Vegan Joy

This book provides practical guidance that synthesizes meditation, compassion, plant-based nutrition and self-healing to support your spiritual growth and everyday well-being. Is veganism merely a diet? It’s much deeper than that. This book explores the spiritual, social and cultural aspects of the vegan path. Discover how veganism and meditation mutually enhance your mental and physical health leading to a more conscious life. This book is not just theory. It’s filled with practices that you can apply by yourself. Experience how physical movement in nature benefits your spiritual ...

In The Vegan Matrix, psychologist, longtime vegan advocate, and organizational head Dr. Melanie Joy explores a serious problem in the vegan movement - unexamined privilege - and looks at the struggle to communicate effectively about this problem in a way that helps offset it.

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows offers an absorbing look at what social psychologist Melanie Joy calls carnism, the belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals when we would never dream of eating others. Carnism causes extensive animal suffering and global injustice, and it drives us to act against our own interests and the interests of others without fully realizing what we are doing.

Is your diet out of control? Discover a simple system to calm your cravings and kick unhealthy eating habits to the curb. Are you tired of yo-yoing from one failed diet to another? Do you daydream about the favorite foods you can no longer enjoy? Has worrying about your medical condition or dietary restrictions taken the fun out of eating? Fourteen years ago, author Todd Hoff learned he had Type II diabetes. Since then, he’s lost over 100 pounds and controlled his disease. And now he’s here to share his methods so you can establish healthy habits that will last you a lifetime. Joyful ...

Vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters can feel like they’re living in different worlds. Relationship and communication breakdown among vegans, vegetarians, and meat eaters is not inevitable, and it is reversible. With the right tools, healthy connections can be cultivated, repaired, and even strengthened. In Beyond Beliefs, internationally recognized food psychology expert and longtime relationship coach Dr. Melanie Joy provides easy-to-understand, actionable advice.

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - September 2021 Evening Star: Two bullied school children decide to reveal their true selves to their classmates and suffer the consequences. Conscience Cleaners: A genuinely repentant criminal appeals to the court to have his memory erased of the crime he committed. The Room Above: A convicted criminal wakes to an erased memory and finds he is part of a strange government rehabilitation program. Appreciating Hate: Police do a wellness check to a home and find a man who has been systematically working to remove art that glorifies the vile. The Showing: ...