📚☀️ 🌊 Book Club Summer Break

And With That… Book Club Is on Summer Break ☀️

I may or may not reread Christy Harrison’s Anti-Diet and The Wellness Trap this summer.

Or I may just… not. 😂

What I will be focusing on instead—and what I hope you get to do too:

☀️ Feel some sun on your face

🌊 Swim

📖 Get lost in fun fiction

😴 Nap

🧩 Play/Explore

🎨 Try something new

😂 Laugh

🎶 Sing

🤍 Hug your loved ones

🐾 Cuddle your furry family members

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Previous Book Club Picks I Actually Recommend

• The Body Liberation Project — Chrissy King

• Reclaiming Body Trust — Hilary Kinavey & Dana Sturtevant

• Fierce Self-Compassion — Kristin Neff (Excellent, but dense and academic—save it for when that is what you are in the mood for.)

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Other Non-Book-Club Picks I Highly Recommend

• Needy — Mara Glatzel

• What Happened to You? — Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey

• Burnout — Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski

• The Body Is Not an Apology — Sonya Renee Taylor

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If you're interested in my random fiction reads between now and when bookclub is back, some reviews will pop up on my insta stories from time to time and you can always see what im reading and what I think about books ive read on Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/monicafreudenreich 

**ICYMI: Storygraph is is an independent, black-owned platform, whereas Goodreads is owned by Amazon, which... enough said! We all buy from amazon sometimes, and I have some affiliate links above AND whenever I can avoid amazon and support black women instead, I do. Also-- moving over from goodreads to storygraph was VERY easy. Come join me!

And as always, thank you for being here, reading along, sharing your thoughts, and being part of this little corner of the internet.

Book club will be back in late August or early September with a fall pick.

Stay tuned—and happy summer. 💛