Orange County Insight January 2023

New Year, New You - Books for New Year ’ s Resolutions By: Orange County Library Staff Please enjoy the book recommendations below from the Orange County Public Library for the month of January. If you have any questions, please reach out to the Orange County Main Library at (540) 672 - 3811. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Self - Improvement

The Awesome Human Project is an accessible and practical book that teaches the emotional fitness skills so many of us need to struggle less, have more energy, and experience more meaning and joy in life and at work" - Provided by publisher. Author, Kogan used her own burnout to learn how to strengthen her emotional fitness and wants to share that skill with others. Focusing on how to support yourself better. Modifying your thoughts and emotions can help you embrace yourself and value your own strength and awesomeness.

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Healthy Eating

Including 140+ vegan recipes this cookbook encourages a plant - based lifestyle. With recipes for all meals and desserts plus salad dressings and more. Get ready for mouthwatering plant - based dishes like Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Breakfast Cookies, Best Ever Cauli Wings, and the Big BOSS Burrito. With more than 2.5 million followers between her social channels, Carleigh Bodrug of PlantYou is a self - taught plant - based cook and content creator, famous for her simple vegan recipes. She has been featured on the Rachael Ray Show and Good Morning America.

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Fitness

It's time for a new story of behavior change -- this time, with a happy ending. Welcome to the Joy Choice! What if you could easily and joyfully resolve the in - the - moment conflicts that often derail your eating and exercise goals? Much of what we've been taught about creating change in eating and exercise is wrong or too simple to be helpful. Segar has devoted decades to the study of how to achieve lasting changes in eating and exercise behaviors. When our new eating and/or exercise plans confront the reality of our daily lives, Segar says that creates "choice points." Those points are the real key for achieving lasting changes in eating and exercise.

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Positive Attitude

Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Professor Cassie Holmes demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour provides empirically based insights and easy - to - implement tools that will allow you to: make confident choices about how to spend time, avoid distractions, embrace and plan for joy, make a schedule that works for you, and defeat regret by making purposeful use of your time. This book is upbeat and affirming, yet also practical and grounded in research. Bad Habits

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How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight - shooting approach to self - improvement for women, one that offers frank truth - telling about the most common self - destructive behaviors women tend to engage in. Andrea Owen - - a nationally sought - after life coach -- crystallizes what's behind several invisible, undermining habits, from catastrophizing and people - pleasing, to listening to the imposter complex or to one's inner critic. Powerfully on - the - mark, the chapters are short and digestible, nicely bypassing weighty examinations in favor of punch - points of awareness. Her book kicks women's gears out of autopilot and empowers them to create happier, more fulfilling lives.

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