"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place." - Unknown
What's on my bookshelf...
“The world was hers for the reading.”
– Betty Smith
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Light is the New Black: A Guide to Answering Your Soul's Callings and Working Your Light by Rebecca Campbell
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Blood: A Memoir by Allison Moorer
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder for the Spiritual and Nonspiritual Alike by Brian Doyle
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
Revolution of the Soul: Awaken Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action by Seane Corn
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Song of Soloman by Toni Morrison
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real and Listening Hard by Jennifer Pastiloff
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Wisdom of Anxiety: How Worry and Intrusive Thoughts Are Gifts to Help You Heal by Sheryl Paul
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith
Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Shefali Tsabary
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Hundred Story Home: A Journey of Homelessness, Hope and Healing by Kathy Izard
SYCAMORE by Bryn Chancellor
The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
This Messy Magnificent Life by Geneen Roth