Overview: Naked in the Now: Juicy Practices for Getting Present is a unique and playful guide for anyone feeling disconnected from their vitality and uninspired to make a change.

Short, fresh practices arouse your curiosity, help you change your mindset, teach you about the power of vulnerability and authenticity, and allow you to experience moments of delight - available right now.

Verdict: Through self-compassion, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence tools, we learn to relax, befriend our thinking minds, stretch our limits, and restore and rejuvenate our relationship with ourselves and others.

With a commitment to practice only minutes daily, Naked in the Now forms the basis for a sustainable, enjoyable awareness and self-inquiry practice that will leave you feeling juicy again.

In what is a most elegant prose that suggests ways for us to create a more intimate relationship with with the most valuable and worthy person we know, ourselves, Naked in the Now: Juicy Practices for Getting Present by author Marijke McCandless makes it as easy (and to use one of her very own metaphors) as slipping into a warm bubble bath.

A veritable masterclass on presence, the author makes it very easy to, and always via highly relatable stories, teach ourselves a new, healthier and better for us approach to life.

A must-read for anyone who has ever found themselves constantly wanting more but unsure as to where to even begin, let alone start on this new adventure, sure, the book is a fresh take on meditation, but moreover runs deep with tantalizingly insightful new ways to both practice and re-learn age-old teachings on the subject.

Furthermore, the author, who is also a sexual assault survivor, discusses her reclaiming of the idea of being a dirty girl in the context of her erotic relationship with her husband. Ergo, the book’s latter part deals with couples more specifically, but effectively focuses on the emotional and spiritual aspects of their relationships.

It should also be known that the book also explores some dark themes, but McCandless maintains a playful attitude throughout most of the book. This helps keep a healthy balance of information here, for it at all times remains a highly impassioned prose on a whole hot of refreshingly uncomplicated ways to improve relationships with a partner, or indeed, with oneself.

About the Author - Marijke McCandless is a writer, mindfulness coach and playfulness instigator who helps people shed their inhibitions and skinny dip in the present moment. She leads a popular online writing practice called Write Now Mind, which has been called out by media icons such as Arianna Huffington.

She also leads guided awareness practice sessions, called Juicy Practices for Getting Present, plus other immersion experiences in meditation, writing, and enlivenment. She lives in Las Vegas, NV.

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