…changed my mind about something:Įloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper. I was never able to see reality, other people, or my own mind the same way after reading this book. Of all the living spiritual masters I’ve ever met (and I’ve made pilgrimages to study with them ALL, trust me), Byron Katie is the clearest, wisest, most direct and transformative teacher out there. It’s a pure celebration of the Divine Feminine, in its natural, unadulterated state. As long as I draw breath, I will never stop singing the praises of this glorious, slender, unlike-anything-else-I’ve-ever-read novel about a wild young girl and her equally wild grandmother, spending their summers together on a small island in the Gulf of Finland. The scene where he comforts his grandfather at the end of the novel…I can’t even talk about it without crying. I was shattered by this story of a young Black boy in rural Mississippi, trying to figure out how to be a man in a world (and in a family) where nothing is simple and everything is dangerous. There are moments in your life that you can only get through one breath at a time this generous book showed me how. This book is a simple, compassionate introduction to mindfulness and meditation during hard times.

The book that: …helped me through a breakup: To benefit the January Georgia Senate runoff races, she auctioned off her Oscar de la Renta Eat Pray Love New York premiere dress. She teaches creativity workshops, though right now she’s at work on her next book has a French bulldog named Chunky established the Gilbert Scholarship with Project Home, a Philadelphia-based organization working to end homelessness has three tattoos (“courage,” “compassion,” and “stubborn gladness” from the poem “A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert, no relation) does polar plunges and likes purple pens and dislikes heights, which didn’t stop her from skydiving in Fiji. The author that launched countless self-discovery trips to Bali and less spiritual (for some) pilgrimages to L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele in Naples, Elizabeth Gilbert is the creator of Onward Book Club, which celebrates the works of Black female writers a TED talker whose “Your Elusive Creative Genius” has been viewed more than 20 million times (she also participated in a TED Connects conversation early in the pandemic) and an answer to a Jeopardy! clue.īased in New Jersey and New York City, she has written a story collection, five works of nonfiction, and three novels, the most recent of which is City of Girls, set in 1940s New York.

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