Description: Using the approach made popular by best-selling daily meditation books, Stephanie Stokes Oliver offers women of color a book designed to nurture not only their minds & spirits, but their bodies as well. Daily Cornbread, playfully named after the Our Daily Bread pamphlets, presents Oliver's creative ideas for maximizing the enjoyments & fulfillment of life. A former editor at Essence & the founding editor of Heart & Soul magazine, she writes in an affirming style that is prescriptive but never preachy, fun but not frivolous. On January 2, for example, Oliver suggests taking time out to "get happy" (do something that makes you happy an hour a day), to schedule a personal retreat, & to develop a strategic plan for the upcoming year. Later in the year, she recommends forming healthy habits, from starting a neighborhood walking group to being "proactive in preventive care." Similar to Sara Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance & Iyanla van Zant's Daily Meditations for People of Color but with a special emphasis on health & fitness, Daily Cornbread, shows African-American women how to make each day better than the last.

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