 | Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing by Christiane Northrup
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.07 MIND BODY SPIRIT - A classic in women's health, stressing the interdependence of mind, body and spirit. The first few chapters are the most relevant from a spiritual perspective, with the rest serving as a symptom-based reference.
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 | A Woman's Book of Life by Joan Borysenko
Buy used from: $2.96 MIND BODY SPIRIT - This book has some of the same physiological information that the prior book does, but it is presented in a more accessible fashion. Of particular importance is the overview of women's procreative cycles and life phases, which relate to spiritual interests.
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 | Remember Who You Are: Seven Stages on a Woman's Journey of Spirit by Linda Carroll
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $3.12 MIND BODY SPIRIT - Musings on the stages of the spiritual process, integrated with dozens of poems from wonderful women writers such as Mary Oliver, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson and more.
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 | The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart by Sue Patton Thoele
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $5.99 MIND BODY SPIRIT Excellent introductory meditation techniques for women.
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 | Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace by Camille Maurine
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $3.50 MIND BODY SPIRIT - Although my own approach to meditation tends to be more traditional, I found this book interesting because it considers which meditation techniques might be the most useful to women based on needs and preferences.
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 | Your Truest Self: Embracing the Woman You Are Meant to Be by Janice Lynne Lundy
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $7.95 MIND BODY SPIRIT Interviews with and lessons from 12 contemporary women spiritual mentors, some of whom are well-known such as Dr. Joan Borysenko, Dr. Iyanla Vanzant and Naomi Judd. The author highlights one lesson from each woman, and includes corresponding reflection questions for the reader.
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 | Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $3.99 WOMEN MYSTICS - Get it straight from the source! This book includes writings from women mystics from every major world religion and time period, with brief historical bios.
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 | Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics by Monica Furlong
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $3.00 WOMEN MYSTICS - The medieval Christian women mystics are some of the most fascinating and spiritually powerful women I have ever read about. This anthology covers the writings of eleven of them, and is even-handed in discussing their sometimes bizarre traits and practices.
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 | The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women's Wisdom by Tirzah Firestone
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 WOMEN MYSTICS - Info on Jewish women mystics has been hard to find, due to traditional Judaism's dictum that only men should study the Torah. This book redresses this imbalance with biographies of women Jewish mystics from several time periods, interspersed with the author's insights on how their wisdom is relevant to women today.
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 | Women of the Way: Discovering 2,500 Years of Buddhist Wisdom by Sallie Tisdale
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $0.86 WOMEN MYSTICS - The life stories of Buddhist women, mostly nuns from Zen lineages, reimagined in a way that highlights their feminine challenges and experiences.
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 | Women of Wisdom by Tsultrim Allione
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.71 WOMEN MYSTICS - Compilation of 6 biographies of historical women Tibetan Buddhist yoginis, and a preface by the author telling her own story.
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 | Immortal Sisters: Secret Teachings of Taoist Women Second Edition
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $6.54 WOMEN MYSTICS - Tales of women from the Taoist tradition, including their writings.
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 | Taking Back God: American Women Rising Up for Religious Equality by Leora Tanenbaum
Buy new: $19.71 / Used from: $3.53 HISTORY/MEMOIR/SOCIAL COMMENTARY - This book profiles women within Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, and Judaism that are speaking up about the role of women in their faith. It also covers the history of women within each faith, and the reality of the restricted roles they have often had.
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 | The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (Plus) by Sue Monk Kidd
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.93 MEMOIR - This is a classic memoir by a beautiful writer, on her personal struggle to reconcile her Christian faith with Christianity's harsh patriarchal past. This is the only real 'sacred feminine' book on my list, because I think her journey is so relevant to many, and she tells it so honestly.
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 | Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 MEMOIR - A bestseller for a reason! This book resonates with many women, and is essentially a spiritual memoir. The psychological baggage she must release to move forward spiritually rings true.
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 | Just Like You: An Autobiography by Gangaji
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.99 MEMOIR - Memoir of contemporary American spiritual teacher Gangaji, as told by her to one of her students in interview form.
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 | Initiation by Elisabeth Haich
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.01 MEMOIR - Written mostly as a past life memory in Ancient Egypt, this book is a little strange and slow in parts, but the sections on ancient Egypt offer a fascinating glimpse into what temple priestess training might have been like.
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 | The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey (Compass) by Taisha Abelar
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.83 MEMOIR - Written by a female sorcerer who studied within the same circle as the infamous Carlos Casteneda, this book profiles a very different journey than his. The sections on the power of recapitualtion are very relevant to many women, even if the rest of the book is pretty psychedelic.
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 | The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $8.93 FICTION - This classic retelling of the Arthurian legend from the perspective of the women characters touches on many themes of women's spirituality and persecution.
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 | Evensong (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Gail Godwin
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 FICTION - A novel centered around a woman Episcopalion minister as she confronts questions regarding her faith and the nature of love and marriage.
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 | Enlightenment for Idiots: A Novel by Anne Cushman
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $2.84 FICTION - I included this because unlike the memoirs and fiction on this list, the main character is in her twenties and involved in all the latest urban spiritual trends (i.e. this book is much hipper than most on the list!)
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