HealthType™

PLEASE NOTE: The current website is published for content review by type experts and enthusiasts. Please email the founder Liana Lianov, MD, MPH at act [at_dom] lianalianovmd [dot] com with your comments and interests. Once content is finalized, HealthType™ will be published as an interactive program to guide participants through the habit change process. We invite you to visit the site again to participate in beta testing these helpful tools. You will have free access during this phase!

Welcome! You have just opened a special health toolbox designed around your strengths! The tools on this site will help you apply your personality to comfortably make healthy habits.

The personality theory we will use is based on the work of the well-known psychologist Carl Jung. His work was later adapted by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs-Myers into a questionnaire--the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator--to identify your personality type. His psychology work describes how people with different personalities:

• gather information from the world around them,


• make decisions,


• prefer to arrange their world, and


• gain a sense of balance and energy.

Our program will guide you to make one or more habit changes with proven methods used by health coaches. Here you also have the opportunity for a unique advantage! We have customized these methods for your personality type. Our personalized approach will help you build healthy habits that fit your personality strengths, feel more natural and that last a lifetime.

How are people with different personalities motivated to move from one stage of behavior change readiness to the next? How you prefer to take the world in and make decisions is influenced by your personality and gives you important clues along the path to making habit change.  General examples:

• Some people have natural body awareness and are drawn to activities that require paying attention to the senses. Others prefer to focus on future possibilities and meanings behind life events.


• Some people need reflection time. Others crave social time.


• Some prefer spontaneity. Others are attracted to regularly scheduled or planned activities.

Specific example, an ENFP may be less inclined to do physical activities just for the sake of her health.  

• Her personality gains energy from personal interactions, is stimulated by variety and spontaneity and enjoys exploring multiple solutions to everyday challenges.


• She may find that having a buddy and varying activities is more enticing.


• Distracting herself from the activity itself by chatting during the activity can make a big difference. The ENFP can continue walks in different locations at different times with friends and family for the long term.

Another example: An ISTJ who has a goal to eat healthy needs a different approach.

• He will need to gather relevant and scientific information recommended by health experts.


• Talking to the doctor may be a helpful first step.


• He will need to research where to buy these foods and how to prepare them.


• Hands-on demonstrations and classes or independent study videos will help him prepare.


• Then he will do well by planning a schedule of which meals and times of day would work best to start preparing and enjoying these meals.


• He will do well tracking his progress on how much was consumed, what foods are preferred and what schedule works best.

Contact info [at_dom] lianalianovmd [dot] com for more information about how you can participate in this pilot program!