Every Motherf’er
Fights Tigers

 

by Dale McGlothlin

Reclaim Your Health, Transform Your Life, and Become Your Own Damned S/Hero

Every day, we fight tigers — the inner and outer battles that stalk our health, steal our focus, and chain us to mediocrity. In Every Motherf’er Fights Tigers, Dale McGlothlin delivers a raw, intelligent, and deeply human guide to winning those fights and reclaiming your life in a world that’s been rigged against you.

Grounded in lifestyle medicine and powered by lived experience, McGlothlin weaves together hard-earned wisdom, modern science, and timeless philosophy to create a practical blueprint for transformation — physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual. Drawing on neuroscience, biohacking, and ancient thought, he shows readers how to rewire habits, rebuild health, and rediscover purpose through discipline, awareness, and action.

This isn’t a self-help pep talk, It’s a field manual for the soul — a call to personal responsibility and defiance against the cultural forces that dull our instincts and weaken our will. McGlothlin’s voice is part coach, part outlaw philosopher: unfiltered, humorous, and unapologetically honest.

Structured across fourteen immersive chapters and nine “bonus tracks,” Every Motherf’er Fights Tigers blends bushido and the Apeiron with modern frameworks like PERMA+ and habit design. The result is a comprehensive, integrative approach to living well — one that demands grit, courage, and a willingness to get uncomfortable.

For anyone ready to stop settling and start fighting — for their health, their freedom, and their life — this book is both a rallying cry and a tactical manual for becoming your own damned hero.

The most dangerous tiger isn’t the one outside your door; it’s the one that lives in your head, rent-free

THE EMFT Philosophy trains you to fight for your life and gives you the weapons to win the war for your body, mind, and soul:

How to Take Back Control of Your Health and Life

You’ll learn that your mind, body, and spirit are not separate systems — and that true well-being begins when you reclaim personal responsibility from our American sickcare system, bureaucrats, what others think, corporate brands, and “one-trick fix” medicine.

How to Use Lifestyle Medicine to Heal Yourself

You get a blueprint for “21st Century Medicine” — integrating movement, nutrition, sleep, stress mastery, relationships, and purpose — as the real front line of healing and transformation.

How to Fight the “Tigers” of Modern Life and Win

The “tigers” — fear, apathy, anxiety, distraction, propaganda, addiction, conformity — can all be faced and beaten. The book gives you a philosophy for winning the war for your life.

How to See Through Manipulation and Propaganda

You’ll learn how and you’ve been conditioned — by media, marketing, and power structures — to obey, consume, and conform. The book trains you to recognize those invisible leashes or chains and break them.

How to Think Critically and Act Courageously

Instead of outsourcing your beliefs and decisions, readers will learn to think for themselves, challenge authority, and act in alignment with truth — even when it’s unpopular or uncomfortable.

How to Reconnect with the Soul and the Design Within

You’ll rediscover humans are miracles with purpose, not accidents of biology or randomness. You’ll be reminded of the impossible design — and the Designer — modern culture tries to erase.

How to Build Grit, Resilience, and Patience

Through stories (from football, surgery, loss, and endurance), you’ll learn that real strength is forged through wounds — that “courage grows stronger at the wound.” And scars are like the Japanese art of kintsugi—mending breaks with gold.

How to Stop Being a Victim of the System

This book exposes how systems profit from weakness and dependence — and teaches you how to walk out of those traps with discipline, self-reliance, and integrity.

How to Live as an Outlaw from the Law of Average

EMFT challenges people to rise above mediocrity — to become Outlaws of the ordinary — through self-mastery, moral courage, and a refusal to kneel to cultural decay.

How to Transform Pain into Purpose

You’ll learn how suffering can be alchemized — not numbed or avoided — into wisdom, depth, and service to others.

Fear is Normal. So is Doing the Thing Sacred Shitless.

Fearless is for fools. The wise recognize fear, feel it, and train themselves to act anyway. To be scared shitless—and do it anyway.

Every Motherf’er Fights Tigers

by Dale McGlothlin