Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body
Written by Kate Hudson
Narrated by Kate Hudson
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About this audiobook
I didn’t just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn—each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this, I relaxed. Our bodies do not stand still for time.
When you understand yourself and connect to how you can become body smart, you realize pretty quickly that the perfect, the ideal is not the goal. Instead, the goal is feeling good in your body. That’s what leads to confidence, to feeling and looking fit, and being pretty happy. Doesn’t that sound great? I think so!
In almost every interview she gives, Kate Hudson is asked the same questions: What do you eat? How do you stay so fit? What workout do you do? What’s your secret? Well, the secret is that the sound bites the media loves so much don’t tell the story, and the steps you need to take to have a healthy, vibrant and happy life can’t be captured in a short interview. The key to living well, and healthy, is to plug into what your body needs, understanding that one size does not fit all, all the time, and being truly honest with yourself about your goals and desires.
Like everyone else, Kate is constantly on the move, with a life full of work, family, responsibilities and relationships. In Pretty Happy, Kate shows how she honors her relationship with herself through exercise, making the right choices about what she eats, and constantly going back to the drawing board and starting fresh, instead of holding herself to unrealistic standards of perfection and giving up when she falls short. Focusing on the Four Pillars of Health to enhance her well-being, Pretty Happy shows the benefits of:
- Cultivating an Intuitive Relationship With Your Body
- Eating Well
- Awakening Your Body through movement
- The Miracle of Mindfullness
Full of questionnaires to help you assess your Body Type and your stress levels, advice about cleanses and keeping your diet and body balanced, and plenty of interactive Drawing Board exercises, Pretty Happy is a beautiful, insightful, and personal look at health from the inside out, an authentic plan for an authentic life from a woman who truly lives what she speaks.
Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson is an actress, producer, fashion icon, and cofounder of Fabletics. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's incredibly elegant. I think it is a genuine masterpiece .
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Kate Hudson. Book was inspiring, and relatable. I took things that interested me and began to implement them or began to start being more diligent about sticking to them. The drawing board sounded like a good idea but I enjoy audible books because I don’t have the time to sit down and read a book. I still found it useful without implementing the drawing board.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book. Lots of information and a fun approach to intuitive eating and building helpful habits.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I am interested in ayurvedic lifestyle and the advice on fitness, nutrition, and meditation was basic but a great starting guide. This audiobook references the "enhanced portion" of the audiobook, to access meal plans and lists and more reading - but I don't know that an enhanced portion is available through Scribd audiobooks, which negates most of the quality of the book. That isn't the author's fault though.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This wasn't my favorite, it was too much about her Drawing Board and theories on how to help yourself than any science or facts. Not my learning style, I don't feel I took anything away from this book.