This book acknowledges that as a culture we are suffering from epidemic levels of depression, anxiety and loneliness; as well as, soaring rates of using, consuming and abusing whatever we can get our hands on. The stress of living in this technology driven world is highly toxic and even lethal for some people. This is reflected in the recent news that suicide is now the leading cause of death internationally. The author is a Vietnam Vet who overcame the effects of PTSD to become a college professor with a decade of teaching experience and clinical psychologist with more than two decades of clinical experience. He details in the book how his experiences with "A Warrior Culture" in Vietnam helped him overcome "The Prison Code" and create a highly successful program to rehabilitate men serving "life" in prison, with the possibility of parole someday. The INSIGHT Program was developed to teach these men the character, values, beliefs and principles of responsible people. A model of human communication was developed and taught that incorporates the three different levels of reality we human beings experience; objective, subjective and inter-subjective. In this model, objective reality is represented as the facts, subjective reality as our thoughts and feelings, and inter-subjective reality as the meanings we have attached to our experiences. A model of mental health called The Five (5) Critical Questions is taught and used to gain control of our emotions by controlling the thinking that is anchored to feelings. The book provides insights, examples, and an answer to the question, "Where is our model of mental health?" An argument is made that we are in the midst of a paradigm shift with major implications for how we view mental health. Our present preoccupation with trying to better understand "mental illnesses" by studying the chemistry of synapses, is contrasted with a model of "mental health" based on the connection between our belief systems, our thinking patterns and our feelings. The universal struggle to answer the question, "Am I that person inside my head, the one I spend most of my time with, or am I that person playing roles that everyone else thinks I am?" is referenced as The Human Dilemma. The dynamic and fluid relationships between our beliefs, our thinking patterns and our feelings is compared to balancing on a tightrope of objective, and subjective experiences we call life. Study after study has shown that the nature and quality of our relationships is the difference between evolving into a healthy adult and simply just growing older. The Five (5) Critical Questions are used as a way to develop empathy through rapport, and intimacy through dialogue. Examples are given of critical thinking skills and advanced communication skills; including active listening, paraphrasing, rapport that are the basis of "how" to dialogue. It replaces Descartes dictum that, "I think, therefore I am," with "I feel, therefore I'm real." Our fear and avoidance of our feelings is identified as the biggest obstacle in overcoming a socialization process that leaves us strangers to ourselves. The book confronts the allegation that depression is second only to cardiac disease as a global disease burden by establishing that depression is a necessary part of life. It asks the question, "When do sorrow, unhappiness and loneliness become depression, and according to whom?" We have stigmatized a normal part of life by putting a label on it and calling it a "mental illness." In the process we have institutionalized and sanctioned ways to avoid and escape the changes and growth required for psychological growth. Mental health requires growth and we only grow from making mistakes. Part of our mental health is learning how to do The Walk of Life... with learning how to be yourself and do your thing.