Come read with us.
Join a community of engaged readers interested in non-diet approaches to eating, self-care, mindfulness, body acceptance, and intersectional feminism. Choose the books you’d like to read and join us for a group discussion! Attendance is capped at 12 to keep it cozy, so please register early, at least 2 days before, please, and up to six months. A wait list is available if that date is full. We usually meet the last Wednesday of the month.
KEEP IN TOUCH BETWEEN BOOK CLUB NIGHTS
Keep up with monthly reading selections and discussions. Join the private Facebook Mindful Food & Motion Book Club Group page.
2024 Book Selections
February 28, 2024
It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
by Jessica Wilson, MS, RD
March 27, 2024
Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life
by Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN
April 24, 2024
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
May 29, 2024
A Beautiful Work in Progress
by Mirna Valerio
June 26, 2024
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
by Janet Mock
July 31, 2024
Louder Than Hunger
by John Schu
August 28, 2024
Piglet
by Lottie Hazell
september 25, 2024
Healthy for Your Life: A Non-Diet Approach to Optimal Well-Being
by Carrie Dennett, MPH, RDN
october 23, 2024
(note not Oct 30)
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul
by Evette Dionne
november 20, 2024
(Note not Nov 27)
Well Nourished: Mindful Practices to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Feed Your Whole Self, and End Overeating
by Andrea Lieberstein, MPH, RDN
2023 Book Selections
january 25, 2023
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
by Sonya Renee Taylor
february 22, 2023
All About Love
by bell hooks
March 29 AND April 26, 2023
How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence
by Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN and Amee Severson MPP-D, RDN
MAY 31, 2023
“You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People
by Aubrey Gordon
2022 VIRTUAL Book Club Selections
Like many of our favorite things in life, book club has gone virtual! Meetings will be hosted on the final Thursday of each month from 7:30pm- 9pm Central, starting January 27th.
OCTOBER 27, 2022 Book Club book: Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation, by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant. Reserve your spot now!
KEEP IN TOUCH between book club nights
Keep up with monthly reading selections and discussions. Join the Facebook Mindful Food & Motion Book Club Group page.
2020 Book Selections
JANUARY 21, 2020
Just Eat It
by Laura Thomas, PhD
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
The F*ck It Diet
by Caroline Dooner
June 23, 2020
The Eating Instinct
by Virginia Sole-Smith
July 21, 2020
Anti-Diet
by Christy Harrison
August 18, 2020
Pleasure Activism
by Adrienne Marie Brown
SEPTEMBER
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
by Sabrina Strings
OCTOBER
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
by Rev. angel Kyodo Williams and Lama Rod Owens
November
Heavy: An American Memoir
by Kiese Laymon
2019 BOOKS
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
Dumplin! by Julie Murphy
I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t) by Brené Brown
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nickname, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker
Man Up to Eating Disorders by Andrew Walen
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat: A Story of Bulimia by Stephanie Covington Armstrong
Shrill by Lindy West
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
The Religion of Thinness by Michelle M. Lilwica
PREVIOUS READS
10% Happier by Dan Harris
A Hunger So Wide And So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women’s Eating Problems by Becky Thompson
Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women by Renee Engeln, PhD
Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting & Got a Life by Kelsey Miller
Body Respect by Linda Bacon, PhD and Lucy Aphramor
Eating in the Light of the Moon by Anita Johnston
Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon, PhD
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Radical Self-Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach, PhD
Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Pinkola Estes