Live Nourished, Shana Minei Spence
Live Nourished, Shana Minei Spence
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Live Nourished
Make Peace with Food, Banish Body Shame, and Reclaim Joy

Author: Shana Minei Spence

Narrator: Shana Minei Spence

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/13/2024


Synopsis

Reject diet culture, achieve a healthy relationship with food, and nourish your body and soul with this book from registered dietitian, nutritionist, and creator behind the Instagram @TheNutritionTea, Shana Spence.

In Live Nourished, Shana Spence starts by exposing diet culture for what it is: a patriarchal, capitalist mindset that is engrained in countless aspects of our society, and that keeps us from living healthily and joyfully. It’s a systemic belief that equates fitness, health, and thinness with worth and assigns food a moral value. And it’s a belief that pervades our society.

Spence’s arguments will open your eyes to the insidiousness of this mindset, which coopts the way that we speak, we eat, we move, and live our lives. Through a takedown of diet culture in all its forms, Spence explains why diets don’t work, and provides you with the courage and the knowledge needed to prioritize nourishing the body and soul.

To get there, Spence walks you through healing your relationship with food. Touching on concepts like intuitive eating and health at any size, Live Nourished provides you with a roadmap towards eating, moving, and living in a way that works for you.

Spence’s thesis is simple: If we can learn to separate ourselves and our worth from diet culture, we can learn how to eat when we’re hungry, meet our body’s unique needs, and discover which foods give us pleasure—all while nourishing our bodies and souls in the process.

About Shana Minei Spence

Shana Minei Spence is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who calls herself an “all foods fit” dietitian. Spence is the creator of the hugely popular Instagram account @TheNutritionTea, as in giving the tea on nutrition. She works in public health with a focus on community health and runs a private practice where she has helped hundreds of clients stop harmful dieting habits for improved health and happiness. She has appeared on Good Morning America online, has given talks for Peloton and the national Eating Recovery Center, and been featured on NPR and in Self, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Outside, Shape, and other outlets. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha on March 03, 2025

*Audiobook* I loved this book! If you are tired of your relationship with food and your body, or if you need a refresher on how to live outside of diet culture…this book is great! I enjoyed the author’s point of view on food, exercise, and body image. Will definitely be recommending this book to pat......more

Goodreads review by Anne on March 28, 2024

I was immediately drawn to the title of this transformative book, and then when I saw the subtitle-- Make Peace with Food, Banish Body Shame, and Reclaim Joy-- I was sold! As a female who is finally letting go of diet culture/madness, this book and the permission that it gives came to me at the perf......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on October 14, 2024

DNF halfway through because I cannot take her seriously. I like a lot of her food content on IG. She really had me in the beginning when she was talking about how the obsession of healthy eating causes so much stress that it can actually deteriorate your health. I appreciate her focus on improving y......more

Goodreads review by Sadie on September 13, 2024

Great information but felt like a long-winded essay/comprehensive summary of her (really great) registered anti-diet dietician instagram page.......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on March 08, 2025

Live Nourished is a fantastic primer for anyone struggling with their relationship with food and their bodies. Spence's well-crafted, compassionate first book feels like a talk with a good friend, the sensible and funny one who reminds you about your self worth and personal abilities. A lot of what......more