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How to Finally Make Peace with Your Body, for Good
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An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.
When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a ‘before’ picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the ‘glow-up’ (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But it’s not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of ‘problem’ areas for which the billion-dollar diet industry holds the solutions.
Step-by-step, You Are Not A Before Picture provides a framework for changing the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Working with experts in the fields of psychotherapy, fitness and nutrition, Alex empowers readers to interrogate their underlying beliefs, challenge the external and internal forces that are holding us back, and finally find freedom in our bodies, for good.
Alex Light was a number 4 Sunday Times Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e June 19th 2022
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Beauty Sick
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- By: Renee Engeln
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Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They understand that what they see isn't real but still download apps to airbrush their selfies.
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No conclusion
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Healthy Habits Suck
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With this funny, in-your-face guide, you won’t find advice on how to “enjoy” exercise, or tips for making broccoli and kale taste as good as donuts and ice cream. What you will find are solid skills to help you actually do the healthy things you know you should be doing. Using these skills - based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and neuroscience - you’ll learn to find the motivation you’re craving to adopt healthy habits, even if they do suck. You’ll also discover how to accept self-criticism, develop self-compassion, and live a more meaningful life.
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The Expectation Effect
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Melding neuroscience with narrative, science journalist David Robson takes lstenersi on a deep dive into the many life zones the expectation effect permeates. We see how people who believe stress is beneficial become more creative when placed under strain. We see how associating aging with wisdom can add seven plus years to your life. People say seeing is believing but, over and over, Robson proves that the converse is truer: Believing is seeing.
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Every leader and teacher must read!
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Discover Your Optimal Health
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Go from surviving to thriving! Anyone who has ever lost weight only to ultimately gain it back will benefit from this life-changing breakthrough program that shows you not only how to reach and maintain your healthy weight, but how to create a life of renewed vibrancy and become as healthy as you can. Thousands of people worldwide have gone from discouragement to confidence by following this easy-to-use guide by "Dr. A", one of America’s most esteemed and compassionate practitioners of weight loss and optimal health.
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Narrator Ruins Great Book
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Fat Girls in Black Bodies
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Structured into three sections - "belonging," "resistance," and "acceptance" - and informed by personal history, community stories, and deep research, Fat Girls in Black Bodies breaks down the myths, stereotypes, tropes, and outright lies we've been sold about race, body size, belonging, and health. Cox's razor-sharp cultural commentary exposes the racist roots of diet culture, healthism, and the ways we erroneously conflate body size with personal responsibility.
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AMAZING
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- Erika White
- 06-26-22
Extremely Helpful Book!
I follow Alex on Instagram and find her account incredibly inspiring. Like most women I’ve struggled with my body image since I was a teenager and this book had an immensely powerful impact on my body image. I stopped to cry a few times during the book because I realized that I didn’t have to hate my body all these years and what a waste of time it was to send so much hatred towards myself. I want to recommend this book to everyone I know. It’s a great intro to body positivity and body acceptance for anyone looking to get started on changing their body image. Thank you Alex for gifting this to the world!
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- therese villemure
- 06-13-22
Really connected with this author and book..
In this book, Alex shares her experiences with weight obsession and eating disorders. She also discusses the never ending cycle of dieting and trying to reach for beauty perfection. I really connected with everything she had to say. This is a must read for anyone struggling with weight obsession/ eating disorders.
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- Candice Charles
- 03-15-23
Love it!
My body is merely a vessel that holds all the good stuff! This was really impactful to me!
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- Anonymous User
- 01-04-23
Such a good book that I would recommend anyone read!!
If you are struggling with body image or an eating disorder, she puts it in perfect words to help change your life! Love love love it!!
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- Jane K.
- 01-23-24
absolutely incredible
this book will help you transform your mindset about your body, not your body itself
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