Healthy Deviant Press

Find out more about Healthy Deviance and the unconventional perspectives, choices and behaviors it involves from these articles, videos, and podcasts …

Articles

Defying Convention
A lovely interview with Experience Life magazine about the healthy rewards of conscious nonconformity.

Use the Science of Ultradian Rhythms To Boost Productivity, Energy, and Willpower
Via Blue Zones, a selected excerpt of my book, The Healthy Deviant, on the power of ultradian rhythms. (Side note: I’m proud that Blue Zones founder and National Geographic Explorer Dan Buettner wrote the wonderful front-cover blurb for my book).

Hope in the Time of Coronavirus
"If hope is the belief that something better is possible, where does a global crisis fit in?” In this Mpls.St. Paul magazine article, award-winning journalist Dara Mokowitz Grumdahl and I talk about how COVID-19 might just help our unhealthy society take some long-overdue steps forward and begin rethinking the priority we place on our health and resilience.

Five Mindful Books to Refresh and Renew
The Healthy Deviant was selected by the editors of Mindful magazine as part of this roundup of great books in their Feb. 2020 issue.

How to Create Your Own Morning Ritual
A excerpted piece on the Morning Minutes practice — from my book, The Healthy Deviant — featured at Mindful.org.

The Making of a Healthy Deviant: Choosing a Healthy Life in an Unhealthy World
An article I wrote for Best Self magazine in which I offer my own deviant origin story, and explain what Healthy Deviance is all about.

Healthy Deviants Know the Difference Between Normal and Stupid
A nice shout out for my work in The New York Times from columnist, author, and back-of-the-napkin-style illustrator Carl Richards, whose "Sketch Guy" column often hinges on financial matters, but who also clearly grasps how powerfully Healthy Deviance translates across all domains of life.  

The Way of The Healthy Deviant
A six-page illustrated feature on Healthy Deviance I created for Experience Life magazine (the magazine I founded back in 2001). Experience Life now reaches three million people with each issue and can be found on most Barnes and Noble newsstands. Healthy Deviance is getting out there!

Healthy, Happy … and Disappearing Fast
A brief blog post in which I offer statistical support for my argument that being unhealthy and unhappy is now the de facto norm in our society.

Reality Reconsidered
My case for approaching our current reality as a tourist. And why being out of sync or ahead of the curve is nothing to be ashamed of. In fact, you might just wear it as a badass badge of courage.

My "Revolutionary Acts" Columns
A collection of more than 35 of my "Revolutionary Acts" columns (each one explores on of the "101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy") plus other writings I've done for Experience Life magazine over the years. 

The Healthy Deviant — a Summary
A great round-up of some of the key points in a keynote I gave at the Ancestral Health Symposium in New Zealand in October, 2017. Fun to see it collected this way (by Anna of RoarFierce.com, who evidently has terrific note-taking abilities!), and I'm so glad it hung together as well as it did! 

The Way of The Healthy Person
This is a seminal piece I wrote back in 2006 when I was first digging into some of the core concepts behinds Healthy Deviance, before I launched the RevolutionaryAct.com project (see below).

Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: Renegade Perspectives for Thriving in a Mixed Up World
Here's the 2010 feature that launched a lot of my thinking about Healthy Deviance, including my Manifesto for Thriving In a Mixed Up World, the "101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy" mobile app, and my "Revolutionary Acts" column, all of which I created in partnership with Experience Life magazine and Life Time — The Healthy Way of Life Company. 

Well, That's Different
An oldie but goodie via my editor's column in Experience Life magazine, in which I make my case for being as bold and “different” as you wanna be. I also share my pitch for one of my favorite Renegade Rituals: Ultradian Rhythm Breaks (or URBs, as I call them).

Pilar Gerasimo on the Pursuit of Health and Happiness
I was featured on Experience Life by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl: a James Beard Award–winning food and wine writer based in Minneapolis, where she lives with her two children and buys only local honey. I talked about morning practice, the learner's mind, and healthy-deviant mocktails.

Audio & Video

Audio: Are You a Healthy Deviant? with Katy Bowman
I talk with Katy Bowman of the Move Your DNA podcast about why health is becoming more and more elusive and why our society is becoming synonymous with behaviors that lead to those deviations away from our physiological or biological needs that result in disease.

Audio: What It Means To Be A Healthy Deviant on the Capital Integrative Health Podcast
A terrific episode in which I discussed what it means to be a Healthy Deviant, how our genetics and environment are mismatched, why ultradian rhythms are so important, and why multitasking and willpower are ineffective.

Video: Face-to-Face with Pilar
I was so honored to be asked by the folks at BOOM! by Cindy Joseph to create this series of videos about my dear friend, the late pro-age model Cindy Joseph.

Audio: Why We Need to Be More Deviant with Suzy Glaskie
I was featured on the Wellness Unwrapped podcast with Suzy Glaskie, Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach and founder of Peppermint Wellness. We talked about how we need to embrace deviance if we want to live a vibrant life.

Audio: Living Healthy in an Unhealthy World with Hilary Russo
I spoke with Health Coach Hilary Russo, host of the HIListically Speaking podcast, on the concepts of Healthy Deviance.

Video: Healthy Deviant Video Series with Carl Richards
I was delighted to be featured (along with Seth Godin, Dan Heath, and other luminaries) on my friend Carl Richards’ cool and exclusive The Society of Advice series. Carl is a Certified Financial Planner, author of The One Page Financial Plan and The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money. He is also well known for his long-running “Sketch Guy” column in the New York Times. In this collection of clips, we talk about how Healthy Deviant practices and perspectives support success-seekers of all stripes — and can also help us redefine financial success on our own terms.

Audio: Mapping Healthy Deviance with Andrea Nakayama
I spoke with functional nutrition expert Andrea Nakayama, host of the 15-Minute Matrix podcast, on the concepts of Healthy Deviance for her audience of functional medicine practitioners.

Audio and Video: How to Get Off the Unhealthy Roller Coaster and Regain Control of Your Health with Dhru Pruhoit
I joined Dhru in person for a this lively conversation on his Your Broken Brain podcast about “how to break out of the unhealthy matrix that society has us living in” and how we can cease striving to fit in with “the crazy that passes for normal.” Available in both audio and video.

Audio and Video: Healthy Deviance with Meredith Atwood
I was featured on Meredith Atwood’s Daily Community Meetup (video) to talk with her and her community live about Healthy Deviance in the time of COVID-19. Previously, I was also featured her The Same 24 Hours podcast talking about The Healthy Deviant and the art of being healthy in an unhealthy world.

Audio: Welcome (Freak)
The very first episode of The Living Experiment podcast, in which Dallas Hartwig and I discuss the radical realities of being healthy in an unhealthy world. We also share our own “freak” (i.e. Healthy Deviant) stories.

Audio: Healthy Deviance
An episode of The Living Experiment podcast in which Dallas and I explore the concept of Healthy Deviance. I outline what I see as its Core Competencies and Backbone Practices.

Audio: Healthy Deviance with Pilar Gerasimo with Eileen Laird
An episode of the Phoenix Helix podcast in which I'm interviewed by auto-immune health advocate Eileen Laird about my personal health journey and what I see as the essence of Healthy Deviance.

Audio: Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act with Amy Myers
A fun The Myers Way podcast interview with Functional Medicine physician and author Amy Myers, MD, in which we cover the territory of health as a deviant series of choices and acts, and talk about why shifting our approach to healthcare has to be part of that effort.

Audio: Healthy Living in an Unhealthy World with Robyn O’Brien and Ashley Koff
I'm interviewed by Robyn O'Brien and Ashley Koff, RD, on their forward-thinking podcast, Takeout With Robyn and Ashley. We talk about what led me to start Experience Life magazine and RevolutionaryAct.com, and we talk about the importance of challenging status-quo choices and the art of overcoming our culture's unhealthy pressures to conform. 

Video: 10 Revolutionary Ways to Avoid Getting Sick, Fat and Depressed
A 2013 video interview via Jonathan Bailor — part of his Entheos Calorie Myth Summit — in which I lay out some essentials of Healthy Deviance in the context of the work I originally shared via RevolutionaryAct.com. 

Video: My "Fat Summit" Interview with Mark Hyman, MD
Functional Medicine pioneer Mark Hyman interviews me about the role the conventional mass media plays in confusing health-seekers about dietary fat, often in the name of profit. I share insider insights on where the media is leading people astray, and why developing both your Healthy Deviant BS-detection and media-literacy skills is essential to your wellbeing.

 
 

Interactive
Explorations

Quiz: Are You a Healthy Deviant?
My little three-minute quiz that gives you a sense of where you fall on the Healthy Deviant spectrum.

Mobile App: 101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy
A fun "101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy" interactive infographic, also available as a free mobile app for iOS and Kindle (the app features links to related Experience Life articles so you can dig deeper and learn more).

Facebook: Healthy Deviant Group
A developing collection of related resources, plus an opportunity to connect with other Healthy Deviants and stay up to date as the concept of Healthy Deviance makes its way into real lives around the world. 

Real life: Talk to Me
Questions? Ideas? Offers of help? Want me to come give a Healthy Deviance talk or consultation for your team or organization? Contact me or connect via my social channels. 

Upcoming
Events

All of my events have moved online! Check out my programs, and join the Healthy Deviant Facebook Group to stay updated.

 
“Learning is always rebellion. Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck