Cute little book that guides you through ways to meditate or at least be more mindful while accomplishing the day-to-day tasks in your life. Washing dishes, riding the bus, sorting laundry will never be the same as you become more aware of everything that you do.
(#68-2022)
Adorable book that extols the virtues of the reader - would be an excellent gift for someone you want to be grateful for.
(#66-2022)
As a shame researcher, Brene Brown takes an interesting perspective to teach us how to live our best selves. In Daring Greatly, she encourages us to embrace our vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly, and to courageously engage in our lives. Every moment where we choose to experience uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure gives us the chance to dare greatly in our life.
The title of this book would lead you to believe it's about minimalism. In fact, it's about figuring out how to do better, while doing less. Learning how to ask what is essential, and focussing on it, to the elimination of things that don't matter.
Learning to take time to make sure you do the best job on the things that matter and don't live that FOMO kind of life, where you say yes to everything because it might be the important thing.
Happy Women Live Differently: 13 Ways to Trigger Your Happiness Every Day by Valorie Burton
I love the logic with which Valorie Burton writes. Nothing she says in her books is particularly groundbreaking, or earth-shattering, but most people would never reach these conclusions on their own.
The thirteen triggers or areas that we each need to look at in order to live our best life are fairly simple to see. And taken individually they are also easy to adapt into your own life. You may not want to change all of them, but you can acknowledge that making the changes might increase the happiness in your life.
The biggest take away from the book is to be at least content with your life the way that it is now. Dream big, keep striving, but don't expect reaching those goals to provide the miracle of happiness. Be happy now. Be happy with what you have now. Then strive to be better.
#48-2021
The Empath Experience: What to do When you Feel Everything by Sydney Campos
This book had great moments. But the author was very focused on her own experiences and seemed intent on fitting everyone else into the mould that she followed. Not all empaths are outgoing people naturally. Not all empaths self-soothe with alcohol or drugs.
I guess I was overall disappointed that it wasn't very inclusive. The author made a lot of effort to repeatedly say that there were different things that you could identify with as an empath but didn't allow that you might identity outside of the things she herself had experienced.
#32-2021
Emotional Detox: 7 Steps to Release Toxicity and Energize Joy by Sherianna Boyle
I picked this up on a whim, not because I thought I was carrying around some insane amount of emotional toxicity, or because I thought I needed to fix myself. Mainly, I just thought it was an interesting concept, and if I could pick up any tips to carry through life that would allow me to be more gentle in life, and to learn to let myself learn from a situation without it needing to reside in my brain constantly then it would be a win.
There's really nothing groundbreaking here - just ways to think differently about situations, react differently in situations, and teach yourself to breathe before reacting. Not everything needs to be monumental - in reading, or in life. This book is a perfect example of that.
#13-2021
Little Box of Happiness by Meik Wiking
