Book
On Life
Thoughts on Life's Challenges
A reflective companion for navigating life's shoals, tides, and headwinds — drawn from a lifetime of practice, observation, and inquiry.
Written across decades of clinical practice and quiet study, On Life gathers Dr. White's essays on the recurring questions we all face: how to weather loss, how to choose well under uncertainty, how to keep faith with the people and work that matter.
Navigating life’s waters can be fraught with shoals, tides, and headwinds. The astute ship’s captain learns by observing and documenting the events of the voyage in the ship’s log, providing a true-to-life record of those challenges and how they were overcome. Before GPS and satellite weather maps, the logs of those who had come before were priceless, allowing all sailors to become better at sea.
We all can learn something from those of an earlier generation, whether in their writing, storytelling, or simple observations. And yet real learning occurs when we assimilate such information for ourselves, developing our own opinions and working to apply them.
Both the sea captain and those of us who are on our own personal voyages must move beyond the theoretical. We must put what we have learned into practice. To do so requires that we eventually move from opinion to action…
A second book from Dr. White is in the making.
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