Recipes for Your Perfectly Imperfect Life

The New York Times bestselling author of the Beauty Detox series, nutritionist, and personal development expert Kimberly Snyder offers us a powerful new guide to help us feel good, eat well, dispel insecurities, and increase our love of life. Feeling good is not about having a picture-perfect life with a flawless body, job, and family. We can have those things and still feel deeply unhappy. Joy and true confidence come by finding a level of inner peace in our messy, perfectly imperfect lives. In this beautiful, inspirational, and highly anticipated new book, Kimberly Snyder shares not only her amazing new food recipes but also practical tips for living a happy and fulfilling life. As Snyder teaches, the key is to live beyond labels, heal body shame, and move past self-judgment. By embracing life's ups and downs and learning to tune into our intuition, we can ultimately claim our right to feel good, just as we are. With dozens of life lessons and more than 100 plant-based recipes for smoothies, soups, snacks, and entrées, Recipes for Your Perfectly Imperfect Life invites us to find inner peace and acceptance, and teaches us how a healthier mind and body can give us strength to thrive in all parts of our lives.

Praise for Kimberly Snyder!
 
"Kimberly's program has had such an important impact not only on my health but my life in general. Radical Beauty is a must read that is the next step in your evolution to live a beautiful life. She's brilliant." —Drew Barrymore
 
“With Kimberly Snyder’s guidance, I have changed my nutritional health forever.  As a result, I have more energy, better skin and better overall health.” —Reese Witherspoon 
 
“Kimberly’s program is a game changer!” —Channing Tatum
 
“I love Kimberly’s food and recipes. I feel my best when I am following her program as it energizes me so much.” –Fergie
 
“I have learned so much about nutrition from Kimberly. Her philosophies and food have really had a tremendous impact in all aspects of my life.” –Ben Stiller
 
“Kimberly’s outlook on nutrition stresses lifestyle changes, not fad diets, which was a big awakening for me. I have never felt better since I’ve been on her program!” –Hillary Duff
 
“I love Kimberly’s holistic approach to health and beauty from the inside out.” –Kerry Washington

Auteur

Kimberly Snyder, C.N. is the nutritionist and multi-time New York Times and #1 Amazon best-selling author of The Beauty Detox Solution, The Beauty Detox Foods and The Beauty Detox Power and Radical Beauty, co-authored with Deepak Chopra.

She is a passionate wellness authority whose philosophy includes her principles around proper food combining, optimizing digestion and eating an all or mostly plant-based diet. Kimberly is a recurring nutrition and wellness expert on The Today Show, The Dr. Oz Show and Access Hollywood and has been featured on many other national shows and publications, such as Good Morning America, The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, InStyle, The Wall Street Journal *and Vanity Fair, among many others. She was selected to be a member of the Wellness Council of *Well + Good. She was named by Vogue as one of the top “results-oriented nutritionists.”

Kimberly is also a sought-after speaker and has been a keynote speaker on the topics of health, beauty, wellness and personal empowerment for many top companies and conferences across the country. Kimberly is on the Board of Advisors for Visionary Women, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support and empowerment of women. Her popular website and blog at KimberlySnyder.com shares her philosophy, information and products to community members in over 150 countries around the world.

After graduating magna cum laude from Georgetown University, Snyder didn’t choose an ordinary path. Instead, she embarked on a three-year solo journey spanning over 50 countries. This exposed her to a wide range of health and beauty modalities, conventional and unconventional teachers and approaches from different cultures, inspiring her to pursue an extensive career in the field of nutrition and wellness. Kimberly also completed a three-year Ayurvedic Practitioner program at the American University of Complementary Medicine (AUCM).

A passionate practitioner of Kriya and Vinyasa yoga and meditation, world adventurer, and Mama, Kimberly has dedicated her life to inspiring others to discover their own light and true beauty.

Résumé
The New York Times bestselling author of the Beauty Detox series, nutritionist, and personal development expert Kimberly Snyder offers us a powerful new guide to help us feel good, eat well, dispel insecurities, and increase our love of life.

Feeling good is not about having a picture-perfect life with a flawless body, job, and family. We can have those things and still feel deeply unhappy. Joy and true confidence come by finding a level of inner peace in our messy, perfectly imperfect lives.

In this beautiful, inspirational, and highly anticipated new book, Kimberly Snyder shares not only her amazing new food recipes but also practical tips for living a happy and fulfilling life. As Snyder teaches, the key is to live beyond labels, heal body shame, and move past self-judgment. By embracing life's ups and downs and learning to tune into our intuition, we can ultimately claim our right to feel good, just as we are. 

With dozens of life lessons and more than 100 plant-based recipes for smoothies, soups, snacks, and entrées, Recipes for Your Perfectly Imperfect Life invites us to find inner peace and acceptance, and teaches us how a healthier mind and body can give us strength to thrive in all parts of our lives.

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Introduction

Laying out the life detox plan

There’s a two-thousand-year-old adage that says, “It’s not what goes into a mouth that damages a person; it’s what comes out of the mouth that damages a person.” While I, and just about every scientist in the world, would disagree with this statement—there are plenty of carcinogens and terrible foods that do damage to our bodies—there is an element of truth to these words. No matter what we put into our bodies—organic vegetables, superfoods, the purest water—it’s the thoughts we think, the words we use, and the actions we take that help define who we are and that ultimately shape our lives.

Personally, I know a lot of people who eat the best foods and have what many would call a perfect body (especially in carefully posed Instagram photos), but they aren’t the nicest people. They can often be petty, mean-spirited, and downright miserable. I’ve also met a lot of people over the years who basically live on processed food, use toxic products, and can barely move without getting out of breath, yet they are the sweetest people with the biggest hearts. As a nutritionist, I would never want anyone to sustain themselves on junk food, but whom would you want to hang out with? I think you know what my answer would be.

I am not passing judgment, and, of course, most people aren’t so polarizing. I just want to illustrate that we all have parts of us that need mending. None of us have it all. And if you pay attention to advertisement messages, clearly you’ll see that marketing people know this as well. Ads may show someone who has a so-called ideal shape, a beautiful family, an…