resources
Books on nutrition, health, wellness …
Integrative Nutrition, feed your desire for health & happiness by Joshua Rosenthal - an easy to read overview of why we’re so confused about nutrition today and the keys to health and happiness (download this FREE, here)
Crazy Sexy Diet, by Kris Carr - the book that really opened my eyes to nutrition’s role in disease prevention and quality of life. Grounded in science, but presented in a heartfelt, hip way, Kris delivers her experience of dealing with Stage 4 cancer, the kind that can’t be treated…
The Kind Diet, by Alicia Silverstone – for anyone “flirting” with becoming a vegetarian.
Food Rules, An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan – this simple little book makes sense of all the nutrition nonsense out there today, and it can be read in an hour!
Books for inspiration, guidance…
Journey to the Heart, by Melodie Beatty – daily inspiration cultivating the skills of acceptance, gratitude, vulnerability, faith, creativity, confidence and the courage to be you.
The Alchemist, by Paolo Coehlo – a sweet, soothing story about a boy, on a mission to find his Personal Legend.
What Should I Do With My Life, by Po Bronson – real life stories of real people finding their way.
Why Do I Love These People? by Po Bronson – real life stories of normal families, where you learn that there is no normal family.
Meditations on the Mat, by Rolf Gates – daily insights on yoga and life from a guy’s guy and master yoga teacher
The Bhagavad Gita - a lovely story about life, choices, faith – the only one Gandhi kept by his side
Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss – especially helpful with love, non-attachment and forgiveness
The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz – really, the only 4 things you need to gracefully get through life
A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle – the master at presenting the difference between our thoughts, ego and who we are at heart.
Cultivating creativity…
LetsBlogOff - every other Tuesday a group of bloggers write about an assigned topic, then promote each others posts throughout the blogosphere. Here’s more on What is LetsBlogOff ; 5 things you’ll get from LetsBlogOff
Pinterest - for the bulletin-vision board obsessed, an easy, online way to capture your favorite everything, and see what others are “pin-ning.” It’s invitation-only to join… just email me at denese.bottrell@gmail.com and I’ll send you an invite. Follow my Pinterest boards here.
750Words.com - an online journal where you can log in and ramble, unedited, punctuated and spelled however you please. It’s password protected so you don’t have to be afraid of anyone reading your mish-mash mess. Here’s how I use it to help my writing process.
Blogs on life, mindset & more …
Dr. Kristin Shepherd – a chiropractor / actress / beginning yogini, who for over a year blogged for Yoga Journal about being new to yoga. Love her daily Tweets and Facebook messages about meditation and mindset.
Crazy Sexy Life – Kris Carr’s crazy sexy hub, with a variety of bloggers on health, happiness, recipes, juicing and more. Not familiar with her? Watch this video trailer for her first book… it will definitely make you stop and think about your own health. She’s since written several books and has even been on Oprah, a few times!
Ordinary Courage - Brene Brown has a PhD in vulnerability and has written the book on imperfection… literally.
Dreamdaymusings - Marni started blogging as a creative outlet. Her musings on style, family and fun have earned her a following and a new business she’ll be launching soon.
Health counseling school…
I chose the Institute for Integrative Nutrition because its philosophy and whole life approach to health made sense to me - the only one that knows what is healthy for you, is you. The founder, Joshua Rosenthal gathers the world’s leaders in nutrition, wellness, mindset and more to present their theories and how to counsel people to reach their health and life goals. They even have an impressive business-building aspect to the program (and, they give you an IPad!)
Marketing, Blogging, Social Media, Entrepreneurs…
I left corporate marketing in 2009 to start my own business. I had to learn social media marketing in the process. Here are some of the resources I found particularly helpful (and still do):
Seth Godin simplifies marketing concepts like no other. He’s also a master of cultivating that intuitive sense and authentic voice, the one that is so important in any marketing, because the only true point of differentiation you have is “you.”
Hubspot marketing resources are targeted toward small or solo businesses, those without a big marketing department and offer great, free webinars about social media.
ProBlogger, Darren Rowse started blogging well before blogging was big. His 31 Days to a Better Blog program provides all the insider tips any blogger needs to know to either start or grow a blog.
Mari Smith is the queen of Facebook for business.
Michael Stelzner leads Social Media Examiner and an annual Social Media Success Summit where he gathers all of the social media gurus and has webinars, how-to’s, etc. I’ve attended every year…..it’s a great resource, but following his blog is just as valuable.
Fast Company and Inc. magazine for their articles on leadership and building businesses, trends and hearing about people who are following their passion.
Fear.Less online magazine has great stories of people following their passion. It’s also a great example of a magazine done well… It’s led by the PR champion for Seth Godin’s books.
Tobi Fairley interior design (she also teaches other designers how to blog/market themselves)
