Want to get healthier and happier — even in the face of real obstacles?

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Healthy Deviant U

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Here’s how a few more HDU members describe their experience …

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 in Healthy Deviant U. So congrats — you found your way here.

The fact that you discovered this page tells me that you are already doing the work of becoming a healthier, happier person.

I’m guessing that you are already doing a lot of things right. And you’ve probably also learned a lot the hard way (like I did).

You’ve likely 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.”

You are worthy of the energy and vitality that are your birthright. And getting as healthy and happy as you want to be is an effort worthy of your attention. Because this world NEEDS more healthy, happy people.

We need good, high-capacity humans who are:

• READY to defy the unhealthy conventions and norms that are breaking them (and others) down

• EAGER to learn new skills that improve their health, fitness, function, vitality, and life outlook.

• WILLING to move beyond yo-yo diets, miracle-promise workouts, six-pack-abs gimmicks, and bikini-body hype

• DETERMINED to get to the root cause of their health challenges, not just suppress their symptoms or endlessly “manage” their chronic conditions

• INSPIRED to become the strongest, most clear-headed and compassionate versions of themselves

• OPEN to having some fun in the process.

  That is what we are doing here in Healthy Deviant U — or “HDU” for short.

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.

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 for you to 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) 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 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, including members-only special events, supplemental mini-courses, and more.

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

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.

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.

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 THE WAITLIST NOW 💥

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 WHEN ENROLLMENT OPENS AGAIN, 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.

You are SO worthy of this investment in yourself. And your Phase 1 Badge of Completion awaits! 👇