You cannot hate yourself into change you must love yourself into greatness,” Lovewell writes. “I’m a big believer in loving yourself to success, and that requires being kind and patient with yourself. You get a glimpse at how she coped with her parents’ divorce, her reluctant (but ultimately so worth it) introduction to meditation as an angsty teen, how she learned to find her own voice and fall even more in love with her Chinese heritage as a mixed-raced woman living in a time that’s been very scary for Asian Americans and, of course, how she’s cultivated her own wellness philosophy that isn’t about punishment, denial or perfectionism. Instead, you get a more intimate story: How a little girl from Martha’s Vineyard grew up to be the kind of person who could inspire folks to pedal their way to their own goals. Instead, you get a look at the real whole human and thousands of little steps, setbacks and “yes, and…” moments it takes to make progress on the goals you set for yourself -and to evaluate honestly how those goals actually serve you at any given moment in your life. But that’s not the feeling you have when you pick up Peloton Instructor, Under Armour Athlete and entrepreneur Emma Lovewell’s book Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfectionthat just dropped today.
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