The Forever Project: How Exercise Strengthened Me Inside and Out for the Long Haul
Mikala’s debut nonfiction book will be out Jan., 5, 2027, from New Harbinger Publications.
This isn’t a typical fitness book. It’s an examination of how exercise can expand your life, not just shape your body. It explains how a joyful movement routine can make us better people — not better at being more optimized or productive, but better at having more goodness toward ourselves and others.
It’s called The Forever Project because of Mikala’s key argument: We all have to be in conversation with, and work on our relationship to, our bodies for our entire lives. That sounds scary, if all you want to do is lose weight or be skinny (she gets it). But now that she speaks the same language as her body, that project has become a delightful, deeply meaningful thing. Exercise helped Mikala do that, and this book will help you do it, too.
The Forever Project is half memoir, half practical guide to finding exercise that works for your life — or deepening your relationship to a routine you already have. If you have a complicated relationship with working out, with your body, with cultural messaging about weight and food, or with your mother (there’s a chapter about that), The Forever Project is for you.
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The book will be out Jan. 5, 2027, but here’s something most people don’t know, and authors only learn when they become authors: Pre-ordering is extremely important for books. It means that you order a book before its publishing date and it will be shipped to you by then, but it also means that you’re supporting the author in the best possible way:
Pre-ordering helps build buzz and momentum so booksellers feature the book more (at the top of their websites or in their shop windows); it helps publishers gauge demand and allocate resources; and pre-orders count for first-week sales, which can help books make bestseller lists (which generate more sales).
If The Forever Project is on your wishlist, please pre-order it now at any of the links at right — Mikala especially loves Bookshop because it supports indie booksellers.