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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise April 2022 |
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| Full Out: Lessons in Life and Leadership from America's Favorite Coach by Monica AldamaWhat it is: an upbeat and richly detailed guide to achieving your personal and professional goals using lessons from author Monica Aldama's career as a professional cheerleading coach and star of Netflix original series Cheer.
Topics include: developing a sense of personal integrity; the power of ritual; the importance of getting out of your comfort zone.
Reviewers say: "There’s lots to cheer for in Aldama’s upbeat and practical advice" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Empower: Conquering the Disease of Fear by Tareq Azim and Seth DavisWhat it is: the unique and inspiring story of Tareq Azim, an NFL trainer and his advice on overcoming adversity and fear on the road to success.
Read it for: the author's efforts to encourage social change in Afghanistan, including his involvement with setting up the country's first women's boxing federation.
Did you know? Azim was the first Afghan American linebacker to play Division 1 football.
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| I Didn't Do the Thing Today by Madeleine DoreWhat it's about: an exploration of the pressure to constantly be productive and an argument in favor of accepting that there are "days we don't seize."
Topics include: the importance of being realistic when setting expectations for yourself; the value of regularly making space for small indulgences; learning to identify self-shaming patterns.
About the author: Writer and interviewer Madeleine Dore runs the productivity blog Extraordinary Routines and hosts the podcast Routines & Ruts. |
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| Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness by Lucy FoulkesWhat it is: a science-based look at mental illness as a construct, urging readers and practitioners to reflect on the defining lines between the difficulties that are an inescapable part of human life and actual clinical conditions.
Don't miss: the discussion of social media as a double-edged sword to both create a platform for destigmatization and a means for the spread of misinformation.
Reviewers say: Author Lucy Foulkes is "a compassionate, rational guide through modern-day mental issues that are neither easily categorized nor treated" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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Outdoor kids in an inside world : getting your family out of the house and radically engaged with nature
by Steven Rinella
"The average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens. Not only does this phenomenon have consequences for our kids' physical and mental health, it calls into question their ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the built environment. Now, outdoors expert Steven Rinella shares the parenting wisdom he has garnered as a father whose family has lived amid the biggest cities and wildest corners of America. Throughout, he offers practical advice for getting your kids radically engaged with nature in a muddy, thrilling, hands-on way, guided by black-and-white illustrations throughout-with the ultimate goal of helping them see their own place within the natural ecosystem.
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| Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance by Lisa OliveraWhat it's about: how our personal narratives can shape our outlooks on life and how reshaping our stories can help us change for the better.
Why you might like it: the advice is presented in a well-organized format and compassionate, relatable tone.
Reviewers say: Already Enough is "a brave and welcoming guide that will resonate with those who may have questioned whether they deserve to be loved" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them by Tessa WestWhat it is: a funny and thought-provoking guide to working with difficult colleagues, with a deep dive into the forces that create fraught work environments.
Toxic types include: the Credit Stealer, the Gaslighter, the Bulldozer, and the Kiss Up/Kick Downer.
You might also like: Conflicted by Ian Leslie; Why Are We Yelling? by Buster Benton. |
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Turn Your Fandom into Cash : A Geeky Guide to Turn Your Passion into a Business or at Least a Side Hustle
by Carol Pinchefsky
This geeky guide (by an avowed geek) shows you the ins-and-outs of making money involved in the worlds you love to immerse yourself in or one you want to create.
Turn Your Fandom Into Cash teaches fans how to power up their own geeky businesses, harness the power of their fandom, and shield themselves against the wrath of intellectual property holders. This book will also offer real-world examples for aspiring Tony Starks and Bruce Waynes. In many cases, these passion-pursuits have led to full-time careers; in one case, it created a $100 million business.
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Move : how the new science of body movement can set your mind free
by Caroline Williams
A veteran science journalist explores the latest research on the relationship between brain health and physical activity and discusses how the simplest movements can reactivate our bodies and help relieve anxiety and depression and improve memory and creativity.
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Plant power : flip your plate, change your weight
by Ian K. Smith
The host of The Doctors and #1 New York Times best-selling author presents a guide for dieters who want to utilize the benefits of fruits, vegetables and complex carbs that delivers the most flavorful and favorable plant-based foods for natural and pain-free weight loss. 200,000 first printing
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Radically Content : Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World
by Jamie Varon
Blending memoir, sharp social insights, and unique practical tools, author Jamie Varon is your guide to radical contentment—a satisfied life outside the bounds of societal expectations.
Too many of us are waiting for our lives to begin, putting our happiness on layaway for some future version where it all lines up, when we’ve accomplished it all, when we have the perfect career, bodies, partners, and when our lives finally feel “good enough.” But what is good enough? Who gets to decide? And when do we ever reach it?
Jamie takes a sharp, incisive look at the industries that are constantly telling us to do more, be more, and keep striving, pushing, and hustling—and shows you how to radically opt out of societal conditioning.
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