The Year of No Nonsense

How to Get Over Yourself and On with Your Life

By: Meredith Atwood

Narrated by: Meredith Atwood

In the vein of How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t, a practical guide to acknowledging and getting rid of the nonsense and BS in your life

Exhausted and overworked lawyer, triathlete, wife, and mom Meredith Atwood decided one morning that she'd had it. She didn't take her kids to school. She didn't go to work. She didn't go to the gym. When she pulled herself out of bed hours later than she should have, she found a note from her husband next to two empty bottles of wine and a stack of unpaid bills: You need to get your sh*t together.

And that's what Meredith began to do, starting with identifying the nonsense in her life that was holding her back: saying "yes" too much, keeping frenemies around, and more. In The Year of No Nonsense, Atwood shares what she learned, tackling struggles with work, family, and body image, and also willpower and time management. Ultimately, she's the tough-as-nails coach /slash/ best friend who shares a practical plan for identifying and getting rid of your own nonsense in order to move forward and live an authentic, healthy life. From recognizing lies you believe about yourself and your abilities, to making a "nonsense" list and developing a "no nonsense blueprint", this audiobook walks you through reclaiming yourself with grit and determination, step by step.

With targeted, practical chapters to help you stop feeling stuck and get on with your life, The Year of No Nonsense is equal parts girlfriend and been-there-done-that. The best part? Like any friend, she helps you get to the other side.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Meredith Atwood (P)2019 Hachette Audio

Critic reviews

"Meredith Atwood is a woman after my own heart. Her new book cuts to the chase and shows us how to cut out the bullshit in life - starting with ourselves." (Lauren Zander, celebrity life coach, co-founder and chairwoman of Handel Group, creator of Inner.U, and author of Maybe It's You)

"In The Year of No Nonsense, Meredith Atwood not only brings the reader along her raw and personal journey of healing, but also lights the way for the reader to come along and change his or her life as well." (Dr. Shefali Tsabary, author of The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family)

"A raw and refreshing straight shot of truth that will guide you to find where you are settling as a passenger and propel you into the pilot seat of your life." (Randy Spelling, author of Unlimiting You)

Powerful

I had been through coaching and read one self help book. From that I was able to identify that I had problems and that I needed to get past them. But it is pretty difficult to get past something you can’t see. This book, in the very unique way it is written, helped me identify several things, work on them, and move on to the next without shitting on myself along the way. Or at least catching myself and stopping. This book is amazing. The way Meredith narrated is a huge part. She speaks like a real person. Relatable.

Excellent!

Wonderful! Loved every word! Touched my soul and will recommend again and again and again!

Awesome!!

Meaningful and enlightening. I will definitely share, learn and peal. I am looking forward to years of No Nonsense.

Life changing

I absolutely loved it!!! It was exactly what I was looking for. Would read again.

You will learn a lot about the author!

With little intonation or variance in pitch, tone, or speed, Atwood provides a gruelling look into her year of no nonsense. She gives an unabashed view of her pain and shortcomings. At times her self-disclosure veers into a confessional that is only necessary if you're a celebrity whose bio is on A & E. We get it, things were bad, terrible even. I just didn't think I needed to wade deeply into her stuff to process mine. But every author has their style.
There are some pearls of wisdom here, though. You just have to hold your breath, like a deep sea diver, to reach them. Between the repeated admissions of how her world caved in, Atwood poses some powerful questions throughout; questions so profound, I had to finish the book. To benefit her readers, Atwood could share more deep insights and powerful questions and less of a tell-all.

Fantastic company on the journey to self-love, peace and wellness

Meredith is an endlessly energetic, determined seeker of how to do better, feel better, BE better. She has taken her gifts as a trained analyst (she’s a lawyer), an athlete (an accomplished weight-lifter in high school, in her quest towards self-improvement she became an iron man triathlete), a recovering addict, a wife and mother - to examine the roots of self-loathing, stuck-ness and unhappiness.

Meredith realized, by her early 30’s (when most of us are in a haze of surviving parenting and career demands) that, despite tremendous success in life, she had messed up a lot - a decades-long battle with alcohol, a lifelong struggle with weight, and basing her career on people pleasing. In her quest for happiness and peace, she turns herself into an Ironman triathlete. When that doesn’t solve her problems, she decides to face ALL the truths and confront her addiction with unflinching honesty: she stops drinking.

This book is about knocking on all the doors, asking all the hard questions, shying away from nothing and fearing no truth in the quest to exterminate all demons from a young life. By mapping out her process, Meredith gives us signposts to self-love, peace and fulfillment. Something which, it turns out, is achievable through her plotted steps, and which is every person’s inheritance, should they choose to do Meredith’s prescribed work in order to claim it.

The Struggle is Real, Everyone is Doing Their Best

Thenre is so much to say about this book. It is great. It is really helpful to me. Even so, I struggle with it. I have times when I get mad at it because I'm worse than the book can imagine. I'm not as good as anyone else, I really am broken, or at least I was prior to surgery. Meredith pushes you to accept yourself, not compare and to keep moving forward. "Forward is a pace." That is funny because I've been saying that for years during my 10 year running career. People even call me that and use it in hashtags refering to me. Then here it is in this book! I guess I was meant to read it. Additionally, I've always told myself and others that I'm not a runner. New to read the book again and apply all of these ideas to being the best me. Thank you, Meredith! You are awesome!!

Perspective enhancer!

This book wrecked me in the best possible way! Time to do some WORK #yearofnononsense

No beating around the bush

I'd never heard Meredith Atwood's podcasts or read her blog - but have since gone to find both. She's very honest and no-nonsense. She says all kinds of things I think but likely wouldn't utter. Good advice. Great approach. Pretty much could not stop listening until I was done. Then listened again. I found this book inspirational.

Fantastic

I rarely write reviews, but this book is outstanding. The best part, was that the author did her own narration, and her authenticity was stellar. She had an excellent voice for listening and made the content seem even more interesting. This is a great book.