Book Talk: Christine Platt — Less Is Liberation - with Dr. Gelane Gemechisa

Watch author Christine Platt's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.

For years, the constant pursuit of success silently wreaked havoc on Christine Platt's happiness and health. While taking a personal pause, Christine discovered how her limiting beliefs about selfishness led to self-abandonment and a life of overwhelm. So, she decided to use the same intentional living strategy that helped her reduce over-consumption: choose less.

With the perfect balance of wit and wisdom, Christine shares the necessities to come into alignment with Self and offers a roadmap for anyone ready to do the same. Less Is Liberation is more than a self-help guide, it is a call-to-action to tap into our most underutilized superpower: being intentional with our choices.

We do not have to have so many things--we can choose less.

We do not have to have so many obligations--we can choose less.

We do not have to have so many priorities--we can choose less.

We do not have to have so many relationships that feel transactional--we can choose less.

We must simply learn how to be intentional about honoring ourselves.

Less Is Liberation is an invitation to pause and begin the beautiful work of choosing ourselves over the profit and pleasure of others. It invites us to let go of behaviors that hinder our growth. It is time to embrace less as a gateway to find freedom from our lives of overwhelm, and a pathway to the life we want and deserve. Because we are not here for a life of doing. We are here for a life of being.

Christine Platt is an advocate for embracing the power of less to simplify, surrender, and boldly step into the next season of life. Author of The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less, she holds a BA in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida, an MA in African and African American Studies from The Ohio State University, and a JD from Stetson University College of Law. Now an empty nester, Christine lives her best intentional life with less in Washington, DC, and Marrakech, Morocco.

Platt is in conversation with Dr. Gelane Gemechisa, the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Eterna Integrative, an integrative and functional medicine practice, located in Tysons Corner, VA. She is a distinguished integrative medicine physician and life coach renowned for her innovative approach in combining diagnostic insights with tailored wellness strategies to foster sustainable health and well-being. Dr. Gemechisa holds an M.D. from the University of Maryland and completed residency in Family Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to complete a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the prestigious Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona and is a fellow of the Institute of Coaching, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate organization dedicated to ensuring scientific integrity in the field of coaching.

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