Why Normal Isn't Healthy
by Bowen F. White, M. D.
Hazelden
Center City, MN
$16.95/softcover
198 pages
Why Normal Isn’t Healthy offers a doctor’s prescription for living a healthier, happier, more fulfilling life, one that’s wonderfully funny, profound, actually legible—and very easy to swallow.
Bowen F. White is a physician, comedian, philosopher, consultant, author and clown. He shows us how to take responsibility for our own health and well-being by recognizing ourselves as the central problem and embracing the fun of getting better. By our taking stock of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of living a heartfelt and healthy life, Why Normal Isn’t Healthy offers insights into getting healthy support, repressing thoughts and feelings, neglecting our needs, meeting the needs of others and creating healing environments. Dr. White introduces concepts such as the ‘Scared One’ vs. the ‘Sacred One,’ the secret that everyone carries within and how to explore our INbox to OUTbox response.
Based on hundreds of enlightening, inspirational and humor-filled presentations, Dr. White and his clown character, Dr. Jerko, strive to reach people prior to crisis and create a safe environment to examine what’s really important. How does he help us accomplish this? With humor. “When we’re laughing, we’re open: our psyche is undefended and information sticks,” he writes. And his prescription for narrowing our “funny gap?” Laugh more often. Don’t take yourself too seriously. Help others but focus on changing yourself
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