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Joy

Written by: Debbie Travis, Jacky Brown
Narrated by: Debbie Travis, Jacky Brown
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Looking for the keys to a vibrant, joyful, vital life? Lifestyle pioneer Debbie Travis has found them in the Tuscan hills. And in her lively, inspiring way, she shares how to bring all that healthful magic home in Joy, a glorious book infused with the warmth and colour of life at the Villa Reniella, the thirteenth-century farmhouse retreat to which she welcomes guests from around the world.

For more than ten years, Debbie Travis has watched the guests who come to her Tuscan retreats transform over the course of a single week of talking, walking, and eating together, until even the most driven and stressed-out feel so much better about themselves. When it's time to leave, they tell her it's the simple priorities of Tuscan life—the way the village locals, from young to old, take time for each other every day—that hit them in their hearts, and they pepper her with questions about how to retain what they've experienced when they get home.

In Joy, Debbie offers the answers she gives them to all of us, capturing the essentials of the Tuscan lifestyle in a series of ten engaging and practical lessons—on everything from how to get a good night's sleep, to how to find community and rediscover purpose, to how to eat and drink like an Italian—designed to make our lives sweeter and healthier. Delightfully down-to-earth, Debbie draws on her own life experience, the example of her Tuscan neighbours, whose fabled longevity springs from the wisdom she captures in her lessons, and the expertise of her long-time friend and colleague, nutritional therapist Jacky Brown. Whether you wish to hit the reset button, start a new endeavour, regain your confidence, turn a page in your relationship, make changes to your worklife or your community, or simply reboot your vitality, these lessons will help guide you to a life filled with joy.

©2021 Debbie Travis, Jackie Brown, Stacey Van Berkel (P)2021 Random House Canada

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Not what I expected...loved it anyway!

Having read Debbie's last book, I thought this would be more in the same vein, more of a "How to...find Joy". I have listened to this book twice already, getting more from it each time. I enjoyed it so much, I bought it in hardcover as well. This is a book I will return to again and again.

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Nothing new

There's no novelty to any of the ideas in this book. They are re-repeats of various ideas in different self help books. It is not a bad reminder, as most of the things author talks about are true. However, some originality would be nice.
Also, cooking recipes are not the best material for an audio book. I could not remember them when I heard them first, and there's no real way to look them up if I decided to follow them after I was done with the book, unless I was willing to re-listen to the chapter in which they were contained.

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PDF of the recipes needed!

While all opportunities to "visit" Tuscany during a northern, pandemic January are welcome, this was an infomercial for her retreat. Several of the recipes sounded good but re-listening and taking notes is impractical. It isn't too late to add a pdf .....

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