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The Everest Principle, co-written by Stephen C. Brewer, M.D. and Peggy Holt Wagner, M.S., L.P.C., is a comprehensive integrative approach to peak performance for everyone. This book provides concrete advice for taking your first step toward attaining your personal or professional goals. The authors candidly share experiences from their own personal journeys to inspire us to a life that embraces growth, change and wholeness."
Andrew Weil, M.D.
How to achieve the summit of your life
This book is called The Everest Principle because Mt. Everest is the highest, and arguably, one of the most challenging mountains a person can climb. The metaphor of climbing Mt. Everest is woven throughout the book as a means to guide you through the trail markers for peak performance.
Everyone has, at some point in their life, an Everest to ascend. The Everest Principle becomes your “outfitter” to assess, prepare, train, guide, and equip you for the expedition to the top of your personal Everest. This Principle requires the use of an integrative approach that addresses your medical, nutritional, physical, and behavioral health.
Peak performance does not limit itself to the elite athlete or performer. It is for anyone who wants to improve his or her individual life. These treks may include real-life challenges such as achieving a higher level in your relationship with another, getting a promotion, running your first 5K fun run, or weight loss.
The purpose of this book is to instill you with the belief that you can overcome barriers, attain high-level goals, and enhance your life in every way!
"The next paradigm in health care is what Peggy and Steve have envisioned - Peak Performance. The tools they use in implementing Peak Performance will take health care beyond illness, even beyond prevention, to a higher state of physical and mental well-being."
Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.
17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006)
, is a small-town farm girl who grew up with large imagination and dreams. From early on, she used mental rehearsal and guided imagery to drive and support her successes. With a graduate degree from the University of Vermont, Peggy currently works as a licensed professional counselor at Canyon Ranch Resort in Tucson, Arizona. Peggy has worked with a persons coming from a variety of cultural backgrounds while living on Cayman Islands and U.S. Native American reservations and in a range of settings such as alternative schools, prisons, hospitals, and drug and alcohol treatment centers. She is trained and qualified in Hypnosis and EMDR and has spoken internationally on peak performance and other wellness-related topics. Residing in Arizona, she spends most of her time outdoors with her horses and dogs. A long-time fitness advocate, Peggy loves distance-running and swimming. She uses the techniques described in The Everest Principle to achieve her own peak performance.
, was raised in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, the son of a country veterinarian. He graduated from the Ohio State University and the Medical College of Ohio, and then completed a Family Medicine residency at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He began his professional career as a small town doctor and later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he started and developed a successful group family practice. During this time he became interested in alternative therapies. He studied a form of hypnosis called guided imagery, trained in medical acupuncture at UCLA and completed a Fellowship of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona under the direction of Dr. Andrew Weil. He became the first medical director of the TriHealth Hospital Integrative Medicine Department in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2004 he assumed the role as Medical Director at the Canyon Ranch Health Resorts in Tucson, Arizona. Here at Canyon Ranch, Dr. Brewer, along with his co-author Peggy Holt Wagner, MS, have organized and developed the Canyon Ranch Peak Performance Program.