These books are hand-selected for their depth, accessibility, and alignment with the #shinesin philosophy: to shine from within, so that light draws light.
Myths awaken the wild woman within. 🍃 Stories heal fractured souls. 🍃 Instinct is sacred. 🍃 You are not lost. 🍃 You are remembering.
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths & Stories
Creativity is spiritual.
The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
You are more than your past.
The Body Keeps the Score: Healing Trauma
Vulnerability is strength.
Daring Greatly: Courage to Be Vulnerable
Embrace who you are.
The Gifts of Imperfection
Don’t make assumptions.
The Four Agreements: Guide to Freedom
You are enough.
The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick
Inspiration visits those who say yes.
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Peace is found in being in the moment.
The Power of Now: Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Live loud. Live true.
Untamed: Reese's Book Club
Love yourself exactly as you are.
Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach
Freedom comes from not seeking approval.
The Courage to Be Disliked: Japanese Phenomenon
Your voice matters.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World for Men
Community grows in gardens.
The Book of Delights - ROSS GAY
Your body remembers. Your body can heal.
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma
Live with integrity. Love fiercely.
The Way of the Superior Man: Spiritual Guide
Adaptability is power.
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent)
Difference is strength.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Build a self so strong, your tribe finds you.
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage
Aurelius advised a method of dealing with meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, nosey, and unfriendly people. Which is a concept that pre-dates modern psychology, it's a notion similar in the bible (Matthew 7:3-5) pointing out that people obsess over the "splinter" in another's eye (the minor faults of others) while ignoring the "log" in their own. By "Entering their minds, and you’ll find the judges you’re so afraid of, and what poor judges they are of themselves".
