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Books on My Nightstand: What I’m Reading Next
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items My TBR pile is basically a map of whatever I’m trying to understand about life at the moment.
Right now that means healing, consciousness, women’s history, motherhood, money, spirituality, reinvention, and figuring out why we sometimes become our ow...
I’ve become fascinated by how much of our suffering comes not from what is actually happening, but from what our minds do with it. This book explores that idea, and I’m very curious to see where it takes it. I have a feeling I’m going to underline ha...
The Book for Anyone Tired of Their Own Thoughts
Don’t Believe Everything You Think — Joseph Nguyen
The idea that pain and beauty can exist together—and that suffering itself can become part of our growth—is very much where my head has been lately. I’m interested to see what this teaches me that I’ve already begun figuring out the hard way.
The Book That Feels Very Divine Grit
No Mud, No Lotus — Thich Nhat Hanh
“The art of transforming suffering” pretty much says it all.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a Mitch Albom book that didn’t leave me thinking about life differently afterward.
This one asks some pretty big questions about faith, survival, and what we believe when everything feels lost. I’m fairly certain I’ll en...
The Mitch Albom Book I Somehow Haven’t Read Yet
The Stranger in the Lifeboat — Mitch Albom
I love learning about archetypes, mythology, and the old stories we’ve used to understand ourselves for generations.
This book explores the instinctive, creative, wild feminine through myths and stories, which is basically a direct line to everythin...
The Book Calling to My Wild Woman Side
Women Who Run With the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estés
This explores ancient goddess worship and the shift from matriarchal or female-centered religious traditions toward patriarchal systems.
I’m fascinated by the question of what changed when societies changed the way they viewed women, divinity, power...
The Book Making Me Question Everything We Were Taught About Women
When God Was a Woman — Merlin Stone
We’ve all heard of the hero’s journey: leave home, face trials, conquer something, return transformed.
But does transformation actually look the same for women?
I’m really interested in the idea of a heroine’s journey being less about conquest and ...
The Hero’s Journey, But for Women
The Modern Heroine’s Journey of Consciousness
Raymond Moody became one of the earliest researchers to systematically document reports from people who had near-death experiences.
Whether you approach this spiritually, scientifically, skeptically, or somewhere in between, the consistency in some ...
The Book That Started the Near-Death-Experience Conversation
Life After Life — Raymond A. Moody Jr.
I am determined to understand the money game better.
Not because money is the point of life, but because financial freedom gives you choices. It gives you room to breathe, help people, create things, take care of your family, and spend more time doi...
The Book for My “Let’s Figure Out Money” Era
I Will Teach You to Be Rich — Ramit Sethi
My son is 14, and this one came recommended by his dad, so that alone made me pay attention.
It looks at teenage boys who may seem unmotivated from the outside and asks what is actually happening underneath that behavior. Parenting teenagers require...
The Parenting Book Someone I Trust Recommended
He’s Not Lazy — Adam Price Son
Apparently this is my pivot year whether I volunteered for it or not.
There are seasons when life quietly changes direction, and then there are seasons when it grabs the steering wheel out of your hands entirely. I like Brianna Wiest’s writing, and ...
The Book for the Year I Didn’t Exactly Choose
The Pivot Year — Brianna Wiest
I genuinely feel like my boys are emotionally strong, but that doesn’t mean I know everything.
I’m interested in anything that helps boys understand emotions without teaching them to fear vulnerability, shut down, or believe strength means pretendin...
The Book About Raising Good Men
Raising Emotionally Strong Boys — David Thomas
One of my best friends credits this book with some pretty significant personal growth lately, which made me curious.
The basic idea sounds almost ridiculously simple: stop exhausting yourself trying to control other people’s choices, opinions, react...
The Book My Friend Keeps Talking About
The Let Them Theory — Mel Robbins
This one has officially moved from the theoretical TBR pile to my actual nightstand.
I’m interested in the idea of learning to observe our thoughts rather than automatically believing every single one of them. Anything that helps quiet the endless i...
The One That Is Literally on My Nightstand
The Untethered Soul — Michael A. Singer
I loved the way Caroline Myss made me think about meaning and spiritual responsibility, so this was an easy addition to my shelf.
I’m especially interested in the idea that seemingly small choices and interactions can either drain our energy or beco...
The Book About Where Our Energy Goes
Invisible Acts of Power — Caroline Myss
I really like Brianna Wiest, and the subject of this one feels painfully relevant.
Self-sabotage is such an interesting thing. We can desperately want something and still unconsciously create habits, fears, excuses, and patterns that keep us from ge...
The Book for Getting Out of My Own Damn Way
The Mountain Is You — Brianna Wiest
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