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Bride Doll
(Paperback)
Elizabeth Nancy Jansen
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R406
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With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible
gift of making women feel more confident within themselves - but
it's not until you read his own inspirational story that you find
out where he got that gift from. Gok grew up on a Leicester housing
estate, with a loving family who ran a Chinese restaurant. For his
parents, food meant love - and Gok was so well loved that by the
time he was a teenager he weighed 21 stone. Being Asian and gay as
well, Gok felt lonely and out of place. He was an easy target for
bullies and suffered terribly at their hands. In a moment of
inspiration, he decided to reinvent himself with his first style
makeover and a larger-than-life personality to go with it. But his
next move was to lose a devastating ten stone in nine months. In
Through Thick and Thin, for the first time, Gok reveals all about
that life changing period. The lessons Gok learnt during this time
helped him bounce back to become a stylist to the stars, every
woman's best friend and a national treasure. In this intimate
memoir Gok tells his full story in his own words. Whether he's
recounting the horrors of childhood bullying or riotous anecdotes
about his loving family, behind the scenes in the fashion world or
TV shows, Gok's voice jumps off the page with all the honesty, wit
and warmth we've come to know and love him for.
Find your sisu: the Finnish concept of resilience, grit, and
determination Finnish-born writer Katja Pantzar was raised and
educated in Canada, where the consumerist and materially obsessed
culture left her feeling empty and unhappy. When she received
treatment for depression in her mid-20s, the doctor treating her
simply prescribed medication and sleeping pills, with no thought
given to her lifestyle. After moving to Finland, Katja discovered
sisu: the Finnish approach to well-being defined by a special kind
of resilience, grit and courage. She embraced this way of living
and experienced a dramatic turnaround in her health and happiness.
Simple, functional exercise (as simple as riding her bike to work),
the Nordic diet, spending time in nature and taking up cold-water
swimming together with a more courageous outlook all served to
transform Pantzar's life: her anxieties, fatigue and pain left
behind in the sea. In Finding Sisu, Pantzar offers an honest (no
place is perfect - Finland is not an exception) and uplifting
account of her physical and psychological health transformation
from a slightly lethargic depressive into an energetic optimist.
She examines the link between sisu and the Nordic reputation for
excellent wellbeing and overall life satisfaction, and looks at the
ways in which we, too, can apply sisu to our lives - wherever we
may be. Finding Sisu is a personal but also practical approach to
the power of this 500-year-old philosophy and how it can help us
all to lead healthier, happier - and braver lives.
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