed to help you progressively gain momentum to heal, grow, and put your past behind you. Learning what, where, why, and how your health has been such a challenge will enable you to make positive changes by conquering doubt, insecurity, complacency and fear. Using Courage to Change principles you'll learn to value good health and vitality as you become motivated to excel in everything you do. Learn not to dread change but to embrace it with a confident boldness. Learn why God would give you a spiritual strategy to accomplish a physical goal like having good health. Your physical health and spiritual health are interlaced and should never be separated. It's like unplugging the cable from the television. You still have a television and cable service but no reception, unless they're plugged in to each other. Neither the cable nor the television can fulfill its purpose without the other--just as your body and spirit need each other to fulfill God's purpose for you. Enjoy this wonderful journey with God, and be amazed as God gives you the "Courage to Change!" Your 12 week guide to physical AND spiritual restoration