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Heal your story, heal your life, heal your world. Life can be hard. We all experience challenges, misfortune, heartache, and failures. And sometimes everything piles up, until we're overwhelmed and find it hard to move forward. When we're stuck, mired in uncomfortable circumstances, feeling powerless, retelling the negative story about our lives and who we are just makes things worse. We know the negativity isn't serving us, but trying to put a more positive spin on our story just doesn't feel right or true. In his book Is Your Story Making You Sick? Dr. Mark Pirtle will help you discover a way to rewrite an authentic, positive, and true self-story, one that will get you unstuck. You'll learn the tools to enact affirmative change and growth through practicing mindful attunement, a process that helps you make sense of-and rewrite-your life story. Mindful attunement synthesizes the disciplines of neuroscience, living systems theory, mindfulness meditation, positive psychology, and narrative medicine into a single framework. Armed with these understandings and practices, you'll face your life challenges with the strength of a warrior and the creativity of an artist. Your attunement will not only benefit you, but all your relations and the planet as well. Through a combination of step-by-step instruction, big-picture context, personal anecdote, and cutting-edge information from some of the brightest minds working in the fields of psychology, human development, and systems science, Is Your Story Making You Sick? offers a safe, stable, and supportive transition from the life you're living now to the one you want to create.

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Mark Pirtle leads us on an exquisite journey through virtually all things that make us human and divine-separates them in their elegant granularity with colorful life stories, and then integrates them all together with both agility and grace. I highly recommend this book to serious readers who are interested in all phases of the self. - Terri O'Fallon, PhD, founder of Stages International Stories from our past anchor us to unhealthy relationships and ways of living. It not only hurts us individually but all of us collectively. Mark Pirtle inspires us to find our way back to our authentic selves and serve a larger mission. - Sandra Ingerman, MA, shamanic teacher and author of The Book of Ceremony and The Hidden Worlds Affected as we are by the ripple effects of the systems in which we live, Mark Pirtle, in his book, Is Your Story Making You Sick? gifts us with an engaging, personal reflection on self-awareness, healing, and growth, for ourselves, our families, and a larger world. - Frederic Craigie, PhD, visiting associate professor, Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, and author of Positive Spirituality in Health Care: Nine Practical Approaches to Pursuing Wholeness for Clinicians, Patients, and Health Care Organizations Mark Pirtle has provided an original, profound, and deeply insightful work that reframes the source of our central challenges and outlines the critical work we must all undertake to heal ourselves, the people around us, and the world. - Harry Nelson, Chair, Behavioral Health Association of Providers (BHAP), and author of The United States of Opioids: A Prescription For Liberating A Nation In Pain This book is a tangible message of tempered optimism for difficult times. -Shinzen Young, founder of Unified Mindfulness, co-director of the Sonication Enhanced Mindful Awareness (SEMA) Lab at the University of Arizona, and author of The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works and Break Through Pain: A Step-by-Step Mindfulness Meditation Program for Transforming Chronic and Acute Pain Mark Pirtle's book provides a thorough introduction to meditation, with step-by-step instructions on how to practice. By integrating stillness and self-reflection into your everyday life, you can heal negative thinking patterns and develop new healthier ones that can result in a happier life. - Danet Palmer, host of the Yummy Way Podcast and author of Coffee with the Divine: A Yummy Guide to Daily Miracles and Baptized by Love: How I Found Present Joy and Never Let It Go This guide is a wonderful compendium for anyone interested in self-care and healing. - Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, director of the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona's Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, and author of Energy Healing: the Essentials of Self-Care In his book, Is Your Story Making You Sick?, Mark Pirtle slides the camel through the eye of the needle, slipping complex information in through easy-to-read story telling. Mark takes you on the ultimate journey of your own self-story, guides you through deeply human struggles, and leaves you standing on the precipice of human potential. - Kim Barta, MA, co-founder of Stages International

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Mark Pirtle is an integral therapist, retreat leader, recovery coach, teacher, speaker, and author. He's also a filmmaker, having produced the documentary ""Is Your Story Making You Sick?"" in 2019. Combining the disciplines of living systems theory, mindfulness meditation, positive psychology, and narrative medicine he developed an evidence-based program for healing stress-related illnesses he calls SkillfullyAware(R). He is a faculty member for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona and serves as the Director of Life Sciences and Programming at the Tubac Ranch Retreat Center, in Tubac, Arizona.

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