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The Joyful Vegan
- How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Egg
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Fitness, Diet & Nutrition
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Summary
Finding plant-based recipes? Easy. Dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional pressures of being vegan? That’s the hard part.
Motivated by a desire to eat more healthfully or live more ethically, many people choose veganism as a logical and sensible response to their concerns about animals, the environment, and their health. Yet, despite their positive intentions, they’re often met with resistance from friends, family members, and society at large. These external factors can make veganism socially difficult - and emotionally exhausting - to sustain.
This leads to an unfortunate reality: The majority of vegetarians and vegans revert back to consuming meat, dairy, or eggs - breaching their own values and sabotaging their own goals in the process.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, known as the “Joyful Vegan,” has guided countless individuals through the process of becoming vegan. Now, in The Joyful Vegan, she shares her insights into why some people stay vegan and others don’t. Understanding that the food is the easy part of being vegan, Colleen turns her attention to what she believes is the most challenging - dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional aspects: being asked to defend your eating choices, living with the awareness of animal suffering, feeling the pressure (often self-inflicted) to be perfect, and experiencing guilt, remorse, and anger.
In this audiobook, Colleen shares her wisdom for navigating and overcoming these challenges and arms listeners with solutions and strategies for staying confident with family and friends, creating healthy relationships, communicating effectively, sharing enthusiasm without evangelizing, finding like-minded community, and experiencing peace of mind as a vegan in a non-vegan world.
By implementing the tools provided in this book, you will find that you can live ethically, eat healthfully, engage socially - and remain a joyful vegan.
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- Stephanie O'Reilly
- 30-12-19
Inspirational!
Colleen's kindness and empathy comes through in every word she speaks. A Joy to hear!
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- Emily J.
- 23-12-19
As a sad vegan - just what I needed
When you become vegan and open up your eyes to the world of animal cruelty, your life changes forever. You suffer and cry and how you look at the world changes radically. You hurt, truly hurt. Add this to the constant negative feedback from your family, friends, coworkers, and even strangers, you feel beaten down and lost. Colleen GETS this. I found myself listening to this book saying "YES, EXACTLY!" and it was such a relief to find that my feelings were so common. Throughout the book, Colleen uses a lot of quotes from her listeners (she is a prolific author, podcaster and YouTuber) which brought a lot of authenticity to the book, and made me feel so much less alone. I loved the layout of the book (stages of veganism) and thought that she brought a good realistic outlook - the idea of planting a seed and walking away has given me a lot of peace in my interactions with non-vegans. And since she does this professionally, she was a wonderful narrator. I HIGHLY recommend this book to vegans, especially the ones that are struggling with dealing with the non-vegan world around them. Thank you Colleen for writing this book.
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- NormanGeorge
- 02-02-20
BUY THIS BOOK
I delayed in downloading this book, thinking, I’ve been vegan for years, I don’t need another book about veganism. Of course, I’m SO glad I purchased this book.
3 people found this helpful
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- Brenda
- 10-12-19
Well Written
A lot of research and thought was put into this book. A must read for anyone vegan, or anyone thinking about becoming vegan.
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- VERB
- 16-10-20
What a snooze
Wrong book for me. I am a long term vegan. However, I cannot stand animals. The two are mutually exclusive. I would never hurt an animal, but I do not believe most of this ridiculousness. I am not a vegan for compassionate reasons. Animals pass diseases....both by eating them and living with them.
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- Tina Atwell
- 13-02-20
A beautiful warm hug
Colleen has such a warm way of presenting her journey as an example. She is both kind and compassionate and has created a book that will both answer questions, for those considering a life change, and offer everyday support for those already living a kind life.
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- Jeff Hillwig
- 15-12-19
Excellent Reasons For Lifestyle Change Throughout
This author is the reason, her 30-day Vegan Challenge to be exact, for me becoming vegan, so this book is just reinforcement for the 2 years of very healthy eating, living and habit forming. A very easy read, informative resources and a genuine person getting the word out - Stop eating animals !!!
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- susana navarro
- 23-01-21
Very easy to understand!
Helps a lot on how to deal with the hall process on becoming a “vegan”. Love it
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- Alexander T.
- 03-12-20
5 stars
One of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Very compassionate and full of hope. Definitely worth listening to and sharing with others.
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- Rick M
- 17-11-20
A Must Read For New and Long Term Vegans
What a wonderful listen! This book gives you the tools to navigate social pressures and extreme emotions. Whether you're a new vegan or have been vegan for years there is something in the book for everyone.
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- W2000
- 01-11-20
Book is good (in the genuine sense). Audio wanting
If you want to hear Colleen en pointe, subscribe to her podcast. Great advocate, great author, usually a good speaker. The book is excellent. The reading of it sounds hurried & unrehearsed. (It’s important to rehearse... Even if you’re the author... And especially when you’re trying to reach hearts...)