Shonda, Nina and Anne: The Feminine Art of Leadership, Awareness, Authenticity, and Action
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Book Review | “Settled: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World” by Chantal Donnelly
In her book, Settled: How to Find Calm in a Stress-Inducing World, Ms. Donnelly invites readers to establish a more settled place for their emotional and physical well-being using a variety of well-researched, body-based techniques. Her style of writing is both personal and engaging and I have already suggested both her book and ‘how-to’ videos to support clients who are struggling to stay within their window of tolerance.
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Book Review | ‘The Audacity of Hope’: Is it Time to Rethink Our Role in Democracy?
Nearly twenty years after its original publication, Barack Obama’s statement on the political
landscape in the U.S. at the time eerily rings true today as it did in 2006.
The notion that what ‘binds us together is greater than what drives us apart’ is truly the only path for a great society to pursue the vision of an equitable, diverse, accessible and inclusive nation.
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Book Review | Waiting to be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil
Tahir closes his narrative with a reflections,”We are finally free, but those we love the most are suffering still, left behind in that tortured land. Each time we think of them, we burn with guilt. We will see those dear ones only in our dreams.”
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Book Review | A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs
A type of social credit score for the Uyghur population, facilitated by AI technology, has grown into one the most extensively policed areas on planet earth. As surveillance has been adopted throughout the Uyghur homeland…
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Film & Book Review | Academy Award Nominated, The Quiet Girl
Rarely does a movie live up to the book upon which it is based. The Quiet Girl is a notable exception and a wonderful…
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Book Review | Sacred Earth Sacred Soul, By John Philip Newell
Self-awareness, self-growth, dare we call it “spiritual growth”—plus, the brave and audacious decision of doing something to improve the state of the world—are two sides of a very old coin. Newell attributes that coin to the ancient Celtic people who once populated most of northern Europe, and whose intricate artwork and dogged resistance to Rome’s mighty power, have caused a modern-day resurgence of interest in this path called Celtic wisdom.
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Book Review | The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
MacDonald’s most famous work was this one. A delightful story of a young princess with a vivid imagination—or perhaps, a most sophisticated faith that sees the presence of generous love in much of her own life—who is named Irene, meaning “peace.”
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Book Review | White Swan and the Heavenly Lake
In White Swan and the Heavenly Lake, first-time novelist Kim Aasland has crafted her own take on the swan princess myth and its connection…
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Book Review | Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, by John O’Donohue
Friendship’s respectful practice is the core of this book by Irish author John O’Donohue. Raised in the remote and windswept Burren area of western Ireland, O’Donohue writes with passion about the ancient Irish practice of “anam cara”…
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Book Review | All the President’s Men: Democracy in the Balance
Fifty years ago in 1972, two young journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward began following the leads of a small story regarding a break-in at an office building in Washington DC.
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Book Review | The Celtic Way of Prayer by Esther de Waal
The Celtic Way of Prayer is a treasured echo from the last millennium speaking across the decades through author and scholar Esther De Waal. Now in her 90s, de Waal wrote this classic while
living in the borderlands of the Welsh countryside, and as a primer for those curious about the Celtic way.