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Welcome to \u201cThe Emergent Human where we explore Optimizing Health, Embodied Spirituality and Post Conventional Living.\n \nOstrolenk speaks with Pilar Geroseemo, an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of a new book, \u201cThe Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker\u2019s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World.\u201d She is best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, and 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.\n \nPilar discusses societal expectations and how her own experience with such at a younger age drove her to be less happy and less healthy. Gaining inspiration to change her experience, she learned the importance of experimenting with one\u2019s comfort zone, developing practices that keep one aware, and the value of taking a break. Pilar notes that it is statistically more likely that a person is unhealthy than it is that they are healthy. She expresses hope for the possibility of creating a better way of living on this planet.\n \nTo learn more about Pilar\u2019s book and the courses that she teaches, visit her website www.healthydeviant.com. You can get a free book preview and take the "Are You a Healthy Deviant?" quiz there.\n\nIn other short updates:\nShout out to my friend Dr Melissa Peterson author of \u201cCodes of Longevity: Learn from 20+ of Today's Leading Health Experts How to Unlock Your Potential to Look, Feel and Live Life Optimized to 120 and Beyond https://codesoflongevity.com/ for having me speak at her Longevity conference on my transpartisan work.\n\nToday\u2019s show is brought to you by Cosper Scafidi, an amazing body worker in the Northern Virginia area who has integrated different somatic practices into his work. To learn more about his work, visit his website: www.cosperscafidi.com/. \n\nWe will close out today\u2019s show with one of my favorite singer/song writers Stuart Davis and his song \u201cGood Wyrd\u201d https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZhRgUdHurA&list=PLATF5eWSVEAN4_DXjORbLYaiy34H98HIv&index=2