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In this special 100th-episode celebration, Diana offers her favorite and most effective tips to energize your health. Dump “junk food,” rest, and learn restorative practices that will heal your body at the cellular level. Break out of your exercise rut and learn to move more nutritiously. Stop counting calories and track this instead, and learn four things you can do to drink alcohol more consciously. With insights from experts such as Elissa Epel, Kimberly Wilson, Emily Sandoz, Pilar Gerasimo, Katy Bowman, Brother Phap Huu, David Nutt, and Judson Brewer, you will learn science-backed and practical ways to get healthy and find peace of mind along the way.Related ResourcesGet enhanced show notes for this episodeSubscribe to my free Wise Effort newsletter.Become a MORE Life in Process member to support the show.Find out what kind of Striver you are and get your free Skillful Striving ToolkitWant to learn more about ACT? Take Diana's on-demand course, "Foundations of ACT"Diana's EventsCome to Diana's Costa Rica retreat in 2024...there are a few spots left!You can sign up for the Wise Effort Together (All-Access Pass) See Diana at an upcoming eventConnecting With DianaThank you for listening to Your Life in Process! Subscribe to the podcast for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. Follow Diana on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Diana's website.Leave feedback for the show or a voicemail at ‪(805) 457-2776Thank you to the team Craig, Ashley Hiatt, and Yoko Nguyen. Thank you to Benjamin Gould of Bell & Branch for your beautiful

Do you love yourself?I know, it's an extremely personal question. When a counselor first asked me this question I was taken aback. It's offensive and puts one in a defensive position. And who likes feeling defensive?But therapy is about healing and I answered as best I could. Again, and again. I'm fairly certain every counselor, therapist, and coach I have worked with has asked me some form of this question.When my new therapist heard my answer to this question she heard something the others did not. When I described my inner and outer worlds and my troubles blending the two, she suggested I might explore some autism self-diagnostic quizzes. Long story short, I tested very likely to be autistic. So here we are.What fascinates me is what I have learned from the neurodiversity community in just a few months. Whereas therapy made me feel like something was wrong with me, neurodiversity suggests that there is not. Being different isn't wrong.In therapy, I was taught that many of my beliefs were incorrect and could be changed. The problem was me, the solution was easy, and it was simply a matter of me implementing the solution. Therapy suggests my feelings are irrational and that I need to change. Therapy made me feel broken and prescribed various quick fixes. Most of these solutions came in the form of simply changing the way I think — the way my brain works. However, after over a decade in various therapies with nearly a dozen different practitioners, I was unable.My beliefs . . . my brain . . . my neurology proved impossible to alter.My inability to fix myself led me down a shame spiral.I don't blame therapy or the therapists. I learned a lot intellectually. I came to understand the popular psychotherapeutic approaches and concepts. I also learned a lot about my childhood and my trauma. I did a lot of healing over the years. Yet, the same problems plagued me. When I considered that there was nothing wrong with me things started to loosen up. Therapy reinforced my feelings of being different but left me feeling wrong. Thinking I might be neurodivergent made me feel okay about being different. And this lines up with my understanding of evolution and ecology. Of course, we are different. That's the point.Being autistic suggests that these feelings are rational and there is no need to change. My shame is unfounded. There is nothing wrong with my brain. The solution is to recognize how and why the world seeks conformity and that this is irrational — not me. Autism is teaching me that I don't need to change myself, but that there are things I can do to help integrate my inner and outer worlds. Though prejudice and stigma try to hide neurodiversity in the shadows, it is time we figure out how to be present. Expressing our diversity is imperative to solve our problems. We are not all alike. Trying to alter this natural law is killing us. My writing, podcasts, and videos are a small part of making this change. Together we can find the courage to change the world.Help us stay connected by subscribing to my Medium page, podcast, YouTube channel, or webpage. I'm currently reading “The Healthy Deviant. A Rule-Breakers Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World” by Pilar Gerasimo. You can find her work and the book here.If you are enjoying this content, please tell your friends.

186: Taking Back Your Life & Giving Your Body What It Needs with Cimeran Kapur   Quote: “What I learned in public health, all the different education that there was, is that your zip code and your education determine your life expectancy.” – Cimeran Kapur   Summary:  Imagine being hit with a rare cancer diagnosis—what a curveball, right? Well that's exactly what happened to today's guest, Cimeran Kapur, founder of Potion. From the initial shock of her diagnosis to navigating the labyrinth of treatments, Cimeran takes us through her journey with holistic healing. Her loyal travel companion? None other than the ancient science of Ayurveda. Whether you're working through health challenges of your own or not, this episode offers practices that will help you make your wellness a priority. Ready to take your potion?   In this episode we talk about… Committing to holistic health after a life-altering rare cancer diagnosis. Turning to Ayurveda to nurture the body, mind, and soul from the inside out. Highlighting the pivotal role of self-love and self-care in the healing process. Finding purpose through self-discovery, making a positive impact on the world.   Bio:  Cimeran Kapur is the founder of Potion, a premium holistic wellness brand focused on bringing Ayurveda's 5,000 year old medicinal wisdom to the modern consumer via time-tested plant based remedies and wellness tools. The brand's hero product, an Ayurvedic herbal Immunity Potion, was born out of Cimeran's quest to heal after she was diagnosed with life-threatening cancer during her medical training at the age of 28.    Cimeran's mission is to empower people in their health and in realizing that they are the most powerful agents in their own healing journey. She relishes in bridging the mystic and the scientific to bring trust to the space of Ayurveda's ancient medicine, given her long standing background in the medical field as a former researcher, public health official, doctor-in-training, and now Ayurvedic therapist. Connect with Cimeran: Find her on the web at cimeran.com . Follow her on Instagram or Tik Tok. Follow Potion on Instagram and TikTok. Get 10% off your purchase at takeyourpotion.com with code: thebravetable. If you loved this episode you'll love… Episode 178: Bridging Modern Medicine with Ancient Healing to Feel Like Yourself Again  with Dr. Nisha Khanna. Apple | Spotify Episode 133: Unleashing Your Inner Rule Breaker & Reclaiming Your Health Against all Odds with Pilar Gerasimo. Apple | Spotify Episode 97: What the Medical System Doesn't Tell You About Being Healthy, Diets, & Emotional Health With Mona Sharma. Apple | Spotify   Discussion Question:  How can you break away from the norm and incorporate holistic practices to take back your life and give your body what it needs?   Join the conversation on Instagram @thebravetable!   Yooo! Get the inside scoop & behind the scenes mini trainings from some of our favorite guests here when you become a Brave Table Insider. See you on the inside! Let's Fly Forward Together at Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art Of Living Center, for my 3-day intensive retreat. Book your weekend oasis with me at this exclusive wellness weekend, where I will be your guide here Give the gift of Brave Conversations! No more ghosting, avoiding, suppressing, or denying your bold voice. As a Brave Table listener you get 50% off the long awaited course. Sign up here and begin having Brave Conversations, with bold action in 2024. Claim it here at neetabhushan.com/braveconversations.

In episode 195 host Galit Friedlander and Pilar Gerasimo (founding editor-in-chief of Experience Life magazine and author of the Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World), discuss the 3 simple game-changers to having more healthy and productive days, navigating our well-being when there are major global crisis' at play, and understanding your ultradian rhythms for peak performance. Follow Galit: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/gogalit Website - https://www.gogalit.com/ Fit From Home - https://galit-s-school-0397.thinkific.com/courses/fit-from-home You can connect with Pilar on Instagram and through her website. Listen to DanceSpeak on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

Thanks to decades of advances in awareness, research, and resources, humans are living longer. Yet large amounts of the population are consistently facing chronic health issues, diseases, and health disparities, These ongoing challenges are common and costly, and many are preventable.Many factors are behind our current levels of health, including the social narratives we have created around lifestyles that have become normal.'These questionable lifestyles are undermining our well-being and imperiling the future of humanity.   Welcome to Episode Twenty-Eight of The Nature of Wellness Podcast.  On this episode, we sat down with award-winning health journalist, founding editor of Experience Life magazine (which reaches millions with each issue), and co-host of the top-rated The Living Experiment podcast Pilar Gerasimo. Pilar served as senior vice president of Healthy Living for Life Time Fitness, lead health editor at The Huffington Post, and chief creative officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Her incredible work has earned attention from the New York Times, Psychology Today, Mindful, Blue Zones, Thrive Global, and many other leading media outlets. Pilar's work has also been embraced by the World Economic Forum, the International Monetary Fund, and a variety of healthcare organizations.Join us as we talk to Pilar about her personal wellness journey, the power of standing out from unhealthy social norms, the pitfalls of comparison, and how to take the first steps toward building your own healthy identity. Pilar discusses the power of awareness, the lessons that we should re-discover from our ancestors, the importance of including those we love in our journeys, how small modifications lead to big breakthroughs in personal health, and the power of community. We left this conversation ready to become healthy deviants, and break from the 'norm.' Please subscribe, rate, and leave a review anywhere you listen to this podcast. It will help us extend the reach of these powerful messages. We appreciate you all. Be Well-NOW Pilar Gerasimo Instagram: @pilargerasimoPilar's Podcast www.livingexperiment.com.The Healthy Deviant Website: https://www.thehealthydeviant.com A very generous FREE offer for NOW listeners: 5-Day Un-Challenge sales page: https://www.thehealthydeviant.com/5day-unchallenge  enter code NOW5DAY at checkout to get the course for free. * The Nature of Wellness Podcast is produced by the remarkable Shawn Bell.** The NOW theme song was written, performed, produced, and graciously provided by the incredibly talented Phil and Niall Monahan. 

Ep. 176: Alchemizing Pain & Accessing Joy as a Path to Power with Dr. Tanmeet Sethi Quote: “Every system of oppression and power thrives when we do not. And, they thrive by stripping us of our humanity, of our capacity for joy and meaning and connection and belonging.” – Dr. Tanmeet Sethi   Summary: Today's guest is the incredible Dr. Tanmeet Sethi, author of Joy Is My Justice: Reclaiming What Is Yours. After Aiyla was born, I faced my own challenges as a new mother of two while writing That Sucked. now what? Tanmeet, mother of three, was still a practicing medical doctor while writing hers!     This conversation is the best of both worlds. Logic and emotion. With some scientific explanations, Tanmeet explains how she continually turns the tables on pain, transforming it into pure joy! Together, we unpack the fascinating idea that joy isn't just a feel-good emotion; it's a potent form of justice. In this episode we talk about… Navigating the complexities of raising a child with chronic illness and tapping to the inner strength. How stimulating the vagus nerve can lead to feelings of safety and motivate positive change. Practical tips for integrating joy into daily life, including movement and mindfulness practices.   Bio: Tanmeet Sethi, MD is an Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine Physician, TEDx speaker, activist, author of Joy Is My Justice. She has dedicated her career to caring for the most marginalized patients in Seattle's refugee, uninsured, and homeless populations. She is also an advocate for the health concerns of global communities traumatized by manmade and natural disasters.    In her clinical practice, Tanmeet weaves modern and ancient medicine to catalyze the most profound healing from within. She has integrated her training in functional medicine, fellowship training in Integrative Medicine, and her conventional medical training with her psychedelic training to create a unique approach to healing that acknowledges our own innate body's wisdom. Connect with Tanmeet: Follow her on Instagram @tanmeetsethimd. Follow her on Facebook @tanmeetsethimd. Take the Your Path to Joy Quiz. Get your copy of Joy is My Justice. If you loved this episode you'll love… Episode 133: Unleashing Your Inner Rule Breaker & Reclaiming Your Health Against all Odds with Pilar Gerasimo. Apple | Spotify Episode 97: What the Medical System Doesn't Tell You About Being Healthy, Diets, & Emotional Health With Mona Sharma. Apple | Spotify Episode 85: The Real Meaning of Self-Care and How To Maintain Health for the Long Run with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon. Apple | Spotify Discussion Question: How can you shift your perspective and approach to holistic health to embrace joy as a fundamental form of justice and healing, especially in the face of adversity and challenge?   Join the conversation on Instagram @thebravetable!   Grab Your Free Seat with me here to Embrace Your Emotions 90 min workshop, and get the replay at neetabhushan.com/emotionsworkshop.   Let's Fly Forward Together at Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art Of Living Center, for my 3-day intensive retreat. Book your weekend oasis with me at this exclusive wellness weekend, where I will be your guide here

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How do we carve out space to nurture our health in the world we find ourselves in every day? That's a question that Pilar Gerasimo has devoted this stage of her career to exploring. In this week's episode, Pilar joins Bryan to talk about the "unhealthy default reality", what it means to be a "healthy deviant", developing survival skills for the new era, and much more. Pilar is a health journalist and author of the book, "The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World". She's also the Founding Editor of Experience Life Magazine and co-host of The Living Experiment podcast. As always - take what serves you, and leave the rest.  (This podcast is not meant to replace therapy. If you feel you need it, we encourage you to reach out to a licensed mental health professional)

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Tells Us How to Start a Wellness Revolution #SANE with Pilar Gerasimo & Jonathan Bailor

Pilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, 2020). Best known for her visionary work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than three million people with each issue, Pilar has also served as top health editor for The Huffington Post, and as visiting faculty for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment and teaches online courses through her digital learning platform, Healthy Deviant Academy. She guest lectures at universities, leads workshops at top retreat centers, and consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness at work and around the globe. Her work has been featured by the World Economic Forum, MIT, International Monetary Fund, and a variety of other thought-leading platforms. When she's not traveling, Pilar hangs out on her family's organic, communal farm in Wisconsin with her pit bull pal, Sally Sue. Learn more at www.healthydeviant.com (where you can also take the “Are You a Healthy Deviant?” quiz). Join Pilar's private Healthy Deviant Facebook Group or follow her on Instagram at @pilargerasimo.

“Asking overwhelmed, depleted, exhausted, burned out, overstimulated people to do anything more than a tiny step at a time is just adding fuel to the fire and setting people up for failure." - Pilar Gerasimo   If you believe normal is overrated in regard to personalized care, then you're going to love today's guest, Pilar Gerasimo!  In today's episode we talk about…. The hidden impact of chronic depletion and sensory overload on our overall well-being. Embracing healthy deviance as a powerful tool to regain control of our health and happiness. Unveiling the nonconformist competencies of healthy deviance: Amplified awareness, preemptive repair, and continuous growth. Understanding the importance of reclaiming our mojo and addressing underlying factors before embarking on significant changes.   In this transformative episode, together, we explore the challenges we face in navigating an unhealthy default reality and unravel Pilar's groundbreaking approach to reclaiming health and happiness.    Get ready for an eye-opening conversation that will leave you inspired and equipped with practical strategies for breaking free from societal norms and living a healthier, more fulfilling life.   Pilar is the author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World, founding editor of Experience Life magazine, and co-host of The Living Experiment podcast.   Connect with Pilar: Follow Pilar on Instagram @pilargerasimo. Follow Pilar on Facebook @PilarGerasimo and join her group for freebies. Take her “Are You a Healthy Deviant?” quiz.   If you loved this episode... Circle back to Episode 129: How to Reverse & Optimize Your Health with Tracy Duhs. Apple | Spotify Revisit Episode 126: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Fulfilled Life with Melissa Ambrossini and Nick Broadhurst.  Apple | Spotify Explore Episode 111: Red Light Therapy, Detoxing, and Wellness Biohacking with Lauren Berlingeri.  Apple | Spotify   Question: How can you embrace your inner rule breaker to challenge societal norms and create a life that aligns with your true health and happiness?   We love your reviews! Please be sure to leave a 5-star review. When you screenshot it and send it to support@globalgrit.co you will get your FREE gift!  

“Health doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in community and society,” explains Pilar Gerasimo, founding editor of Experience Life Magazine. Pilar believes we must make unconventional choices to thrive in an unhealthy world. So in this episode, we explore how to take ownership of our health and find the happiness we seek. In an age where we are inundated with constant messaging, it's easy to fall into cycles of burnout and emotional depletion. With busy schedules where we have to cook, clean, and work with little time to ourselves, it's challenging to find time to rethink our health. If we take a step back and resist our toxic default realities, we can create the space to make small changes that lead to transformative action. By making healthy choices part of who we are, we can be the change we wish to see. In fact, in an unhealthy world, choosing health is almost like an act of rebellion. Learn more about societal sabotage, the virtuous cycle of healthy deviance, and stop being a slave to what Pilar termed the “unhealthy default reality.” Quotes “Health doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in community and society.” (3:44-3:48 | Pilar) “People need to be acknowledged for the experiences they've had up until this time and be encouraged to notice what triggers unhealthy choices.” (11:04-11:14 | Pilar) “My passion is helping people master the art of being healthy in an unhealthy world.” (16:07-16:12 | Pilar)  “We have a built-in survival mechanism that tells us we need other people to be happy to survive.” (18:27-18:32 | Pilar)  “We need to start breaking some of the rules and assumptions about what we have to do or should do and begin thinking more for ourselves.” (27:01-27:09 | Pilar)     Links   Resources Are You A Healthy Deviant? Take the Quiz! https://healthydeviant.com/quiz Connect with Pilar Gerasimo Website: https://healthydeviant.com Website: https://pilargerasimo.com/ Book: https://www.thehealthydeviant.com/store Podcast: https://livingexperiment.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PilarGerasimo Instagram: http://instagram.com/pgerasimo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pilargerasimo/ ====    Thank You For Listening! If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review! Your positive review helps others find this podcast and increase its visibility.   Getting to YES boils down to two things: Saying the right things and saying those things consistently… so if you want to go deeper, check out Uli's one-page “Getting to YES” blueprint and training with the essential 9 persuasion prompts you need to leverage: https://uliiserloh.com/blueprint   Connect With Uli Website: https://uliiserloh.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/uliiserloh   Instagram: https://instagram.com/uliiserloh Youtube: https://youtube.com/uliiserloh  Tiktok: https://tiktok.com/@uliiserloh  Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/uliiserloh/ If you'd like to learn more about Uli's marketing agency and available services, visit https://bigboost.marketing

Do you refuse to go along with the status quo when it comes to your health? You just might be a healthy deviant! A healthy deviant is someone who defies societal norms in order to achieve a higher-than-average level of vitality and health. In this episode, you'll learn why it's beneficial and essential to be a healthy deviant and some small things you can do right away to prioritize your health. About Pilar GerasimoPilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist and author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World. Widely hailed for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than three million people with each issue, Pilar has also served as top health editor for Huffington Post, and as visiting faculty for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment, guest lectures at universities and world-renowned retreat centers, and consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness at work and around the globe. Key TakeawaysThe majority of people in our society are not healthy or happy You are going to need to go against the grain of the “unhealthy default reality” to make the healthier choice for yourself The “unhealthy default reality” blames you for your problems  A lot of the health solutions offered to you are quick fixes, don't work at all, or are unsustainable from a depleted place Ultradian rhythms are the changing rhythms of our bodies throughout the day When you respond to your ultradian rhythms your body has a chance to recalibrate and rehabilitate Healthy deviance is also healthy parenting Adding a morning minutes practice can change the course of your day Relevant Resources MentionedTake https://www.thehealthydeviant.com/quiz (the Healthy Deviant Quiz) Learn more about https://www.thehealthydeviant.com/ (Pilar Gerasimo) Check out Pilar's podcast https://livingexperiment.com/ (The Living Experiment) How to usehttps://drdianahill.com/want-to-move-your-body-more-psychological-flexibility-can-help/ ( psychological flexibility )to move more https://www.npr.org/2022/03/31/1089865057/a-secretive-la-group-has-a-new-mission-paint-untouched-crosswalks (The Crosswalk Vigilantes) https://drdianahill.com/extras/ (Download Your Daily Practice for Episode 38 Here) https://drdianahill.com/reset-and-restore-retreat/ (Reserve your spot with Diana for Retreat in Costa Rica in 2023)! Sign up for https://drdianahill.com/striving-thriving-summit-2022/ (From Striving to Thriving 2.0)! https://drdianahill.com/events/ (Join Diana at an upcoming event)  Thank you for listening to Your Life in Process! If you have any questions or feedback you can contact me by email at podcast@yourlifeinprocess.com, leave me an audio message at (805) 457-2776, or message me on Instagram @drdianahill and remember when you become psychologically flexible, you become free. Thank you to my team Craig, Angela Stubbs, and Ashley Hiatt, and to our sponsor InsightLA Meditation for making this podcast possible. Thank you to Benjamin Gould of https://bellandbranch.com/ (Bell & Branch) for your beautiful music.  Episode Segments[00:04] Are You A Healthy Deviant? [01:07] About Pilar Gerasimo [04:22] Diana's Event: Costa Rica Retreat [07:03] Statistics On The Unhealthy Norm  [09:10] The Unhealthy Deviant Reality [11:44] Common Problems People Feel In the Unhealthy Default Reality [15:29] The Rose In the Vineyard [18:17] Pilar's Hero's Journey to Healthy Deviance [24:35] Diana's Upcoming Events [25:18] It's Not Our Fault [26:49] Ultradian Rhythms [29:47] Tracking Your Ultradian Rhythms [36:46] How Do Preemptive Repair [37:44] A Repertoire of Health Across Contexts [44:20] How to Be a Healthy Deviant Parent [49:21] Morning Minutes Practice [53:05] Healthy Deviant Resources [55:07] Diana's Summary...

From the dual perspectives of Certified Counselor/Life Coach, Kim Anderson, & Functional Nutrition/Fitness Trainer, Lori Zabka, your hosts help women identify and break up with the patterns that have held them back so they can reach their fullest potential, ... "because life is too short to stay stuck" 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 what does it mean to be one of the few people to buck societal norms and beat those unhealthy odds? According to Pilar Gerasimo, it means becoming a deviant….a “Healthy Deviant,” to be exact, and in this interview, Pilar lays out exactly how become a rule breaker by acknowledging a disturbing truth: if you aren't breaking the rules, you're probably breaking yourself.”   If you often find yourself overwhelmed, burned out, depleted, or depressed; if you wonder what's wrong with you, the answer is: nothing! You are simply living in a society where illness, anxiety, and depletion are the prevailing norms. Want to learn a better way? Want to become a “Healthy Deviant?” Take a listen to this amazing conversation with award-winning health journalist, Pilar Gerasimo.   To learn more about your hosts visit: Kim Anderson at kimanderson.life or Lori Zabka at lifebyloriz.com

Try this when your energy slumps mid-morning or mid-afternoon... Energy dips can feel like the WORST - and most of us power through them, only to crash and burn at 5p, leaving nothing left for our alone time, family time or ourselves. Why DOES our energy dip, anyhow?! Your body is on timers- one being the circadian rhythm. You've probably heard of this one. It's synced with your sleep/wake time and when you eat each day (consistency in these two areas is super helpful to your body). The second, and less known body timer is your Ultradian Rhythm. These are in 90ish-minute energy waves happening all day. This is why you have a mid-morning and mid-afternoon slump! Your body is signaling it needs to dump out some accumulated stress but what you typically do is caffeinated it or sugar spike it. You try to power through. You try to ignore it (hint: that doesn't work). Let's try something different today! When this TOTALLY NATURAL slump hits- recognize it as a whisper from your body to dump some stress out. Don't grab a Starbucks or sugary snack… instead try one of these 3 ideas: Take a potty break, while you do, take deep breaths and feel your energy settle Drink some water, then drink some more- slowly and mindfully Get some movement in- desk stretches, a walk, stairs. Even better if it's outside! These are totally predictable energy dips- and it doesn't take long to dump out some of the accumulated stress, press reset and get back to your day. Today, just notice them. See how your energy naturally rises and dips! Take note of what you want to do to soothe these dips - caffeine? A snack? Power through and burn out? Tomorrow try an ultradian break, just one. See how it feels. The ideas above are just starting points! You want to intentionally take a break, dump some stress out, breathe. It doesn't need to take long - just a few minutes helps! Reply back before you leave work with how you do - I can't wait to hear what differences you notice! Your Life Coach, Jen PS: If you missed yesterday's Your Life Coach Jen - The Podcast episode on how to always be working toward your goal, that may be a great way to spend your next Ultradian Rhythm break. You can tune in, by clicking here : https://anchor.fm/yourlifecoachjen PPS: I originally heard of URBs from the amazing Pilar Gerasimo - her book The Healthy Deviant goes into detail about this with even more beautiful insights and tips. Grab it today!

My guest Pilar Gerasimo helps answer this question not through simplistic dieting or exercise tips but by asking us to step into a greater sense of who we are. In her work The Healthy Deviant, she outlines a very practical method for uncovering and taking action on what truly gives you life. https://pilargerasimo.com/

This week's episode of 'Advancing ALL Women,' with host Sarah Alter, President and CEO of Network of Executive Women, is 'Avoiding Burnout & Managing Mental Health.' Joining Sarah are guests Kiera Fernandez, SVP, Human Resources and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Target; and Pilar Gerasimo, Author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World, award-winning journalist. Our panel will share best practices for leading and supporting your team through burnout, and managing their well-being through change and stressful times.

This week's episode of 'Advancing ALL Women,' with host Sarah Alter, President and CEO of Network of Executive Women, is 'Avoiding Burnout & Managing Mental Health.' Joining Sarah are guests Kiera Fernandez, SVP, Human Resources and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Target; and Pilar Gerasimo, Author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World, award-winning journalist. Our panel will share best practices for leading and supporting your team through burnout, and managing their well-being through change and stressful times.

We all want to be healthy… but it is a difficult feat in a society that is constantly enticing us to be unhealthy. Fast food, screens, long work hours, and lack of connection means that in order to be healthy, we actually need to take a radical step in the other direction. You might say that we need to be a healthy deviant! Today's guest, Pilar Gerasimo, is a founding editor of Experience Life magazine, co-host of the top rated The Living Experiment podcast, and author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World. We are excited to bring you an enlightening conversation all about what it means to be a health deviant. Stay tuned to learn what steps you can take to build a life that supports your health. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 3:17 - Pilar's story 9:29 - Why willpower fails 15:29 - Why our genetics and environment don't match 20:25 - Multitasking doesn't work 27:08 - What does it mean to be a healthy deviant 33:00 - How society might need to change for our health 38:11 - Ultradian rhythms 43:50 - Being a healthy deviant in the healthcare system 49:57 - What Pilar does every day to cultivate joy 51:06 - Getting in touch with Pilar

Closing time... It's Time to Wave Goodbye... now... Say Goodbye. A final episode of The Same 24 Hours.  Thank you all for the most beautiful 4+ year run. 319 episodes, amazing guests, and all the love to you. Notable Guests from the Podcast: Brian Baumgartner, Dr. Shefali Tsabary, Tony Hawk, Geneen Roth, Dr. Nicole LePera, Tom Bergeron, Dr. Aviva Romm, Bob Harper, Jen Hatmaker, Mikki Kendall, Nir Eyal, Holly Whitaker, Ada Calhoun, Lisa Sharon Harper, Gary John Bishop, Kevin Curry, Tony Horton, Jack Canfield, Dr. William Sears, Dr. BJ Miller, Laila Ali, Randy Spelling, Jairek Robbins, Pilar Gerasimo, Cory Muscara, Annie Grace, Mirinda Carfrae, Melissa Urban, Emily Giffin, Mike Reilly, Gretchen Rubin, Emily Fletcher, Dr. Will Cole, Stephen Chbosky, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Dr. Kelly Brogan, and many, many more. ======================  Buy Meredith's Books: The Year of No Nonsense https://amzn.to/3su5qWp Triathlon for the Every Woman: https://amzn.to/3nOkjiH =======================   Follow Meredith Atwood & The Podcast on Social: Web: MeredithAtwood.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/meredith.atwood   =======================  Want to Connect?  Email: same24hourspodcast@gmail.com =======================  Credits: Host & Production: Meredith Atwood Copyright 2017-2022. All Rights Reserved, Meredith Atwood, LLC

While many of us have the desire to be healthy, the unfortunate reality is that our culture is not set up to make it easy — and often makes it really hard. That does not mean it's impossible, just that it requires intentionality. Pilar Gerasimo, health journalist, author, and founding editor of Experience Life, shares why her work is centered around helping people become “healthy deviants,” including tips for breaking against the norms of society so you don't break yourself.   Find the episode highlights, get related resources and view the transcript for this episode at https://experiencelife.lifetime.life/podcast/how-to-be-healthy-in-an-unhealthy-world/    Have thoughts you'd like to share or topic ideas for future episodes? Email us at lttalks@lt.life — we'd love to hear from you!   Follow us on Instagram: @lifetime.life   The information in this podcast is intended to provide broad understanding and knowledge of healthcare topics. This information is for educational purposes only and should not be considered complete and should not be used in place of advice from your physician or healthcare provider. We recommend you consult your physician or healthcare professional before beginning or altering your personal exercise, diet or supplementation program. 

Pilar Gerasimo joins VIP's Casey Hasten in a discussion about how to change the way we think about and approach health improvement. Pilar is the Author of The Healthy Deviant, award-winning health journalist, and former CCO and Editor. Pilar's goal is to be healthy in an unhealthy world and to guide others to be that way, too.About The Guest:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pilargerasimo/Website: https://pilargerasimo.com/About The We Are VIP Podcast:This podcast is brought to you by VIP to add value to your job or candidate search. Each week, we'll bring you helpful tips and insights from leading professionals to help candidates land their dream jobs and help employers find better talent.Hosted by:Casey Hasten, Director of Recruiting at VIPAbout VIP:We utilize a holistic approach to support your strategic initiatives in accounting and finance. From recruiting and strategic staffing, to project management consulting, our service model offers a comprehensive solution that allows for flexibility as you navigate transformation and growth within your organization.Connect:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/270216/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeAreVIPCompanyJob Openings and Services: https://wearevip.com

In this episode, Pilar Gerasimo, an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author, is here to educate and enlighten us all on how to master the art of being healthy in an unhealthy world. Founding editor of Experiencing Life Magazine of LifeTime and co-host of a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment, Pilar shares with us so many ways we can enrich our lives to actually make personal changes in an achievable and sustainable way. Her information is digestible and relatable, especially in the world now, where people are reaching a point where their bodies and their minds are both breaking down - one she has coined “pissed off body syndrome”. Consider her approach a “Healthy Deviant” from the norm to live the best you and view in your mirror.

I love today's conversation with Pilar Gerasimo, author of the book “The Healthy Deviant”, and I'm so excited to share it with you! Pilar is on a quest to heal and create healthy people throughout the world, and in today's discussion we delve into her manifestos to reclaim health autonomy.  Click here to download the […] The post #290: Mapping Healthy Deviance with Pilar Gerasimo appeared first on Functional Nutrition Alliance.

If you're sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, you're not alone. In fact, less than 1% of American adults are truly healthy, happy, and on track to stay that way. ONE percent. Yikes.  So, how does one live healthy in an unhealthy world that is riddled with chronic illness, pharmaceutical drug use and struggling to be physically and emotionally fit and balanced? Pilar Gerasimo may have a solution. She's spent 20 years as a wellness journalist, is the founding editor of the “Experience Life” magazine and considers herself a healthy deviant. So much so that she wrote the book, "Healthy Deviant". On this episode of HIListically Speaking, Pilar shares her own wellness journey with listeners, and what it means to be a Healthy Deviant living outside the norm. Why being part of what she calls, the Unhealthy Default Reality, is keeping people sick. And how it's up to each and every one of us to be our own health advocate for change with community being the key. Expect a lot of laughs, a history lesson filled word play and some empowering educational tools to live well. Plus, a discussion on how journalism has changed from two gals who have been in the trenches for decades. It's time to get a little deviant and shake things up. Pilar is also giving you a double dose of healthy. Take the Healthy Deviant Quiz to find out where you fall on the scale. And check out a preview of her book. You can also connect with her on Instagram. And while you're at it, how about putting some powerful tools in your own hands and be kind to your mind. Set up a Complimentary Discovery Call with Hilary to learn more about how Havening Techniques heals and can rapidly change the landscape of your brain. And if you're interested in learning more about integrative health and nutrition and how to be an advocated for your own health, check out a sample class at IIN. It's on the house.    If you're interested in sharing your transformational story  on The HIListically Speaking Podcast with Hilary Russo, fill out the guest form.   Want early access to podcast guests, giveaways, speaking engagements and events with Hilary?  Plus, her powerful tips and tools to help you "be kind to your mind" in your every day? Join the  Thrive Hive. It's FREE!    HIListically Speaking with Hilary Russo Created/Hosted by Hilary Russo Produced by Alan Seales Music by Lipbone Redding Recorded on SquadCast Connect with Hilary Instagram: @HilaryRusso Twitter: @HilaryRusso Facebook: @HilaryRusso Website: www.hilaryrusso.com Connect with Alan Seales Listen to more music by Lipbone Redding

This week's episode of 'Advancing ALL Women' with Sarah Alter is 'Conscious Language!' Our guests this week are Pilar Gerasimo, Author of The Healthy Deviant and award-winning journalist; and Michelle Maldonado, Founder and CEO of Lucenscia, a firm dedicated to human flourishing and mindful business transformation. Our guests will discuss the power of conscious, concise communication, the pitfalls female leaders should avoid, and key tips and tricks to refine workplace communication.

This week's episode of 'Advancing ALL Women' with Sarah Alter is 'Conscious Language!' Our guests this week are Pilar Gerasimo, Author of The Healthy Deviant and award-winning journalist; and Michelle Maldonado, Founder and CEO of Lucenscia, a firm dedicated to human flourishing and mindful business transformation. Our guests will discuss the power of conscious, concise communication, the pitfalls female leaders should avoid, and key tips and tricks to refine workplace communication.

This week's episode of 'Advancing ALL Women,' with host Sarah Alter, President and CEO of Network of Executive Women, is 'Avoiding Burnout & Managing Mental Health.' Joining Sarah are guests Kiera Fernandez, SVP, Human Resources and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Target; and Pilar Gerasimo, Author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World, award-winning journalist. Our panel will share best practices for leading and supporting your team through burnout, and managing their well-being through change and stressful times.

This week's episode of 'Advancing ALL Women,' with host Sarah Alter, President and CEO of Network of Executive Women, is 'Avoiding Burnout & Managing Mental Health.' Joining Sarah are guests Kiera Fernandez, SVP, Human Resources and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Target; and Pilar Gerasimo, Author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World, award-winning journalist. Our panel will share best practices for leading and supporting your team through burnout, and managing their well-being through change and stressful times.

Pilar Gerasimo, health journalist and author of the Healthy Deviant shows us the way to be healthy despite anything that is happening around us. We'll also talk about the overlap between functional medicine and healthy deviance and how functional medicine can help for body/mind support. If you have ever thought that because of your circumstances […]

Adventures Across the 5 Mountains of Human Development: Physical | Mental | Emotional | Intuitional | Spiritual "Less than 3% of U.S. adults are healthy, happy, and on track to stay that way." Today's guest says trying to be healthy and happy is like playing a game that has been rigged from the start.  So, how are we ever expected to be healthy in an unhealthy world? In today's episode, we speak to Pilar Gerasimo, an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of a new book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, 2020). Best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, Pilar has also served as top health editor for The Huffington Post, and as visiting faculty for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.  Pilar co-hosts a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment and teaches online courses through her digital learning platform, Healthy Deviant Academy. Break the rules of normal and shift your relationship with the world around you.   Connect & Learn : http://www.pilargerasimo.com/   http://www.healthydeviant.com/ (Take the "Are you a Healthy Deviant" Quiz)   Pilar on Facebook at @pilargerasimo   On Instagram at @pgerasimo

In today’s episode, I am super excited to announce that I’m hanging out with the brilliant Pilar Gerasimo! Pilar is an award winning health journalist and the author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World. "If you choose to be a healthy, happy person in a context of a world where most people are not, you’re going to have to deviate from a bunch of social norms and conventions." - Pilar Gerasimo Learn more about this episode at terricole.com/310

REPLAY EPISODE!  This episode aired on NEW YEAR'S DAY 2020---what a difference a year makes. Whew. Pilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of the forthcoming book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, January 2020). Best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than 3 million people globally, Pilar has also served as Chief Creative Officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and as top health editor for The Huffington Post. Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated weekly podcast called The Living Experiment (with Whole30 co-founder Dallas Hartwig) and serves as a strategic advisor to Brian Johnson’s Optimize Enterprises. She speaks at universities, leads workshops at top retreat centers and consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness around the globe. When she’s not travelling, Pilar hides out on an organic, communal family farm in Wisconsin her goofy pit bull pal, Calvin. Connect with Pilar: New Book & Website: www.healthydeviant.com Twitter: @pgerasimo Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pilargerasimo Instagram: @pgerasimo www.pilargerasimo.com ======================  Request to Join the FREE Meredith Atwood Community & Coaching https://meredith-atwood-coaching.mn.co/ ======================  Buy Meredith’s Books: The Year of No Nonsense https://amzn.to/3su5qWp Triathlon for the Every Woman: https://amzn.to/3nOkjiH =======================   Follow Meredith Atwood & The Podcast on Social: Web: http://www.swimbikemom.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/swimbikemom   =======================  Want to Connect?  Email: same24hourspodcast@gmail.com =======================  Credits: Host & Production: Meredith Atwood Copyright 2017-2020, 2021 All Rights Reserved, Meredith Atwood, LLC

We are thrilled to welcome today's guest, Pilar Gerasimo. Pilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of a new book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, 2020). Best known for her work as the founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than three million people with each issue, Pilar has also served as Chief Creative Officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and as top health editor for The Huffington Post.  Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment. She speaks at universities, leads workshops at top retreat centers, and consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness around the globe.  When she's not travelling, Pilar hides out on an organic, communal family farm in Wisconsin with her goofy pitbull pal, Calvin. During our conversation we delve into what a healthy deviant is and what it means to be one and continually break social norms in order to be healthy. We also discuss our relationship with our inner critic and how to foster a non-judgemental life and experiment with making different choices. We absolutely loved this conversation and we wanted to keep it going for hours. We can't wait for you to listen! 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My guest Pilar Gerasimo is a phenomenal woman on a quest to help heal and create healthy people throughout the world.  Her new book "The Healthy Deviant-A Rule Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World" is a very unique approach to overall health and wellness. The premise of the book is that as individuals of this western world we are caught in the Vicious Cycle of an Unhealthy Default Reality.

The holiday season is upon us and there's no better time than now to spread and express gratitude. This time of year is most often a rush of the season. We encourage you to enter the season with a sense of gratitude which can bring a sense of calm to the season. Sarah reflects upon her own gratitude in this time of life. She also shares some encouraging ideas from a past guest of 2020. If you're looking for a refresh before you enter the holiday season this episode is for you. Parenting Blog: https://parenting.hikingthrulife.net Episode #31 Pilar Gerasimo and The Healthy Deviant Healthy Deviant book: https://amzn.to/39uFbrO ---- Ella's Wool: https://ellaswool.com Use code HIKINGTHRULIFE2020 to save 10% ---- Hiking Thru Life gear: hikingthrulife.net/shop Ways to support Hiking Thru Life: hikingthrulife.net/support Be a guest on the podcast: hikingthrulife.net/podcast Email: hikingthrulife@gmail.com ---- *Disclaimer*: This episode contains affiliate links in which we earn a small commission at no cost to you for qualifying sales. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hiking-thru-life/support

In keeping with the concepts of keeping mind, body and spirit in order, John & Heyang welcome best-selling author and nationally known expert on living life to the fullest, Pilar Gerasimo to the show. It's an incredible conversation around maintaining balance, finding our best selves in the worst of times and the one thing you can do (that only takes three minutes) to start your day for the better.

I’ve been eagerly awaiting for my dear friend Pilar Gerasimo to write a book that captures her wisdom on how to Optimize our lives and give the world all we’ve got. And... The wait is over! Pilar is one of the wisest people I know. Among many other things, she created Experience Life magazine (which currently reaches over 3 million people per year) and is the co-host of the Living Experiment podcast with Dallas Hartwig (co-founder of Whole30). The lead quote for this book perfectly captures the thesis of the book. It’s from Jiddu Krishnamurti. He tells us: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Yep. That’s about right. In a society in which the VAST majority of us are sick and tired and anxious and depressed and, well, blah... IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO THAT SICK SOCIETY. (Right?) Enter: The Healthy Deviant. This “Rule Breaker’s Guide" is packed with Big Ideas on how we can "Be Healthy in an Unhealthy World.”

I’ve been eagerly awaiting for my dear friend Pilar Gerasimo to write a book that captures her wisdom on how to Optimize our lives and give the world all we’ve got. And... The wait is over! Pilar is one of the wisest people I know. Among many other things, she created Experience Life magazine (which currently reaches over 3 million people per year) and is the co-host of the Living Experiment podcast with Dallas Hartwig (co-founder of Whole30). The lead quote for this book perfectly captures the thesis of the book. It’s from Jiddu Krishnamurti. He tells us: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Yep. That’s about right. In a society in which the VAST majority of us are sick and tired and anxious and depressed and, well, blah... IT IS NO MEASURE OF HEALTH TO BE WELL ADJUSTED TO THAT SICK SOCIETY. (Right?) Enter: The Healthy Deviant. This “Rule Breaker’s Guide" is packed with Big Ideas on how we can "Be Healthy in an Unhealthy World.”

This week's guest on Wellness Unwrapped is Pilar Gerasimo - someone who I've looked up to as one of my guiding lights, ever since I came across her work a few years back. I love her gentle, wise, self-deprecating, fun approach to empowering people to take their health back. Pilar and I have a very honest chat about how we need to embrace deviance if we want to live a vibrant life. Pilar is refreshingly real when it comes to how hard it is to break out of feeling rubbish in today's world. I think you'll love her practical, too-easy-to-fail guidance on how to get yourself on the road to feeling calmer, healthier and happier. I really hope that listening to this episode inspires you to become a healthy deviant too. Pilar is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of the brilliant book The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World. Best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than three million people with each issue, Pilar has also served as top health editor for The Huffington Post. Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated weekly podcast called The Living Experiment. Learn more at www.pilargerasimo.com and www.healthydeviant.com, where you can take Pilar's healthy deviant quiz. You can find me here: https://peppermintwellness.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PeppermintWellness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peppermintwellness/  

Matt Belanger in for Jason and Rob in for Dawn this morning. We talked to Pilar Gerasimo who wrote The Healthy Deviant; what is that? Do you buy yourself birthday presents? Viola Davis did for her 55th yesterday and there's a great story behind her purchase.

Matt Belanger filled in for Jason this morning and Rob's in for Dawn. A computer malfunction on TV and wild turkeys who just don't care. Matt gave us an update on his attack a few months ago. He suggests Pilar Gerasimo's book "Healthy Deviant."

Dr. Lipman sits down with his dear friend Pilar Gerasimo, health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author - to talk about her new book, The Healthy Deviant. The book is part manifesto, part whispered wake-up call, and a true modern-day survival guide for being healthy in an unhealthy world. They talk about who is a healthy deviant (Pilar says that Dr. Lipman is one of her favorite healthy deviants!), the unhealthy default reality, and how to break from the easy, unhealthy default choices we are presented with in our society. Pilar invites listeners to embark on their own experience of just how rewarding Healthy Deviance can be.

Do you ever find yourself putting more and more effort and time into whatever task you're trying to finish...but don't seem to be making progress? Do you ever find yourself using caffeine or sugar to help you "push through" energy lags and brain fog? This week, I'm sharing something that's so fundamental to our productivity and wellbeing - I just wish I'd learnt this before I started my first job. It would have saved me a whole lot of tiredness, stress and mistakes. I'd love to know what you take away from this, so do get in touch. Check out my website for more practical, straight-talking resources on boosting your energy. NB. Remember to sign up for mailing list to get my 9 habits of healthy shoppers download. https://peppermintwellness.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PeppermintWellness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peppermintwellness/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SuzyGlaskie If you're interested in learning more about our body's natural rhythms and the importance of pausing, this is a fantastic conversation with Pilar Gerasimo and Dallas Hartwig on The Living Experiment. http://livingexperiment.com/pause/

Author, social explorer, and self-described healthy deviant Pilar Gerasimo chats with Tom Godfrey about the challenge of living a happy, healthy life, and she gives practical tips for breaking from social norms to overcome that challenge.

Pilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of a new book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, 2020). Best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than three million people with each issue, Pilar has also served as Chief Creative Officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and as top health editor for The Huffington Post. Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated weekly podcast called The Living Experiment. She speaks at universities, leads workshops at top retreat centers, and consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness around the globe. When she's not traveling, Pilar hides out on an organic, communal family farm in Wisconsin with her goofy pit bull pal, Calvin.  Send Pilar some love on social media and sign up for the 14 day Healthy Deviant challenge! This is game-changing!  Links Pilar's podcast: The Living Experiment Pilar's website: PilarGerasimo.com Pilar on Facebook Health Deviant on Instagram Pilar on Instagram Pilar on Twitter

Watch the VIDEO REPLAY: https://youtu.be/U6Gp6FBBbMg The Special Guest today, Pilar Gerasimo, author of the new book The Healthy Deviant. You can listen to her recent podcast with me here. The incredible Anthony Malone led us in a powerful meditation at the start.  You can listen to Anthony on a way back episode of the podcast, and find him at https://www.paperplaneyoga.com  NOTE: During the pandemic, I hosted daily ZOOM meet-ups called the "Daily Community Meetup" - the recordings were posted here on the podcast =====================  Thank you for listening to The Same 24 Hours Podcast with Meredith Atwood. Please subscribe, rate and review the podcast if you loved it - really helps others to find the show! ======================  Request to Join the FREE Meredith Atwood Community & Coaching https://meredith-atwood-coaching.mn.co/ ======================  Buy Meredith’s Books: The Year of No Nonsense https://amzn.to/3su5qWp Triathlon for the Every Woman: https://amzn.to/3nOkjiH =======================   Follow Meredith Atwood & The Podcast on Social: Web: http://www.swimbikemom.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/swimbikemom   =======================  Want to Connect?  Email: same24hourspodcast@gmail.com =======================  Credits: Host & Production: Meredith Atwood Copyright 2017-2020, 2021 All Rights Reserved, Meredith Atwood, LLC

With the world facing the current COVID-19 pandemic, this podcast is a must listen and may bring you a fresh perspective. In this episode, we talk with Pilar Gerasimo an award-winning health journalist and best known for her work as the founding editor of Experience Life magazine. She also co-hosts a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment. We dive into her new book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker's Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World. We talk about what it means to be a healthy deviant in our crazy modern world. Pilar gives perspective on ways to be a healthy deviant and takes us to the roots of where her deviance began. Pilar resides in Wisconsin with her pitbull Calvin on an organic, communal family farm. Pilar's website: pilargerasimo.com The Healthy Deviant: thehealthydeviant.com The Living Experiment Podcast: livingexperiment.com Share your healthy deviant quiz results and thoughts with us at anchor.fm/hiking-thru-life and click "Message" or email hikingthrulife@gmail.com ---- Hiking Thru Life T-shirts and water bottles: hikingthrulife.net/shop Be a guest on the podcast: hikingthrulife.net/podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hiking-thru-life/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hiking-thru-life/support

The term deviant often brings negative connotations. But health journalist and co-host of The Living Experiment podcast, Pilar Gerasimo, wants you to try the deviant lifestyle to fully handle modern life. Whether dealing with a pandemic or everyday challenges, she reminds people that "A high-vitality, high-energy, high-resiliency person always stands a better chance of getting through periods of high stress." Her past life as founding editor of Experience Life Magazine and now author of The Healthy Deviant, all make her especially committed to the adage, "If you're not breaking the rules, you're probably breaking yourself." She shares the Morning Minutes Ritual that can help you take control of your autonomy each morning and urges you to adopt a lifestyle that observes your own ultradian rhythms. Why is she so passionate? Her research found that 50 percent of US adults are living with chronic illness and only 3 percent of America is healthy, happy, and on track to stay that way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's show is a bit shorter due to updates on the COVID-19 outbreak.  And Dara is trying to bring information on this pandemic from a more local perspective.  Author and nutrition expert Pilar Gerasimo talks about the physical and mental effects that we can improve during the stress of a crisis.  Blue Plate Restaurant Group CEO/founder Stephanie Shimp explains how this outbreak has effected attendance at her establishments.

There may not be a roadmap for being healthy in an unhealthy world, but Pilar Gerasimo is deviating from the norm to create a pathway to healthy living. In Episode 19 of the Big Bold Health Podcast, Pilar and Dr. Jeff Bland discuss the big, bold, revolutionary path to living a happy and healthy life for the long haul. It’s a rebel cause that requires exploring uncharted territory—are you ready to join the revolution? Show notes: Be sure to check out Pilar’s Healthy Deviant website and her 2020 book release: https://www.thehealthydeviant.com/

We currently live in a society where chronic illness, obesity, drug dependence, anxiety, and depression are rapidly becoming the prevailing norms. According to the CDC, more than half of U.S. adults have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. 68% are overweight or obese, 70% are taking at least one prescription drug, and 97% are not managing to maintain four of the most basic habits required for long-term health: decent nutrition, adequate exercise, not smoking, and maintaining a healthy body composition.On today’s Broken Brain Podcast, our host, Dhru, talks to Pilar Gerasimo, an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World. Pilar is best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than 3 million people nationwide, Pilar has also served as chief creative officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and as top health editor for The Huffington Post.Today, Pilar co-hosts a five-star rated podcast called The Living Experiment with Whole30 co-founder Dallas Hartwig. She speaks at universities and leads workshops at retreat centers like Kripalu, Sundance, and 1440 Multiversity. She also consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness around the globe. When she’s not travelling, Pilar hangs out on her family’s organic, communal farm in Wisconsin with a bunch of cows, chickens, and her goofy pit bull pal, Calvin.In this episode, Dhru and Pilar talk about how to break out of the unhealthy matrix that society has us living in when it comes to believing we’re not enough, not good enough, or that we’re never going to be enough. They discuss why we value other people’s opinions more than our own, and why we try to fit in at the expense of our own health. They also talk about the Healthy Deviant approach to living, how to develop the skills of a healthy person, and the first thing you can do to start making healthy changes in your life. In this episode, we dive into:-The current societal standards we’re living in today (1:35)-Pilar’s health journey and what led to her breaking point (6:55)-The unhealthy default reality (17:38)-Why your health is heavily influenced by your peers (26:26)-The most important thing to focus on in your life right now (34:29)-The three nonconformist competencies of Healthy Deviance and how they support healthy self-regulation (46:10)-Challenging the vicious cycle of helplessness (57:09)-How you can inspire others to live a healthy lifestyle (1:03:14)-Where to learn more about Pilar Gerasimo (1:13:51)For more on Pilar Gerasimo, be sure to follow her on Instagram @pgerasimo, on Facebook @pgerasimo, and on Twitter @pgerasimo. Check out her website https://pilargerasimo.com and https://www.thehealthydeviant.com. Check out her podcast, The Living Experiment. Take the Healthy Deviant quiz here. You can find Pilar’s book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World, right here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of the forthcoming book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, January 2020). Best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than 3 million people globally, Pilar has also served as Chief Creative Officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and as top health editor for The Huffington Post. Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated weekly podcast called The Living Experiment (with Whole30 co-founder Dallas Hartwig) and serves as a strategic advisor to Brian Johnson’s Optimize Enterprises. She speaks at universities, leads workshops at top retreat centers and consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness around the globe. When she’s not travelling, Pilar hides out on an organic, communal family farm in Wisconsin her goofy pit bull pal, Calvin. Connect with Pilar: New Book & Website: www.healthydeviant.com Twitter: @pgerasimo Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pilargerasimo Instagram: @pgerasimo www.pilargerasimo.com ======================  Request to Join the FREE Meredith Atwood Community & Coaching https://meredith-atwood-coaching.mn.co/ ======================  Buy Meredith’s Books: The Year of No Nonsense https://amzn.to/3su5qWp Triathlon for the Every Woman: https://amzn.to/3nOkjiH =======================   Follow Meredith Atwood & The Podcast on Social: Web: http://www.swimbikemom.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/swimbikemom   =======================  Want to Connect?  Email: same24hourspodcast@gmail.com =======================  Credits: Host & Production: Meredith Atwood Copyright 2017-2020, 2021 All Rights Reserved, Meredith Atwood, LLC

A renegade health journalist breaks from holiday convention to nurture a creative calling — a permission slip to do things differently. Learn more about Pilar Gerasimo at pilargerasimo.com and healthydeviant.com. Learn more about Best Self Media at bestselfmedia.com

  Today on the show we have the self described “pragmatic, scientific explorer” and cofounder of Whole30, Dallas Hartwig.  Dallas speaks to us today (on video!) about the developmental process of the Whole30 lifestyle and how through the exploration of self, and identifying the places in your own life that keep you from feeling good, you can grow to new heights in both life and business.   What You Will Learn On This Episode The Accidental Creation of Whole30 Chocolate Indulgence as a Metaphor For Life More Social Less Media Examining The Things In Your Life That Don't Make You Feel “good”   Links and Resources Mentioned in this Episode Website Facebook Books   Transcription Kyle Gray: Hello, and welcome to The Story Engine podcast. My name is Kyle Gray, and we have a really special podcast today. We're doing a video podcast and we even have a live audience. We've got an amazing guest with us today, Dallas Hartwig. Thank you so much for joining us.   Dallas Hartwig: Thank you for having me.   Kyle Gray: So Dallas, you, to introduce yourself properly is really difficult because you've done a lot of different things. You have many different interests and many different skills. How do you introduce yourself these days? How do you present the full picture of Dallas Hartwig?   Dallas Hartwig: Is the hardest question of the whole thing?   Kyle Gray: I think so.   Dallas Hartwig: Because that is a hard question.   Kyle Gray: I think so, yeah.   Dallas Hartwig: How do I...I'm an explorer. I'm the guy who is interested in figuring out how to live well in a really weird and messed up world. And so I kind of take my experiences and thoughts and research, and occasionally insights, and share that with people in a variety of different ways, sometimes books, podcasts, interviews like this, rambling Instagram posts. But my background is anatomy and physiology. And I'm kind of a science research guy, but then quickly lose interest in the really, really granular stuff when it's hard to connect to the real world. And so I'm a pragmatist in that sense too. I'm like, "Let's look at the research, let's make this make good sense from a solid, rational standpoint, but then let's quickly drag it over into the real world and figure out how do we apply this." So I'm a pragmatic, scientific explorer.   Kyle Gray: And will you tell me a story about a moment in your life that has really defined this path for you, how you've discovered these talents and these perspectives, and maybe that set you on this journey?   Dallas Hartwig: The questions are getting harder actually.   Kyle Gray: Uh-oh.   Dallas Hartwig: No. I mean I think that one of the experiences for me that sort of has defined that aspect of this part of my professional life certainly was the kind of accidental experience of co-founding the Whole30 program. And I say kind of accidental in the sense that what really happened was my former partner and I did some personal experimentation on ourselves back in 2008, 2009 and started tinkering with different dietary approaches to see how we felt, how it affected mood, sleep, athletic performance, et cetera.   Dallas Hartwig: And it was trial and error. It was tinkering. It was playing around with stuff. And then it became playing around with stuff in the public eye. And then it became playing around with stuff and tweaking the program and watching the results. And it was fairly sort of soft science. It was fairly sort of soft science. It was fairly sort of subjective and observational. But it very quickly iterated into something that became a really powerful tool for people. And so that idea of that approach of having an idea that something might be powerful and then just trying it out.   Dallas Hartwig: And I mean the Whole30 program is about food, but ultimately it's a metaphor for living more broadly in the way that you take something that sounds like it might be useful, take something that if you're not sure what's going on with life and things don't feel quite right, you have to change something. And I'm a big fan of Occam's razor. So if you don't know what it is that doesn't feel right or you don't know what the cause of your problem is, guess. Guess the thing that looks proximate and reasonable, and ticker with it. And often, the thing that you have that gut sense is the root of the thing often is.   Kyle Gray: So let's talk about food, and specifically my favorite food. Which when I hear your name, this phrase pops into my head. And it's, "Don't chew your chocolate," which is something... Yeah, this is something a mutual friend of ours mentioned about you right away. There's such a cool and profound lesson behind this. Can you tell me about why people should not chew their chocolate?   Dallas Hartwig: It's so funny that you mention that. That was the first exchange that I had with this friend of ours, probably about a decade ago. And the question or kind of the comment or the discussion was around how much chocolate can you have. And the context was making nutrition recommendations to people and people being like, "Well, how much do I do this? How do I know? How many calories? How many grams? How many servings? How much?" And chocolate's one of those things where I think it's neither good nor bad. I think it's a food like anything else that has implications. And so it's not a function of good or bad, it's a function of what are the natural consequences here.   Dallas Hartwig: So the natural consequences are also proportionate to how much you eat. And so the question was, "Well, how much can I have?" And I was like, "Well,"... It was sort of an offhand remark but it was something that later kind of stuck with me, and stuck with you apparently. But the answer to the how much can you have is you can have as much as you want, as long as you never chew it. And the thought process there was twofold. One, just pragmatically, it's hard to overeat chocolate when you have to let it melt in your mouth. It goes slow. Right? Especially if you've got a really good quality, rich, dark chocolate, it melts slowly. And the intensity of the experience and the richness of the flavors that open up as you let it melt in your mouth are really rich and satiating, and often include the natural, built-in sort of checks and balances to overconsumption. So there's the piece, the obvious piece of it's hard to over consume chocolate when you have to let it melt in your mouth.   Dallas Hartwig: But then there's the kind of, and I think what you're getting at here is the larger piece of to what extent does the experience of, in this case, eating, influence and how much should that guide the way you live in general. And so the other layer to that then is letting the experience regulate itself, letting the natural biological, psychological experience become its own experience and become its own way to navigate. "How do I live in this world? Well, I pay attention and I let the built-in mechanisms speak for themselves." But I really have to listen. And whether it's talking about satiation with food or it's talking about how much sleep you need to get, but really tuning into being like, "What does my body need? What feels deeply good and rich for me?" And sometimes you don't know that till you really slow down and pay attention.   Kyle Gray: I like this. And there is a connection here between kind of chocolate and sugar and consumption with food. It mirrors a lot of what you talk about. You have a program and a training called More Social, Less Media where I feel like social media, like chocolate and our phones and our devices in the internet age, it's brain sugar and it can be really addictive and just hook us in. And we can, like you say, just eat a whole bar of social media chocolate without even thinking about it. What would the don't chew your chocolate approach to technology and many of the fun bells and whistles that we're all engaged with these days look like?   Dallas Hartwig: That's a super good question. What's the built-in check and balance? I think that the comparison there is really, really good, the social media candy bar kind of thing. Because really what's happening is we have something that is justifiable, either as it's social engagement or it's building my business or it's entertainment. There's lots of reasons we can give to other people, and especially ourselves, why social media or chocolate, or any other thing, any other experience, is totally okay. And I think the important part is removing the morality aspect of it, the self-judgment, the right/wrong, good/bad piece of it. Because there's nothing morally good or bad about eating chocolate. And there's nothing morally good or bad about using social media.   Dallas Hartwig: But I think what happens is that the way these products and services are often designed is they're often designed sometimes explicitly to obscure the natural effects from ourselves. Or, if that's not the case, we're more than willing to turn a blind eye to the natural effects on ourselves because we like how it feels. So we build in opportunities to use or consume the thing more often than it's probably helpful for us. So I think to me it's difficult... And of course one of the things with the you have to let the chocolate dissolve in your mouth piece is it slows you way down. You can't do it mindlessly, it's effectively a mindfulness exercise. So in slowing down and paying attention, what you can notice is, "Oh, I've had two squares of dark chocolate. I don't actually want more. I don't want more." And you can just literally ask, "Do I want more?" And you're like, "Actually, I don't." And it's an easy answer. It's an easy solution.   Dallas Hartwig: And I think there's probably something similar there with social media consumption as well. And the question might be there, "Does this still feel good for me?" Good, capital G, settling, meaningful, does this enrich my life? But you have to slow down to be able to ask and answer that question.   Kyle Gray: I think one of the big things behind it is with a new social media, a new technology is usually it's like there's something that gets us in and gets us hooked. "I want to stay in touch with my friends in different countries...   Dallas Hartwig: Totally.   Kyle Gray: ... or from college." But the reason that we usually sign up for these things isn't always the reason that we stay scrolling. I think that's what you mean by the natural effects of what happens here.   Dallas Hartwig: Right.   Kyle Gray: And so one of the things I've been considering and working on is really getting clear, even writing down what is the purpose for me for using this tool.   Dallas Hartwig: Right.   Kyle Gray: It doesn't have to just be social media, but once you're clear on how you use those or the real benefit that it derives to you, then it's easier to kind of set the boundaries.   Dallas Hartwig: Yeah, I think, to your point about the real benefit, I think the deeper the hooks are set, the harder it is to see the real benefit. I think that what happens is we start to create compelling stories, compelling narratives for ourselves about the real benefits. Because when I really drill down on it, when I think about Facebook, and I'll just use that as an example, the real benefit, the tangible benefit either to me personally or to me professionally is negligible. But I could pretty easily make a compelling story about like, "I have to build my brand and I have to have visibility and I have to put in new content to get new followers to sell more books," or whatever the outcome is.   Dallas Hartwig: But the real, tangible benefit is a lot harder to identify as a real thing when I'm more interested in whether it's a real thing or whether I'm just trying to justify myself. That's just being honest with yourself. And that's a difficult thing to do when you have an inherent reward system present, whether it is the reward system for digital stimulation or for sugar or for sex or for any other highly-rewarding thing in the world. When you have that reward system present, it's difficult to see the real truth there.   Kyle Gray: Is there a way to break those cycles? Is that individual to each of those? Or do you have some favorite strategies to kind of snap yourself out of those patterns?   Dallas Hartwig: I think there's a lot of commonalities between behaviors. I think there are specific strategies, but I think there's a lot of commonality. And I'll drop the word “addition” here because that's a word that I think does truly apply in a lot of these cases. And I use that loosely in the sense of sort of continued use despite harm, not in a psychiatric sense but in a more broad sense. Because ultimately when we are able to sit quietly and introspect and slow down, what we notice is that, "Every time I get on Instagram, I end up feeling bad about myself because I'm comparing my life to somebody else's life. And actually, it doesn't actually feel good for me. There's not actually a lot of net benefits, but I still do it." And so there is that continued use despite harm to myself aspect of it.   Dallas Hartwig: And I think ultimately recognizing that is the very first step. Like any 12-step kind of approach, it's like, "Hey, I have a problem. This doesn't work well for me." And I think change happens when the fear of the change is... Or I'll say it the other way. When the pain of it remaining the same exceeds the fear of the change. And that's kind of been the impetus for so many changes in my own life of, "This thing's not working for me. It has to be different. And at this point, my greatest fear is having my future be like my past." And I think that's, on a smaller scale, the way that all things change, including things that are really difficult to change, things that have inherent reward pathways built in to them and things that are truly addictive by anyone's definition. But it has to hurt before you're going to change it.   Kyle Gray: I can see that. And it's one thing to be able to be self-aware, we've gone through life, we've had some experiences and we can kind of see, "Oh, there's maybe a problem here." But I think you also have a son that you are working on creating the best life possible for him. And when you are trying to work with somebody on the same level and maybe protect them or guide them and help them navigate this world where kind of the food we eat and the norms around the food we eat aren't exactly set up for their success, and the technology around us is not set up in their best interest either. And then there's also culture and other kids and other parents. How do you navigate these systems and how do you prepare your son and teach them to show them, "Here's how you can find your way through this world."?   Dallas Hartwig: Well, that's a big question too. The short answer is I don't know. My boy's six. He and I have about the same levels of cognition so we identify easily with each other. We're both finding our way through the same world at the same level. But a lot of it has to do with helping him develop a very clear sense of self so he knows who he is and what matters to him. He's a six year old boy and right now his favorite color is pink and he likes unicorns and nail polish and pink shoes. And some of his peers are really unkind to him about that. And so we're having lots of good conversations about what it means, girl things and boy things, who you are, how you respond when people are unkind. And that's a current example, but there has been and there will be many, many more experiences in his life, like all of ours, where we have to figure out who we are, what matters to us.   Dallas Hartwig: And when that comes into conflict with the dominant culture, with the norms, how do we handle that? Do we fall into line because there's enormous social pressure, consumer pressure, financial pressure to shut up and do as you're told? I mean I think this is kind of my social cynic coming out but the conventional education system does a really good job of training industrial factory workers. But, A, that's not where most jobs are these days and going into the future, as best as I can tell, and B, it doesn't actually make people's lives richer and deeper and more meaningful. It might prepare you for a financially stable job in a cubicle, but it's not something that's going to give you the best, the most complete, most meaningful set of tools to go out and explore the world and find out what my actual meaning and purpose myself, for me.   Dallas Hartwig: So the conversations with my boy are a lot around, "What do you think about that piece? What do you think about that art things you just did? I happen to like it but the important thing is do you like it? You made it, how do you feel about it?," and having him check back in. And I had this moment of parental pride the other day where we had a conversation and he didn't like my answer to one of his questions. He wanted to do something and I said no, we couldn't do that. And he started to get frustrated and angry with me. And he's figuring out the balance of expressing anger without acting it out. And he was like, "Give me just a minute." And he turned around in his chair and took a few breaths and calmed himself down. And I was like, "Yeah, I'm doing something right here. I got a six year old who's like, 'Give me a minute to take some breaths.'"   Dallas Hartwig: But that's the kind of stuff in being able to separate self from everything else and to have a sense of not that, "I'm so important or I'm so confident that what I think is the most important thing, and screw the rest of you," but more that as he learns, and as I learn at 40, that I need to know what's important to me and to recognize that there's absolutely no way to live a meaningful, happy, if that's the word, gratifying, satisfying life if you are conformed to somebody else's standard, no matter who that other person is. And we do a really bad job in this society of teaching kids how to figure out what that is for them, which is why I'm doing at 40 what he's doing at six.   Kyle Gray: That's awesome. So you mentioned the education system here. So let's do a thought experiment and imagine we've just started the University of Dallas. What are some of the classes on the curriculum?   Dallas Hartwig: Oh, interesting. This is a great one. It's funny because I just talked about education with a friend a couple of days ago. And I think the way I concluded that conversation was, "This whole large, standardized education system doesn't work, but I'm totally overwhelmed, I don't know how I would build something that would be more customizable for each individual," so I don't really know. I think a lot of it has to do with self-exploration. And you go all the way back to attachment theory and development of infants and toddlers, we have to feel accepted for who we really are as babies and infants and young children to be able to develop the ability and confidence to be able to go explore new things.   Dallas Hartwig: And so this is informing the way that I parent my boy and I parent myself, because in order to go explore and figure out what I like in the world, what am I good at, what fills me up, I have to have this sense of confidence that that's okay to do and I have unconditional acceptance and love from, in my childhood, parents and then later from partners and peers and friends, and from self. And so there's kind of this closed loop of if you don't get that in childhood, you have to develop it later. And it's really difficult to give that to yourself later if you didn't get it in childhood. So there's a lot of extended personal growth there that then sets the stage to be able to go explore the world.   Dallas Hartwig: So courses would be very self-directed. Courses would be very exploratory. There's a balance, right? There's a balance you have to do some things just to try new stuff that you didn't think you would like or didn't think that you'd be good at, but then also there's the part of, "I don't know what's right for you. I don't know what electives you should take. Go figure it out for yourself." So I think there's a lot of the conventional, general courses and electives that we take in university have some utility to give us some context for the world that we live in and also they don't really do the thing of teaching us how to think like they say that we're supposed to. So have you heard or seen the David Foster Wallace... He gives a lecture many years ago and he talks... And I think you find it on YouTube if you search for David Foster Wallace, This is Water.   Kyle Gray: Oh, yeah.   Dallas Hartwig: It's a brilliant commencement address I think, I want to say Bates College or somewhere, or Kenyon College. And he talks about finding our way through a very confusing world and the whole, "We're going to teach you how to think in a formal education system." He's well-intentioned but really, really oversimplified.   Kyle Gray: Okay.   Dallas Hartwig: That was my way of not answering your question.   Kyle Gray: It was a good way. It worked, it worked. I'm still ready to enroll. This one, maybe this can be one of the courses that I would sign up for. Actually, I'm asking for a friend on this one. But you've talked about success versus satisfaction. And this is something that I wanted to ask you about because I've found myself at many points in my life I would set a goal, "I'll make this income, I'll achieve this, I'll travel here," and I'll get focused and start doing it. And it takes time to achieve a goal.   Dallas Hartwig: Yeah.   Kyle Gray: But as somebody who's ambitious and always forward thinking, by the time I actually get to the finish line of the goal, I have three more other goals that I'm looking for that are off in the horizon again, and I don't have time to celebrate this one anymore because there's three more and the clock's ticking.   Dallas Hartwig: Totally.   Kyle Gray: So it's a path to success in some forms where there's motivation, there's always an impetus to go forward, but it's hard to really be present and enjoy life if you're always in that. How do you handle that balance as somebody who's seen lots of different success in many different ways?   Dallas Hartwig: Yeah, I definitely handle that situation differently than I used to, for sure. I think that success versus satisfaction is an interesting thing because there is tremendous satisfaction in succeeding at your own self-created, self-assigned goals. And also, often, usually because of either misunderstandings about ourselves or misunderstandings about what we really, truly, deeply value, or because we take on many sort of culturally and socially-assigned goals, we think applying ourself to achieving the things will make us feel satisfied, give us a sense of satisfaction. And many, many, many times I, and many of my peers, do the thing, whatever the thing is, and get to the end and we're like, "Wow, that was kind of cool. I did the thing. It didn't feel quite how I thought it would," or I'm on to the next thing already.   Dallas Hartwig: And I think this... And you hear the commonly quoted research on people's top five regrets when they're on their deathbed, and none of them have to do with achieving more things. It's all about relationships and the way they spent their time and the way they valued people and the way they were vulnerable and intimate and connected to people that they cared about. None of it had to do with achieving more goals or having more success on any kind of professional, academic, financial way. That's just not what people think about. And if you think about a sense of satisfaction, that's something that is a thing that takes a long time to develop and it's kind of a slippery thing and defined differently for each person.   Dallas Hartwig: But I don't know too many people who are deeply, completely satisfied by solely professional, academic, financial success. So then it becomes a function of, "Okay, what is this a symbol for? What is this a placeholder for in my life?" Why does it matter if I get the promotion or make partner or make $10 million? Why does that matter to me?" And I think understanding what that means... Because I think there's nothing inherently wrong with doing those things and they can be really, deeply satisfying if they meet the need that you've set out to meet with them. And I think lots of times that we don't even know what we're setting out to achieve in the deeper sense of self.   Dallas Hartwig: So for me, and this is I guess an uncomfortable admission, but I don't have professional goals right now. I mean I have pragmatic goals of like, "I have to get my third book done because I'm already way behind schedule." But in terms of, "What do I do next?," I actually don't know. And that's a uncomfortable place to be because I have financial commitments, I have people asking me, I have people being like, "What's next? Where do you go from here?" My agents like, "Okay, cool. What," and I'm like, "I don't know." But there is a certain type of satisfaction in having the free, clear, open head space to be able to explore some of those things without having three more goals already set for myself. And that's not criticism of you, that's just I'm at a different place.   Kyle Gray: Fair enough.   Dallas Hartwig: So I have found the fewer specific goals I set, the more satisfied I am, which does not mean that's the way it is for anybody else. Because for me, in the enthesis, I'm a sort of very kind of flowy, things change a lot over time. To your point, I've done lots of different things over the years. The more specific I am about my goals, the more myopic I get about achieving them. And you can use the analogy of playing football and advancing the ball down upon down and making touchdown or not. But at the end of the day, what do you do? You move the goal line, you make another first down. I don't know much about football, I'm from Canada. I don't do this stuff. I think that's how it works. But then, okay cool, you made a first down or you made a touchdown and then you just do it all over again. And then the game's over eventually and you're like, "Okay, cool. I had six," or 60, or 6,000, "successes." Who cares? I don't think in those win/lose terms. So I think ultimately it comes down to, again, knowing what matters to you. And if making the most touchdowns in your life is actually what matters most to you, do it. Get a sense of satisfaction from that. That's just not my process.   Kyle Gray: So as we follow this path that you're illustrating for us, discovering who we are, what we want, and kind of being able to separate ourselves from the message and the narrative that society is offering us instead, whether it's with food, eating better, changing your diet, or changing the way you interact with technology or pursuing a goal, it requires a certain amount of deviance.   Dallas Hartwig: Yeah.   Kyle Gray: At first, when I started changing my diet and being more careful with what I eat, it was a little bit challenging to ask the waiter or waitress every time, "Hey, can I have gluten-free bun with that or a lettuce wrap?," yeah, changing around the orders, or being at somebody's house and being like, "Sorry, that's just not on the menu for me." So it's a muscle that you need to work, this deviance muscle. And how do you recommend people start practicing that and growing that muscle and that attitude of deviance to be able to pursue what's truly the best for them instead of what the world offers us?   Dallas Hartwig: Yeah, I mean that's the million dollar question. And I'll point directly to my dear friend and colleague, Pilar Gerasimo. I think I can say this, she's writing a book called The Healthy Deviant. And that's something that she's worked on, a concept she's worked on developing for 20+ years now and has written extensively about it. And I was very fortunate to just get a copy of the manuscript last week. So that'll be out I believe December or January, so it's coming up soon. But drawing heavily on her perspective, that concept of healthy deviants, not just of rebellious deviants, of counter-culturalism but the concept of thoughtful deviants, what matters to me and the recognition that conformity to the current, messed up norms doesn't produce outcomes that anybody wants. And if you agree with that statement, then we can get to a place we're like, "Okay, if I want something better than not good, I have to do something different."   Dallas Hartwig: And so then recognizing that all of those norms, all of those conventions, work well for economic growth. They work well for social compliance and keeping law and order, so to speak. But they don't really work well to make individual people deeply happy. So there has to be the willingness to question like, "Oh man, maybe we're not actually on the right track here," as a culture overall, and then say, "Okay," if we think that's true, "what do I as an individual, which is all I can control, what do I as an individual do differently?" And it's not an easy process because you very quickly find yourself misunderstood, alone, confused about yourself, about your own identity, about your own values and goals, judged by other people, as you've probably experienced with some of this stuff. And the great thing about something like food is that the social norms are slowly shifting, so it's not so weird now to go into a restaurant and ask for a gluten-free option as it was 10 or 20 years ago. And so, in that sense, some of the social norms are making it easier for us to make healthy choices.   Dallas Hartwig: But in a lot of other ways... A friend of mine said to me recently, talking about dating, and she was like, "I need to find somebody who's not on Instagram." And I was like, "Why?" And then I was like, "Oh yeah, yes, I got it." But that willingness to say, "Okay, this is a thing that many people do," but the thoughtfulness it requires and the sort of intestinal fortitude to do a different thing is a certain statement, is a certain corollary of strength of character and clarity about values. And I always come up with this... I'm a scientist, I always think about, from a biological standpoint, if you remember back to your high school biology class where you watched the video of cells, one cell dividing and kind of pulling apart and becoming this figure eight shape and then there's two different cells there. And I have this recurring vision of society being a lot like that where we have an unbalanced division, a mitotic division there of people who are staying the course, being pretty unconscious, being pretty conventional, and they will plummet to their own oblivion, if my prediction is correct.   Dallas Hartwig: And then there is a subset, there's a different group that has to painfully pull apart and extract themselves from that convention and free themselves to do a different thing. And that's a painful, odd, excruciating, confusing, disorienting, exhausting process. So how to do that, in short, I don't have a short answer on that. A lot of it has to do with recognizing that you may or may not be on the right track right now. And then you're free to say, "I wanted it to be different."   Kyle Gray: I think I have a short one or an easy practice.   Dallas Hartwig: I'm ready.   Kyle Gray: I learned this from Tim Ferriss. But he says, "Buy a weird pair of pants. Not so weird that people just know you're being crazy but just a little bit weird so people are like, 'Are you sure you wanted to wear those pants?'"   Dallas Hartwig: I have a pair of those pants actually.   Kyle Gray: Yeah.   Dallas Hartwig: They're burgundy corduroy.   Kyle Gray: There you go.   Dallas Hartwig: They're just... Maybe they might not but...   Kyle Gray: They're just... Yeah, yeah. You just want them to be just bad enough that people are like, "Did you really?"   Dallas Hartwig: "Did you do that on purpose?"   Kyle Gray: Uh-huh.   Dallas Hartwig: Yeah.   Kyle Gray: And just being able to do that and be in situations where you've got to be a little bit professional or show up, you just kind of work that muscle and practice being a little bit deviant.   Dallas Hartwig: Right.   Kyle Gray: But it's surprising that that's the same thing that everything else requires that we've been talking about.   Dallas Hartwig: Yeah, I like that. I think it's a good one. My girlfriend will not be seen in public with me wearing a denim shirt with denim pants. She won't be seen in public with me.   Kyle Gray: I don't understand that.   Dallas Hartwig: I don't understand. Canadian tuxedos are classy.   Kyle Gray: Yeah.   Dallas Hartwig: But apparently not everyone agrees with me. But that's one of those things, that's my version of the weird pair of pants.   Kyle Gray: Oh, that's great.   Dallas Hartwig: But, yeah, I think that's a good starting point.   Kyle Gray: Yeah. Dallas, we've covered a tremendous amount on how we can live better, how we can live more consciously, and how we can live a life that really serves us and not set up to serve a narrative that's not in our interest. Do you have any closing thoughts to share, and then we'll open it up for a few questions?   Dallas Hartwig: Closing thoughts, I think one of the things that I'm kicking around a lot these days is this recognition that I've spent so much time in my life conforming to parents' standards, teachers' standards, boss's standards, friends, colleagues, society at large's standards that I haven't really, really figured out who the Dallas is way at the bottom, the one that I probably left behind when I was five. And I think that's an experience that, in talking to friends, I think a lot of us have and may not really even recognize that that's the thing. So I would encourage, and this is me giving myself advice, I would encourage further exploration of that. Because ultimately, we go way off track a lot without recognizing that we're off track. And then things don't feel good and we don't know why. And so I'm like, "Okay, let's strip it down, let's go back to basics and figure out who am I all the way at the bottom, when I'm by myself, when no one can see what I'm doing and no one knows my thoughts, no one knows what I want to do. Who is that person and what does that person care about?" And that can be both unsettling to look at and also really healing. And that's the journey that I'm on and the journey that I would encourage everyone to kind of undertake for themselves.   Kyle Gray: Well, Dallas, I can't wait to meet the Dallas that you're working on and you're bringing forward. And thank you so much for joining us today.   Dallas Hartwig: Thank you.   Kyle Gray: Are there any questions?   Dallas Hartwig: I think the question, if I'm getting it right, is if I don't set very specific, very tangible, quantifiable goals, what do I do in place of that? Is that about right?   Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.   Dallas Hartwig: For me, it's so much more about the process, so much more about moving through the experience of life and recognizing that I can set professional goals, I can set personal-growth goals that are more likely to be achieved if I write them down, I do all the goal-setting stuff that works really well. But that doesn't necessarily get me to the place I want to go. So a lot of it, for me, has become identifying areas of my life that don't feel good and just putting attention on those. And that could be relationships, that could be the way I spend my time, it could be my health, it could be any number of things, and just identifying, "Where do I feel friction? Where do I feel a lot of resistance? Where do I feel discomfort or pain or just a lot of suffering?" And then letting that naturally kind of follow me into that space and to put more attention on it, because that changes over time.   Dallas Hartwig: As we iterate ourselves, what we put attention on evolves over time. And I don't have a sequence or a thing there, for me, for better or worse, it's a very organic, malleable, free-flowing process, but it starts with identifying what doesn't feel good, i.e, "What do I want to be different?" And once I know what I want to be different, then I can start inquiring, "How do I achieve that?" And often, going all the way back to your point about the Whole30, some is experimentation. It is, "This thing with my health or my food doesn't feel quite right. Something's not right there." And I sometimes don't know what the endpoint or what the long-term behavior is or the pattern or habit that it needs to be to make it feel really good, but I do know that that's the place I need to start exploring.   Dallas Hartwig: And I think, again, Occam's razor, simple solutions, if you have a gut sense that you're not putting enough attention on your physical health, start putting some more attention on that. And the things that we put the most effort into excusing and justifying and avoiding looking at are usually the things that are our biggest stumbling block. So when I suggest to people, "Oh, I see that your diet's really pretty good but I also noticed that you're drinking most nights of the week. Maybe giving that a break for a while might prompt some kind of progress." And they're like, "No, it's totally fine," and they get this very defensive posture. The more defensive you are, the more important it is to you on some profound level. And if you find yourself getting really good at justifying things or emotionally responsive and sort of reactive and defensive, that's a dead giveaway that that's the thing you need to look at. So it's kind of the litmus test of, "How much do you hate me for saying this?," that's the thing.   Kyle Gray: I like that a lot.   Dallas Hartwig: So the question then is how do I know if I feel good?   Speaker 4: I guess that's it.   Dallas Hartwig: Is that right?   Kyle Gray: Yeah.   Dallas Hartwig: If you don't feel good, you know. If you do feel good, you probably know. And so I don't know that it's actually useful to try to quantitatively define, "Do I feel good?," to myself, relative to somebody else, relative to some objective external standard. If you are perfectly content in your life, I don't want to change anything. If everything feels good, I don't want to change anything. If you tell me everything feels good but you say to yourself, "Well, not really," all that really is happening there is sort of self-delusion. And that's not my business to meddle with. But if something doesn't feel good to you, you'll probably know because you'll probably notice a yearning for it to be different, some piece of it. Right? And we have these deep, profound yearnings of like, "Hey, I wish this thing in my life was different," or, "I hope that in 10 years it'll be that way instead of the way it is now." And so the recognition that we want it to be different than it is, there's the litmus test.   Dallas Hartwig: And it's different for every single person. And this is actually one of the aspects of the Whole30 that I still really stand by in every other self-experiment is I don't need to or don't want to, it actually works against the process of self-exploration and self-development for some external expert, guru, whoever, to say, "This is what you should eat," and how much, at what times of day for this outcome. I don't know any of that for you, and neither does anybody else. And the ones that say they do are lying, usually to themselves because they think they do. But if it feels good for you, you know. And if it doesn't feel good for you, you're the only one that's going to know whether it feels better or worse when you start changing things. And so start changing things, and start at the place that feels the least good.   Dallas Hartwig: And what often happens, and this is, again, what happened a lot when people started changing their diet with the Whole30 program, if that was an area where they were like, "I really need to put attention on my health, on nutrition," and they started changing that, lots of times relationships, creativity, sleep, and many other things in life, that were lesser issues but still didn't feel good, started to self-resolve. Because these things are all interrelated. So what you might find is if you start with the most obvious place that doesn't feel good, some of the other things may just start to feel better. And you might not even notice that until weeks or months or years later where you're like, "Oh yeah, I used to get that really bad seasonal allergy thing or used to have seasonal depression in the wintertime. And I kind of don't have that anymore." And you don't even notice because it just never reappeared. So long-winded way of saying you are the only person who knows whether it feels good for you or not. I can't tell you that.   Kyle Gray: Thanks for listening to the Story Engine Podcast. Be sure to check out the show notes and resources mentioned on this episode and every other episode at thestoryengine.co. If you're looking to learn more about how to use storytelling to grow your business, then check out my new book, Selling With Story: How to Use Storytelling to Become an Authority, Boost Sales, and Win the Hearts and Minds of Your Audience. This book will equip you with actionable strategies and templates to help you share your unique value and build trust in presentations, sales, and conversations, both online and offline. Learn more at sellingwithstory.co. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.  

How can we live a healthier lifestyle.  Multimedia health expert Pilar Gerasimo returns to the show to discuss the latest updates on bettering our physical and mental conditioning.  And Dara talks about what you're doing for St. Patrick's Day.

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From the moment we sat down for this conversation, my guest today gave me a sense of genuine inspiration to be a better person, to be a more authentic person, living with gratitude, acceptance, and grace.  Her name is Pilar Gerasimo, and many of you know her as the founder of Experience Life Magazine, which she ran for 15 years.  But now she has embarked on some new ventures including a wonderful podcast called The Living Experimentwith her co-host Dallas Hartwig, she has developed a concept called The Healthy Deviant which forms the basis for an upcoming book.  We will get into all of that in this conversation, and her perspective on how to approach health and wellness is very exciting, but what endeared me to Pilar is that she created her life from the ground up, in complete alignment and respect to her upbringing. She grew up on a communal organic farm in western Wisconsin, which is where she now calls home and where we met for this interview.  She was the daughter of a sociologist father whose main interest was understanding why we live the way we live, and a mother who was a back-to-the-land farmer, an early environmentalist who started this organic commune with her friends to grow their own food and live a more natural life.  But for Pilar growing up, this wasn't necessarily ideal and she had the same cravings, desires, and struggles with self-esteem and body image that afflict so many teenagers and young adults.  But the roots of her family heritage and upbringing gave her the confidence to trust her instincts, and when nothing in the popular media gave her the answers to her health and fitness questions, she went ahead and found her own answers.    We start off this conversation talking about her upbringing and the difficult but often beautiful appearance of living off the land, that I think so many of us crave in a world of complexity and technology.  Pilar was a gracious host, spending almost two hours on the mic with me after a tour of the farm, and I left there realizing that this conversation was about a person living with a distinct sense of meaning and purpose.  She has been living life of curiosity and acceptance, looking to help others live better and healthier lives by first charting her own course to discovering what works.  Experience Life Magazine, Healthy Deviant, the Living Experiment, in their titles, embody the spirit of how Pilar has lived her life.  Ok, let's get started with my guest today, Pilar Gerasimo.  Thanks for listening, PF Please visit:  www.DeepSitPodcast.com

Pilar Gerasimo is a pioneering content innovator and healthy-living advocate. Her personal and professional passion: Helping people lead healthier, happier, more sustainable lives. Best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine (est. 2001), Pilar is also the creative force behind RevolutionaryAct.com and the author of A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed up World. In 2013, she accepted the top post at the Huffington Post’s Healthy Living division, then gave up her day job to consult and write a book on the art of being healthy in an unhealthy world. A lifelong vitality-seeker, Pilar has seen a lot of health fads come and go, and seen a lot of solid science either misreported or ignored by the mainstream media. She made it her life’s mission to help others make sense of what is too often a confusing muddle of health and fitness cacophony. Today, Experience Life has national circulation of more than 630,000 and reaches an estimated 3.2 million health-motivated men and women. It has earned a stellar editorial reputation and attracted a fleet of coveted national advertisers. It has garnered kudos from internationally recognized health and lifestyle leaders, including Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Mark 2 Hyman, Dr. Frank Lipman, Blue Zones author and National Geographic explorer Dan Buettner, Oprah life-coach Cheryl Richardson, and health advocate Queen Rania of Jordan. In addition leading Experience Life, Pilar also served as Life Time Fitness’s senior vice president of education, becoming the company’s first female senior executive. While working with Life Time, she developed a number of educational and media initiatives, including a FM radio show (“Get a Whole Life”) and a pilot program for a healthy-living television show (“Experience Life TV”). In 2010, responding to worsening trends in obesity and chronic disease, Pilar tagged Experience Life magazine with a bold new mantra: “Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act.” She captured what she saw as the 10 guiding truths of this emerging healthy revolution in her richly illustrated chapbook, A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World (Experience Life, 2010). With five-star ratings and more than 150,000 downloads, the app has sparked viral social media interest, driving millions of Tweets and Facebook impressions while putting the magazine’s high-quality content into the hands of millions of new readers.

In the modern world, the cards are stacked against us. From grocery stores filled with foods that aren’t real food, to being bombarded by environmental pollutants, to a culture that takes pride in being busier than ever and wears sleep deprivation like a gold star. When we take steps to recover and enhance our health, we are going against this tide, stepping outside the norm, and it’s not easy! We’re doing it in a world that encourages unhealthy life choices, and sometimes even our closest friends and family try to sabotage our efforts. My guest, Pilar Gerasimo, is a healthcare journalist who has been writing about healthy deviance for decades. In this episode, we talk about the many obstacles we face and strategies for being successful revolutionaries for our own health.

Choosing a healthy life in an unhealthy world can provoke unexpected complications, including being an outlier, but the rewards are immense.

Pilar Gerasimo is the founding editor of Experience Life, the award-winning healthy-living magazine that reaches more than 3.2 million people nationwide. An engaging public speaker and vibrant media presence, Pilar writes, speaks and presents widely on topics related to healthy, happy, authentic living. She appears regularly on a variety of radio and TV shows, and has been a guest on Dr. Oz’s Oprah & Friends radio program. She presents regularly at national conferences and retreat centers. In addition to her widely read column for Experience Life, she writes regularly for The Huffington Post and is the author of a chapbook, “Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World.”

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Pilar Gerasimo is the founding editor of Experience Life, the award-winning healthy-living magazine that reaches more than 3.2 million people nationwide. An engaging public speaker and vibrant media presence, Pilar writes, speaks and presents widely on topics related to healthy, happy, authentic living. She appears regularly on a variety of radio and TV shows, and has been a guest on Dr. Oz’s Oprah & Friends radio program. She presents regularly at national conferences and retreat centers. In addition to her widely read column for Experience Life, she writes regularly for The Huffington Post and is the author of a chapbook, Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World, from which these 10 Revolutionary Truths are excerpted.  TOPICS: Why you should eat A LOT more fat! + How to love and appreciate your body more + How to add more ritual in your life + What to do with cravings + Why your pace and rhythm is so vital to your health and happiness.

Today I’m talking to Pilar Gerasimo about a different kind of rhythm. Hacking this biological rhythm can transform your energy, sleep, and life. “One of the fundamental root causes of imbalances, conditions, and diseases are systems out of rhythm and out of balance.” - Pilar Gerasimo Join Dr. Aviva Romm as she dishes up a weekly dose of the whole truth on health and medicine. To learn more about this episode of Natural MD Radio go to http://www.avivaromm.com/034.

Here's a fun interview with Pilar Gerasimo and Dallas Hartwig about their new podcast called The Living Experiment. Check them out! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/living-experiment-rethink/id113903086

Here's a fun interview with Pilar Gerasimo and Dallas Hartwig about their new podcast called The Living Experiment. Check them out! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/living-experiment-rethink/id113903086

On this week’s episode of Harder to Kill Radio, meet Pilar Gerasimo, the founder of Experience Life Magazine. Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS feed | Review Meet Episode 52’s Guest, Pilar Gerasimo Pilar Gerasimo is a woman doing big things in the world. As the founder of Experience Life Magazine, a publication that was definitely ahead of read more... The post How to be Healthy In an Unhealthy World with Pilar Gerasimo: Harder to Kill Radio 052 appeared first on Stupid Easy Paleo.

GUEST: Pilar Gerasimo We chatted with Pilar about the pending arrival of spring, and how to balance that fever of wanting to get outside and play with needing to stay productive at work. Doesn't that sound like NO FUN? But Pilar has some great ideas and information to help us through it. Related Links: http://pilargerasimo.com/ - Pilar's Website http://revolutionaryact.com/app/ - 101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy (the app) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultradian_rhythm - Ultradian Rhythm http://whole30.com/ - The Whole30 Program's Website Professional Humans theme is: “We All Know The Way (Instrumental)” by The Builders And The Butchers. With additional music "Barbarian" by Pierlo. These songs is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Builders_And_The_Butchers/ http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Pierlo/Olivetti_Prodest/10_Barbarian

"To choose to be healthy in the culture we currently have requires you to be somewhat unconventional in your choices." - Pilar Gerasimo Learn more about Hello Freedom at https://terricole.com/26

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Host Elise Marquam Jahns will speak with revolutionary health guest Pilar Gerasimo.  Pilar Gerasimo is a nationally recognized healthy-living expert and the founding editor of Experience Life, a progressive health magazine reaching more than 3 million people. Pilar is the author of an award-winning chapbook, "Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed Up World," and the creative force behind "101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy," a five-star-rated mobile app. Pilar recently returned to the Twin Cities area after a stint as Executive Editor of Healthy Living at the Huffington Post, and is now working on a book about The Art of Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World. She lives on an organic family farm in Wisconsin. Learning Well is sponsored by the Integrative Health Education Center of Normandale Community College. Thank you for your interest in the Edge! Please go to edgemagazine.net to view the latest issue of the Edge. For information on advertising in the Edge please contact Cathy Jacobsen at 763.433.9291. Or via email at Cathy@edgemagazine.net For article submission please contact Tim Miejan at 651.578.8969. Or via email at editor@edgemagazine.net And for further information regarding the Edge Talk Radio contact Cathryn Taylor at 612.710.7720 or via email at Cathryn@EFTForYourInnerChild.com  

Pilar Gerasimo is the founding editor of Experience Life, an award-winning healthy-living magazine that reaches more than 2.8 million people nationwide.

Pilar Gerasimo is the founding editor of Experience Life, an award-winning healthy-living magazine that reaches more than 2.8 million people nationwide.

Do you ever feel like a total black sheep when it comes to your health? Getting picked on and teased by family, friends or coworkers who don’t get your dietary or lifestyle choices is by no means fun and at time undermine your commitment to being healthy. It’s normal to want to feel normal and… The post Healthy Is The New Black: How to Thrive in an Unhealthy World with Pilar Gerasimo: GFS Podcast 067 appeared first on Jennifer Fugo, CNS.

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[Originally posted on July 14, 2013] Pilar Gerasimo is the founding editor of Experience Life magazine, a pioneering health and fitness publication that reaches 3 million people and has earned more than 100 editorial and design awards over its 12-year history. Pilar is also the creative force behind RevolutionaryAct.com and “101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy” an interactive Web infographic and mobile app that have sparked viral social media interest. While the interactive infographic is no longer available, the app has gotten more that 120,000 downloads. And Pilar's award-winning chapbook — “Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed Up World” — has gotten rave reviews from health experts and readers across the country.  Pilar recently a did a brief stint as Executive Editor of Healthy Living at the Huffington Post. She now blogs for HuffPost and also chairs the Board of Directors for Experience Life. She's currently working on a book about “The Art of Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World.” I find most of us in this field of trying to get the world healthy have a personal health story – would you be willing to share that with us? Tell us your story of how you got into health? Experience Life Magazine is amazing! Tell us about the Magazine and how and why you started it? What about the sister site Revolutionary Act? What does ‘being healthy' mean to you? What are some of the real challenges facing people who are trying to get healthy? And what are simple steps people can do?  I love the 101 Revolutionary Way To Get Healthy app! Tell us about why you created it? What has the respnse been? I heard you are writing a book! What it's about – can you tell us a bit about it? Tell us where people can get the magazine and the app? Connect with Dr. Myers: Website: https://www.amymyersmd.com/ Newsletter: https://www.amymyersmd.com/ec/guide-to-leaky-gut Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmyMyersMD Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amymyersmd/ Connect with Pilar Gerasimo: Website: https://experiencelife.com/ Website: https://revolutionaryact.com/

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Have you ever thought about what you eat impacts your brain?  Darlene Kvist, LN and Kara Carper, MA are joined by special guest Pilar Gerasimo, editor of Experienced Life magazine, to discuss how soda, candy, muffins and even bread, pasta and cereal effects your ability to think, your mood and even the likelihood of brain diseases.

Have you ever thought about what you eat impacts your brain?  Darlene Kvist, LN and Kara Carper, MA are joined by special guest Pilar Gerasimo, editor of Experienced Life magazine, to discuss how soda, candy, muffins and even bread, pasta and cereal effects your ability to think, your mood and even the likelihood of brain diseases.

An Access to Health Experts interview with special guest Pilar Gerasimo from Get A Whole Life Radio. We discuss the causes of fungal infections and how to rid our bodies of them. We also answer beauty and health questions from callers. Access to Health Experts is not only an interview series, it's also a membership website featuring user forums, special reports, 20% discounts on professional grade nutritional supplements, monthly teleseminars, and much more. Visit www.accesstohealthexperts.com for more information.

An Access to Health Experts interview with special Pilar Gerasimo from Get A Whole Life. She discusses underlying, internal health problems can translate into beauty problems and how we invest in external remedies to address them. We also talk about how we pay more attention to our sociology than our biology. We also talk about Adrenal fatigue and how the lack of sleep, stress and poor nutrition affects the thyroid. Access to Health Experts is not only an interview series, it's also a membership website featuring user forums, special reports, 20% discounts on professional grade nutritional supplements, monthly teleseminars, and much more. Visit www.accesstohealthexperts.com for more information.