Is This for Me?
Not certain if Healthy Deviance is something you can get behind? Here are some questions and perspectives to help you decide …
Are You a Health Seeker?
Have you been trying to drop excess weight, improve your energy, become more active or fit, get more sleep, beat anxiety or depression, manage a chronic illness, or kick some not-good-for-you habits that are dragging you down?
Or are you an already a healthy and fit person who is always looking to improve on your current condition?
If you’ve been striving to accomplish your healthy goals, feeling overwhelmed by the demands of that effort, and wishing there was a better, smarter way to go about taking care of yourself, this book is for you.
And if sticking with your healthy intentions has proven challenging for you, you are by no means alone. According to research published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, maintaining even four of the most basic healthy habits proves elusive for about 97.3 percent of U.S. adults — and they didn’t even consider other essential habits like getting enough sleep, managing stress, and maintaining supportive social connections.
Are You Ready to Move Beyond the Status Quo?
Are you already defying some unhealthy conventions — or wishing you could? If so, there’s a good chance you will my book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World and my programs and courses.
Getting past the crazy that currently passes for “normal” is pretty much the only way to get and stay healthy these days. Because the numbers tell a stark story: We currently live in a culture that reliably produces more unhealthy, unhappy people than healthy, happy ones.
In fact, right now …
More than 50 percent of U.S. adults have been diagnosed with at least one chronic illness
At least two thirds are overweight or obese
An estimated 70 percent take pharmaceutical drugs
80 percent aren’t thriving mentally and emotionally
Beating today’s discouraging health statistics (and the oppressive systems that produced them) starts with understanding one basic, disturbing fact:
If you aren’t breaking the rules, you’re probably breaking yourself.
It’s time to stop doing that. My book and courses explain how, and they provide a rich collection of interactive tools that make the process both easier and more fun.
Are You Open to Experimenting?
Are you willing to experiment with doing some things differently than you’ve been doing them, and going about your health-improvement efforts more creatively? If so, you’ll probably get a lot out of my book and courses.
Healthy Deviance will invite you to challenge some of what you might think you know. It will suggest you pull your focus away from rigid diet and exercise programs — just for a while — in order to put your attention elsewhere.
Here’s why: Before you embark on any health-motivated diet, exercise, or self-help program, it helps to first understand the challenging, real-world context in which that effort is taking place. It helps to instill the practices, perspectives, and skills that give you the best possible advantage in dealing with our crazy-culture dynamics, and that empower you to operate successfully within them.
That, in essence, is the strategy behind Healthy Deviant solutions. Many of the tactics amount to ju-jitsu moves — the use of artful, subtle, low-effort shifts that achieve big leverage, and some surprisingly big results.
Healthy Deviance’s larger promise lies in making the whole process of getting healthier more fun, easeful and rewarding than whatever you’ve been doing (or dreading doing) for ages.
Healthy Deviance doesn’t force you into any particular diet or workout, but it will help you approach your eating and movement in more effective and rewarding ways, and to enjoy the whole process of health transformation in ways you haven’t before. Perhaps not in the ways that “everybody else is doing it,” but in the ways that work for you.
Ready for More?
Are you ready to go deeper? Terrific! Welcome to the Healthy Deviant club. Order The Healthy Deviant today, and learn the art of being healthy in an unhealthy world.
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”