The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
By: Samantha Lourie
4.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
We are taught to hate mess, whether it's an untidy bedroom or a chaotic divorce. But mess is import…
Want to Read $ 9.99"You can open your beautiful heart. You can fi nd ways to keep your heart open. And facing the messiness of life is a surprisingly powerful and meaningful way to do it."-Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
"You can open your beautiful heart. You can fi nd ways to keep your heart open. And facing the messiness of life is a surprisingly powerful and meaningful way to do it."-Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
"The feeling of joy is the feeling of opening the heart. Once we live with our hearts open, we can carve out meaningful experiences led by our joy, making it the supreme axis of our life that everything else rotates around."-Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
"The feeling of joy is the feeling of opening the heart. Once we live with our hearts open, we can carve out meaningful experiences led by our joy, making it the supreme axis of our life that everything else rotates around."-Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
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1. Bird by Bird
By: Anne Lamott
4.24
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more
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"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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3. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
By: Katherine May
3.86
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more
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"The problem with “everything"-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
4. Inward
By: Yung Pueblo
4.22
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self love to un… read more
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"i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself"-Yung Pueblo, Inward
"to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without di…"-Yung Pueblo, Inward
5. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
6. Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)
By: Eve Rodsky
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shoul… read more
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"Resentment grows out of perceived unfairness."-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)
"From where we sat, this man appeared to be enjoying a luxury all of the women we know couldn't imagine: the freedom to focus on one task at a time."-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)
"A reminder, in itself, takes tremendous mental effort by you . It requires knowing what needs to be done, remembering what needs to be done, and reminding someone to get it done, whereas the person b…"-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)
7. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time
8. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
By: Nicole LePera
4.14
Format: 320 pages, ebook
As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of … read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
By: Gabor Maté
4.32
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Saving Noah (Oakside Military Heroes, #1)
By: Kaci Rose
4.24
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Can a scarred heart learn to love again? Noah My unit was attacked, leaving every soldier wi… read more
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11. More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament
By: Lexie Kite
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"An indispensable resource for women of all ages, this is a guide to help us better connect to ours… read more
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"Beauty doesn’t make you, so it can’t break you, either."-Lexie Kite, More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament
12. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
By: Katherine May
3.62
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more
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"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
13. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
By: Emily Nagoski
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more
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14. Winterset Hollow
By: Jonathan Edward Durham
3.99
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to me… read more
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"Winterset Hollow was one of those timeless, inimitable books that was simple and pure and patently entertaining on the surface, but so much more underneath. It spoke about life and loss and struggle,…"-Jonathan Edward Durham, Winterset Hollow
15. How to Be the Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships
By: Nicole LePera
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Holistic Psychologist and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller How to… read more
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16. The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being
By: Christy Harrison
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that … read more
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17. Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation
By: Hilary Kinavey
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves. Have y… read more
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18. The Spellshop
By: Sarah Beth Durst
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbo… read more
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"We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice."-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop
"She was lonely, and she wanted someone to love. She made me out of love, and the empire destroyed her for it."-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop
"There was something so very beautiful about a notebook without a single note in it. It felt like touching pure potential."-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop
"I hope you know what you're doing" Caz said as he returned. "I absolutely do not know what I'm doing. I thought that was clear?"-Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop
19. The Bookstore Wedding (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop, #2)
By: Alice Hoffman
3.97
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
In this star-crossed short story from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman, timing is ev… read more
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20. The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
By: Samantha Lourie
4.86
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
We are taught to hate mess, whether it's an untidy bedroom or a chaotic divorce. But mess is import… read more
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"You can open your beautiful heart. You can fi nd ways to keep your heart open. And facing the messiness of life is a surprisingly powerful and meaningful way to do it."-Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
"The feeling of joy is the feeling of opening the heart. Once we live with our hearts open, we can carve out meaningful experiences led by our joy, making it the supreme axis of our life that everythi…"-Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
"I had closed off from parts of myself many years before. And that kind of extreme disassociation only slowly bred a kind of hostility towards myself that was like a time bomb, and it had finally gone…"-Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
"Emotional wounds stop feeling like black holes we must avoid sitting with at all costs for fear that we will be swallowed up in the pain of them forever. They instead offer a golden thread to follow,…"-Samantha Lourie, The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic (-)
