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Why Normal Isn't Healthy: How to Find Heart, Meaning, Passion, and Humor on the Road Most Traveled

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It's nice to know that the path to health, healing and wholeness involves laughing, misbehaving, and making mistakes. How refreshing! It no longer is necessary to wait until something tragic happens in your life to start living a fulfilling one. Why Normal Isn't Healthy shows you how to experience life to its fullest TODAY, at this very moment, instead of dreaming about what will happen tomorrow. The book is a road map that shows you how to prioritize your life and focus on the important stuff and not get caught up in the little things that can drive you crazy. Pick up this book. You'll be glad you did.

Bowen White M.D. truly opens your eyes about what's important in life and how the stress that comes from what other people put into your inbox can really take you down. This is an easy to read, step by step eye opener about how the things we accept for normal in our life are slowly killing us and the book gives you significant, solid steps on how to take control over your life back from the world we live in and really learn to live. I loved it.

This is a truely passionate, wonderful, and deeply considered book which opens the reader to new and invaluable insights into who we are, how we became this way, and what we can do to be healthy rather than normal. Always willing to laugh at himself, Dr. White uses practical down to earth examples from his own life and then, often when you least expect it, with a loving twinkle in his eye, helps us to look at our own lives, sometimes through tears we had thought had long since dried up. Mixed with courage and compassion, grounded in medical science but led by hope and a sense of the infinite possibilities, Why Normal Isn't Healthy opens a pathway which leads toward a better life.

I've known Bowen White for many years and so my review could be considered biased........however, I can honestly say that he has always been "out there" i.e., not being so normal, making people laugh all the time, and strikes me as a very healthy person ... he follows his own words and ideas and has written a very honest book. I'd say we can all learn something from him. He spoke to a keen group of university students here on a recent visit and had a great time involving them in taking a different path toward solving life's challenges. His enthusiasm for life and for all people comes through in this book.

Dr. White will teach you to laugh at the normalcy of your own life and learn how to find freedom in the everyday. This book is a quick and easy read that will leave you mind busy for days.

Bowen White takes you to the ultimate place, your inner self. His insight into the human mind is incredible. If you are seeking to find more about yourself, and why you live the life you do, this is the book for you. I have heard this wonderful man speak live and have read his book twice. It is incredible to walk a trail of the world with him and look at yourself.

No matter how many times I read this book, something new always resonates with me. These are life lessons, and a lot of them seem to take a whole lifetime to master...but the pursuit is the worthiest you'll ever embark upon. I strive every day to shake my unhealthy "normal" behaviors and embrace the spirit of this book - one that is laughing, open-hearted, through life.

White has a good message: Our fear-based, looking-good tendencies are not healthy for us and perpetuate unhealthy behavior in others. He discusses why we become this way, measures he took to lessen this in himself and suggests how we can do likewise.

I did find the book tiresome to follow for a number of reasons including White's wordy, informal writing style, and his frequent reliance on quoting cryptic poetry.