For her entire adult life, Oprah Winfrey has struggled with her weight. She never thought in her lifetime, medicines would provide hope, health, and healing for people like her. But as her conversations with Dr. Ania Jastreboff from the Yale School of Medicine reveal, **we’ve learned that having obesity is not a choice. It’s not a question of willpower. Obesity is a disease.** It’s a question of biology, created by our bodies’ need to survive and the environment we created and now live in. And it’s treatable. Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Jastreboff deliver a groundbreaking book about weight-loss medications and the science of obesity. 💊The new medications can lower our body fat set point (our brain’s “Enough Point”), so that we lose weight without battling biology with willpower. Dr. Jastreboff describes strategies to optimize health and manage side effects all with the reassuring perspective of decades of experience treating patients with obesity and leading studies with these medications. Many of her patients say **the “food noise” that plagued them for years has evaporated.** They describe a new freedom from intrusive, persistent, and disruptive thoughts about food. With treatment they begin a journey of healing with self-compassion, devoid of the shame and blame they’ve endured from society for decades. 🌟

Oprah’s willingness to discuss her own struggles with weight publicly, combined with Dr. Jastreboff’s medical expertise, creates a book that’s both personal testimony and scientific explanation. The concept of “food noise”—those constant intrusive thoughts about eating—will resonate with anyone who’s experienced it. The emphasis on obesity as a disease rather than a moral failing or willpower issue challenges decades of cultural messaging that blamed individuals for their weight. Dr. Jastreboff’s clinical experience and research background provide evidence-based strategies for using these new medications safely and effectively. 📚

What makes this essential reading: Winfrey and Dr. Jastreboff deliver science-backed information about obesity treatment, weight-loss medications, and the biology behind why willpower isn’t enough. For readers struggling with weight, interested in the science of obesity, or curious about new medical treatments like GLP-1 medications, this offers both Oprah’s personal perspective and rigorous medical information. The goal is healing with self-compassion, free from shame. A journey toward what it’s like to be free. 💕

In a polarized era, history can become a subject of political contention. Many see America as perfect; many others argue that the national experiment is fundamentally flawed. **The truth, Meacham shows, likely lies between these extremes.** America has had shining hours, and also dark ones. In *American Struggle*, Jon Meacham illuminates the nation’s complicated past through a rich and diverse collection of primary-source documents spanning from 1619 to the twenty-first century, taking us back to critical moments when Americans fought over the meaning and direction of the national experiment. 🇺🇸This chorus—sometimes discordant and always fascinating—tells the story of the country and of its people. From the founders to Lincoln to Obama, from Andrew Jackson to Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, from Seneca Falls to the March on Washington, these voices remind us that **contentious citizenship and fair-minded observations are essential** to bringing about the more perfect union envisioned in the Preamble to the Constitution, which Frederick Douglass called a “glorious liberty document.” Meacham’s singular commentary frames these primary sources, providing context without dictating interpretation. 📜

The anthology covers clashes over liberty and slavery, inclusion and exclusion, showing how Americans have always argued about what the country should be. Rather than presenting a sanitized or uniformly heroic version of American history, Meacham acknowledges both progress and failures, shining moments and shameful ones. The primary-source approach allows readers to encounter historical voices directly rather than filtered entirely through modern interpretation. From 1619 (the arrival of enslaved Africans) to the twenty-first century, the collection demonstrates that American history has always been contested ground, and that the struggle to define what America means is ongoing. 📚

What makes this essential American history: Meacham delivers primary-source anthology spanning 400 years of American struggle over democracy, liberty, and inclusion. For readers seeking balanced historical perspective, primary documents from critical moments, and understanding of how Americans have always debated the nation’s meaning, this offers both historical voices and Meacham’s expert framing. The perfect union was never guaranteed. It’s always been pursued through struggle. 🌟

Much of your life has been spent in silent struggle, sometimes at great personal cost. You have firsthand experience with the frustration, shame, and exhaustion that accompanies unmanaged ADHD. **You finally have a name for the invisible obstacle you’ve been living with. But what now?** In *The ADHD Awakening*, Sara Kelly explores the unique experience of women with late-diagnosed ADHD. Understand how it hides behind coping mechanisms. Learn why it gets mislabeled as anxiety, depression, or a mere personality trait. Discover why you’ve always felt different without knowing why. 🧠Getting an ADHD diagnosis as an adult can bring an avalanche of emotions. *The ADHD Awakening* addresses your relief, grief, and curiosity about what this means for your future—and **reveals how to tap into the power that comes when you stop fighting your brain and start understanding it.** Kelly focuses specifically on women, whose ADHD often presents differently than men’s and frequently goes undiagnosed for decades. The “silent struggle” Kelly describes will resonate with women who’ve spent years feeling like something was wrong but couldn’t identify what, who developed elaborate coping mechanisms to hide their difficulties, who were told they were just anxious or lazy or not trying hard enough. 💪

The book addresses the specific challenge of late diagnosis: the relief of finally having an explanation, combined with grief over the years spent struggling without support, and uncertainty about what diagnosis means for the future. Kelly’s approach emphasizes understanding your brain rather than fighting it—shifting from shame-based “what’s wrong with me” to science-based “this is how my brain works, and here are strategies that work with rather than against ADHD neurology.” The focus on women’s unique experience with ADHD fills a gap in literature that has historically centered male presentation of the disorder. 📚

What makes this essential ADHD reading: Kelly delivers a guide specifically for women with late-diagnosed ADHD, addressing the unique challenges of adult diagnosis and the specific ways ADHD presents in women. For women who’ve spent years feeling different, recently received diagnosis, or suspect they have undiagnosed ADHD, this offers both validation and practical strategies. The invisible obstacle finally has a name. Now it’s time to thrive. 🌟