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Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance Paperback – October 5, 2010

by Rosie Molinary (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
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In Beautiful You author Rosie Molinary passionately encourages women—whatever their size, shape, or color—to work toward feeling wonderful about themselves despite today’s media-saturated culture. Drawing on self-awareness, creativity, and mind-body connections, Molinary incorporates practical techniques into a 365-day action plan that empowers women to regain a healthy self-image, shore up self-confidence, reframe and break undermining habits of self-criticism, and champion their own emotional and physical well-being. Through accessible, doable daily actions, women and girls learn to manifest a healthy outlook on life—teaching them to live large, and starting them on the path to learning to love themselves and others. Molinary steers clear of the florid affirmations and daily meditations often utilized by books geared toward personal growth, instead delivering a hip, modern guide of inspirational thought and action that keeps pace with the times. A practical, candid, and accessible handbook, Beautiful You strikes a chord with every woman who has ever faltered in her self-confidence or lost her personal brilliance—and it makes sure she never lets it happen again.
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  1. Print length
    440 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Seal Press
  4. Publication date
    October 5, 2010
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.88 x 7 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1580053319
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1580053310
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seal Press; 10.12.2010 edition (October 5, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 440 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580053319
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580053310
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.88 x 7 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings

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Rosie Molinary

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Rosie Molinary is an author, teacher, and activist. The author of Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance and Hijas Americanas, she teaches at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and speaks on body image, diversity, self-awareness, social justice and writing around the country.

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and encouraging
This book is amazing! It's a beautiful little gem of encouragement and self-compassion and I am so glad I bought it. I will be buying more to gift for friends, nieces and perhaps all the glorious women in my life.
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Kristen De Haan
5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE THIS BOOK!
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2023
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I really love the reminders and the feeling this book gives me. It helps me to think about all the things for which I am grateful. It is a lovely routine to read some of this book in the morning. I will be gifting it to friends and family.
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heymami
5.0 out of 5 stars loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2010
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I just love this book, it's like having a conversation with a good friend, someone who comes over daily for a cup of tea, a latte, or in the afternoon a glass of wine, someone who reminds you how truly wonderful you are, who inspires you to live to your potential, and who points out the little things in life to be grateful for. The ideas and passages are practical, easy to accomplish and relate too. It's written so you can pick it up and down as needed. My life can get kind of hectic with two little ones, someone always needs to be fed, entertained, put to sleep, etc, since getting the book I'll read a few pages when I get a moment and it's a lovely reminder that I am pretty great, I can get through the day/week/month whatever. I think the book would also make a wonderful gift for women in any stage of life, as it's so positive and supportive withoug being you know saccharin-ey, cheerlead-ey, over the top, you know? It's just right, like your BFF in book form.
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Robin Palmer
4.0 out of 5 stars Love it!
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2019
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I do think this product could improve. But I have a journal and write notes in it daily and try my best to follow the advice. It really is a great book to set you on the path of self love!
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Jolene Correll
5.0 out of 5 stars An exploration of you...
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2015
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I ordered this book last month and wanted to give it some time before reviewing. This is really an amazing book, especially for those of us who struggle with body image. The format involves a daily assignment-but is headed "Day 1, Day 2", so you can start any day or even skip around to find a daily assignment that interests you. Some of the assignments take moments, others 15 minutes or so. The focus of each assignment is focused on building self-confidence in yourself and your body. Buy this for the teenager in your life who may struggle with self acceptance, or the woman who seems to always put herself and her own needs last.

Rosie Molinary also does workshops; if you have the chance, I highly recommend them. They are warm gatherings of positive energy and acceptance; I was glowing for days afterward.
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Jennifer Kinney
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2011
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Beautiful You is a treasure of a book, comprised of 365 tips or suggestions on how to celebrate the beauty inside each and every one of us. Molinary suggests we go day by day and use a journal to reflect on each practice, which is a wonderful idea. The less disciplined of us can do what I do: go Beautiful You "dipping." I keep it on my coffee table where it reminds me daily to take a few minutes, flip through, pick any page at random, and absorb it. The book will immediately calm you, help to bring you to your center, and remind you of what is really important. It makes a beautiful little gift for any girl in your life, and I've purchased it for my grandmother, my mom, and several friends. There is definitely something in it for everyone.
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J. Fowler
5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful book
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2010
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I loved it from the start. Reading the book reminded me of that one friend you have that always makes you feel better about who you are, what you are doing and the life you are leading. The friend encourages you, pats you on the back, extols grace and exudes positivity. This is a great book to read daily not only to accept yourself but to smile, laugh and remember that life shouldn't be so crazy. I love the daily readings and the activities that go along with them. Each action item is simplistic in nature but yet so deep in meaning. The gentle journey of "Beautiful You" isn't a loud wake-up call to accepting yourself, no that's not the radical part, it's a gentle radical shift in perspective that you gain by reading the book that allows you to fully embrace yourself.
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E. Rigby
3.0 out of 5 stars Great concept if you're willing to tinker with some of the tasks.
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016
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I purchased this book in late 2015 with the intention of tackling one of its suggestions every day in 2016. It's now mid-May; I've stuck with the book so far (for the most part), and I'm committed enough to finish out the year (and I've paged through and skimmed many of the tasks I haven't completed yet). However, I'm conflicted about how to rate the book. The quality of the daily suggestions is very uneven.

The message of Beautiful You is an extremely important one for women (well, for everyone -- but this book is geared mainly toward women). Society and the media inundate us with impossible-to-achieve ideals of physical perfection. Entire industries depend on constantly reminding us that we're not good enough, that we'd be more worthy if only we used this makeup, or changed our hair, or lost weight, or whatever. In Beautiful You, author and activist Rosie Molinary reminds us that we don't need to buy into all that negative garbage to feel good about ourselves. The daily tasks that focus on journaling are often helpful and insightful, challenging the reader to change certain ways of thinking or reflect on how she treats and cares for herself.

I'm uncomfortable that some tasks require the reader to go out and spend money, which seems both counterintuitive and kind of... Well, Molinary assumes her readers have enough disposable income to buy a quality bra or book a massage to complete a task. At least the massage task includes cost-cutting suggestions (look into local massage schools or flat-out ask someone for a gift certificate), but it'd be nice if the tasks that suggest this kind of thing also included an alternative suggestion. We don't all have a lot in our budgets for hair makeovers (day 147) or professional tailoring (day 124), for example. After seeing several such tasks, I chuckled when I saw that day 93 is "Don't Be a Consumer."

I'd love to see more days with creative/artistic suggestions. For example, day 16 instructs the reader to draw an honest picture of herself. You don't need serious artistic talent for tasks like that -- the result can be insightful either way, and I wish there were more similar suggestions. The only other similarly artistic one I've come across so far was day 22's "Paint a Plate," which assumes the reader has a pottery-painting store nearby and the time/money to access it. I made up my own related art task to do instead. Following the tasks in this book would be so much more fun if the journaling or "go out and do this" ideas were offset by more creative prompts. They don't all have to be artistic, either -- "Create a Soundtrack" on day 91 was a lot of fun, and it led me to the discovery of a new favorite song.

If you give this book a try, be prepared to skip or rework quite a few tasks to fit your life, your needs, and your budget. I realize Molinary is trying to appeal to a huge audience with a number of different body-image issues, but I'd love to see greater flexibility in certain tasks and a larger number of artistic/creative ideas. Beautiful You is a great concept that can be made far more beneficial and personalized if the reader is willing to tinker.
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Laura
3.0 out of 5 stars Così così
Reviewed in Italy on May 1, 2019
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Christina Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars So great!
Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2014
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I bought this for 3 friends and myself. We're all attacking the book in a different way.. some more serious than others.. but I can already tell that it's making a difference! I would recommend this to absolutely any woman. It makes you look at yourself and the world in a more positive, less judgy way.
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Susanna bookworm
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2013
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I love the concept of this book, she does contain some thought provoking ideas, and it did make me realise how being a white female was easier in this culture than those who come from other backgrounds, something I took for granted until I read this book. A lovely journey to travel on.
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Sarah
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2017
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Amazing book love how she kept some old passages but also put in some new ones!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Wouldn't recommend if you are not prepared to write
Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2017
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I didn't realize how much this journalling is involved with this process. Wouldn't recommend if you are not prepared to write.
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