Mindful as F*ck was such a delight! I admit this book won’t be for everyone because I don’t think everyone will appreciate the author’s brashness but with a title like this that audience would already know this one isn’t for them. Me, on the other hand, can appreciate all the brashness and love this gem for what it is! Mindfulness is something I struggle with but I learned so much in this one. Picked up a few times for a refresher. I highly recommend this one!

This book was so useful to me! I always have a hard time seeing the positive in life and I can truly say this book really made a difference.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to learn more about mindfulness in a down to earth, fun way from this book. Being one that has struggled to take the time try and clear my mind and be mindful and enjoyed the tips and exercises.

I like the idea of meditation and yoga but as a cynical person with a busy mind I have trouble. My doctor recommends I meditate to help with my stress but most books make it seem like you have to make it a lifestyle choice complete with the flowy clothes.

If this sounds like you, Mindful as F*ck is perfect for you. With plain talk and cutting of the bullshit, different meditations and poses are explained in a way that doesn't make you feel like a weirdo. I am having a great time with this one nostril breathing exercise.

Emily Horn's Mindful as F*ck makes staying zen in a house of quarantine a breeze. Everyone needs a copy handed to them as they get a CoVid shot.

I enjoyed this book, the author does a good job of sassily explaining various concepts and breaking them into small chapters to be enjoyed.

This is an awesome book, mindfulness is not something I can achieve easily so the swearing and no nonsense approach is perfect for me! Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for an egalley.

Love books that help lead us toward more mindfulness. The brashness of her writing might not be for everyone but I sure enjoyed it. I appreciate no-nonsense self-help books.

Interesting outlook out mindfulness. I always enjoy reading/hearing others points of view. This book is easy to follow and a quick read! Great exercises included to up you mindfulness.

Thank you, NetGalley, Simon & Schuster, and author Emily Horn for this ARC.

This was a great title for educators and people with stressful lives in general, not so much for a classroom. It was a great read for such a stressful year. and it gave me some good tips on how to be more mindful of the things causing stress in my life.

I will definitely be practicing some of these strategies myself!

Very funny! I love this book as a guidepost for mindfulness, especially for those readers who think you have to be a Zen master in order to be mindful. This book was approachable, very humorous, and meant to be taken lightly so as to be added into life more easily. Highly recommended!

I was not sure what to expect with this but I actually really enjoyed it. I find myself using some of these techniques daily now!

I have read all of the author's previous books, so I had to pick this one up, but it didn't really live up to the others. It was a basic list that I felt could have been a Buzzfeed article.

This book is a great foundation for tips for how to practice mindfulness and incorporate it into your day to day life. There are some principles in this book which I will be using from now on. Overall, a great read!

Thank you NetGalley for providing me the e-book version. This book is a great light read. It is the perfect read especially for someone new to mindfulness like myself. This is the perfect time to pick up this book and implement the practices taught in the book. There are dozens of quick practices to incorporate in your daily routine. This is a great form of self care. I highly suggest you pick up this book and practice the exercises explained in this book. These are small change that will change your life vastly.

How frustrating is it to be told by all the different sources the things you must do to be successful in life? This book definitely does NOT do that. It instead takes an empathetic approach and gives bite size approaches and allows you to have kindness and patience with yourself when dealing with life. This is so necessary for everyone to read in life. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This book gives you some basics of mindfulness to try, but nothing new or exciting. For those who are looking for a chatty, irreverent book about mindfulness, this is for you.

This book if filled with actionable steps to mindfulness thinking - I will continue to reference this book regularly as I find the right mindfulness exercises for me. The writing style matches the title very well - it has a quick, no nonsense approach which I enjoyed personally. With that being said, the writing style may not be for everyone.

The book maps out the exercises very easily and explains specific breathing/meditation exercises for specific situations. For example, when you are feeling a little droggy - there is an exercise called "almost as good as caffeine". Overall, very happy for to have received this book and will continue to use it during my journey to mindful thinking/living.

Thank you Netgaley, Emily Horn and Adams Media for the e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Mindful as F*ck by Emily Horn is aimed at people who’ve slept through yoga and can’t stand green juice. It’s lighthearted, and provides 100 mindfulness exercises for readers to try. The exercises draw on meditation, yoga, Buddhism, Ayurveda, reiki, chakra healing, and the law of attraction.

The book is part mindfulness with a big dollop of humour. The hokey pokey and carrier pigeons make an appearance, and from some of the pop culture references, I’m guessing the author is around my age (aka “old” to anyone born in this millennium).

For the first exercise, sit your ass down, the author advises that you to wear ugly sweatpants and big, comfy underwear. Sounds good to me! The author assures the reader that mac ‘n’ cheese is on the mindfulness curriculum, so go ahead and have a bowl.

The exercise on lovingkindeness meditation is described as “love, even for shitty people,” which is a rather good way of putting it.

There are a lot of breathing exercises, including one to slow breathing to counteract one of the shitty things anxiety does. None of it is taken overly seriously.

The exercises are all short, typically one or two pages, which makes it very easy to read. Many are broken down into numbered steps, and there’s the odd graphic tossed in for visual appeal.

I’m very non-woo-woo myself, but aside from the occasional raised eyebrow, I still enjoyed the book. The author managed to incorporate the law of attraction without pulling in all the pseudoscience gobbledygook that often goes along with it. I think the lighthearted approach is likely to work well for readers that want to take bits and pieces of the various practices described without having to go all in.

I’m all for swearing, but swearing in book titles is starting to feel overdone, so the novelty isn’t really there anymore. There’s a lot of swearing within the book, but I tend to swear a lot myself, so that aspect didn’t strike me as out of place.

Overall, I think this book delivers on what it claims to do, and it’s a fun read.




I received a reviewer copy from the publisher through Netgalley.

This book had some useful information in it on mindfulness! It included exercises as well, which is helpful as they can be referred back to. However, I found the writing felt like it was trying very hard to be easy breezy, swearing and casual. For me personally, this made the book feel like it wasn’t taking the topics seriously and I didn’t enjoy that.

With everything that has happened in 2020, stress levels are at an all-time high. No-one knows what next week will bring and some of the usual things that we do to relax and destress are just physically impossible right now. This is where Mindful as F*ck comes in.

We are given a very brief explanation of meditation, yoga, buddhism, Ayurveda, reiki, charka healing and the law of attraction. If you do not enjoy or believe that any of these topics will help you, then I am sorry but that is all that is on offer here. The only one of these topics that I believe in is the law of attraction. While I know that thinking positive and believing in yourself can be the hardest thing in the world, the little things of ‘yes, I can cook a new meal’ do add up to you believing that you are capable of a lot more.

We are given 100 exercises to help you relax, global pandemic or not. To me though, almost all these exercises fell into the single category of ‘just breathe, but in a different position’. Maybe I went into this with the wrong expectation of how to get me to not care what others think about me by telling me to ‘just breathe’, just does not cut the mustard. I regularly do breathing and visualisation exercise for my profession(I am a professional golfer so I need to be able to clear my mind) as they are essential to it, and I can tell you that they are not very transferable to the heat of the moment when your brain will not co-operate with what you are wanting it to do. A good routine helps keep this at bay while I am at golf, and when I am not golfing I do not have the luxury of being able to back away and reset my mind and have little tricks to reset myself because unfortunately life does not let you walk away from every situation.

While this may be a great stepping stone for some people, I just found not quite right for me.