With nearly five million people reading each issue, Shape is the #1 magazine for today’s health-conscious women. Its mission and ever-present philosophy is: Being fit means more than having thin thighs and well-defined abs it means living a balanced life. In Shape Your Life, Barbara Harris, pinpoints the seven goals Shape considers the benchmarks of total fitness Workouts, Diet, Spirituality, Rest, Emotions, Body Image, and Work and provides a custom-designed, four-week, personal transformation program that all women can use to make over their lives forever. Brimming with photographs and results-producing programs for each element of fitness, Shape Your Life overflows with expert advice and inspirational wisdom on:
1. Your Workout: details programs ranging from The Ultra-Efficient Cardio Workout to the Fit-in-20-Minutes Workout; from The Body-Confident Workout to The Mind-Body Makeover.
2. Your Diet: unveils The Shape Food Pyramid and Shape Pyramid Meal plan, healthy kitchen makeovers, shopping guides, and more.
3. Your Spirituality: offers soul-nourishing yoga and meditation exercises and steps to becoming more connected with others and with the natural world.
4. Your Rest: explains the health benefits of taking a rest now and then breaks, vacations, naps, and sleep with tips, techniques, and mini-retreats for getting more healthful rest.
5. Your Emotions: reveals how to survive modern life with your sanity intact, reduce stress, identify triggers that cause anxiety, and balance your emotions.
6. Your Body Image: provides the keys to building a positive view of your body at any size or shape, as well as special confidence-boosting workouts.
Your Work: explores how to make your work, however you define it (corporate manager, self-employed businesswoman, stay-at-home mom), more productive and personally satisfying.
Destined to become an indispensable journal of self-discovery and achievement, Shape Your Life highlights Shape® magazine’s positive, uplifting, encouraging message: In just four weeks, you can master the seven elements of fitness to get into your best shape—and create your best life—ever.
Barbara Harris has served as Shape s editor-in-chief since 1987. She is a widely recognized expert on health, fitness, and wellness, and has appeared on Oprah, the Today show, CNN, MSNBC, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight. Barbara created and leads Shapes always-filled-to-capacity Body Positive workshops at Canyon Ranch Spa, held twice a year in Tucson, Arizona; and Lenox, Massachusetts. She also teaches the Body Positive principles at the Omega Institute. Barbara is a resident of Woodland Hills, California.
