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Most of self-help books focus on mindset and point out about the effect of our thoughts on our emotions. But, turns out it doesn't stop there. Our emotions affect our thoughts, too. When we are feeling down, it's not easy to think differently. So, thoughts and feelings is not one way. It's two way, they affect each other.

What's Missing From Most Of Self-help Books

This is important because difficult situation can hit us anytime.

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health in her debut book. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance. Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr. Julie's empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your mental health every day. Wise and practical, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before might just change your life.

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International bestseller "Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need." -Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the "Dear Therapists" podcast? Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to navigate common life challenges and take charge of your emotional and mental health in her debut book. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before tackles everyday issues and offers practical solutions in bite-sized, easy-to-digest entries which make it easy to quickly find specific information and guidance. Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being. Packed with proven strategies, Dr. Julie's empathetic guide offers a deeper understanding of how your mind works and gives you the insights and help you need to nurture your mental health every day. Wise and practical, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before might just change your life.

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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

The nature is telling us on what to eat and what to not eat.<ul><li>Food that did not contains killing the whole animals or plants means it "wants" to be eaten. Which is, fruits, milks, and nectars.</li><li>Eating seeds, leaves, or even flesh of an animals means killing it. It means they don't want to be eaten from the first place.</li></ul>

Some Foods "Wants" To Be Eaten, Some Are Not

<ul><li>Fruit, nectar, or milk has been produced dilligently in a way that it's directly digestible. </li><li>For example, plants needs to bear fruit to sprout their seeds. The seeds doesn't want to be eaten, it wants to grow. The animals who eat the fruit help the plants to sow the seeds somewhere. Same applied for nectars.</li><li>On the other hand, milk is produced for newborn of the same species. That's why we still suffer from lactose intolerant because cow milk means to be consumed by cow, not us.</li><li>However, doesn't mean we can't eat other food. That's why we invent cooking.</li></ul>

Why We Invent Cooking

<ul><li>Cooking not only helps us eating undigestible food to the digestible one. It shapes and grow our brains.</li><li>Cooking also changes our social structure. Back then, bonfire is not only for cook, but also for socialize.</li><li>Now, food still become a center of any party or gathering. It acts as social lubricant.</li></ul>

Cooking Is More Than The Nutrition

<ul><li>Fast food is convenience, however it is not only strip the nutrient, but also strip the social experience of eating the food.</li><li>GMO or other modified organism may be beneficial for us, but we don't know the effect of it in the long run.</li><li>Globalization has make any food available in any place possible, however this means local food are being replaced significantly. Unfortunately, our body can't adapt for change quickly. That's why some people can't digest certain foods.</li><li>Abundance of food in supermarket or restaurant make us eat more food than we need. This leads to "modern" diseases like obesity.</li></ul>

The Modern Approach To Food Reduce The Value Of It

<ul><li>People in different region needs a different kind of food.</li><li>That's why some diets, like paleo or medditeranian, are not suitable for most people.</li><li>The reductionism approach to food, to only focus on nutrition, is damaging us in the long run.</li><li>Our ancestors, everywhere, eat a diverse range of food. Not a protein bars or supplements.</li><li>So it's better to eat your traditional or local food as much as possible.</li></ul>

Some Diets Are Suitable For Some People Only

<ul><li>Shop in the edges of supermarket. Means, avoid processed food and choose whole food instead.</li><li>Avoid GMO if possible.</li><li>Respect your food cravings or aversion as long as it doesn't pose any significant risk. For example, aversion might indicate allergy.</li><li>Expose ourselves to eat a diverse range of food, especially food that comes from our ethnic background.</li><li>Perceive food as a whole, not only about nutrition.</li><li>Reduce food stocks and have an occasional fasting. This will avoid us to gorge food and eat more calories than needed.</li><li>Eat foods with other people.</li></ul>

Actionable Tips

A summary of the chapter 5, "Food". Read this if you want to change your diet or eat better.

A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes—and what we can do about it. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, lone­liness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond? For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our troubles is clear: the accelerat­ing rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt. We evolved to live in clans, but today many people don’t even know their neighbors’ names. In our haste to discard outdated gender roles, we increasingly deny the flesh-and-blood realities of sex—and its ancient roots. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we are not built for is killing us. In this book, Heying and Weinstein draw on decades of their work teaching in college classrooms and explor­ing Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystems to confront today’s pressing social ills—from widespread sleep deprivation and dangerous diets to damaging parenting styles and back­ward education practices. Asking the questions many mod­ern people are afraid to ask, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life.

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A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes—and what we can do about it.   We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, lone­liness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond?   For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our troubles is clear: the accelerat­ing rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt. We evolved to live in clans, but today many people don’t even know their neighbors’ names. In our haste to discard outdated gender roles, we increasingly deny the flesh-and-blood realities of sex—and its ancient roots. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we are not built for is killing us.   In this book, Heying and Weinstein draw on decades of their work teaching in college classrooms and explor­ing Earth’s most biodiverse ecosystems to confront today’s pressing social ills—from widespread sleep deprivation and dangerous diets to damaging parenting styles and back­ward education practices. Asking the questions many mod­ern people are afraid to ask, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life.

Heather Heying

Bret Weinstein

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

All of our feelings, like happiness, sadness, anger, pride, uncertainty, or anger are creating the experience of being "ourselves". We have our own universe inside ourselves, both physical and non-physical. A part of us do different thing from another; our heart beats, our brain thinks. We might not realize this universe, but it always there with us. Our universe creating the life that we live now.

We Have Our Own Universe

Many of us live on autopilot, often so guarded that we don't experience the potential richness that life has to offer. How can we find real happiness amidst the chaos, where we don't reach our life's end and feel we missed out? In Stop Missing Your Life, mindfulness teacher Cory Muscara takes us on a journey into the heart of what is required for real change, growth, and happiness. He exposes how the phrase "be present" has become little more than a platitude, imbued with the misguided message to be present just for the sake of being present, and reveals how to achieve true Presence: a quality of being that is unmistakably attractive about a person, and one that only comes when we've peeled back the layers of guarding that prevent us from being our full, honest, and integrated selves in the world. Muscara shows how we build internal walls, what he describes as a "Pain Box" inhibiting us from living a deeply connected and meaningful life. He offers a four-part FACE model (Focus, Allow, Curiosity, and Embodiment) that helps chip away at those walls and builds our capacity to experience the richness of our lives. Stop Missing Your Life ultimately teaches how we can find peace in the chaos and become better people for our family, our communities, and our world.

Many of us live on autopilot, often so guarded that we don't experience the potential richness that life has to offer. How can we find real happiness amidst the chaos, where we don't reach our life's end and feel we missed out? In Stop Missing Your Life, mindfulness teacher Cory Muscara takes us on a journey into the heart of what is required for real change, growth, and happiness. He exposes how the phrase "be present" has become little more than a platitude, imbued with the misguided message to be present just for the sake of being present, and reveals how to achieve true Presence: a quality of being that is unmistakably attractive about a person, and one that only comes when we've peeled back the layers of guarding that prevent us from being our full, honest, and integrated selves in the world. Muscara shows how we build internal walls, what he describes as a "Pain Box" inhibiting us from living a deeply connected and meaningful life. He offers a four-part FACE model (Focus, Allow, Curiosity, and Embodiment) that helps chip away at those walls and builds our capacity to experience the richness of our lives. Stop Missing Your Life ultimately teaches how we can find peace in the chaos and become better people for our family, our communities, and our world.

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

Stop Missing Your Life

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