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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise August 2023
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Awe: The new science of everyday wonder and how it can transform your life
by Dacher Keltner
What's is about: From a foremost expert on the science of emotions and consultant to Pixar's Inside Out comes a groundbreaking and essential exploration into the history, science and greater understanding of awe.
About the author: Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, director of the Greater Good Science Center, and coeditor of Greater Good magazine. His research focuses on pro-social emotions, power, and moral reasoning.
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| Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community by Joy Harden Bradford, PhDWhat it is: a reflective guide to building and sustaining friendships, discovering your strengths and weaknesses as a friend, and strengthening ties within your community to foster healing.
About the author: Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a licensed clinical psychologist and host of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast.
Reviewers say: "Bradford’s celebration of friendship is moving, backed with psychological depth, and especially welcome in a culture that sometimes downplays nonromantic bonds" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause And How to Feel Like... by Jancee DunnWhat's inside: a humorous and candid exploration of menopause, its cultural implications, and research into the latest tools and tips to navigate one of life's biggest changes.
Read it for: the informative interviews with medical professionals; the emphasis placed on dispelling misinformation; the handy appendix of authoritative resources included at the end.
You might also like: The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan P. Mattern; The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter. |
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| Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run by Martinus EvansHow it started: with author Martinus Evans receiving news from his doctor that his weight and lack of fitness was likely to send him to an early grave.
What happened next: Evans committed to running and completing a marathon, against the odds. Slow AF Run Club details his development as a "non-traditional" runner, the sense of community he found as he continued running marathons, and his advice for getting started no matter where you're starting from.
Reviewers say: "Practical and compassionate in equal measure, this will get readers moving" (Publishers Weekly). |
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us
by Rachel Aviv
What it's about: the importance of our self-perception and the stories we tell ourselves, with a focus on mental health and how current psychiatric frameworks can both help and hinder our sense of who we are.
How it's structured: as a collection of candid, moving profiles of people with mental illness, interspersed with the author's own conclusions based on original research and reporting.
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Outlive: The science & art of longevity
by Peter Attia
What's it about: drawing on the latest science and challenging mainstream medicine, a visionary physician and leading longevity expert present a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving our physical, cognitive and emotional health.
Topics include: rethinking medicine for the age of chronic disease; new ways to address the killer that is cancer; the high price of ignoring emotional health
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Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)
by Amy Gallo
What it is: a thought-provoking exploration of workplace conflict -- how it happens, how it affects us, and what we can do about it.
Topics include: common types of difficult coworkers; dealing with an insecure boss; learning to be "the adult in the room."
About the author: Amy Gallo is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review who wrote The HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict and hosts the podcast Women at Work.
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| Body Neutral: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Body Image Issues by Jessi KneelandWhat it is: a thought-provoking examination of body image and how we can make peace with the issues underlying the fraught relationships many of us have with the skin we live in.
Why it matters: Body Neutral emphasizes taking a step back from the body itself when needed to focus on the mind, providing advice for exploring what makes someone unhappy with their body and how they react to that unhappiness. |
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Built to move: The ten essential habits to help you move freely and live fully
by Kelly Starrett
What it's about: written for both exercisers and non-exercisers, offers ten tests and ten physical practices to help the human body function well and feel great in the new mobility guide from the innovators behind Becoming a Supple Leopard.
Why you might like it: full of foundational wisdom for everyone from beginners to professional athletes and everyone in between.
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| All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainesford StaufferWhat it is: a thoughtful and well-researched exploration of ambition and how our modern understanding of it can harm our self-worth and leave us isolated.
Topics include: the pitfalls of "hustle" culture; the pressure to excel and how it can impact children from a young age; the social inequalities that existing measures for tracking academic achievement can exacerbate.
About the author: Rainesford Stauffer is a journalist who writes the "Work in Progress" column for Teen Vogue and regularly contributes to The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Vox. |
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