This week Joeli read You Are Awesome with her 9 year old and we talk about the importance of growth mindset, resilience and deliberate practice.

Do you have a book recommendation for younger kids about these topics?

More resources:

You Are Awesome, by Matthew Sayed

July’s Book Club

We’re reading Chrissy Metz’s This is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today

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Tara Swiger
Joeli Kelly

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We both read Dietland and talk about what we learned from this novel and about body positivity, self-acceptance and the tiny steps we’re taking to love ourselves in the bodies we’re in.

More resources:
Bodyposipanda on Instagram
GabiFresh on Instagram
ASOS - the clothing company that uses un-airbrushed models

July’s Book Club
We’re reading Chrissy Metz’s This is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today

Your Hosts:
Tara Swiger
Joeli Kelly

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We really really like setting goals and getting clear on our intentions. In this episode we share WHY you should probably set some goals and two books that Joeli has found helpful in thinking through her goals and plans.

Do you set goals? Let us know!

Today we discuss our book club pick: Mastering your Mean Girl, by Melissa Ambrosini. To be honest, we don’t love it. But we end up having an amazing discussion about expectations of people (are expectations bad? Or appropriate?) and choosing love over fear.

Vote on July’s Book Club pick!
Head to the Facebook group to choose our next book!

Your Hosts:
Tara Swiger
Joeli Kelly

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What do you look for in a book that will help you make a life-changing decisions? How do you find those books? This week Tara shares all the books she’s been secretly reading about adoption and foster care - the memoirs, the facts, the hopeful and the depressing - and we talk about how to choose a book that will change your life and how to find the right books.

This week Joeli read Worthy and we dive deep into our money stories - the beliefs we’ve held about money that are holding us back.

Links:
Worthy: Boost your self-worth to grow your net worth, by Nancy Levin
You Need A Budget (the app we’ve both used and love)

June’s Book Club pick!
Mastering your Inner Mean Girl, by Melissa Ambrosini

Join the discussion in the Facebook group and read along in the month of June!

Your Hosts:
Tara Swiger
Joeli Kelly

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This week Tara’s sharing two books she read, Girl, Wash your Face and I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual. We talked about how sometimes it’s comforting to read the same advice you already know (your body size does not determine your worth) but how refreshing it is to read something new (and practical) like Ajayi’s book.

Get all the links here: http://www.essentialenthusiasm/podcast/episode19

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This week we’re reading and talking about the book YOU chose: The Four Pillar Plan (  How Make Diseases Disappear if you’re in the US!) . We share the areas that need the most work in our own lives and how we’re making those changes.

June’s Book Club pick!
Mastering your Inner Mean Girl, by Melissa Ambrosini

Join the discussion in the Facebook group and read along in the month of June!

Your Hosts:
Tara Swiger
Joeli Kelly

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Sometimes you just have a week where you don’t like anything you read. This week we discuss what we don’t like: books that try to sell you a program (we’re looking at you “business coaches”) and novels with boy-crazy female protagonists. We also talk about reading with kids, the importance of fiction, and the Bechdel test.

Today we discuss the book we both use every day to journal, work through emotions, and feel the way we want to feel: Emotions and Essential Oils. We share ideas for how to use it for journaling prompts, to change your mood and to make better care of yourself.

Stuff we mention:

Emotions and Essential OIls book and wheel

Essential Emotions app

The Universe Has Your Back deck

May’s Book Club pick!

It has two titles - if you’re in the US: How Make Diseases Disappear

If you’re in the UK: The Four Pillar Plan

Join the discussion in the Facebook group and read along in the month of May!

To get access to the livestream of the recording a few days before anyone else and to ask your question, join the FB group: Take Care of Yourself with Tara Swiger. You can also ask me your question on Instagram - I’m @essentialenthusiasm.

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