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Memories and Elephants: The art of casual racism is a collection of memoir-based essays set against the sociopolitical background of Australian society.In these essays-written with clarity and compassion by Meaghan Katrak Harris-you'll explore the intersectionality of Australian culture, classism, racism and identity as the author has lived it.Drawing on her experiences of being a teenage mother, a member of a large multicultural family, a social worker, and an academic, Meaghan uses powerful personal narrative to illuminate often uncomfortable aspects of our society-the elephants in the room that have been historically downplayed and ignored.Taking you from memories of country life to the city, from the street to national television, Memories and Elephants invites you to think beyond the dominant narrative of Australian identity.

Part personal journey and part self-help book, Seconds Please shares truths and lessons from the author's own life about leaving her marriage and looking for happily ever after only to find herself on a journey of self-discovery, one she never asked for and one she didn't realise she needed to have.With wisdom, insight and direct personal experience, Seconds Please is one of the more delightful, modern books about finding yourself and starting over after divorce. Asking, is divorce really a failure or could it instead be the best thing that ever happened to you?From the process of leaving a long-term relationship and letting go of the future dream, through to navigating the dating world and how to create a blueprint for your own version of an aligned, passionate, exciting future. This book promises to inspire you at any point of your divorce recovery to make this next season of your life, the very best season of your life.Onwards and upwards to your next big love!

Still a Mum is a wholehearted book on grief and losing a baby that provides wisdom and support through careful insight, helping you feel less alone.What no parent wants to face: Meagan Donaldson was 23 weeks pregnant when tests confirmed that her unborn baby had a rare condition. Told the prognosis for their daughter was poor, they made a heartbreaking decision to say goodbye to their little girl. Soon after, Violet Grace was born. Still, but perfect.However, her short life left a big impact on her parents-and a network of strangers across the world as her story and the wisdom gained from the experience was shared and a successful fundraiser was created in her honour.Written whilst on maternity leave-with no baby and planning her daughter's memorial instead of a baby shower-and in the preceding year, the author offers healing awareness through a fractured heart which helps readers understand pregnancy loss and grief.Still a Mum is a story about loss, life and love and finding joy again after heartbreak. Shining a spotlight on the stigma that still exists around pregnancy loss, not just for the parents but for other family members as well.You'll uncover true support and finding strength through pain and experiencing parenthood through a unique lens.

This I Know Is True is a collection of stories exploring the highs and lows of life women have experienced-emotionally, spiritually, socially, and physically-as we discover what truth really means so we can access a fearlessness that will enable us to live our truest and bravest life.Women, of all backgrounds are making way in the new world, illuminating kind, provocative, practical knowledge and wisdom into a deeply neglected and changing world that are profoundly relevant to all of us.In This I Know Is True, 18 women from around the world share their personal stories. Their stories will inspire your soul and remind you that anything is possible when we reawaken our sacred dreams, tap into our power within that can recreate our world for the better. Women have the capacity to transform and forge a brighter path for community progress, for all, and to cultivate connection in our changing world.

The Joy Decision: Rhapsodies for the Afflicted is a sentient, conscious collection of short fiction stories spanning time, space and possibility. Intricately threaded throughout is an exploration of the nature of joy, and our decisions towards, or away from its experience.Every story is an inspiring immersion, bound with the ache of real life and in service to the full spectrum of emotion. Guilt, shame, grief, the idling feeling that something greater must hold us as an artist would his brush-all reservoirs for the greater contemplation and manifestation of exquisite, unbridled joy.

A modern motherhood book to connect you back to yourselfAs we enter into motherhood, we are often given a filtered version of what motherhood will be like with a silent list of expectations on how to be a "e;good"e; mother. This outdated story is what sets us on a course where we place pressure on ourselves to be it all and do it all. Ultimately, we lose ourselves.Worldwide, we have mothers who are surviving instead of thriving. Depleted, unfulfilled and longing to find the woman they have lost since becoming a mother. Now, women are calling from within their souls to find their own version of motherhood that feels good and is free from judgement, guilt and self-sacrifice.Conscious Motherhood is not just every woman's invitation to change the story of motherhood, it also encourages you to journey into yourself, to heal your heart and welcome balance between yourself and mother.This modern motherhood book will help you find balance and peace of mind through embracing all the experiences of motherhood - both the beautiful and madness. It will guide you to welcoming more understanding and acceptance of the imperfect beauty of motherhood.Get ready to re-love yourself, trust your intuition and create dreams alongside an enriched experience of motherhood. This is your homecoming to the woman you were always meant to be.

A self-leadership and self-coaching experience you can work through so you can mine the deepest insights and put them into practice.The Wholehearted Companion Workbook works hand in hand with Wholehearted: Self-leadership for women in transition, unveiling Terri Connellan's transition journey from a successful thirty-year career in one organisation towards a different, more purposeful life. From her experiences, Terri provides positive self-leadership insights for women going through or seeking major change in their lives.The Companion Workbook goes deeper with how to put the learning into practice. It walks you through the key ideas in Wholehearted including fifteen self-leadership skills, providing deeper reflection and crafting personal strategies to live more wholeheartedly. You will learn how to apply skills and practices like intention setting, writing as daily practice and prioritising exercise and self-care in this practical toolkit for women seeking to positively transition, whether self-initiated or instigated by others or circumstances.If you love making notes and engaging as you read, reflecting on how what you read might apply in your life, you will find the workbook a valuable companion.

A wise mix of memoir, practical strategies and positive self-leadership resources for women going through major change in their lives.Wholehearted: Self-leadership for women in transition is a personal recount of one woman's journey about shifting from being a long-term government employee towards enjoying a richer, more self-directed and creative life as an inspirational life coach.When author, Terri Connellan, realises she no longer aligns with the organisation where she has worked for thirty years, she turns her back on a successful career and searches for a different, more purposeful life. Wholehearted unveils this transition journey and path to shaping a more fulfilling, creative and values driven life through low and high moments and life altering decision making.Wholehearted contains a set of self-leadership skills including intention setting, writing as daily practice and prioritising exercise and self-care, whilst providing guidance and a toolkit for women seeking to positively transition, whether self-initiated or instigated by others or circumstances. An aligned Wholehearted Companion Workbook provides deeper reflection and crafting personal strategies to live more wholeheartedly.

Deliciously empower and nourish yourself with sacred and seasonal food.Priestess Your Plate is a nourishing read about food sacredness and wisdom and a journey back to your inner seasonal Goddess and Mother Earth.This book is a true offering to live a life which is deliciously empowered by the seasonal food you choose to nourish yourself with. And from such a wholehearted way of life, you can lead in the world all that your heart desires.Within these pages you will find your heart's compass towards how you can Priestess Your Plate through food sovereignty, sacredness and the gained intuition of your inner cycles of self within the seasons of the greatest Goddess of all, Mother Earth.If you're questioning all that you once knew about food or are completely confused by all the mixed messages, diet culture and what healthy really is, then Priestess Your Plate is an intuitive eating guide for you. Consider it an inviting guide to heed Mother Earth's call to use food, cooking and eating as a spiritual and self-loving practice via a simpler way that steps away from the ingrained food patriarchy.Understand your intuitive self through the sacred practice of food-selecting, cooking and eating in alignment with your cycles and Mother Earth's seasons for sovereign nourishment in heart, mind, body and spirit.The patriarchal plate has ended. Welcome to no more ingredient or lifestyle demonising through these sacred pages of Priestess Your Plate and reclaim yourself through food sacredness.

A real call to action for post traumatic growthNothing dovetails personal and professional experience about birth trauma together in a way that's hopeful, holistic and even humorous quite like More Than a Healthy Baby does. Not only will the reader feel validated and supported but encouraged in this heartfelt call to action written by clinical and perinatal psychologist, Dr Erin Bowe, who seamlessly delivers her passion and advocacy for post traumatic growth through these pages.Often, how you felt during a birth can be so easily dismissed and the birthing parents gaslighted. A healthy baby is all that matters, right? Not so. There's room for serious reconsideration to what health means, particularly when it comes to birth trauma. Experiencing and recovering from birth trauma is hard but it doesn't have to be all darkness and shadow, as this book shows.A delightfully unexpected book, you'll come away feeling lighter having being offered wisdom, coupled with a stack of practical coping strategies. This book will show you the way to really discover self-compassion and the confidence to celebrate your growth. Where you will feel acknowledged and understood and your trauma can be accounted for. Plus, it offers tips for breastfeeding trauma, sourcing holistic support, vicarious trauma in partners as well as strategies to help with overwhelm and difficult emotions and thoughts.It's also the inspiration for parents to become the guardians of change for the next generation.

Celebrate a moonlit pathway of self-improvement and inner workStep into the enchanting world of the Goddess. Goddess Rising is here to ignite and guide your inner light and help you transverse the magical landscape of your deepest inner work. A call to self-discovery through a collection of poetry, affirmations, meditations and cultivating sacred space to empower the Goddess within; to stand and embrace all of you, whether in light or shadow, as you move through the seasons of life. By discovering and connecting with the gorgeous, powerful energy of the moon, you are guided to set new intentions, manifest and release what is no longer serving you. Most of all, this book gives you permission to start again, rewrite and recraft your own personal journey.

THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIMEThe turn of a new decade held such promise. A chance to close off a cycle and begin anew in 2020.And then every corner of the globe was exposed to a new type of highly contagious and unpredictable virus. With no pre immunity, vaccine or treatment, every human was susceptible. Sounding much like a science fiction movie, this was to become the world''s reality and worst nightmare of leaders and frontline medical experts.Covid-19 has ripped through entire countries, causing widespread isolations, lockdowns, death and crippling economies all over the world. The effects and impacts of this virus are far reaching and complex, bringing every part of our lives under the spotlight, requiring reflection and adjustment. All the solutions and management points to a need to shut down everything, reset, and work out ways to effectively reboot the system. But for every dark cloud there is bound to be a silver lining; an opportunity that could, in fact, make a difference to our future. 2020, a year of reset, on an individual and global scale.Having passed through a period of gradual awakening, and having made many changes in order to create the life she felt she deserved, Pina Di Donato was looking forward to the new year. But just when she thought she was finally in control of her future, the Universe had other plans. She, too, would be banished to her corner of the room where she could rest, reflect, reset and contemplate her next move. This book is the result of her reflection and offers an original perspective on the experience.The Reset Switch is a friendly book that highlights the benefits of slowing down, putting the need for reset under the microscope and offering newness and the promise of what is to come.Could true happiness be just around the corner?

The world is your oyster and it can create many pearls.Pearls of Wisdom eloquently teaches that peace is your deserving power as well as the catalyst for your greatest potential. Particularly when you combine thoughts, decisions and actions which welcomes true magic and finding peace into your life.Peace is a guide. It's a barometer for how well you are connecting with your inner wisdom. Without it, there's a sense of unease: which is wisdom calling to garner your attention, to show you the way back to power and potential. You will come to know that your wisdom can be found within your reactions to life as it is often revealed through challenge and adversity.Written in the pages of Pearls of Wisdom is the miracle you have been waiting for. Each pearl of wisdom opens a doorway and illuminates your own special path to the peace that you have been craving whilst covering more than one hundred themes such as abundance, addiction, anxiety, freedom, friendship, intuition, success, transformation, work and so much more.As you embrace the truth of your innate and universal wisdom, everything that you thought was closed can finally be opened up, especially power, peace and potential.Become the most wise, powerful and peaceful version of yourself even amid a stirring chaos.'...it's your turn to discover the pearls of wisdom in this book, by (re)discovering the pearls of wisdom within yourself,' Cassie Mendoza-Jones, bestselling author.

Get ready to switch on the lights of your life and inner soul journey.This exceptionally heartfelt book offers peace and understanding as you dance through your inner soul journey.More than just another self-help book, Who Switched the Lights On? is one of the more profound and realistic books about life that summarises an eye-opening ten-year journey. Pina Di Donato masterfully extracted the key learnings from that confronting, yet enlightening, time so you, too, can walk in harmony through your life.Clean away the cobwebs and darkness that keep you stagnant and break free using genuine guidance and experience. Be prepared to shine brighter than you ever have; triumphant and graceful.Who Switched the Lights On? is a companion guide for the person ready to have an illuminated life.

Your heart knows the way to heal, how to master your mind to love, and to accept and forgive the parts of you forgotten.War had closed my heart. But I was ready to stop disconnecting and save myself.After multiple deployments in the Royal Australian Army and time spent supporting the Special Air Service Regiment, Matthew Bruce was left numb to compassion, empathy and love. Warriors' War explains how trauma, depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are affecting the globe; past and present. It provides a map to understand the depths of trauma and how to move towards healing the heart and mind.The heart of this trauma recovery book focuses on navigating the transition with balance and demonstrates that healing depends on our actions and perceptions of PTSD as a disconnection of identity. Once we truly understand how our minds are relating to the stress and stimulation of the outside world, we can use simple proven daily practices to create a truly limitless life. Through implementing small changes and taking radical responsibility for our own state of mind, we can grow deeply, release anger and move through the trauma of the past.As one of the more considered books about trauma healing, it's calling on men across the planet to stand up together and take accountability for the level of detachment and the cost this projection has on our relationships and communities.The author's methods draw on his own fruitful healing modalities and ancient traditions worldwide to restore the soul and spirit so that men can truly come home to modern society, loved ones and self.Loaded with free online content, this book about trauma healing will help everyone understand that they have the power to remove the PTSD label so they can thrive.

She: A Collection of You, Me, Her is one of the most profound modern collections and inspirational books that honours and acknowledges the transitions in a woman's life.

A book of age-old spiritual teachings served up in thirty-five actionable lessons to guide you back home to the callings of your soul. Rock Your Light is a no-fluff practical guide, emphasising power, purpose and prosperity, illuminating your innate gifts to enable you to believe in and go big with your lightwork in a way that is aligned to your true self.Never has there been a more fertile time for creative women and heart-driven leaders to ignite the fire in the belly, own our unique gifts and to birth our big-hearted visions. This is the time for lightworkers, leaders, luminaries, yogis, healers, spiritual teachers and everyday people feeling called to crank the dial up and create positive change. Tracey Spencer teaches you how to overcome fear and how to generate a deeper connection with your higher self so that as a lightworker you can fiercely trust the call of your inner voice and take bold actions towards your dreams. It's time for lightworkers to courageously live, lead and create from the heart space.This book is your permission slip to step up, claim and live your best life. To be seen, heard and celebrated for who you really are. Rock Your Light is an immersion for the soul, filled with spiritual principles, reflections and practices to align you with your true purpose: to be a source of light in the world.

';We have been called to live a life that is authentically aligned with our soul. You are ready to live as a magical miracle.'Master of One is a modern oracle. A sacred transmission to help you unlock the wisdom and guidance within, understand your spiritual awakening initiation and create deeper soul awareness. Our life reflects where we are on our personal soul map and what we need to do to transcend and transform heartbreak, grief, ill health and many more things that shape being a human. You will experience your path with innate clear sight and learn what is being asked of you to evolve your soul and life.This spiritual book reveals your soul's calling, from a place of profound consciousness, all whilst guiding you to your light. It's not just a book of soul wisdom and self-discovery but one of true mastery that will navigate you towards your best life. Master of One empowers you to live from your heart space, even in our modern society. Consider it much like a spiritual buddy and guide to walk you home.

Panicked thoughts. Vivid nightmares. Racing heart. Unrelenting dread. Witnessing the drowning death of her four-year-old brother Owen was the beginning of a lifetime of nightmares. Growing up during the oppressive system, apartheid, in South Africa, increased her anxiety as she struggled with her self-worth.It was in writing her debut book, A Darker Shade of Pale: A Memoir of Apartheid South Africa, that she unravelled.In Behind My Smile: The True Story of an Author, a Broken Spirit and a Healer Beryl dissects her struggles with grief. After a lifelong battle with self-acceptance Beryl found the keys to overcoming the stigma of mental breakdown. The book offers a candid and absorbing account of Beryl's healing journey. She shares details of the intensive work of clinical psychologist and energy medicine practitioner, Dr Geoff Lyons. This healing encouraged Beryl to explore her belief in the power of her heritage, the gifts available from contact with her ancestors and traditional healing methods. Having found a true healer, Beryl was able to see the richness of a life free of all manner of oppression political, psychological, material. Based on her healing she strongly believes that talk therapy and traditional healing must merge.This story is essential reading for anyone who knows what it means to hover on the edge, and find a way to dive back into life.

The ultimate anti self-help book.Messy is your hype girl for a sassy and inspired life driven by you.This is not a book telling you what you need to ‘fix’ within your life. Fork that.These pages are for any woman who has ever felt the insane pressure to be living a picture-perfect life and then feels like they’re failing when they don’t eat organic, home cooked meals every night, or when they scream at their kids, or because they haven’t hand-woven their own ethically sourced, carbon neutral underwear.In short, Katie has created a self-help book that doesn’t suck. Revelations don’t need to be heavy. Change doesn’t have to be hard and self-inquiry can actually be like a beautiful big exhale.Shall we?

A rich memoir about exploring a family mystery, and how a search for truth can yield unexpected outcomes.Eight years after the death of her mother, Judy reviews her family relics, including the antique tea service that belonged to her mother's grandfather. Should she just sell the damn thing and buy new lounge furniture? It's tempting.But she stops to read the inscription etched into the solid silver tray. It honours this man around whom hangs a century-old mystery. Prickling with a strange resentment towards her widely loved mother, she embarks on a journey to uncover the truth behind the story of grandeur and ruin her mother had promised, but never wrote.The author's relentless research in dusty archives and neglected cemeteries across South Africa unravels an unexpected family history. The process draws her to revisit the darker corridors of her youth, and her sense of identity. She confronts the losses and complexities of her own life.The Silver Tea Service is a thought-provoking memoir of loss, redemption and belonging, of political injustices and the inescapable nuances of history in South Africa.