Everything You’ve Been Taught About Health Is Wrong

Since late October, early November, I’ve been working on writing a book. This book is based on a 30 day challenge I did with over 30 women to help them live healthier, simpler, less chaotic lives. This is an excerpt from the introduction that I’m adapting for you today.

How do you live?

Are you full of energy and lust for life?

Do you face the day with peace, ease, and happiness?

Are you content?

Does your art and calling in life drive your every movement? Do you know what you’re living for?

Or are things a bit different for you?

Do you find yourself routinely overwhelmed, rushing through the day with a layer of anxiety hiding out just below the surface?

My dear this is no regular book. This no cheap and easy fix. This book will startle you. I hope you’re ok with that. I’m sure you know this but Life is happening now. No matter what stage of life you are in, I want to challenge you to rise to a new level, to break away from whatever is holding you back so that you can grab hold life – this life – the one you’re living now.

I LOVE YOU. I’m not here to bring you down or freak you out. I’m not here to judge you, make you feel inadequate in any way, or to push you in a direction you don’t want to go.

However, if I’m honest, I am known for being direct. This is not directness for the sake of being direct. But for the sake of being for you…for being on your side.

The truth is, a lot of what we adopt as normal ways of living are actually killing us. On a small level and indeed on a grand level.

What we’ve been told about living and wellness is all wrong. We bought into dieting, punishing workouts, forcing our bodies to fit a certain mold, buying clothes to make us feel accepted, ignoring the still small voice in our heart that desires peace, making our homes grand and trendy, and working hard to pay for a lifestyle that is slowly but surely chipping away at our vitality.

It’s all wrong. Actually what we need is so simple and so easy that most people dismiss it as naivety.

But this is your moment. You’re not most people. You’re reading this for a reason. You know deep down inside that there is more to life than what you’ve bought into, what you’re parents and grandparents (good intentioned as they were) unwittingly handed down to you.

It’s time to question everything.

But to fill up, we must empty out.

In order to move forward we need to strip away the half-truths and get to the pure, raw, undeniable full-fat truth:

Life is simple, short, and beautiful. It is hard and good. And it will be gone before we know it. Therefore how we spend our minutes and how we engage in the minutia is who we are, who we become, and the legacy we leave behind.

I use the quote from Georgia O’Keeffe because she is one of the greatest artists of all time but also because she is also a woman who had the nerve to live a simple life on her own terms and who fully embraced who she was in an era when it was not only unconventional but unheard of.

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”

You are your greatest work of art.

Artists create for the sake of creating. It is the joy of making and the innate pull of ‘must’ that leads them to the work day after day. YOU are your work. Even if you are not an artist or if you think you’re not an artist you are. You are.

If you are not enjoying the process of creation and innovation in your own person, what is the point? Nothing I’m saying is original in any way. We’ve all heard it before. But that’s what makes it all the more true. It is wisdom. It is a ‘given’. It’s a truism.

When I began to write this book, I had no earthly idea what I was doing. I didn’t know what people wanted or needed. So at the behest of my mentor, I began a 30 day journey of leading a group of almost 30 women through an interactive process of finding more health, more simplicity, more freedom and ease in their lives.

However, I never expected to find that some of my closest friends and acquaintances struggled with even the most basic of all things: finding time to pee.

So we have a problem. We have a desire to live a certain way. We want to live these grand lives, yet we struggle to meet our basic biological needs. We need a solution. There has to be a better way.

Occam’s razor. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

Simple is better. Simple solves. Complicated corrupts. Complicated confuses.

So here you are. You are in this place. But you want to be other there, in that new peaceful place that’s full of ease and balance and plenty of time to pee. You want to be there. And I so badly want to help you get there.

But what stands in the way? How will you get there?

In this book you’re going to be able to take steps more quickly and surely than you have in a long time. You’ll not only find inner confidence to create goals but also the ability to follow through with them. You can find time to pee, you can improve your digestion (most women in the group didn’t even realize how much better they would feel just from being able to poop on a regular basis), you can take control of your week and improve your morning routines. This is so much more achievable than you think and it all adds up over time to create a life that is full of energy for the important things like chasing your kids and working towards your dreams.

If you want to join me and the over 30 women who’ve participated in this process then you can sign up below to join the launch list. You’ll be the first to know when I launch the book at a discounted rate. I’ll most likely be throwing in a some particularly sweet bonuses, so I highly recommend hopping on the list now.

Ok – I’ll be launching within a week or two. Let me know in the comments below what your thoughts are. I appreciate your insights!