“Magic is found at the roots of our experience. No matter who you are or where you came from, there is magic in your ancestral lineage,” writes Briana Saussy. In Making Magic, this popular teacher and author introduces you to ways of directly engaging with the unseen forces of the universe in your day-to-day life. Through her rich blend of storytelling and...

“Effortless mindfulness” is a new way to immediately enter an optimal flow state available to us in the midst of our busy lives. In The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, Loch Kelly teaches that when you “unhook” awareness from chattering thoughts, you can access a peaceful mind and a naturally embodied wakefulness. From this heartful space, students report...

What is the greatest obstacle to fulfillment, success, and happiness? “It's the belief that your current situation, whatever it is, has the power to determine your future,” teaches Fleet Maull.

Before he was a revered meditation teacher, Maull served 14 years in prison for drug trafficking. During that time, he embarked on a path of transformation and...

Pregnancy brings many changes all at once. You might feel empowered and vulnerable, gorgeous and disheveled, and like a superhero and a scaredy-cat all within a single day. The Healthy Pregnancy Journal is designed to help expecting moms navigate this beautiful chaos with a journal tailor-made for the whole process.

Written by Martha Sears and her...

By Moms, for Moms—Redefining Motherhood for a New Generation

With This Is Motherhood, the cofounders and contributors of the Motherly online community present a collection of essays and practices to celebrate motherhood in all its complexity.

Here you’ll find reflections on each phase of “the wild ride of motherhood,” including the soaring highs of meeting...

The feminine mystic is one who gathers the pain of the world into her arms and transmutes it with "wild mercy"—a merging of fierce courage with the unstoppable forces of forgiveness, compassion, and love. And she is needed now more than ever. "Women across cultural boundaries are rising with our echoing yes in response to the collective call to step up...

From our earliest years, we develop an attachment style that follows us through life, replaying in our daily emotional landscape, our relationships, and how we feel about ourselves. With The Power of Attachment, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, a pioneer in attachment theory and trauma resolution, shows how overwhelming experiences can break our vital connections...

Do you recall, as a child, being enthralled by a drifting cloud, the babbling of a stream, the wandering of a ladybug? If so, then you've already had a taste of natural awareness. Known and revered in many contemplative traditions, natural awareness transcends even these wondrous childhood moments.

It has been described as a profound "awareness of...

From master baker, cook, and Zen priest Edward Espe Brown comes a collection of timeless essays on Zen, food, and life itself. Brown was one of the first Westerners to be ordained a priest by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who had hoped that Zen might be transformed into a vibrant new form in the West. In The Most Important Point, Brown fulfills Suzuki’s wish with...

Do you find evolving your habits—especially around body issues such as deeper nourishment and stress management—to be a frustrating challenge? With Body Thrive, Cate Stillman brings a modern eye to the daily habits from Ayurveda and yoga, sharing how they completely uplevel your day-to-day routines to align you into a flow state. Encouraging gradual...

In The Daily Flame, physician, mystic, and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Lissa Rankin helps readers access their inner wisdom through 365 encouraging letters from the “Inner Pilot Light,” the voice within that knows what you need, when you need it.
Dr. Rankin first encountered her own Inner Pilot Light in 2005 when, during an especially...

What if you could help assure that your child will grow up to be not only successful, but also a truly good person who will make a real difference in the world? Based on key insights into childhood brain development, neuroscientist and mother Dr. Erin Clabough shows parents how.
 
To really thrive as adults, Dr. Clabough says, children need to learn three...

In his New York Times bestseller The Urban Monk, Pedram Shojai helped tens of thousands of people create more time, energy, and passion in their lives. Shojai’s Inner Alchemy takes us deeper. “This isn’t a book of superficial ‘hacks’ to make your life better,” writes Shojai. “This is a complete download of my lineage. It’s an ancient, time-tested path to...

We all define ourselves through the lens of stories. Whether we see ourselves as heroes or victims, good people or bad, everyone lives according to interwoven strands of narrative. “And yet,” teaches Adyashanti, “the truth is bigger than any concept or story.”

In The Most Important Thing, Adya (as his students call him) presents an anthology devoted to the...

Do more. Be more. Try harder. It's the battle cry of our culture —and it's making millions of us sick, tired, and frustrated. Why? According to Dr. Samantha Brody, "We simply can’t solve stress and overwhelm by doing more and more of what we’ve been doing."

With Overcoming Overwhelm, this pioneering naturopathic physician offers an alternative. In this...

Committing yourself fully to a loving partnership—a “we”—can be one of the most beautiful and fulfilling experiences you’ll ever have. Yet as anyone in a long-term relationship will tell you, it can also be one of the most challenging. Almost half of all first marriages end in divorce, and chances for staying together go down from there. So, how do you beat...

Heal trauma. Reclaim your body. Live with wholeness. These are the gifts of utilizing the power of fundamental consciousness—a subtle field of awareness that lies within each of us. In Trauma and the Unbound Body, Dr. Judith Blackstone explores how we can resolve the mental, physical, and emotional struggles of trauma by connecting to our true essence...

Many of us struggle to truly live what we believe spiritually. What if closing that gap wasn’t about trying harder, but something quite the opposite? “Through the practice of ego relaxation,” explains Miranda Macpherson, “we can stop trying to beat ourselves into spiritual shape and yield instead to an unshakable presence within.”

The Way of Grace is an...

Ceremony is a central part of human life and spiritual practice, yet in today’s world, many of our ceremonies have become rote or superficial. That’s why shamanic teacher Sandra Ingerman has created The Book of Ceremony—to help us recover the sense of deeper meaning and sacred connection that makes ceremony a powerful tool for transformation and healing...

At age 18, Damien Echols was sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit. “I spent my years in prison training to be a true magician,” he writes. “I used magick—the practice of reshaping reality through our intention and will—to stave off incredible pain, despair, and isolation. But the most amazing feat of all that practice and study was to manifest my...

How can we transform our collective fear and the deep divisions between us into meaningful change? In Freedom Is an Inside Job, bestselling author, humanitarian, and TV personality Zainab Salbi shares that to transform our outer world, we must turn towards our inner world.
 
After years of working as a successful CEO and change-maker, Salbi realized that if...

Our shadow is the part of ourselves that holds the feelings, beliefs, and behavioral patterns that we are most ashamed of or that we cannot accept about ourselves. And the degree to which we're unconscious of our shadow is the degree to which it influences and controls us.
 
Based upon Robert Augustus Masters's decades of reflection and experience as a...

Pause . . . breathe . . . smile. Three small words, yet each contains a universe of wisdom. Let the title be your guide in this inspiring book on awakening to the full depths of mindful living. The Pause is about setting our intention before we think, speak, or act—the ethical dimension of mindfulness. When we Breathe, we unite mind, body, and spirit...