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    Whole Girl: Live Vibrantly, Love Your Entire Self, and Make Friends with Food
    Whole Girl: Live Vibrantly, Love Your Entire Self, and Make Friends with Food
    Whole Girl: Live Vibrantly, Love Your Entire Self, and Make Friends with Food
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    Whole Girl: Live Vibrantly, Love Your Entire Self, and Make Friends with Food

    By Sadie Radinsky

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    As seen in the New York Times, Rachael Ray Show, E! Daily Pop, ABC TV (KATU), Justine, mindbodygreen, and Shape.
     
    “Sadie’s clearly the smartest person in the room, and she’s just 19 … Sadie, you’re brilliant.” —Rachael Ray

    “Approachable and engaging, Radinsky exudes best friend vibes … A useful, accessible self-help guide.” —Kirkus Reviews

    “[Sadie’s] outlooks … are so refreshing and comforting in these troubled times when teens are up against so much terrible coercion to feel as though they aren’t good enough. She’s a true role model.” —Jameela Jamil, actress (The Good Place), activist, founder of I Weigh

    “Smile!” “Don’t eat too much.” “You’re so bossy.” Society constantly squelches young women and tells us all the ways that we’re wrong. But we reject these limitations. We are all strong, different—and complex.

    In this unique book, teen writer and recipe creator Sadie Radinsky offers practices, tips, and exercises to help young women embrace their whole selves. Each chapter welcomes a different mood (like mad, blue, wild, cozy) to empower all parts of their lives. The book includes:
    • Tips and insights for navigating some of young women’s biggest issues today
    • 45 delicious gluten-free, Paleo treat recipes
    • Well-being practices like getting enough sleep, exercise as self-love, and creating a good relationship with food
    • Talks with experts and celebrities who share fresh advice
    • Mindful Movements, from yoga to tree-climbing
     
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSounds True
    Release dateFeb 2, 2021
    ISBN9781683645719
    Whole Girl: Live Vibrantly, Love Your Entire Self, and Make Friends with Food
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    Sadie Radinsky

    Sadie Radinsky is a teenage blogger and recipe creator. Since age 12, she has touched the lives of girls and women worldwide with her award-winning website, where she shares Paleo treat recipes and advice for living an empowered life. She has published articles and recipes in national magazines and other platforms, including Paleo, Shape, Justine, mindbodygreen, and ThePrimal Kitchen Cookbook. For more, visit wholegirl.com.  

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      Whole Girl - Sadie Radinsky

      CHAPTER ONE

      Be Loving

      We express love in so many different ways. A lot of the time, we put our energy into loving other people, which is awesome. But right now we’re going to focus on loving ourselves. This can be really tricky! It’s hard to appreciate all the different aspects of who we are—our essence—when society is obsessed with one thing: our appearance. Our culture puts so much stock in the way females look that it’s hard for even us to see past it.

      It’s time we ditch this insanity and love the parts of us that truly matter.

      The Everything Bagel

      God, you’re so tall!

      —Random stranger when I was four years old. And five.

      And six. And twelve. And seventeen.

      It’s true that I’ve towered over most other kids since kindergarten. But based on the way most adults talk to me, you’d think that height was the only part of me that matters.

      Nearly every interaction people have with a girl is focused on one subject: her appearance. You’re so cute! Your dress is so pretty! What a nice smile!

      We don’t get as many questions about our favorite books, or what we want to invent, or what our favorite song is. By a very young age, we already have the impression that our appearance is the most important aspect of who we are.

      To make matters worse, we are pummeled with TV shows, ads, billboards, and an entire culture focused intensely on the way females look. It’s no wonder we become hyperconscious of our appearance and spend a lot of time picking it apart.

      But we are not the way we look. We have a million parts that make up our whole selves—the dreams we have, the people we love, the things that light us up, the way we go about the world. To love all parts of ourselves, we need to break free from our culture’s crazy rules.

      Jameela Jamil has a great way to do that. She is an actress, writer, DJ, radio presenter, and activist who founded the I Weigh movement. I Weigh invites people to post photos of themselves on social media and describe all the aspects of themselves that they’re proud of—everything that truly defines who they are and has nothing to do with the way they look.

      Thousands of people have posted using #IWeigh. Here are some of the things they weigh:

      Empathetic

      Nerd

      Curious

      Evolving

      Silliness

      Dog lover

      Extrovert

      Insecure

      Fighter

      Spiritual

      Bookworm

      Quiet

      Now it’s your turn. To retrain the way you value yourself, do the I Weigh exercise. Make a list of things you appreciate about yourself that have nothing to do with your appearance. Here are some questions to get you started:

      What’s been your passion, ever since you were little?

      What relationships are meaningful to you?

      How do you treat others?

      What is your hidden talent?

      What are you most proud of?

      Now type out what you weigh, and place the words over a photo of yourself. You can share this I Weigh post with others or keep it to yourself. Either way, continue adding to your list whenever you think of something else you love about yourself. If you’re ever feeling insignificant or in need of a little loving, read over the list to remember how incredible you are.

      Exercising Love

      What is your biggest motivation for exercising?

      I talked with Maris Degener, a yoga teacher, anorexia survivor, and the subject of the documentary I Am Maris. She believes a lot of us go into a workout with the goal of diminishing ourselves. We think, I can burn calories, I can lose weight, I can make myself physically smaller. When we approach exercise in this way, it feels like punishment.

      But there is a different way to exercise, which is a form of self-love. Maris calls it the abundance mindset. This means that we work out in order to feel good, both physically and mentally. Maris suggests that we go into a workout thinking, What can this movement bring to me? What can it add to my experience and my well-being? Maybe exercise clears our mind, makes us feel calm, or challenges us to listen to our body.

      You might be thinking, Don’t we need to push ourselves hard to get better at anything? Sure. There’s nothing wrong with challenging ourselves, as long as our main goal in exercising is a loving one.

      The next time you are exercising, take a moment to check in with your motives. Why are you doing this? Is it punishment for being lazy over the weekend? Try shifting that to a positive: relieving your stress, or strengthening your muscles.

      Q&A

      Q:

      I get the concept of being kind to ourselves when we exercise. But what do I do if I’m in a fitness class and the instructor is being … uh … less than loving?

      A: If we’re in a group setting, like gym class or yoga, it can be extra hard to keep in the abundance mindset, because we feel pressure to do everything our instructor tells us. However, we can still exercise with self-love. Sometimes that means leaving the class.

      I was in a yoga class with a new teacher who was really negative and pushy. He started chastising me and repositioning my body into uncomfortable positions. I told him That hurts and Please stop, yet he continued repositioning my body. Finally I just got up and walked out of the studio. It was extremely awkward in front of the whole class, but it didn’t feel right to continue. I knew I had to

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