00:00Hi, I'm Lo Bosworth, the founder and CEO of Love Wellness, and I am about to give Marie Claire
00:07a sneak peek into my library. Welcome to Shelf Portrait!
00:18So here we are in the little corner of my room, and I have maybe 40 books. I think there's a
00:25couple more in a different part of the house. I mean, does anybody really have a library?
00:30We have a bookshelf, right? But I have a lot of different types of books. I love fiction,
00:36nonfiction, all over the place. I'm a big reader, and especially lately I've been trying to read at
00:42least two books a month, get off my phone, get off TikTok. One of my first favorites is this one,
00:50My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a very interesting book. It basically is the story
00:56of a woman who sort of sleeps for an entire year or more in her New York City apartment,
01:02and has a friend come by and give her sustenance. But for anybody who has ever been depressed,
01:08has anxiety, anything like that, this is a really interesting read. I feel like it really helps you
01:14get outside of yourself. It certainly has helped me. So this is one of my top five books for sure.
01:19This is less of a read and more of a guide, but this is Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of
01:27Tidying. And this book, I think I bought this copy actually in Thailand at the airport. I was on a
01:36vacation a couple of years ago and I was going through or about to go through a really bad
01:42breakup. And The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying actually saved me, truly. Clean house equals a
01:52clean mind. And I have been subscribing to this method of tidying up, not exactly, but I would
01:59say 70%. I'm not very good at folding in the way that Marie Kondo suggests, but I have really become
02:07a minimalist because of this book and I absolutely love it and recommend it. It's an oldie, but a
02:13goodie. All right, next, Robert Greene. He's one of my favorite authors and this is The 33 Strategies
02:19of War. You might think I'm crazy for suggesting that you read this book, but if you want to learn
02:26how to negotiate, how to hold your own and how to interpret other people's behavior, whether it's in
02:33business, dating, friendship, like truly anything, this is the book for you. I absolutely love it and
02:41any budding entrepreneurs out there should definitely give this a read. This is a book
02:45that I'm reading right now, but I'm almost done and so I'm gonna give it a shout out. This is
02:50The Idiot and it is a really fun, funny, sort of coming-of-age story of a student at Harvard and
02:59sort of the mistress she gets into. So I love it. It's a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It's definitely
03:07worth a read. For anyone into health and wellness, it's my own book. This is Love Yourself Well.
03:14It is available right now. I wrote this book to really tell my own health story about how I was
03:21dealing with vitamin deficiencies, gut health issues, vaginal health problems, and how I was
03:27able to get better. All three organs are connected and if you take care of your gut, that means that
03:32your brain and vagina is going to be happy too. And this book also includes an incredible five-week
03:38plan to bring your body back to homeostasis. If you've been dealing with anything like gut health
03:42issues, mental health issues, vaginal health issues, this is the book for you. It took almost two years
03:48to bring this book to life. I worked with medical professionals at Love Wellness, spoke to a lot of
03:54doctors, worked with Janine Higbee, who's a certified nutritionist, to come up with our
03:58five-week plan. The book has a ton of evidence-based research in it also, so it required a lot of
04:04reading before putting all the thoughts together on paper. So what is my favorite genre? I think it
04:12has to be non-fiction, anything that is science-related, which is probably why I love running
04:22my company and why I wrote a book that was very similar in that genre. I love David Sedaris.
04:30His short stories are so incredible and we used to do a lot of books on tape growing up on long
04:37car trips with my family, and David Sedaris, we would always give him a listen. Favorite childhood
04:42book? For me, it was more of a series. I loved anything that was Ramona Quimby. Remember Ramona
04:49and her sister Beatrice? And I think it's because I have a sister and we had a funny relationship
04:53like them. My favorite place to read? It's got to be The Bath. I take a tub every day and yeah, The
05:02Bath is a great place to read. In New York City, there's a great bookstore called McNally Jackson
05:07in Soho, and that is where I go to get most of my books. It's an incredible bookstore. If you ever
05:13come to New York, definitely visit McNally Jackson or The Strand. Thank you so much to
05:19Marie Claire's Shelf Portrait. Thanks for hanging out with me in my tiny little nook of a library,
05:24and don't forget to check out Love Yourself Well. It is available wherever books are sold. If you
05:31want the gut brain vaginal bliss you deserve. See ya!
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