00:00Hi, I'm Lo Bosworth, the founder and CEO of Love Wellness, and I am about to give Marie Claire
00:06a 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
00:25a
00:25couple more in a different part of the house. My library, I mean, does anybody really have a
00:29library? We have a bookshelf, right? But I have a lot of different types of books. I love fiction,
00:37nonfiction, all over the place. I'm a big reader, and especially lately, I've been trying to read
00:42at least two books a month. Get off my phone, get off TikTok. One of my first favorites is this
00:49one,
00:49My 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 and
01:02has a
01:02friend come by and give her sustenance. But for anybody who has ever been depressed, has anxiety,
01:10anything like that, this is a really interesting read. I feel like it really helps you get outside
01:15of yourself. It certainly has helped me. So this is one of my top five books for sure. This is
01:19less
01:20of a read and more of a guide, but this is Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying. And
01:29this
01:29book, I think I bought this copy actually in Thailand at the airport. I was on a vacation a couple
01:37years ago, and I was going through, or about to go through, a really bad breakup. And the life-changing
01:45magic of tidying actually saved me, truly. Clean house equals a clean mind. And I have been
01:54subscribing to this method of tidying up, not exactly, but I would say 70%. I'm not very good
02:00at folding in the way that Marie Kondo suggests, but I have really become a minimalist because of
02:09this book. And I absolutely love it and recommend it. It's an oldie, but a goodie. All right, next,
02:14Robert Green. He's one of my favorite authors. And this is the 33 Strategies of War. You might think
02:20I'm crazy for suggesting that you read this book, but if you want to learn how to negotiate,
02:27how to hold your own, and how to interpret other people's behavior, whether it's in business,
02:34dating, 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 going to give it a shout out. This
02:49is
02:50The Idiot. And it is a really fun, funny, sort of coming of age story of a student at Harvard
02:59and
03:00sort 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. It is
03:15available right now. I wrote this book to really tell my own health story about how I was dealing
03:21with vitamin deficiencies, gut health issues, vaginal health problems, and how I was able
03:27to 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
03:37plan 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
03:47two years to bring this book to life. I worked with medical professionals at Love Wellness, spoke to a
03:54lot of doctors, worked with Janine Higbee, who's a certified nutritionist, to come up with our five
03:58week plan. The book has a ton of evidence-based research in it also. So it required a lot of
04:04reading
04:05before putting all the thoughts together on paper. So what is my favorite genre? I think it has to be
04:13nonfiction, anything that is science related, which is probably why I love running my company and why
04:24I wrote a book that was very similar in that genre. I love David Sedaris. His short stories are
04:32so incredible. And we used to do a lot of books on tape growing up on long car trips with
04:37my family
04:38and David Sedaris, we would always give him a listen. Favorite childhood book? For me, it was more of a
04:44series. I loved anything that was Ramona Quimby. Remember Ramona and her sister Beatrice? And I think
04:50it's because I have a sister and we had a funny relationship like them. My favorite place to read?
04:56It's got to be the bath. I take a tub every day and yeah, the bath is a great place
05:03to read. In New York
05:04City, there's a great bookstore called McNally Jackson in Soho. And that is where I go to get
05:10most of my books. It's an incredible bookstore. If you ever come to New York, definitely visit
05:14McNally Jackson or The Strand. Thank you so much to Marie Claire's shelf portrait. Thanks for hanging
05:21out with me in my tiny little nook of a library. And don't forget to check out Love Yourself Well.
05:28It is available wherever books are sold. If you want the gut, brain, vaginal bliss you deserve. See ya.
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