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Lightness of Body and Mind
- A Radical Approach to Weight and Wellness
- Narrated by: Sarah Hays Coomer
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Forget every tactic you've ever tried to lose weight and feel better. Put down your weapons once and for all, and step out of the field of battle. Despite how it may seem, your brain and body are not unsupportive beasts bent on undermining your fitness goals. They just want some chips and dip, that's all. They aren't the problem. The way you're trying to manipulate them is.
In Lightness of Body and Mind: A Radical Approach to Weight and Wellness, personal trainer Sarah Hays Coomer offers a different approach. She proposes that you will never be able to achieve a body you love by doing things that you hate, that deprivation and limitation will never set you free, and that punishing workouts and strict diets are dead-end roads. The way to a body that works is doing more of what you authentically love.
Through memoir and intimate client stories, this book encourages you to dance with your demons, to choose and cherish the ones you have no intention of giving up, and to build a solid infrastructure dedicated to good health, in which wellness and indulgence spring from the same source.
You don't need more control. You just need functional knowledge of how habits are formed; a reverent, dizzy appreciation for falling apart when necessary; and laser focus on what brings you to life.
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Disappointing for me but might be helpful for others
- By Anna D* on 09-03-18
By: Mel Wells
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Sparkle
- The Girl's Guide to Living a Deliciously Dazzling, Wildly Effervescent, Kick-Ass Life
- By: Cara Alwill Leyba
- Narrated by: Cara Alwill Leyba
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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As women, we have become professional self-critics. We've become so convinced by society that we need to attain a level of perfection that just isn't real. Whether it's trying to get skinnier, look younger, get that promotion, please our parents, get fuller lips or rid ourselves of cellulite - we're on a never-ending mission to change and it always winds up making us feel like crap. In this straight-up girlfriend's guide, lifestylist and wellness coach Cara Alwill Leyba encourages women to discover what makes them sparkle so that they can design the lives they desire and deserve.
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recovering alcoholics avoid
- By Raven Elise on 08-22-19
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Food Freedom Forever
- Letting Go of Bad Habits, Guilt, and Anxiety Around Food
- By: Melissa Hartwig
- Narrated by: Melissa Hartwig
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Food Freedom Forever shows you how to design your reset, making your short-term protocol maximally effective. You'll learn how to spot your specific triggers before they're pulled and strategies for dealing with temptation, strengthening your new healthy habits, and boosting your willpower. Melissa also shares advice for retaining your food freedom during holidays, vacations, periods of life stress, social pressure, and criticism from friends and family.
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Life Changing
- By Sally Rusk on 07-05-17
By: Melissa Hartwig
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Stop Saying You're Fine
- Discover a More Powerful You
- By: Mel Robbins
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Right now, over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives. If you've come to regard yourself as your own worst enemy; if you constantly daydream and wonder, "Is this all there is?"; if you have a tendency, when asked how you're doing, to just say "Fine," you may be one of them. If this sounds familiar, there's clearly something missing from your life. This book will help you discover what it is, and how to win it back.
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STOP and buy The Five Second Rule instead.
- By Ryan Healey on 07-19-17
By: Mel Robbins
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An Apple a Day
- A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
- By: Emma Woolf
- Narrated by: Emma Woolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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I haven't tasted chocolate for over ten years and now I'm walking down the street unwrapping a Kit Kat. Remember when Kate Moss said, 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'? She's wrong: chocolate does. At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger, exercise and control, she was juggling a full-blown eating disorder with a successful career, functioning on an apple a day.
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A memoir of a silver spoon, maybe.
- By S. covely on 06-05-16
By: Emma Woolf
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PUSH
- 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!
- By: Chalene Johnson
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Let Chalene Johnson turbocharge your habits, your diet, and your life with the updated, enhanced edition of PUSH. With a brand new chapter, PUSH distills Charlene's hard-earned wisdom and expertise into a totally unique 30-day system that will help you reset your priorities, develop new habits, and lose weight for good.
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Love the book
- By Jessica Steele on 08-20-17
By: Chalene Johnson
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Healthy Habits Suck
- How to Get off the Couch and Live a Healthy Life…Even If You Don't Want To
- By: Dayna Lee-Baggley PhD, Russ Harris - foreword
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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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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Best book I’ve read
- By drMP on 11-04-22
By: Dayna Lee-Baggley PhD, and others
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Liquids till Lunch
- 12 Small Habits That Will Change Your Life for Good
- By: MaryRuth Ghiyam
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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MaryRuth’s brand embodies her core mission—to help others feel and perform their best. Liquids Till Lunch encapsulates her philosophy, and is a roadmap anyone can follow to substantially improve their health, happiness, and psychological well-being. From the importance of portion control to positivity, from fasting to stressing less, each chapter is packed with life-changing anecdotes from her clients, and scientifically backed research.
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Maybe for a select audience- Type A
- By J. T on 03-31-23
By: MaryRuth Ghiyam
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The Urban Monk
- Eastern Wisdom and Modern Hacks to Stop Time and Find Success, Happiness, and Peace
- By: Pedram Shojai OMD
- Narrated by: Pedram Shojai OMD
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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The Urban Monk, a New York Times best seller, reveals the secrets to finding an open heart, sharp mind, and grounded sense of well-being, even in the most demanding circumstances. Shojai's no-nonsense life mastery program brings together clear tools and exercises that can elevate your existence.
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The Urban Monk swears a lot.
- By Frank C. on 07-05-16
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My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper
- A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life
- By: Gabrielle Reece, Karen Karbo
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Reece, Karen Karbo
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Much has happened to Gabrielle Reece since her 1997 best seller Big Girl in the Middle. She’s still gorgeous, still 6’3”, and a dominant force on and off the beach, but in the last 15 years, she’s settled down with world-class surfer Laird Hamilton and raised three stunning blonde girls. Her life might seem like a fairy tale from afar, but four years after her picture-perfect Hawaiian marriage to Laird, Gabrielle filed for divorce. In the end, the couple worked it out, but My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper tells the unvarnished and often hilarious tale of the turbulent ups and downs that beset every wife and mother - even the women like Gabrielle who seem to have it all.
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Much more relevant than I imagined
- By Bookish420 on 04-24-13
By: Gabrielle Reece, and others
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The Champagne Diet
- Eat, Drink, and Celebrate Your Way to a Healthy Mind and Body!
- By: Cara Alwill Leyba
- Narrated by: Cara Alwill Leyba
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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This book is for the woman who wants to feel good about herself and her body, and learn how to start incorporating healthy habits into her life. It's for the woman who doesn't want to trade in her champagne for skinny jeans. It's for the woman who is done with dieting, and ready to start paying attention to her health before that number on the scale. It's for the woman who is ready to stop letting her weight define her, and is ready to understand why it always did. This is not a diet book. This is a lifestyle guide.
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Delish!
- By Melody on 09-06-18
What listeners say about Lightness of Body and Mind
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- Marna Taylor
- 06-09-16
Small changes to BiG empowerment!
I so loved this book and the philosophy of loving what makes our bodies strong and work for us rather than beating ourselves up for the imperfections we have always focused on! By finding out what our bodies can do for us and finding joy in the things that "light us up" we can make small good choices that can because wellness habits and by shifting the mindset to gratefulness for our bodies we can be empowered! I know this has caused me to want to do more things that make me feel good! Thank you Sarah Hays Coomer for the paradigm shift!
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- Lauren
- 10-23-16
Honoring Your Body Through Health
I've been exploring the concept of intuitive eating, and I feel like this book takes it to a whole new level. My big takeaway is: Your life is made of minutes, hours, and days. Be mindful of how you spend them! Sarah does an excellent job of exploring how to get there by honoring yourself and your body. So many industries are thriving by making us feel ugly, fat, and unaccomplished. Shift your focus to living the life you want, what you have (and still want to!) accomplish and build a life, body and mind to get you there. Sarah's literary, and actual voice in this instance, is like that of a comforting friend. The kind that will hold you accountable but is also there to support you when you just need encouragement.
I highly recommend this book to anyone needing perspective on not just physical health, but a whole life of balance.
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- Timothy L Coomer
- 06-03-16
Compelling Stories, Motivation, Science.
What made the experience of listening to Lightness of Body and Mind the most enjoyable?
The stories are captivating and help explain the concepts beautifully. Sarah shares her many experiences with her clients while also weaving in her own life story. This makes the book very easy to listen to and visualize while the lessons that are learned from the book are gently received but so easy to grasp and internalize. I loved every minute of this book!
What was one of the most memorable moments of Lightness of Body and Mind?
I like the way Sarah makes the concept of "Mindfulness" easy to grasp. This is a common buzzword you see today, but Sarah quickly simplifies it and makes it an accessible tool for anyone.
Which scene was your favorite?
Sarah's writing style makes all the stories vivid and easy to visualize! I most enjoyed her use of the character "Lothario" as she personifies that internal voice or drive that leads us down the wrong path. Very creative writing.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, I listed to this book while going on a morning walk and actually started extending my walks to listen to longer segments of the book and because the book was enjoyable and so motivating to keep moving!
Any additional comments?
This book strikes a perfect tone in a world where gimmicks, fad diets, and constant availability of distractions and poor food choices surround us! It lays out a clear path to a better way of making choices and living your life. It is something anyone can do. But, the book also provides balance -- important lessons on self compassion are learned along with strong motivation to take the daily steps in a new direction. Thank you Sarah for showing us all the way toward Lightness of Body and Mind!
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- Olivia Honeycutt
- 07-18-16
Health care providers and nutritionists
Would you listen to Lightness of Body and Mind again? Why?
Yes. Recommended read for nutritionists and weight loss seekers alike! I am a health care practitioner and nutritionist. THis book has given me some incredibly valuable tools for helping patients recover wellness to their bodies and minds.
What did you like best about this story?
For years I have watched as my patients struggle with wanting to lose weight. They put themselves through rigorous diet and exercise regimens that inevitably fail, or worse yet, cause injury. I feel I have done my best to guide them away from the concept of punishing diets and toward healthy lifestyle choices. This strategy works well for some people but really not for others. There was still a missing link, something I wasn't getting, and I didn't even know it. And it was something I wasn't "getting" in my own life. Since reading Lightness of Body and Mind I have completely transformed the conversations I have with myself about food and healthy choices. And this has altered, in dramatic ways, the way I speak with patients about their food and lifestyle choices. Though it has only been a short time since finishing the book, I am seeing my patients have better success moving toward health and a feeling of "lightness" in many senses of the word. This is also, awesomely, applying to me!
What about Sarah Hays Coomer’s performance did you like?
Sarah's performance is dynamic and she is obviously passionate about her work. She shares her story with a natural strength and vulnerability that brings the listener into her world.
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