SELF CARE:  HABITS AND RITUALS
 
self care habits and rituals
After the Rain : Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-love

by Alexandra Elle
 
A soulful guide to help you embrace all the beauty, love, and opportunity life has to offer. It includes empowering affirmations and meditations to practice in your own life. 
Black People Breathe : a Mindfulness Guide to Racial Healing

by Zee Clarke
 
Clarke draws on her professional expertise and her lived experience as a Black woman to share mindfulness exercises, breathwork practices, and meditative tools centered on healing from and surviving racial trauma. 
Coffee Self-Talk : 5 Minutes a Day to Start Living Your Magical Life

by Kristen Helmstetter
 
Do you want to live an inspired life of sparkling adventure and achieve goals you never thought possible? This book introduces an accessible, powerful routine to pair with your morning coffee so you can start every day with positivity and energy. This easy daily ritual only takes five minutes and starts with positive, uplifting thoughts to reframe the way you talk and think about yourself
Cosmic Rituals : an Astrological Guide to Wellness, Self-Care and Positive Thinking

by Alison Davies
 
There's no one size fits all when it comes to taking care of yourself, but your star sign provides a blueprint, which you can work with. The character traits associated with each sign mean you'll need a unique approach to selfcare and wellbeing. There really is no better way to find your sparkle, than by looking to the stars!
 
 
The Fun Habit : How the Pursuit of Joy and Wonder Can Change Your Life

by Michael Rucker
 
Whether you're a frustrated high-achiever trying to find a better work-life balance or someone who is seeking relief from life's overwhelming challenges, it is time you gain access to the best medicine available.
Get Out of Your Own Way : a Skeptic's Guide to Growth and Fulfillment

by Dave Hollis
 
This book is a call to arms for anyone who's interested in a more fulfilled life, who, along the way, may have lost their "why" and now wonders how to unlock their potential or be better for their loved ones.
Good Morning, I Love You : Mindfulness + Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity + Joy

by Shauna L. Shapiro
 
Many of us yearn to feel a greater sense of inner calm, ease, joy, and purpose. We have tried meditation and found it too difficult. We judge ourselves for being no good at emptying our minds (as if one ever could) or compare ourselves with yogis who seem to have it all together. We live in a steady state of "not good enough." It does not have to be this way.
The Habit Trip : a Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

by Sarah Hays Coomer
 
When something feels wrong, your routines are a mess, and nothing is working, you want to make a change. The impulse is to go big: start a ten-day fast. Work out five times a week. Quit your job, end your marriage, and move to Dubai -- raze it all to the ground. But those drastic efforts tend to fizzle out before they've even begun.
Hello, Goodbye : 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change

by Day Schildkret
 
 Schildkret ... believes that what we need is ritual. Rituals are the rhythms and traditions that give us a sense of stability in the face of uncertainty by reminding us that there's always something we can do, say or make that conjures awe, contentment, and gratitude. They give us a way to acknowledge through our actions that, as life changes, we too must change.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Signs, Symbols & Dream Interpretation : The Visual Vocabulary and Secret Language That Shape Our Thoughts and Dreams and Dictate Our Reactions to the World, With More Than 2200 Vivid Images

by Mark O'Donnell
 
 This comprehensive and beautiful book discusses and illustrates thousands of ... symbols and assesses their position in language, art, literature, mythology, magic, religion and psychology. 
Life is Hard : How Philosophy Can Help us Find Our Way

by Kieran Setiya
 
Warm, accessible, and good-humored, this book is about making the best of a bad lot. It offers guidance for coping with pain and making new friends, for grieving the lost and failing with grace, for confronting injustice and searching for meaning in life.
Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home : How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life

by Marie Kondåo
 
By applying Marie Kondo's time-tested query --" Does it spark joy?"--to your mindset and behaviors, you are invited to take an even more holistic and personal approach to curating your environment by imagining what your life could look like full of connection and free from any limitations. 
The Mexican Witch Lifestyle : Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic

by Valeria Ruelas
 
Discover the vibrant culture of brujeria and embrace your own inner witch with this essential guide to spellcasting, spirit worship, tarot, crystals, and all the other elements of this increasingly popular lifestyle.
Microjoys : Finding Hope (Especially) When Life is Not Okay

by Cyndie Spiegel
 
Microjoys are a practice of uncovering joy and finding hope at any moment. They are accessible to everyone, despite all else . When we hone the ability to look for them, they are always available. Microjoys are the hidden wisdom, long-ago memories, subtle treasures, and ordinary delights that surround us.
Mindfulness @ Work : Simple Meditations and Practices for a More Stress-free and Productive Working Life

by Anna Black
 
By applying the principles of mindfulness to our working lives, we can become aware of our habitual negative thoughts and behaviors and learn to recognize and manage the warning signs of stress, which is an all-too-common part of modern life.
Organizing For the Rest of Us : 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control

by Dana White
 
Dana provides bite-size, workable solutions to break through every organizational struggle you have -- for good!
Saving Time : Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

by Jenny Odell
 
This dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book offers us different ways to experience time--inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological cues, and geological timescales--that can bring within reach a more humane, responsive way of living.
Things to Look Forward to : 52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Every Day

by Sophie Blackall
 
 A message of hope and solace in hard times and of joyful anticipation at times of new beginnings - whether you're grieving a loss or starting a new chapter - and for all the days in between.
Wake Up Grateful : the Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted

by Kristi Nelson
 
This practical and inspiring program is filled with guiding principles, reflections, exercises, and meditations for making gratitude a daily practice, especially during uncertain and challenging times.
The Worthy Project : Learn Your Value, Own it, Celebrate it

by Meadow DeVor
 
We all have an area (or two!) in our lives that we're not quite satisfied with-and often those trouble spots stem from one simple place- a lack of self-worth. Worthiness is the quality of deserving attention, energy, and respect. It's not confidence. It's not bravado. You can't fake worthiness, nor can you accidentally end up with it
 
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