March 21, 2023
Catherine Duncan’s self-help book Everyday Awakening is the culmination of what she’s learned at critical junctures in her life.
At age 11, Duncan was given a slim chance of survival when battling cancer. But she beat the odds, and “this childhood experience cracked me open,” she writes. “….I had awakened to the preciousness of being […]
March 21, 2023
By sharing her lifetime of trauma and a “spiritual tapestry fabricated from the finest fibers of various belief systems,” including Eastern religion, New Age spirituality, and the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author encourages readers to face their pain and develop unconditional self-love in this book.
Amanda McKoy Flanagan’s shame began as a kindergartener with […]
February 14, 2023
This slim volume of epigrams uses the cosmos, technology, and nature to probe the limits of human imagination, stimulate thought, and aim for profundity.
Following an introduction that defines proverbs as short, “meaningful meditations that express a truth, most of the time of a practical nature or a philosophical tenet,” and then tracing their appearance […]
January 10, 2023
From her clinical practice and personal life as a daughter, wife, and mother, psychotherapist Gretta Keene provides valuable tools and an instruction manual to construct an authentic, fulfilling life.
Keene uses several profound questions to help the reader, as she’s helped herself and her patients, find reasons for and ways out of devastating circumstances: “How […]
January 3, 2023
For as long as humans have formulated questions such as “what is reality?” and “what is my purpose?” there have been myriad variations on the answer. Author Chuck Champlin offers his own in Think Like a Molecule.
Champlin’s proposal is grounded in his thesis that everything in the universe is driven by a single force […]
October 17, 2022
Part memoir, part spiritual and philosophical exploration, and part self-help manual, Sherry Griffith’s Discovering the Great I AM is aimed at those hoping to wake up from unconscious patterns and conditioning and make more informed, conscious, and joyful choices.
Griffith is a social worker and therapist trained in cognitive behavioral therapy. She is deeply immersed […]
October 8, 2022
In 60 short essays, author Rhyanne Escarffullette offers an introductory level of inspiration and practical advice on how to live a life of self-awareness.
Escarffullette is a certified integrative nutrition health coach. Her father introduced her to Rhonda Byrne’s film The Secret at age 16. Its message eluded her until a few years later when […]
September 26, 2022
With the goal of helping others achieve inner peace, spiritual teacher and coach Yol Swan offers her eponymous Swan Method of insight into the wiles of the controlling ego, as well as ongoing, disciplined, creative and meditative activities to free readers “from the bondage of [their] limiting beliefs and mental fluctuations.”
Swan uses “the yoga […]
August 29, 2022
In Artist: Awakening the Spirit Within, acting coach Jocelyn Jones offers a blend of memoir, spiritual teaching, exercises, and journal prompts to teach readers how to manifest the life of their dreams.
Jones is the daughter of a critically acclaimed actor from the golden age of film and TV, Henry Jones. Having acted and modelled […]
August 22, 2022
In Heal Your Ancestral Roots, author Anuradha Dayal-Gulati posits that we are impacted by our ancestors’ lifestyles and that our ability to transcend any negative effects is largely dependent on our willingness to understand and transform our heritage. . The author, an energy practitioner, explains that there are four pillars (our ancestors, our relationship to […]