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Self-Awareness Journey
The inner work that changes everything else.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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01
Brianna Wiest · 2016
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Your life changes when the story you tell yourself becomes honest enough to edit.
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Benjamin Hardy
Be Your Future Self Now
Every present decision is a vote for who your future self gets to be.
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03
Susan Cain · 2022
Bittersweet
The ache is not a defect. It is proof that something you love is calling you toward depth.
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Caroline Leaf
Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess
You can't stop a toxic thought from arriving — but you can choose what to do with it. And that choice, made repeatedly, changes your brain.
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Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006
Eat, Pray, Love
The brave pilgrimage is not leaving your life behind. It is learning which parts of you are still waiting to be invited home.
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Susan David · 2016
Emotional Agility
The agile life is not one without difficult feelings. It is one where values keep a vote.
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Daniel Goleman · 1995
Emotional Intelligence
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels.
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Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves · 2009
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Emotional intelligence is not the absence of heat. It is the skill of keeping your best self available while the heat is present.
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Dolly Alderton · 2018
Everything I Know About Love
Nearly everything I know about love, I’ve learnt from my long-term friendships with women.
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Matthew McConaughey · 2020
Greenlights
Greenlights are not permission slips from the universe. They are the moments when your preparation, patience, and truth finally get the same direction.
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Lori Gottlieb · 2019
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
We go to therapy to be witnessed accurately enough that the old story can no longer pass as the whole truth.
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Peter Hollins
Neuro-Habits
You are not lazy. You just haven't built the right neural pathways yet.
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Richard C. Schwartz
No Bad Parts
The goal is not to exile your protectors. The goal is to help them trust your Self.
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Jon Acuff
Soundtracks
You are always one thought away from a different day.
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Hailey Magee
Stop People Pleasing
Recovery is not about becoming selfish. It is about discovering that your needs and others' needs can both be true at the same time.
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Tom Rath · 2007
Strengths Finder 2.0
You cannot be anything you want to be, but you can be a lot more of who you already are.
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Brianna Wiest · 2020
The Mountain Is You
You do not become free by conquering yourself. You become free by listening deeply enough that the old war no longer has a job.
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Barry Schwartz
The Paradox of Choice
Good decisions are finished decisions.
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Katherine Morgan Schafler
The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Your perfectionism is not a character flaw. It's a force. The work is learning how to steer it.
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Daniel H. Pink · 2022
The Power of Regret
Regret is not a command to live in the past. It is a dispatch from the past asking you to live more deliberately now.
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Allison Fallon
The Power of Writing It Down
Write the thing you are afraid to write. That is usually where your next breakthrough lives.
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Cheryl Strayed · 2012
Tiny Beautiful Things
The tiny beautiful thing is the life that remains possible after the truth is told.
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Devon Price · 2022
Unmasking Autism
Unmasking is not becoming a brand-new person. It is letting the person who was already there stop apologizing for existing.
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Glennon Doyle · 2020
Untamed
The cage opens when pleasing stops feeling safer than telling the truth.
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Daniel Goleman, Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Why We Meditate
A few minutes of genuine practice a day will do more for you than occasional long sessions done inconsistently.
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes · 1992
Women Who Run With the Wolves
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door.
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