The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World

The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World

by Pilar Gerasimo
The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World

The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World

by Pilar Gerasimo

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Overview

Introducing a radical approach to wellness: This self-help guide rejects ‘one-size-fits-all’ dieting and health advice to offer practical strategies and tools for getting healthy—your way.

What kind of society makes being healthy and happy so difficult that only a single-digit percentage of the population can hope to pull it off? The answer: A sick society.
 
And within a sick society—one where illness, anxiety, and depression are the prevailing norms—what does it mean to be one of the few people to beat those unhealthy odds? It means bucking a lot of your society’s norms and rejecting a lot of its conventional health prescriptions. It also means acknowledging a disturbing truth: If you aren’t breaking the rules, you’re probably breaking yourself. That’s the simple, provocative philosophy behind The Healthy Deviant, one seasoned health journalist’s quest to reframe healthy choices as a positive form of social rebellion.
 
Combining hand-drawn infographics and statistics with insights from sociology, psychology, evolutionary biology, functional medicine, and the school of hard knocks, this category-defying book rejects the idea that diet and exercise alone can save us—or are even the best places to start. Gerasimo’s 14-day Healthy-Deviant Adventure Program presents a series of powerful perspective shifts and simple daily practices—plus illustrations, infographics, worksheets, reminders, and progress tracking tools—that put you firmly back in charge of your own wellbeing.
 
Part manifesto, part whispered wake-up call, The Healthy Deviant is a modern-day survival guide for being a healthy person in an unhealthy world. Starting now.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781623174262
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 01/07/2020
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 360
Sales rank: 547,384
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

PILAR GERASIMO is an award-winning health journalist, founding editor-in-chief of Experience Life magazine (national paid circulation 750,000; estimated reach 3.2 million), and the creative force behind the popular mobile app, "101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy." Gerasimo previously served as the top editor of Healthy Living for Huffington Post, where she was also a longtime blogger. She co-hosts The Living Experiment podcast (livingexperiment.com) with Whole30 founder Dallas Hartwig, which earned a top-five spot on iTunes in its first week. A frequent speaker, workshop leader, and expert guest for radio and TV, Gerasimo is currently serving as Chief Creative Officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She splits her time between New York City and her family's organic farm in western Wisconsin. Learn more at PilarGerasimo.com.

Table of Contents

Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge (in case you read nothing else) 1

Part 1 The Crazy That Passes for Normal

Chapter 1 Welcome, Rule Breaker 10

Chapter 2 Seeing the Unseeable 32

Chapter 3 The Misunderstood Problem 54

Chapter 4 The Renegade Solution 83

Part 2 The Making of a Healthy Deviant (My Story-and Yours)

Chapter 5 In the Beginning 106

Chapter 6 Act 1: Natural State 112

Chapter 7 Act 2: Compliance 114

Chapter 8 Act 3: Descent 118

Chapter 9 Act 4: Darkness 123

Chapter 10 Act 5: Divergence 128

Chapter 11 Act 6: Rebellion 131

Chapter 12 Act 7: Healthy Deviance 134

Part 3 The Way of the Healthy Deviant

Chapter 13 The Nonconformist Competencies 145

Amplified Awareness

Preemptive Repair

Continuous Growth and Learning

Chapter 14 The Renegade Rituals 159

Chapter 15 Morning Minutes 163

Chapter 16 Ultradian Rhythm Breaks 171

Chapter 17 Nighttime Wind-Down 187

Chapter 18 Healthy Deviant Survival Skills 192

Part 4 Your Healthy Deviant Adventure (A 14-Day Experiment in Radical Replenishment)

Chapter 19 Get Ready for Weirdness 222

Chapter 20 Phase 1: Start Where You Are 247

Day 1 Wake Up

Day 2 Gather Courage

Day 3 Find Things Right

Day 4 Cultivate Willingness

Day 5 Call BS

Day 6 Ask for What You Want

Day 7 Celebrate Small Successes

Chapter 21 Phase 2: Raise Your Game 270

Day 8 Abandon Victim Thinking

Day 9 Find Your Edge

Day 10 Renegotiate Reality

Day 11 Act "As If"

Day 12 Stake Your Claim

Day 13 Expand Your Horizon

Day 14 Bask, Beware, Repeat

Chapter 22 Your Healthy Deviant Toolkit 292

Part 5 Taking It to the Streets

Chapter 23 The Healthy Deviant Manifesto 310

Chapter 24 Deviant Disruption 315

Epilogue A Bizarrely Better World 321

Acknowledgments 324

Endnotes 329

Index 336

About the Author 348

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