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Meilena Hauslendale

Meilena Hauslendale

About

World-renowned Personal Development Author Meilena Hauslendale has been providing life guidance and insights for over 11 years. She began her career in writing by publishing self-help articles for various international magazines and support groups.

 

Meilena has published 6 books which are available through Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, Borders Books, and the UK Market along with several other independent book outlets and her own personal website nurturedspirit.com.

Her style of writing provides her readers with a step by step guide to focusing on achieving success, developing healthy personal relationships, making healthy choices, finding your life’s purpose, natural parenting, developing your spiritual intuitive self and her latest release on how to stop complaining about life and start living.

Her writing and her original art on her book covers presents personal development in a modern contemporary fashion, one that her readers can relate to and apply to their lives.

Published books include, Making Your Purpose, Your Business: Guide to Self Discovery & Achievement, Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships: Guide to Healthy Love & Self Discovery, Natural Parenting: Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, & Beyond, Spiritual Revolution: Guide to Spiritual Development & Independence, Onward Rising: A Memoir, and Stop Complaining: Your Guide to Living Life Instead of Complaining About it

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

Learning to Breathe Fire: The Rise of CrossFit and the Primal Future of Fitness

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<p><b>The absorbing, definitive account of CrossFit's origins, its explosive grassroots growth, and its emergence as a global phenomenon.</b><br /> <br />One of the most illuminating books ever on a sports subculture, <i>Learning to Breathe Fire </i>combines vivid sports writing with a thoughtful meditation on what it means to be human. In the book, veteran journalist J.C. Herz explains the science of maximum effort, why the modern gym fails an obese society, and the psychic rewards of ending up on the floor feeling as though you're about to die. <br /> <br />The story traces CrossFit’s rise, from a single underground gym in Santa Cruz to its adoption as the workout of choice for elite special forces, firefighters and cops, to its popularity as the go-to fitness routine for regular Joes and Janes. Especially riveting is Herz’s description of The CrossFit Games, which begin as an informal throw-down on a California ranch and evolve into a televised global proving ground for the fittest men and women on Earth, as well as hundreds of thousands of lesser mortals. <br /> <br />In her portrayal of the sport's star athletes, its passionate coaches and its “chief armorer,” Rogue Fitness, Herz powerfully evokes the uniqueness of a fitness culture that  cultivates primal fierceness in average people. And in the shared ordeal of an all-consuming workout, she unearths the ritual intensity that's been with us since humans invented sports, showing us how, on a deep level, we're all tribal hunters and first responders, waiting for the signal to go all-out. </p>

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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;color:#515151;"><strong style="font-weight:bold;">“Her approach to life and her insight helped me focus my goals on new beginnings.”  </strong>Anonymous, Aurora, Colorado, USA</span>