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The Joyful Vegan

By: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Narrated by: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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Finding plant-based recipes? Easy. Dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional pressures of being vegan? That’s the hard part.

Motivated by a desire to eat more healthfully or live more ethically, many people choose veganism as a logical and sensible response to their concerns about animals, the environment, and their health. Yet, despite their positive intentions, they’re often met with resistance from friends, family members, and society at large. These external factors can make veganism socially difficult - and emotionally exhausting - to sustain.

This leads to an unfortunate reality: The majority of vegetarians and vegans revert back to consuming meat, dairy, or eggs - breaching their own values and sabotaging their own goals in the process.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, known as the “Joyful Vegan,” has guided countless individuals through the process of becoming vegan. Now, in The Joyful Vegan, she shares her insights into why some people stay vegan and others don’t. Understanding that the food is the easy part of being vegan, Colleen turns her attention to what she believes is the most challenging - dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional aspects: being asked to defend your eating choices, living with the awareness of animal suffering, feeling the pressure (often self-inflicted) to be perfect, and experiencing guilt, remorse, and anger.

In this audiobook, Colleen shares her wisdom for navigating and overcoming these challenges and arms listeners with solutions and strategies for staying confident with family and friends, creating healthy relationships, communicating effectively, sharing enthusiasm without evangelizing, finding like-minded community, and experiencing peace of mind as a vegan in a non-vegan world.

By implementing the tools provided in this book, you will find that you can live ethically, eat healthfully, engage socially - and remain a joyful vegan.

©2019 Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

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Animal Rights without the balaclavas & guilt approach.

This is NOT the book the militant Vegan wants but perhaps the one they need.

Whilst I found the ‘self-help’ text book style of the book a little off putting, the information, often fairly obvious & sometimes repetitive is solid.

Despite these misgivings, the structure admittedly worked well in organising & presenting different topics, whilst the repetition served well to cement core concepts in the readers mind.

The author’s choice of narrating her work was a good one, she is enthusiastic, engaging & has a pleasant voice to listen to. It really is a passion project by a skilled writer who has a great understanding of communication.

Her book will help the Vegan reader to consolidate their views, & the non Vegan reader to seriously question their beliefs. The author also goes into great detail as to the most effective ways to share the philosophy of Veganism with others resulting in more effective activism.

A very easy book to listen to, & ‘food for thought’ for every reader.

I also highly recommend ‘This is Vegan Propaganda’ by Ed Winters also available on Audible.

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Awesome road map

I have just recently become vegetarian and want to eventually and try to become vegan and this book has helped me so much. So much wisdom and knowledge by the author highly recommended.

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