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A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy.  All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.

“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. 

As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. 

Tap into your magic with this thoughtfully designed daily journal.

Self-love is everything. It allows us to connect with our inner magic, and has the power to make us feel inner peace and pure joy. But it can be hard to find time to show ourselves love when the stresses of day-to-day life take over.
    This is why The Self-Love Journal was created. The weekly prompts will help you to check in with yourself, set challenges for healthy growth, plan nourishing meals, and practice self-care activities. The monthly illustrated affirmations will empower you further on your mindful journey of self-discovery.
    Whether you’re a longtime fan of journaling or just starting this powerful practice, you’ll find the nurturing space you need on these well-designed and encouraging pages.

Discover the Hidden Depths of the Sabbath

Take flight for a mesmerizing exploration of an event long shrouded in fear and mystery―the Witches' Sabbath. Kelden presents an in-depth examination of the Sabbath's historical and folkloric development as well as its re-emergence within the modern practice of Witchcraft. From discussions on the folklore of flight and the events of nocturnal gatherings to enchanting rituals and recipes, you'll find everything you need to not only understand the nature of the legendary Sabbath, but also journey there yourself. Offering impressive research and compelling stories from across Europe and the early American colonies, this book is the ultimate resource for discovering an oft misunderstood and overlooked aspect of Witchcraft.

Part memoir and part guide, author Alexandra Elle shares stirring stories from her own remarkable journey from self-doubt to self-love.

This soulful collection is filled with illuminating reflections on loss, fear, bravery, healing, love, acceptance, and more.
Readers follow along her journey as she transforms challenging experiences—a difficult childhood, painful romantic relationships, and single parenting as a young mom—into fuel for her career as a successful entrepreneur and author driven by purpose and passion.

Filled with Elle's signature candor and warmth, After the Rain is a soulful guide to help you embrace all the beauty, love, and opportunity life has to offer. It includes empowering affirmations and meditations to practice in your own life.

Presented in a luminous package with foil and gold accents on the cover, this is a beautiful gift for anyone on the path to self-discovery, and an uplifting reminder that there is always sunshine after the rain.
 

Perfect for those who practice meditation, self-care, journaling, and anyone seeking personal transformation and empowerment

The Women's Circle is your practical guide to hosting women's circles with intention, purpose and meaning, making them a healing and empowering experience of gathering community.

A women's circle is a gathering of women in order to share, experience and relish in each other's company. They are the ultimate "safe space", a place where women can commune, open up and feel seen and heard. Spiritual healer Anoushka Florence invites you into this sacred space – a space for you to explore and remember the true power of feminine energy.

Beautifully illustrated with full-color photography, The Women's Circle is a practical and inspiring guide to hosting circles of your own. Including the history of circles, the importance of gathering, and steps for hosting 35 different rituals with the women in your life – a bridal blessing, mamahood blessing, memorial circle, new love circle, grief circle, sun circles, moon circles and circles to honor the change of season.

Seeking to revive, reclaim and remember the tradition of the women's circle, The Women's Circle will bring back to life this ancient feminine practice illustrating the benefits, healing, and magik that occurs when women gather. This is an opportunity for the reader to call in their community, gather and connect. Never has there been a more important time to rediscover the power of women's circles.

When the goddess culture was stolen and buried, so too were women’s rites of passage into our wild, intuitive femininity and maturity.

With Maiden to Mother, Sarah Durham Wilson excavates these ancient rites, guiding us through a sacred and crucial initiation from the immature Maiden into the archetypal Mother―the powerful, safe, compassionate, full-bloom feminine life force that exists within all of us.

Becoming the Mother is every woman’s birthright―regardless of whether or not she raises children. The Mother is who we needed as a child, who we were meant to be in this life, and who the world needs us to be now.

Wilson teaches that while pre-patriarchal cultures honored women’s natural cycles, today’s society infantilizes women, idolizing youthful traits such as “pretty, pleasing, and polite” in order to keep us distracted and dependent. While a healthy version of the Maiden will always remain part of us, there comes a time when we must no longer let her wounds and immaturity guide our lives. We must step into our mature, feminine fullness.

In this journey, you will travel with Inanna―the ancient Sumerian goddess who ventured through the Underworld to meet her severed, dark sister and emerged fully integrated and empowered, giving us an archetypal map to inner strength and wholeness.

Through personal stories, rituals, teachings, and practices, Wilson helps women heal the Mother Wound and dismantle our internalized patriarchy with its false, constricting standards for the feminine, so we may live with authenticity and feast on the richness of life. “Midlife is not, as our culture proposes, where a woman’s power ends,” writes Wilson, “but where it really begins.”

The journal for your reading journey. Remember your most-loved books, record and review your reads and discover delightful new narratives. The perfect place to put literary love into words. What's inside? - Space to review 32 books, with 4 pages per review - 8 pages worth of reading wish lists for you to fill out - A tracker to note books you’ve borrowed and lent - Journaling prompts for thoughtful reviews or book club chats - Pages to write down your most-loved reads - An address list for favorite bookstores, websites and spots to read - Lists of book recommendations curated by the Papier team

Pack your bags, paper people. Papier’s travel journal has pages to plan and remember special trips big and small. Note budgets, itineraries, packing lists and memories across 6 adventures you can treasure forever. Where will pen and paper take you? What's Inside - About me page - Travel wishlist and trip ideas - Space for 6 journeys which each include transport, accommodation, budgets, packing lists, itineraries, journaling space and your highlights from your trip - Packing guide - Travel games - List of countries and an illustrative map of the world to color in

Our bestselling Concept Planner is back in a new print to encourage goal-oriented and idea-driven scheduling. There’s designated space for your goals and ideas at the start of each open-dated yearly, monthly and weekly section, plus plenty of room for notes and to-do lists. Smyth Sewn binding lies flat when open and a durable, fabric-like cover is built to last.

Details: 252 pages 8.3" x 5.8" (21 cm x 14.8 cm) Yearly, monthly, weekly, and notes sections

Our daily lives are overwhelmed by stress and mental clutter. The Love Your Mind Journal is a tool to help you write your way out of heavy thoughts towards a more mindful approach to life. The regular practice of writing down your thoughts and feelings has been shown to improve relationships, mental health, and quality of sleep. The journal’s pages provide a space to free your thoughts, invite clarity, and cultivate peace of mind. Inspirational quotes, motivational context, and actionable daily & weekly prompts encourage reflection and self-inquiry, with the goal of growing your awareness for a more balanced, joyful life. The journal can be used on its own or to complement your meditation and mindfulness practice on the Headspace app.

Details: - Open-dated–move through the themes and complete the prompts in any order you’d like - Lay-flat Smyth Sewn binding - Offset printing & matte lamination - Dimensions: 5.75” L x 8.5” H (14.6 cm x 21.6 cm)

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” (Blyth Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet.

“Magical thinking” can be broadly defined as the belief that one’s internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos, but in The Age of Magical Overthinking, Montell argues that in the modern information age, our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to an eleven.

In a series of razor sharp, deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, from how the “halo effect” cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger-than-life celebrities, to how the “sunk cost fallacy” can keep us in detrimental relationships long after we’ve realized they’re not serving us. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance and wit, Montell’s prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves. If you have all but lost faith in our ability to reason, Montell aims to make some sense of the senseless. To crack open a window in our minds, and let a warm breeze in. To help quiet the cacophony for a while, or even hear a melody in it.