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

By Bowen Faville White

Book Overview

An over-the-counter prescription for a healthier, happier and more fulfilling life - Explains that laughter, misbehaviour, and making mistakes are crucial to our physical and emotional well being -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568385595
• ISBN13: 9781568385594
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Hazelden
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Normal's not only unhealthy - it can kill you

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.

author is a testament to his words

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.

Refreshing & Insightful

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.

A fun book that touches the heart.

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.

Exceptional Insight

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.