The Well-Lived Life: A 103-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age
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Dr. Gladys McGarey, cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association, began her medical practice at a time when women couldn’t even have their own bank accounts. Over the past sixty years, she has pioneered a new way of thinking about disease and health that has transformed the way we imagine health care and self-care around the world.
On these pages, Dr. McGarey shares her six actionable secrets to enjoying lives that are long, happy, and purpose-driven:
♥ Spend your energy wildly: How to embrace your life fully and feel motivated every day.
♥ All life needs to move: How to move—spiritually, mentally, and physically—to help let go of trauma and other roadblocks.
♥ You are here for a reason: How to find the everyday “juice” that helps you stay oriented in your life’s purpose.
♥ You are never alone: How to build a community that’s meaningful to you.
♥ Everything is your teacher: Discover the deep learnings that come from pain and setbacks.
♥ Love is the most powerful medicine: Learn to love yourself—and others—into healing.
REVIEW: What a delightful book! It’s a read you didn’t know you needed. Dr. Gladys McGarey is an inspiration and loving mentor through these pages. Heartwarming stories that she has lived are filled with wise insights and metaphors that only come from a voice of wisdom. We were blessed to have read this book while she was still alive and speaking in interviews! At 102 she wrote a book that is now one of the gifts she has given us as her legacy. I highly recommend this as a gift as well as an inspirational read.
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