Book Review
Live Like You Give a Damn
Andrea Owen’s "Live Like You Give a Damn" is a bold, irreverent, and encouraging guide to meeting life’s conundrums and challenges with courage, strength, and a good dose of humor. The book targets the limiting beliefs that sabotage...
Book Review
Happy Habits
Tal Ben-Shahar’s encouraging self-help book is about why people’s efforts to change so often fail. It suggests strategies for turning failure and frustration into success, well-being, and fulfillment. Asserting that failures to make...
Book Review
Ancestral Dreaming
Linda Yael Schiller’s spiritual guide "Ancestral Dreaming" takes a fresh approach to healing inherited wounds and trauma. Drawing on the science of epigenetics to support its thesis, the book asserts that unhealed wounds and unresolved...
Book Review
Seeing into the Life of Things
Rodger Kamenetz’s "Seeing into the Life of Things" is a profound guide to exploring the power of images to heal, enhance spiritual development, and foster a sense of oneness with the universe. To counter the effects of contemporary...
Book Review
Stone Lands
Finding comfort, meaning, and timeless human connection in Britain’s ancient megaliths, Fiona Robertson’s luminous memoir "Stone Lands" explores the inner reaches of grief and how, even when confronting the inevitability of loss and...
Book Review
Story Work
GG Renee Hill’s "Story Work" is about breaking the chains of limiting beliefs by creatively reframing one’s internalized personal stories. Conversational, thoughtful, and encouraging, this book explores how one’s identity, beliefs,...
Book Review
Out There
Lance Garland’s revealing memoir "Out There" is about how, as a gay man raised in a fundamentalist Christian home, he sought a “cure” for his gayness by becoming a Navy SEAL, but later found the courage he needed to live an open...
Book Review
North of Tomboy
A fourth grader adopts a creative way to remedy the gulf between how she feels inside and how others perceive her in Julie A. Swanson’s insightful novel "North of Tomboy". No one in Jess’s Northern Michigan rural family, church, or...