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Oct 8, 2024 6:34 AM

Author:Yung Pueblo

Lighter

'This is a book everyone must read, many times over' VEX KING

A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clarity & Connection

"During the years when I had abandoned myself, my mind felt undeniably heavy. I knew I needed to find a clear way to help me feel lighter."

yung pueblo's path to deep healing began only after years of drug abuse had taken a toll on his body and soul. Searching for a way forward, he discovered that by facing his anxieties and fears, trusting his intuition and focusing on meditation he felt mentally lighter and finally at home in his heart and mind.

In Lighter, yung pueblo reveals how we can all move forward in our healing, from learning self-compassion and letting go to becoming emotionally mature. This is a transformative guide to making our actions become more intentional, our decisions more compassionate, our thinking clearer and our future much brighter.

Reviews

Yung Pueblo is the real deal - a modern sage and guiding light. In his new book, he beautifully illustrates how finding harmony within is the key to creating a progressive society built on compassion, clarity and understanding. This is a book everyone must read, many times over

—— Vex King, Sunday Times bestselling author of Good Vibes, Good Life and Healing is the New High

A rare and insightful journey into the author's own healing jour­ney will inspire you to let go of the past and find a lighter path forward. As always, Yung Pueblo speaks truth in such an eloquent way. This book is a true gem.

—— Sheleana Aiyana, author of Becoming the One

yung pueblo teaches how to heal with compassion as the driving force. Lighter is an empathetic and wise book that will guide you on a journey toward a deeper understanding of self and help you make impactful changes within and in the world

—— Nedra Glover Tawwab, New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace

A beautiful encouragement for tending your own heart: for learning and healing, for finding well-being and being part of the solution for all you care about

—— Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

yung pueblo offers insights into daily practices and choices that can remove the burdens of habitual reaction to reveal the freedom of wise reflection. In Lighter, we see that knowing the mind can transform a person, and also transform society

—— David Simas, CEO of the Obama Foundation

In this age of quick fixes and simplistic solutions to life's problems, Gladys McGarey's approach is just what the doctor ordered. Dr. McGarey speaks to rich and complex truths that will resonate with readers' hearts and minds. She inhabits the real world where body, brain, and spirit are inseparable, and her century of wisdom is infused with science, medicine, and soul

—— Dr. Robert Waldinger, Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Life

Dr. Gladys is as illuminating as she is engaging. Her important work reveals how each of us can live our healthiest and happiest life by connecting with our true purpose. Her combination of medical knowledge and lived experience will be an empowering guide for legions

—— Sara Gottfried MD, New York Times bestselling author of Women, Food, and Hormones

If you want to know the secret to living a truly good life then I don't imagine there's anyone you'd be better off hearing from

—— Jane Garvey , Times Radio

Amazing. A beautiful book which leaves you feeling like you've taken something away. This book is moving as well as being filled with practical wisdom. This is everything and more from 102 years of lived experience, filled with personal stories. Beautifully written

—— Nadiya Hussain

'Truly one of the most inspirational women you'll ever meet'

—— Elizabeth Day, How To Fail Podcast

It soars with the luminous prose and unflinching honesty we have come to expect from this brilliantly gifted writer. Elixir is an extraordinary, profoundly moving book... Her prose is breathtaking, the stories heartbreaking.

—— Feminism and Religion

A joyous celebration of the Pomak community in southern Bulgaria.

—— Spectator, *Books of the Year*

Wonderfully well researched, and candidly honest, Hewitt openly discusses topics which are often shied away from… this book is thought provoking and compelling

—— Emily Coates , The Professional Mountaineer

In her Nature reanimates the stories of the past to reveal, brilliantly, the conditions through which women so often have to battle in the present... [it] will make you want to run, and to experience something of the hard-won emotional and physical freedom that Hewitt's prose so movingly evokes

—— DAISY HAY, author of Dinner With Joseph Johnson

A powerful account of women's strengths and achievements in the mountains

—— ANNA FLEMING, author of Time on Rock

A life-affirming book about the thrill of exploring the great outdoors, asking why so many women are excluded from running, hiking and mountaineering. It confronts the obstacles we face every day, including violence, assault and the general assumption that we don't belong here; but In Her Nature proves we have a right to run free

—— NATASHA CARTHEW, author of Undercurrent

An urgent, beautifully written and fiercely important book

—— HELEN CASTOR, author of She-Wolves

With intimate attention and in beautiful prose, IN HER NATURE moves deftly between the inner life and the great outdoors. Rachel Hewitt shows that not only do women have a history as runners, climbers and adventurers; we also have a right to the outdoors that is as crucial - and fragile - today as it ever was

—— SARAH DITUM

A vital feminist memoir of life outdoors, underpinned by the depth of historical knowledge that only a true scholar can bring

—— KATE MALTBY

An extraordinarily compelling book that left me seeing with fresh eyes. Blending expert historical storytelling with piercing memoir, Rachel Hewitt leads the reader over moors and mountains on a grand tour of grief, solitude, camaraderie, and women's long struggle to claim the freedom of the outdoors

—— OLIVER BURKEMAN, author of Four Thousand Weeks

A spectacular achievement... It's beautiful, deeply researched and eye-opening

—— Critic
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