Do you have any breath left when you get to the top of the stairs? Money left at the end of the month? Sanity left at the end of adolescence? Margin is the opposite of overload, stress and burnout. Margin is breathing room between ourselves and whatever limits us. Rediscover margin in your life.

“Margin: Making Space in our Lives for the Things that Matter,” is based on his book Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives. Dr. Swenson provides a prescription against the danger of overloaded lives. Focusing on margin in four key areas-emotional energy, physical energy, time, and finances-he offers an overall picture of health that employs contentment, simplicity, balance, and rest.

Dr. Swenson is a physician-futurist, best-selling author, and award-winning educator. He is author of six books, including the best-selling MARGIN and THE OVERLOAD SYNDROME: Learning to Live within Your Limits, both award-winning.

He received his B.S. in physics from Denison University and his M.D. from the University of Illinois School of Medicine. Following five years of private practice, in 1982 Dr. Swenson accepted a teaching position as Associate Clinical Professor with the University of Wisconsin Medical School-Department of Family Medicine where he taught for fifteen years. As a physician, his current focus is cultural medicine, researching the intersection of health and culture. As a futurist, his emphasis is fourfold: the future of the world system, western culture, faith, and healthcare.

Dr. Swenson has traveled to over fifty countries, including a year of study in Europe and medical work in developing countries. His emphasis in medicine and futurism is both global and broadly integrative. He has presented widely, including national and international settings, to a wide variety of career, professional, educational, medical, governmental, and management groups, most major church denominations, members of the United Nations, NASA, Congress, and the Pentagon.