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Thank you for the free books TarcherPerigee and Avery Books!
* Cubby approves too! ❤️
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✍️ Dr. Nikki
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Books make great gifts! To order my full-length poetry collection COMMON GRACE (from Beacon Press) and my book TEXT DONT CALL: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE INTROVERTED LIFE (from TarcherPerigee), check your favorite retailers. To order my chapbook UBASUTE (from Slapering Hol Press), go here:
https://www.writerscenter.org/product/ubasute/. Thank you!
From Marty Raney interview:
"I would say the hardest homestead I’ve ever worked on is my own. Off-grid, no road access, dangerous rivers, landslides, flooding, heavy snow, 35-below temperatures, seven-month-long winters, windstorms, formidable predators, and a house fire where we lost every single thing we own, and that rugged and challenging homestead is our home. However, most people are likely to choose an extreme environment and location to build their homestead. It really doesn’t matter where one chooses to live, as the fundamental reasons why we choose this life are what really matters. The dream of becoming self-reliant, self-sufficient and independent is well within the reach of anyone who truly desires those freedoms rural life offers."
Homestead Rescue Discovery TarcherPerigee Penguin Random House
"Just as the introduction of hygge made people swoon over candles, board games, and cozy family nights in front of the fireplace, my hope is that friluftsliv will trigger a similar craving for morning walks and fika in the forest. Because the journey toward an openair life starts within ourselves, we just need to open the door for it. Literally."
The Norwegian concept of friluftsliv is rooted in a love for the out-doors and a life philosophy that keeps people outside and in communion with nature.
From THE OPEN-AIR LIFE by Linda Åkeson McGurk, published by
TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Books.
Friluftsliv is a Norwegian word meaning something like "the outdoor life". Despite my Norwegian and Swedish heritage, it's a new word to me, but the concept feels like home and has the familiarity of an old friend. As Linda Åkeson McGurk Rain or Shine Mamma , the author of "The Open-Air Life" writes: "It's about knowing nature, yet it has no curriculum or classroom. Learning comes through hands-on practice and the passing of knowledge and useful skills from peer to peer and from one generation to the next".
Scandinavian culture is so beautiful and has so much to teach the world and I look forward to reading this book several times through.
Thanks for gifting me this book, TarcherPerigee !
Becoming an author has been an incredible experience in so many ways I never even imagined. One huge part that I love is how I have gotten to know other authors, especially those in my niche.
I am so honored to know Linda Akeson McGurk and to have been able to review and blurb her book. She is a nature parenting author who I look up to as a mentor. I included her work from her first book, "There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather," in my book and now am thrilled to let you know that her second book, "The Open Air Life," is available for pre-order and will be released on November 1.
Here's what I have to say about her new book: “In "The Open-Air Life," Linda Åkeson McGurk takes us on a fascinating journey to explore how nature can enhance our lives. While some of the general concepts are familiar, she adds a unique perspective by introducing us to terminology and customs rooted in strong tradition from her native country, Sweden, and the surrounding Nordic countries. Through poetic storytelling, helpful checklists, and informative illustrations sprinkled throughout the book, she educates and inspires us to step outdoors into the fresh air and bring a number of nature-connection habits into our daily lives no matter where we live, our age, or what language we use to describe them.”
Grab your copy today! Tell all your friends.
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Rain or Shine Mamma TarcherPerigee
One of the great things about the Nordic outdoor tradition friluftsliv - or open-air life - is that it doesn't require a ton of expensive gear or equipment. Instead, it encourages us to explore the natural and cultural landscape in our local communities with simple means, most often on foot. Most of us don't live near pristine wilderness areas, but we can all find nature in everyday experiences - from watching the clouds go by in the sky and feeling the rain on our cheeks, to hugging a tree at the park and listening to the symphony of bird song an early spring morning. Nature is all around us, we just need to tune into it🌿 My book The Open-Air Life will help show you how ➡️
https://bit.ly/3xmR3XX.
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They're heeeeere! Here's a video of me being emotionally overwhelmed seeing my new book in print for the first time. It's SO beautiful 😭
Out tomorrow from TarcherPerigee and Penguin Random House!
I am SO EXCITED for this book! 🥳
I have followed Positively Present for awhile and when I saw I had to get it!!
Thank you for the free book TarcherPerigee and Avery Books!
✍️ Dr. Nikki
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🚨These posts are not a substitute for therapy/mental health services or a continuation of care. These posts and activities are for informational purposes only. If you participate in any events it is your choice to do so and the practice is not held liable for any risks associated with these activities. You engage in the activities at your own risk. Liking, commenting, tagging, or sharing can limit confidentiality.
Raise your hand if you know this word!🙋🏼♀️ Friluftsliv lacks an equivalent in the English language but is usually translated to "open-air life" and I think that sums it up perfectly. There are many different definitions of friluftsliv but I like to think of it as the outdoorsy cousin of hygge🔥
In the Nordic countries, living an open-air life means embracing nature in everyday life, regardless of the weather or season. It's about finding joy in simple outdoor activities like wild foraging, bird watching, camping, cold swimming or just going for a walk around the neighborhood. But at the end of the day, friluftsliv revolves less around a certain activity and more around experiencing joy in the natural and cultural landscape🏔
Besides joy, friluftsliv comes with considerable health benefits. In fact, it has the power to prevent and alleviate many of the leading public health challenges of our time, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression and burnout.
The best part? You don't need to be athletic or wealthy or live in the countryside to enjoy friluftsliv, just have a desire to embrace nature in everyday life. Find out more about how you can benefit from friluftsliv in my upcoming book The Open-Air Life, slated to be published by TarcherPerigee on Nov. 1🌿 Pre-order your copy here:
https://bookshop.org/a/79880/9780593420942
What does mean to you? Actually, do you even know what sisu is?! 🤔
Hint: it might get you to try ice swimming. 🧊
Katja Pantzar found out more about this phenomenon and much more when she returned here to her place of birth after growing up and living abroad for many years. ✈️
We sat down with the to hear her take on the topic she has covered in two , and also learnt more about the power of simple actions and practising what she preaches. 💚
Check it out below 👇
Penguin Random House Hodder Books TarcherPerigee
What does mean to you? Actually, do you even know what sisu is?! 🤔
Hint: it might get you to try ice swimming. 🧊
Katja Pantzar found out more about this phenomenon and much more when she returned here to her place of birth after growing up and living abroad for many years. ✈️
We sat down with the to hear her take on the topic she has covered in two , and also learnt more about the power of simple actions and practising what she preaches. 💚
Check it out below 👇
Penguin Random House Hodder Books TarcherPerigee
Today marks ten years since the publication of my book, Preschool Gems, by TarcherPerigee an imprint of Penguin Random House. It is still available many places where books are sold, including the bad place.
https://t.co/Zy2OBSmRwG
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310506/preschool-gems-by-leslie-mccollom/
Thank you for being here with me! To celebrate, I'll be sharing some of my favorite gems. As always, I enjoy reading the gems you share with me. As I am no longer teaching, 90+% of the quotes I share today are from my own children, who are entering peak gem territory, and the kids of my friends, as well as from some friends who still are teaching.
I could not have published this book without Lindsay Edgecombe, my agent at Levine Greenberg Rostan agency who was an amazing collaborator on this project. And I would be remiss not to mention my editor at Perigee (at that time), Maria Gagliano. Thank you for believing that this would make a nice book and helping to make it so. ❤️
This project formed from a love of observing the human experience, and the way that children hold a mirror up and show us ourselves to and our world in the most creative and surprising ways. In the next ten years I hope to write more about the human experience, more specifically about parenting and education. And more specifically than that — early childhood educators — who both form the backbone of critical infrastructure in our country, and are underpaid and under-supported in a way that is not sustainable long term (or even short term).
While I experienced these challenges personally as a teacher, I have to thank the organizers who ran and won Universal Preschool NOW – the first universal preschool program of its kind in the US – for educating me on the vastness of this problem and the things we need to push for to solve it. Thank an early childhood educator today and ask how you can support them!