Jennifer Taylor Wagner - Your Good Body: Embracing a Body-Positive Mindset in a Perfection-Focused World

Engaging and a must-read for all women! This book is candid, real, and inspiring. Jennifers own weight loss journey helps readers discover their why through personal reflection and action steps.

Sharon M c Queen , pastor, Family Life Church

Your Good Body is one word: extraordinary. Jennifer has charged herself with bringing awareness to our unconscious destructive thoughts and breathing life into loving the journey were on. This book challenges your thoughts and the relationship you have with yourself. When you start reading, Jennifer is just an author, but when you finish, shes a friend you want to invite to your house for tea. Absolutely love this book.

Charmaine Cousins, P h D

After recent weight loss, this book helped me release the mental and emotional weight that I didnt even know I was carrying. I now know that I have a good body!

Paige Loehr , author of The Roots in a Woman

Jennifer is the voice that every woman whether 16, 46, or 60 needs in her head! Stop letting the scale boss you or shame you. Let this book be your new soundtrack instead. Take it from a middle-aged mom who is exhausted by the numbers that judge her every morning. This body is ready to remember why it is good, beloved, and beautiful just as it is.

Lisa-Jo Baker , bestselling author of Never Unfriended and cohost of the podcast Out of the Ordinary Books

Jennifer is a powerhouse in the lane of helping women view their bodies as good. Her story and the way she models a healthy perspective has been so transformative for me, and I know it will be in the lives of her readers. I cant wait to see the freedom that breaks out in women as they come to realize God designed their bodies as good!

Rebecca George, author and host of the podcast Radical Radiance

I was highly impressed, emotionally moved, inspired, and empowered after I read Your Good Body by Jennifer Taylor Wagner. As an emphatic goal setter and goal getter, I thoroughly enjoyed Jennifers transparency and vulnerability as she precisely shared her weight loss journey and struggle with perfectionism and how she overcame insecurity to obtain true and sincere happiness. Not only did Jennifer open her heart and life within these pages, but I also enjoyed the exercises that are included at the end of every chapter. It made me really give thought to why I do what I do. Overall, this unique book is a must-read if youre looking for empowering inspiration, practical information, and emotional support while on a weight loss journey. I promise you it will change your life because it changed mine.

Wanda Martin, author of Go for the Goal, founder and CEO of GO FOR THE GOAL ACADEMY, and board member and goal-setting advisor of Coaches Against Childhood Obesity

Jennifer speaks right to the journey many women have walked at some time in their life. Her words inspire acceptance and love for your body as is and propel you toward being your best self in mind and body. Your Good Body isnt just good, its great.

Ashley Solberg

It feels like Jennifer may have written Your Good Body just for me. It is personal and uplifting and has helped heal years of hurt and striving for the perfect body. This book showcases that contentment is not a number on a scale but a confidence in the body that God created specifically for you. This is a must-read for women of any age and at any point in their health journey.

Mattie Givens, mattiegivens.com

Woo-hoo! was my first reaction as I read Jennifer Taylor Wagners Your Good Body: Embracing a Body-Positive Mindset in a Perfection-Focused World. It offers readers a journey of discovery: self-compassion, grit, motivation, and insight about what holds us back from reaching for our dreams and goals and how to get unstuck and move forward. It is also packed with practical tools and tips. This is not the typical book on weight loss. Jennifer communicates with authenticity, empathy, and hope that draws people who have struggled with similar body image issues.

Wanda Sanchez, executive producer, Salem Radio Network, San Francisco; author of the multiple award-winning Love Letters from the Edge: Meditations for Those Struggling with Brokenness, Trauma, and the Pain of Life; monthly contributor to The Mighty

We are so quick to marvel in the beauty that God has created in the world around us, but we are so quick to dismiss the beauty that is our own body. Jennifer speaks the incredible truth of the incredible beauty of each individual body that God made no mistake in the way each of us were created and that we should love and appreciate every aspect of it. This book is one that I hope females of all ages not only read once but again and again and soak in every powerful message that Jennifer so eloquently shares!

Jenn Richardson, CEO, Fit Couture Collection

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Your Good Body: Embracing a Body-Positive Mindset in a Perfection-Focused World

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To my favorite human on the planet.

For drying my eyes a hundred times as I stepped off the scale.

For ordering pizza with me late at night.

For buying me the two-piece.

For loving my love handles.

Youre one-of-a-kind amazing, Phil Wagner.
I love you so very much.

I want to ask you a question

How much do you weigh?

Yeesh, right? I felt you cringe. Other than perhaps, How would you like to die? (or something of the like), this might be the worst question anyone can ask a woman. But before you abandon this book, I promise there is a purpose to this question. In fact, why dont you save your answer, and Ill tell you mine.

Hi! Im Jennifer. And my weight was 336.

Yes, you read that correctly. No typo here. 336 pounds. That number will forever be etched in my brain because I think about it every single day of my life. I spent years in a body that was bigger than my capacity to navigate it through a cruel world that overwhelmingly values the external over the internal. I was bullied relentlessly all through my younger years, and things got so bad that by the time I finished high school, I fled to another state to start a new life on my own. A few years later I began a massive weight-loss pursuit.