The Joyful Vegan

How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Egg

By: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Narrated by: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Finding plant-based recipes? Easy. Dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional pressures of being vegan? That’s the hard part.

Motivated by a desire to eat more healthfully or live more ethically, many people choose veganism as a logical and sensible response to their concerns about animals, the environment, and their health. Yet, despite their positive intentions, they’re often met with resistance from friends, family members, and society at large. These external factors can make veganism socially difficult - and emotionally exhausting - to sustain.

This leads to an unfortunate reality: The majority of vegetarians and vegans revert back to consuming meat, dairy, or eggs - breaching their own values and sabotaging their own goals in the process.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, known as the “Joyful Vegan,” has guided countless individuals through the process of becoming vegan. Now, in The Joyful Vegan, she shares her insights into why some people stay vegan and others don’t. Understanding that the food is the easy part of being vegan, Colleen turns her attention to what she believes is the most challenging - dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional aspects: being asked to defend your eating choices, living with the awareness of animal suffering, feeling the pressure (often self-inflicted) to be perfect, and experiencing guilt, remorse, and anger.

In this audiobook, Colleen shares her wisdom for navigating and overcoming these challenges and arms listeners with solutions and strategies for staying confident with family and friends, creating healthy relationships, communicating effectively, sharing enthusiasm without evangelizing, finding like-minded community, and experiencing peace of mind as a vegan in a non-vegan world.

By implementing the tools provided in this book, you will find that you can live ethically, eat healthfully, engage socially - and remain a joyful vegan.

©2019 Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

Great Book!

I enjoyed this book. I am grateful I found this book. It’s on my favorites list.
A great book for existing vegans and non-vegans.
I enjoyed the voice too.
I will recommend this book to friends and family.

Well Written

what had a great message was well written well performed advice anyone looking into the vegan lifestyle to read this especially when considering how to communicate with others to teach lessons that go far beyond veganism in this current day and age of partisan divide we are living in.

Inspiring

Colleen is truly a wealth of knowledge in veganism, nutrition, cooking, but also in communication, living ethically, and protecting our planet. Her book The Joyful Vegan is an amazing read and I highly recommend it to any plant-based eaters. She really changed my perspective on advocacy and how to share your truth and inspire people without attachment.

Very easy to understand!

Helps a lot on how to deal with the hall process on becoming a “vegan”. Love it

Lifelong vegan and vegetarian

Colleen is an excellent narrator but her philosophy is a bit single-sided. I was raised vegan and vegetarian-in a “meat free” household and do think we’re working towards a more compassionate future - but I don’t think hunters and sustainable farmers feel such a sense of shame as the author describes. I think most are doing what they can.