GIFTS FOR THE PERSON WHO… values self care

If you know someone who is always looking to grow and learn, one of these books might just be the perfect gift!

Searching high and low for how to best treat your body and mind can be challenging. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with expertise for the festive season and beyond.

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Feel Good Food by Joe Wicks

From energy-boosting breakfasts to satisfying family feasts, the food you eat can transform your day. Joe Wicks’ mission is to help families everywhere eat better – because eating well should be easy for everyone. His new cookbook Feel Good Food is packed with over 100 quick and tasty recipes that will put a spring in your step and have you feeling your best.

Filled with wholesome and hearty food that everyone will love, it’s never been easier to eat well, restore energy and take the stress out of healthy home cooking.

Menopausing by Davina McCall and Dr Naomi Potter

Menopausing is more than just a book, it’s a movement. An uprising.

Davina McCall and Dr Naomi Potter share essential information that allows you to make informed decisions about your life and your body. From debunking damaging myths and smashing taboos around the perimenopause and menopause, Menopausing will equip women to make informed decisions about their health, and ultimately their lives.

Menopausing also celebrates the sharing of stories, enabling women to feel less alone and more understood, and talk openly and positively about menopause.

Body by James Davies

‘James is incredible – he has played a huge role in helping me manage my fitness and recover from injury over the years’ – David Beckham

Body contains simple techniques and strategies to heal, reset and restore. This book offers advice on how to tackle stress, anxiety, everyday physical wear and tear as well as injuries that take a toll on our mind and body. James gives helpful tips to treat yourself and improve your wellbeing with exercises that enhance your health and are simple to incorporate into your everyday.

You Are Not A Before Picture by Alex Light

An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.

Step-by-step, You Are Not A Before Picture provides a framework for changing the way we view ourselves and the world around us, empowering readers to interrogate their underlying beliefs, challenge forces that are holding them back, and finally find freedom in their bodies, for good.

Breathe In Breathe Out by Stuart Sandeman

Breathing is a powerful tool to calm stress, reduce pain and manage emotions.

By following the exercises in this book, readers will learn how to harness their breath to take back control of their body and mind. Stuart’s accessible exercises, grounded in research and developed over years of practice, will help people become stronger, healthier and happier than they ever imagined.

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