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Books that Changed my Life: so they can change yours too 😉🫶🏻
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items There is nothing like a book that sticks with you years after you touched it’s pages, those books that are so magical, so enduring, so insightful that you are left feeling full and ready to face whatever you are facing with warmth and gentleness. The...
Sections
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Feminism FTW
Housekeeping Books to make Cleaning Less Awful
Finding Myself Fashion & Style
Grief
Peace
& Others
Feminism FTW
Each of these pointed out struggles on my life that I didn’t even know I was having, let alone that I was not alone in having. It was strangely empowering to experience this communal pain, and understand its origin, and how deep and widespread it is,...
Did you know that Oprah, at least for a time, refused to watch any media that included violence against women, and that that severely limited her choices for a long time? I didn’t either, but once you see it you can’t unsee it. This book was eye-open...
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Personally, I HATED Kristen Neff’s first book. For me it was saccharine and cheesy, and boring to read, and I just couldn’t get into it, but this one? This book was(and is) challenging me to push myself in how I see self-care, as well as community ca...
Fierce Self-Compassion - by Kristin Neff (Hardcover)
I literally annoy every single person I meet with a diatribe about how amazing this book is. The information I learned in just the first chapter turned my entire world upside down, and I wouldn’t be exaggerating to say that this book saved my life, a...
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Housekeeping Books to make Cleaning Less Awful
I hate cleaning I hate it. I hate it. More so with kids mostly because they don't want my loud music on, and they undo everything, lol. These books make it easier, and may I say, almost bearable.
Imagine your grandmother wrote you a whole book on how to keep your house and garden, and then imagine it was gorgeous. This book is that, and it is magical. I have spent HOURS paging through it over and over, reading her anecdotes, checking back for...
Simply Living Well - by Julia Watkins (Hardcover)
When Martha says this How to do (Almost) Everything, she is not kidding. There is everything from how to organize your pet space to how to fix your plumbing in here. She is not the master of cleaning advice for nothing, and it shows in this manual fo...
Martha Manual : How To Do - By Martha Stewart ( Hardcover )
I didn't think I needed both of these books by Martha Stewart, but her calendar breakdown of when to do things during the year is SO cool. You NEED this book in your life.
Martha Stewart's Organizing - (Hardcover)
Mercury Stardust is a gift to the human race, they have developed so much knowledge and used it to help countless viewers with their own home issues. I personally have it on my tablet so I can search, but I plan on buying the book too because it is j...
Safe and Sound: Renter-Friendly Home Repair
Did I say already how much I hate cleaning? This book is the first time I ever found lightness in cleaning and organizing. My adhd and trauma fight it out when I’m cleaning usually but marie kondo’s romantic and wistful way of keeping house inspired...
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Finding Myself Fashion & Style
I wasn’t really allowed to enjoy design or fashion when I was younger, I still did, but it was very much discouraged, and that has left me foundering a little awkwardly as I grew up and tried to find my own voice in the noise. These books have a voic...
I’m not going to lie I got a little too lost in the minimalism side of this book and basically got rid of all my clothes, so take my advice and just don’t do that, but there’s so much advice on understanding how clothes work, and planning a wardrobe ...
Curated Closet : A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe - by Anuschka Rees (Paperback)
I could have told you ages ago that Bohemian would be my style but when I got this book I almost cried reading it as I found art piece after art piece and room after room that felt so inspiring and Justina Blakeney’s descriptions of what it took the ...
The New Bohemians - by Justina Blakeney (Hardcover)
Grief
Grief is a mysterious and powerful experience and I felt really alone in some of my darkest moments, these books found me in those dark times and helped me find a light.
Let me just throw around trigger warnings right here; this book is about a stillbirth, it helped me survive my miscarriage, but if that is not why you are grieving, or if it is too close to home to discuss it yet, I completely understand. For me, it ...
An Exact Replica of a Figment Memoir
I’m not even finished with this one because I keep reading the same pieces over and over because it’s so beautiful
Women Who Run with the Wolves - by Clarissa Pinkola Est S (Paperback)
I read this at one of the darkest times in my life dealing with grief from every direction, Cheryl Strayed is a gift
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love & Life
Peace
I found this book in a coffee shop one day and it was magical, I had to get it as soon as possible and it’s still one of my most treasured possessions
The Brothers Karamazov
Cole Arthur Riley is absolutely one of my favorite writers of our time. she has used her gifts to heal people all throughout social media and now she is giving us these books that are just perfection
Black Liturgies - by Cole Arthur Riley (Hardcover)
This Here Flesh is the kind of books that grabs you by the inside of your soul, twists and wrings you out-it’s beautiful,
This Here Flesh: Spirituality & Liberation
Cheryl Strayed hiked the Pacific Trail so we don’t have to. Just kidding, but her story takes the reader on a journey of grief and healing that shares not only her story but the texture and the depth of what she learned
Wild - by Cheryl Strayed (Paperback)
& Others
This is in part a narration of what post partum is in other countries, part a guide for new mothers, and part a guide for those surrounding her and those who would like to be of help to her,
The First Forty Days - by Heng Ou & Amely Greeven & Marisa Belger (Hardcover)
The tenderness of this book is really special, while we do not have a lot of resources to learn about women’s health, this book not only proceeds to do that but in a gentle way that makes the knowledge feel soft and safe and whole
The Moon Cycle Cookbook - by Devon Loftus & Jenna Radomski (Paperback)
I read this book a little bit every year curled up with tea or coffee in my big comfy rocking chair with a cozy blanket around me in true hygge style
The Book of Hygge: Danish Art of Comfort