NOVEMBER NEW RELEASES
The Integrity Advantage by Kelly Kosow
Are you ready to open up to new levels of self-trust and self-love, to get where you want to go?
You vowed to speak up at work, and then sat silent in the meeting yet again.
You told yourself “this time the diet is going to stick,” only to watch the scale inching up.
You felt that something just wasn’t right about someone that—until you learned the hard way that your instincts were right.
“Every time you bite your tongue,” teaches Kelley Kosow, “you swallow your integrity.”
Before Kelley Kosow was a renowned life coach and CEO, she constantly second-guessed herself, let her “to-do” lists and others steer her dreams and passions, and played it “small and safe.”
Inspired by the groundbreaking principles of her renowned mentor Debbie Ford, who hand-picked Kelley to be her successor, The Integrity Advantage is Kelley’s step-by-step guide for facing the fear, shame, and false beliefs that cause us to lose our way.
Through life-changing insights, true stories, and proven strategies, this book will show you how to live on your own terms—according to you—from the inside out.
Daring to Rest by Karen Brody
As modern women, we’re taught that we can do it all, have it all, and be it all. While this freedom is beautiful, it’s also exhausting. Being a “worn-out woman” is now so common that we think feeling tired all the time is normal. According to Karen Brody, feeling this exhausted is not normal—and it’s holding us back. In Daring to Rest, Brody comes to the rescue with a 40-day program to help you reclaim rest and access your most powerful, authentic self through yoga nidra, a meditative practice that guides you into one of the deepest states of relaxation imaginable.
It’s time to lie down and begin the journey to waking up
Breathe and Be by Anna Emilia Laitinen and Kate Coombs
Teaching mindfulness helps kids learn to stay calm, regulate their emotions, and appreciate the world around them. With Breathe and Be, author Kate Coombs and illustrator Anna Emilia Laitinen team up to present a book of poetry and art for young readers to make mindfulness easy, natural, and beautiful. Here is a book sure to delight parents and kids alike, blending lovingly illustrated nature imagery with elegant verse about living with awareness and inner peace.
Leopard Warrior by John Lockley
A Teaching Memoir That Crosses the Barriers Between Worlds
A shaman is one who has learned to move between two worlds: our physical reality and the realm of spirits. For John Lockley, shamanic training also meant learning to cross the immense divide of race and culture in South Africa.
As a medic drafted into the South African military in 1990, John Lockley had a powerful dream. “Even though I am a white man of Irish and English descent, I knew in my bones that I had received my calling to become a sangoma, a traditional South African shaman,” John writes. “I felt blessed by the ancient spirit of Africa, and I knew that I had started on a journey filled with magic and danger.” His path took him from the hills of South Korea, where he trained as a student under Zen Master Su Bong, to the rural African landscape of the Eastern Cape and the world of the sangoma mystic healers, where he found his teacher in the medicine woman called MaMngwev
Things That Join the Sea and the Sky by Mark Nepo
A Reader for Navigating the Depths of Our Lives
The Universe holds us and tosses us about, only to hold us again. With Things That Join the Sea and the Sky, Mark Nepo brings us a compelling treasury of short prose reflections to turn to when struggling to keep our heads above water, and to breathe into all of our sorrows and joys.
Inspired by his own journal writing across 15 years, this book shares with us some of Mark’s most personal work. Many passages arise from accounts of his own life events—moments of “sinking and being lifted”—and the insights they yielded. Through these passages, we’re encouraged to navigate our own currents of sea and sky, and to discover something fundamental yet elusive: How, simply, to be here.
To be enjoyed in many ways—individually, by topic, or as an unfolding sequence—Things That Join the Sea and the Sky presents 145 contemplations gathered into 17 themes, each intended to illuminate specific situations.
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….Gorgeous, beautiful and true. Thank you Matt for the gift of your words. They weave deep reminders into the one true memory of who we are. Speaking of Love as a shape shifter, here is something that came to me during Mark Nepo’s pre-fest last week at WakeUp. It was one of those “quarter turns” he speaks of, a paradigm shift which allowed me to embrace the dark matter of my ego and find the jewel right there, inside…
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The voices which have claimed for eons ‘you are not enough’ have worn me
… like black crows picking at my soul.
So very tired, I let them have their way and set aside my jar of Secrets.
Behaving as I should, no longer free, in the trance of little life, the
cosmic joke, the big illusion.
Looking back now, I decide to claim her, that diamond in the rough.
She is shimmering now, singing her song.
and I see perhaps
it was the voices of doubt
that have weathered me into this brilliant ruby
I now hold in my beautiful hands.
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to the quarter turns, and the wild untamed groundlessness you so eloquently describe Matt ! Thank you for sharing your voice.
Nancy Fabiano
This is really beautiful, Nancy, thank you so much for sharing with us and for opening your heart so wide. I’m really happy to hear you found Mark’s workshop illuminating; he tends to offer that. May we walk into the wild untamed groundlessness together, my friend… lots of love.
Thank you Matt, for these beautiful, eloquent words that my soul recognizes as Truth.
You’re very welcome, Carol. Thank you for stopping by and for sharing your heart here.
Well said Matt, have you written any books? Actually what you wrote in the four paragraphs above, says more than many books do.
Hi Rich, thank you for your very kind words. I am finishing a dissertation and will likely turn my attention to a book (or two) in the new year. For now, much of my writing can be found on A Healing Space. Take care, my friend.