 | Radical Honesty, The New Revised Edition: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth by Brad Blanton
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.14 A MUST. Goes hand in hand with Freedom Manifesto, which I am also currently enjoying, but this is IT, a generation sooner... it's my pole star, right now
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 | The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 I used to fix a peanut butter and jelly and curl up with the newborn in my breast feeding chair...this book was perfect. I'd read one or two of the essays per session. I thank my lucky stars I found out angelic wasn't realistic... thank you, Melissa G!
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 | The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby by William Sears
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $3.97 Babies cry for a reason! They want what they want because that is what is right for them! As a working mother, attachment parenting got me a lot more sleep and much more joy from parenting, and saved me from causing serious lifelong harm. I'm still learning, still screwing it up but thank God for Dana who sent me the book when I was first cluelessly and accidentally pregnant
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 | Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety by Judith Warner
Buy new: $9.78 / Used from: $0.01 a bit heavy going but gets one (at least one middle class, educated one) thinking about things that need thought... many thanks dearest Melissa S!
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 | Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla Kabat-zinn
Buy new: $12.80 / Used from: $3.79 Our children are our live in Zen masters-- if we let them, they can teach us all we need to know about being fully present, about the divine and true love and acceptance
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 | Skinny Bitch in a Box by Rory Freedman
Buy new: $16.17 / Used from: $16.23 Girl I was fat *before* I had my baby. I've lost 30lb going vegan! But if all you care about is thin, don't bother. Nutrition, the dangerous additives in our food, the terrible responsibility we bear for insane animal cruelty... I have that last stubborn 10 to go, but I eat so much delicious nutritious food and I am never hungry. It totally wasn't an ethical thing until I read this book.
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 | How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It by Patricia Love
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $7.41 Everyone needs to read this before they even THINK about getting married/engaged, and evaluate whether they and their prospective partner are capable of the kind of connection and compassion described in this book...
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 | You Don't Have to Take it Anymore: Turn Your Resentful, Angry, or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One by Steven Stosny
Buy used from: $7.64 If your relationship was flawed before, parenthood will push it over the edge... this book is a must, and if your partner doesn't get it...
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 | Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: $0.01 My next axe to grind... I always knew but I become more convinced the longer I live, am married, parent a little girl. stop thinking traditionally about gender in a hurry. it is harming our entire society, not just people we think of as transgendered or whatever else. gender assignment for children is so dangerous. And if I hear another father say 'don't play with that, it's for girls...'
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 | The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology by Theodore Roszak
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $13.00 Next on my list...
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 | Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.48 |
 | The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship by David Whyte
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $6.40 'Work life balance' puts work and life in opposition, creating stress and losing precious time. Whyte asks us to consider them in conversation or feeding each other. Snippets from the life and work of Dante, Robert Louis Stevenson, Austen, and Pema Chodron show these principles at work in various life choices and eras.
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 | Midlife and the Great Unknown by David Whyte
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $11.00 David Whyte's and others' poetry, experiences, and motivational writings, read in his own wonderful voice. He touches on the emotions and hopes and hurts of life thus far and inspires joy and confidence to go forward with inquiry and a mix of acceptance and personal transformation to make life rich and full again.
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