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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.

Changing habits doesn't have to be painful! The Habit Trip is a whimsical, interactive storybook for grown-ups — rooted in the science of behavior change — in which you are the lead character and the one and only expert. This book is a roadmap to discover how to change "bad" habits, reinforce healthy ones, and relieve chronic stress. It's a playful, accessible way to receive the messages your body is sending and respond in kind with healing reinforcements.

Physical Disobedience introduces a breathtaking new perspective on wellness by encouraging nonviolence toward our bodies, revitalizing them through diet and exercise, fashion and social media, alternative therapies, music, and motherhood. The goal is no longer to keep our bodies in check. The goal is to ignite them, to set them free, and have a mighty fine time doing it.