The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age by Gladys McGarey (2023) is a self-care health book for people of any age.
The title says it all. Dr Gladys McGarey, at 102 years of age, writes words of wisdom. Gladys, co-founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, was still a practicing holistic physician when she wrote this book. She says that this book is “a story that teaches as much as it inspires.” When subscribing to her Foundation for Living Medicine newsletter, readers become part of the “BeGlad Family.”
Gladys Louise Taylor, born in November 1920 in India, travelled to America at the age of 16 to study, where she met and married Bill McGarey. While doing her residency degree at the Women’s Medical College, she was the only female resident in the hospital in 1946, while she was pregnant with her first child, but she had no living quarters – and therefore, no bedroom – so she slept on the examining table.
After a long marriage, and six children, she divorced Bill soon after she turned 70 years of age and “begins her life over” by creating the Scottsdale Holistic Medical Group with her daughter Helene.
This is not her first book, but it’s her most popular book. Everyone loves a secret – and especially six secrets to help readers live a long and “purpose-driven” life.
A quick summary of the six secrets – so expertly covered in her book and widely discussed in her interviews and book tours – are revealed in the title of the sections:
1. You are here for a reason.
2. All life needs to move.
3. Love is the most powerful medicine.
4. You are never truly alone.
5. Everything is your teacher.
6. Spend your energy wildly.
Under each section are several chapters that provide examples and real anecdotes from her childhood to her experiences as a physician. She provides practical, useful advice for almost everything – from tiredness to embracing imperfection to recovering from an illness.
This book is worthy of a read – it’s no gimmick – and, for people who want to delve further, the unofficial companion book Workbook: The Well-Lived Life: An Interactive Guide to Gladys McGarey’s Book (2023) is designed to enhance the reading of McGarey’s “must-read” book.
MARTINA NICOLLS
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MARTINA NICOLLS is an international human rights-based consultant in education, healing and wellbeing, peace and stabilization, foreign aid audits and evaluations, and the author of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009). She lives in Paris.
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