Want to get healthier and happier — even in the face of real obstacles?
That’s what we’re doing together in
Healthy Deviant U
Welcome, friend.
Ever wished someone would take you by the hand and show you how to be healthy and happy — even in our less-than-healthy-happy world?
That’s what we are doing here, together, in Healthy Deviant U.
I’m guessing you’ve already tried enough conventional diet, exercise, and self-improvement programs to know that most of them don’t work as promised, or don’t work for long.
Maybe you’ve gotten frustrated, or even hopeless at times, about how impossible it seems to do all the things you are “supposed to do” to be healthy and still have any kind of life.
Still, you are determined to keep learning and growing. You are open to doing some things … differently.
For that, I salute you. And I get you.
I recognize you as a fellow Healthy Deviant (or perhaps what I call a “Healthy Deviant in the Making”) and I’m so glad you are here! If you want to know more about me and my qualifications in this realm, you can find all of that right here. What you most need to know, though, is this:
You deserve to feel and function better than you do — and far better than passes for “Normal.”
Ready for a REALLY fresh start?
JOINING HEALTHY DEVIANT U will get you that — and way, way more. Because this is not just a starting plan, it’s a living plan, with ongoing learning, practice, and support every day, week, and month of the year. All year round.
If you want to know more about this rather unusual life-shifting experience, read on. If you already KNOW you want in:
👉 Get a full year of healthy, happy change with two pricing options:
Pay $110 per month*
Pay up $1,197 up front for the full year, a savings of 10%
*Please note that the monthly payment plan is not a subscription that you can cancel. If you choose the payment plan, you are agreeing to make monthly payments for 12 months.
Here’s how a few more HDU members describe their experience …
“I am thoroughly enjoying this journey through Healthy Deviant U. And amazingly, I am doing so much better! I’m grateful to have a healthier, more rested self to enter this new year with.”
GAME ON! Healthy Deviant U is packed with real-life experiments, gameboards, and live-session celebrations to make every step of the journey feel like a fun, transformative adventure.
“When I first started HDU in 2020, I was so scattered, scared, and constantly searching for external solutions for a quick fix, which exacerbated the stress! Now I’m able to accept what is with love and gratitude, and go forward from there.
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What to Expect in HDU
YOUR HDU MEMBERSHIP sets you on an ongoing, four-phase Progress Pathway — one that guides you though the exploratory, step-by-step process of changing your life for the healthier, and happier.
Your journey includes:
Skill-building lessons and suggested experiments you can explore at your own pace. Weekly reminder emails announce new video and workbook content as it unlocks (plus live sessions — see below), with handy links that take you directly to your fresh goodies. Take as much time as you like to integrate your new “aha!” insights, and to implement them however you like. Go back and review previous installments whenever and wherever its convenient.
Energizing, interactive live sessions (every other week, Sunday afternoons) with me and your fellow members to help you stay on track, connected, supported, and moving forward. Come to those sessions that work for your schedule, and catch replays of those you miss, which are always waiting for you the HDU Hub.
Hot Seat Coaching — a great way to to get live, one-on-one support with your thorniest issues, and to learn from others who are facing similar challenges. Each Hot Seat coaching session includes a video replay, AI summary, and complete transcript so you can revisit your experience and key insights on demand.
Daily support from me and a merry band of fellow Healthy Deviant U members via our private community group — a great place to seek inspiration, share wins and challenges, ask questions, find camaraderie — and to get unstuck when you need to. You can email me directly, too, when you are in need personal support.
Beautifully illustrated workbook materials, gameboards, and badges (real-life stickers!) of completion — a graphically rich wardrobe of support to keep you on track and moving ever forward,
Plus all sorts of fun VIP bonus goodies (see below), including members-only special events, supplemental mini-courses, and more.
WHAT REAL PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Want to know more about what lies ahead in Healthy Deviant U? Scroll through the testimonials below to see what some newly minted Healthy Deviants have to say about their experiences and results. Then read on for more details about what your own Healthy Deviant future holds.
“I just want to say that Pilar, the book, this group and Healthy Deviant U have changed my life in ways that 12-day retreats, a year in a mystery school program, and years of Jungian work have not. “Thank you” is inadequate to express my gratitude!”
So many bonuses — over $600 worth!
When you join HDU, you also get an extraordinary collection of bonus gifts, each of which helps you deepen your healthy wisdom, expand your healthy skills, and build your healthy confidence. The total value of these combined bonuses is more than $600, making your membership experience an even better bargain.
💁 A one-hour private coaching session with me ($400 value): You schedule your session and identify an issue or challenge you want to work on, and I help you approach your issue differently and suggest new tools and strategies for dealing with it. You walk away with new insights, an action plan, and a replay and summary so you can review and re-process any time you like. These sessions have proven life-altering for many!
🪂 14-Day Healthy Deviant Adventure ($109 value): Embark on a self-paced experiment in radical replenishment and rediscover new stores of energy, vitality, and calm. This video-guided version of the program at the center of my book guides you, step by step, day by day.
🥑 The 5-Day "Fasting Reset" program ($89 value): This live, science-backed, fasting-mimicking program guided by Cindi Lockhart, RD, LDN, IFCP — one of my favorite and most trusted functional nutritionists — is an ideal way to jump start your metabolism, detoxify your cells, reclaim your energy, and rejuvenate your whole body-mind. Go through it whenever you choose!
🥬 My "Healthy Deviant Fridge Tour" ($29 value): An hour-long romp through my real-life refrigerator, where I explain what's in there and why, offering you healthy eating insights as well as helpful snack and meal-prep suggestions along the way. I also explain my yogurt preferences, and show you a couple handy kale tricks!
🕯️ My "Morning Minutes" Guided Meditation ($19 value): This guided, calming, 13-minute track eases you gently into your day, helping you reclaim your first waking moments and make more conscious choices so that you can better manage whatever the world throws at you next.
Plus 25% off on all my other programs and offerings, including private coaching and Healthy Deviant Day Camp — a fun, full-day immersion and connection event held annually, live and in person, at my family farm in Wisconsin.
Select the monthly payment PLAN ($110/month)* or pay up front for the full year ($1,197, a savings of 10%!)
*Please note that the monthly payment plan is not a subscription that you can cancel. If you choose the payment plan, you are agreeing to make monthly payments for 12 months.
Join today, and start learning right away!
“I am doing my daily practices with more intention and awareness now, and finding them to be game changers. My self-awareness is improving, and that is so empowering!”
IS HEALTHY DEVIANT U FOR YOU?
THIS EXPERIENCE is for anyone who is determined to be a healthy person in an unhealthy world — regardless of gender, age, race, ethnicity, size, or shape. At present, active members include health-seekers from 23 to 78, all of whom share similar goals of becoming their healthiest, happiest, most authentic selves.
You might be ready for Healthy Deviant U if:
You’ve read a lot of health and self-help books, and tried out a variety of programs designed to help you improve your life in various ways.
You have a decent idea of WHAT you need to do to get healthier and happier, but you might be struggling with HOW. And at various times, you might have been inclined to just give up.
You’ve come to the conclusion that the ways you’ve been pursuing health-improvement aren’t working for you (or as well as you’d hoped).
Despite your best efforts, you’ve been stuck or stymied by obstacles, false starts, or inertia.
You’ve sometimes gotten overwhelmed and confused by trying too many different programs at once or in rapid succession.
You’ve reached a plateau in your progress and have begun feeling bored, restless, or “meh.”
You sense you need to change some things in your daily life, and perhaps your larger life path, but you don’t know where to start.
You’ve already come a long way, and now you want to raise your game to the next level, or step up to help others.
This program is NOT for you if:
You’re looking for yet another quick-fix diet or miracle cure.
You want to defend rigid convention, old-guard authority, and a “one-right-way-to-do-things” mentality.
You aren’t willing to take small actions and embark on new experiments in the service of a better life.
THE WHAT AND WHY OF HEALTHY DEVIANT U
Many of the concepts in Healthy Deviant U are based on my book, The Healthy Deviant. You don’t have to read my book to join HDU, but if have read and liked it, I know you you’ll love HDU.
Healthy Deviant U is the best place to keep raising your own Healthy Deviant game.
EVEN BEFORE a whole bunch of converging global crises came bubbling up to meet us, our world was a challenged one — with well over half of U.S. adults chronically ill and overweight, and more than 75 percent suffering from mental and emotional troubles of all kinds.
According to research detailed in my book, The Healthy Deviant, it’s likely that only a single digit percentage of U.S. adults is currently healthy, happy, and on track to stay that way.
Clearly, we need to change the way we are living.
All of the recommendations in Healthy Deviant U are rooted in research-based tenets and bodies of knowledge, like Positive Psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, and Functional Medicine. They are also all grounded in the same simple, science-supported thesis I describe in the opening of my book.
Healthy Deviant U is my way of taking the perspectives and practices in my book and bringing them into real life. The HDU experience is designed help people overcome their longstanding states of chronic depletion and distraction, and to move beyond the conventional, woefully inadequate “self-improvement” approaches we’ve been encouraged to embrace.
Because let’s face it: The pat, superficial culture of “diet-and-exercise” hasn’t gotten us very far. In many cases, it has worked against us, setting us up for an endless cycle of trying and failing, chasing unrealistic, stereotyped ideals, and feeling worse about ourselves every step of the way.
As I note in my book, we CAN beat our society’s unhealthy odds, but NOT by following its status quo advice. Healthy Deviant U presents the more nuanced, reality-based advice I would suggest you follow instead.
“Discovering my own Healthy Deviant Journey — this was phenomenally liberating for me. I now feel very much in charge of what I eat, how I exercise, when I go to sleep. I feel fully present with myself. Things have started to change dramatically in my life.”
Each phase of Healthy Deviant U gets celebrated with its own badge-sticker of completion (ideal for decorating a water bottle, journal, or laptop) so you can wear your Healthy Deviant mastery loud and proud.
Our 4-Phase Progress Pathway
IN HEALTHY DEVIANT U, we’ll explore and implement four key phases over the course of a year — through recorded and live video sessions, group and hot-seat coaching experiences, interactive exercises, real-life experiments, workbook materials, a supportive community, and more.
Keep reading for an overview of what we’ll cover in each transformational phase, and the guided, continuous-growth path you’ll embark on as a member.
Phase 1:
Start Where You Are
Yoo hoo! Time to refocus your attention on your own wellbeing. In this phase we are focused on Nonconformist Competency No. 1: Amplified Awareness.
Notice what's working, and what's not. Leave unconscious choices and self-defeating patterns behind.
Locate your place on your Healthy Deviant Hero’s Journey, and take your next clear steps toward improved body-mind vitality.
Consider this your whispered wakeup call, and your invocation to a higher level of vitality, resilience, and autonomy.
You’ll learn to radically reframe what you’ve been thinking of as “your” health problems, and begin approaching your health-improvement with a completely different set of viewpoints and motivations.
You’ll also begin integrating some small but powerful (likely life-changing) daily Renegade Rituals with the power to return you to your most conscious and capable self.
Phase 2: Reclaim Your Mojo
Outwit exhaustion and overwhelm. Rebuild your energy, enthusiasm, and resilience.
In this phase, we’ll focus on reclaiming our diminished mojo through Nonconformist Competency No. 2: Preemptive Repair.
Here, you’ll learn how to get ahead of the damage done to you just by virtue of living in an inherently stressful, pro-inflammatory culture.
You’ll learn to outwit the Vicious Cycle of the Unhealthy Default Reality and embrace the Virtuous Cycle of Healthy Deviance instead.
You’ll run some daring, rewarding experiments in radical replenishment. You’ll also build power and momentum for next-level shifts, and lay the groundwork for an extraordinary next year.
Phase 3: Raise Your Game
Learn the survival skills of the new era by expanding your Healthy Deviant tradecraft.
In this phase, we lean into Nonconformist Competency No. 3: Continuous Growth and Learning.
Identify and prioritize essential know-how. Create a clear plan for acquiring the skills you are missing. Tackle the obstacles that have been holding you back.
Notice how making small, sustainable shifts delivers new energy, equanimity, and enthusiasm. Ditch your self-sabotaging tendencies and pursue the healthy goals of your choosing — without wearing yourself down.
Take stock of the new possibilities that come into view as fatigue, unhealthy cravings, and mood swings retreat and your newfound sense of vitality kicks into high gear.
Phase 4: Be the Change
Claim your Healthy Deviant identity and see your place in the bigger picture.
In this phase, we’ll focus on taking your Healthy Deviance to the next level — and to the places where you live, work, play and relate.
The goal of this final phase is to help you discover and step into your rightful role as a Healthy Deviant leader, and to feel into your own highest callings as an agent of change.
Here, you’ll assess your personal Healthy Deviant strengths and take stock of your desire to make Healthy Deviance a more central part of your life.
Create a plan to find and build your own Healthy Deviant community. Confidently live into the Healthy Deviant Manifesto as you motivate others to do the same.
Earn your Healthy Deviant Badge of Honor and wear it with pride.
So, what do ya say?
Are you ready to embark on a life-shifting Healthy Deviant Adventure?
Are you willing to do it for yourself, and for the people and projects you love? Or maybe for the good of the world around you?
Because as Howard Thurman so wisely noted, what the world really needs “is people who have come alive.”
💥 JOIN NOW, START NOW 💥
Joining TODAY gets you immediate access to the full first introductory module, so you don’t have to wait to start changing your life for the healthier, for real.
My whole goal with Healthy Deviant U is to spare you the indignities, frustrations, and wasted efforts I suffered through, and to instead offer you the easier, more rewarding approaches I’ve discovered along the way.
If you decide to join, your life WILL change.
Not all at once. Not by some stroke of magic. But probably much more quickly than you expected. And far more quickly than if you try yet another “instant fix.”
If you have any questions, I’m happy to answer them. Just send me an email here.
Otherwise, go for it! Join us in HDU. 😇
You are SO worthy of this investment in yourself. And your Phase 1 Badge of Completion awaits! 👇
