Kintsugi Wellness, Candice Kumai
Kintsugi Wellness, Candice Kumai
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Kintsugi Wellness
The Japanese Art of Nourishing Mind, Body, and Soul

Author: Candice Kumai

Narrator: Caitlin Kelly, Candice Kumai

Unabridged: 4 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Wave

Published: 04/17/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From the author of Clean Green Eats, a Japanese-inspired guide to finding balance, joy, and good health—A Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up for wellness—that emphasizes a simple, streamlined method for cleaning up your eating habits and offers modern-day applications of ancient Japanese healing practices and philosophyCandice Kumai has always treasured the Japanese traditions that shaped her childhood. In recent years, she’s been spending more time in Japan, meeting with relatives and absorbing the culture. It was on one of those trips that she visited a Kintsugi master and found the guiding inspiration for her next book.Kintsugi is an art form that reconstructs broken pottery, sealing the pieces together with gold to create something that is even more beautiful for all of its cracks and flaws. In Kintsugi Wellness, Candice shows us how this ancient Japanese practice can be applied to our lives to achieve radiant health.Part 1: Lifestyle introduces the Japanese art of living and aging well, from spending more time with family + nature and honoring the seasons (and the impact of the seasons your body) to reconnecting with ancestors + learning of adaptation, discipline, humility and kaizen (continuous improvement).Part 2: Mind explores the ways in which the mind and body are inextricably linked in Japanese wellness philosophies, showing readers how the philosophy of golden repair can be applied in cleansing rituals, meditation, and soothing traditions.Part 3: Heart shows us how to incorporate a greater sense of connection and gratitude into our lives through community, spirituality, personal relationships, nature, respect and family—the cornerstones of Japanese culture.Part 4: Nutrition offers detailed information on essential Japanese ingredients (including superfoods like green tea/matcha, miso, and fermented foods) as well as traditional cooking traditions and methods, with forty whole-food recipes including California style bowls, miso, soba, temaki (hand-roll) sushi, bento boxes and more.The philosophy of kintsugi is not about perfection—it is about healing, becoming whole, and finding the beauty in our imperfections. Written in Candice’s warm, conversational style, Kintsugi Wellness offers readers the tools to mend what ails them and to embrace and celebrate what makes them unique.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Candice Kumai

Candice Kumai is an internationally renowned wellness writer, chef, and content creator, described by ELLE magazine as “the golden girl of the wellness world.” Candice sits on the Well+Good Council and was recently named one of Arianna Huffington’s Top 20 New Role Models in 2017. She is a classically trained chef, wellness journalist, and five-time author of Clean Green Eats, Clean Green Drinks, Pretty Delicious, Cook Yourself Sexy, and Cook Yourself Thin. Candice contributes to wellness and lifestyle publications, including ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appétit, Shape, Girlboss, Men’s Health, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Well+Good. A Top Chef alumna and a contributor on The Dr. Oz Show, Candice is a regular judge on Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay and Iron Chef America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joel on December 31, 2018

It's probably a 2.5 stars for me but I will be generous and round up. A few random observations: * the real value is probably the recipes. If you could get that section on its own -- and it's fairly expansive given the overall size of the book -- that would be worth having. * some of the ingredients m......more

Goodreads review by Marcin on December 31, 2023

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing ceramic products, which involves filling cracks with the addition of precious metals, which adds extraordinary charm to them. The idea of ​​repairing imperfections by emphasizing them can also be applied to every sphere of life. This Japanese philosophy teach......more

Goodreads review by Sheena on May 05, 2021

Why was this book like half recipes LOL I really thought it would include more sage advice. At least it was pretty well written.......more

Goodreads review by Britt on July 03, 2019

3.5 stars. I listened to the audio of this book. The principles and ideas are just the reminders I needed right now, and pretty in-line with my philosophy of wellness. She can be a little self-indulgent once in awhile with her writing style, and I felt like her metaphor to kintsugi was sometimes pre......more