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Book Review: Women Living Deliciously

Women Living Deliciously by Florence Given is part memoir, part manifesto, encouraging us to drop the hustle for approval and instead embrace beauty, pleasure, intuition, and power on our own terms. The book isn’t about perfection—it’s about presence.

It affirmed what I’m learning on my journey: that living fully doesn’t mean waiting for the “big” moments, but delighting in the details and giving ourselves permission to rewrite old scripts. It’s a celebration of reclaiming our joy and choosing to live with bold softness.

My Takeaways

  • I’m learning to value my own opinion of myself—to believe that it counts, even if no one else validates it.

  • It’s easy to outsource our power—letting others decide what’s best or silencing our own intuition—but I’m choosing to come home to myself.

  • I am not the noise in my mind. I am the one who hears it, and I get to choose how I respond.

  • Joy lives in the everyday. If I wait for the weekend or retirement to rest and enjoy my life, I’ll miss the fact that the everyday is actually what life is made of.

  • The thoughts I repeat become the beliefs I live by. If I want a better life, I need to speak to myself with kindness and intention.

  • When I give myself space to ask, “What do I want next?”—even if I don’t have a full answer—I start shifting the course of my life.

  • Confidence is a muscle I build with each brave step I take—not from waiting until I feel ready.

  • Even emotions I used to label as “negative” are actually signals—nudges from my body to pay attention and tune in, not push through.

  • I don’t owe anyone an outdated version of myself. I am allowed to evolve and grow, even if it makes others uncomfortable.


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