NOVEMBER NEW RELEASES
The Integrity Advantage by Kelly Kosow
Are you ready to open up to new levels of self-trust and self-love, to get where you want to go?
You vowed to speak up at work, and then sat silent in the meeting yet again.
You told yourself “this time the diet is going to stick,” only to watch the scale inching up.
You felt that something just wasn’t right about someone that—until you learned the hard way that your instincts were right.
“Every time you bite your tongue,” teaches Kelley Kosow, “you swallow your integrity.”
Before Kelley Kosow was a renowned life coach and CEO, she constantly second-guessed herself, let her “to-do” lists and others steer her dreams and passions, and played it “small and safe.”
Inspired by the groundbreaking principles of her renowned mentor Debbie Ford, who hand-picked Kelley to be her successor, The Integrity Advantage is Kelley’s step-by-step guide for facing the fear, shame, and false beliefs that cause us to lose our way.
Through life-changing insights, true stories, and proven strategies, this book will show you how to live on your own terms—according to you—from the inside out.
Daring to Rest by Karen Brody
As modern women, we’re taught that we can do it all, have it all, and be it all. While this freedom is beautiful, it’s also exhausting. Being a “worn-out woman” is now so common that we think feeling tired all the time is normal. According to Karen Brody, feeling this exhausted is not normal—and it’s holding us back. In Daring to Rest, Brody comes to the rescue with a 40-day program to help you reclaim rest and access your most powerful, authentic self through yoga nidra, a meditative practice that guides you into one of the deepest states of relaxation imaginable.
It’s time to lie down and begin the journey to waking up
Breathe and Be by Anna Emilia Laitinen and Kate Coombs
Teaching mindfulness helps kids learn to stay calm, regulate their emotions, and appreciate the world around them. With Breathe and Be, author Kate Coombs and illustrator Anna Emilia Laitinen team up to present a book of poetry and art for young readers to make mindfulness easy, natural, and beautiful. Here is a book sure to delight parents and kids alike, blending lovingly illustrated nature imagery with elegant verse about living with awareness and inner peace.
Leopard Warrior by John Lockley
A Teaching Memoir That Crosses the Barriers Between Worlds
A shaman is one who has learned to move between two worlds: our physical reality and the realm of spirits. For John Lockley, shamanic training also meant learning to cross the immense divide of race and culture in South Africa.
As a medic drafted into the South African military in 1990, John Lockley had a powerful dream. “Even though I am a white man of Irish and English descent, I knew in my bones that I had received my calling to become a sangoma, a traditional South African shaman,” John writes. “I felt blessed by the ancient spirit of Africa, and I knew that I had started on a journey filled with magic and danger.” His path took him from the hills of South Korea, where he trained as a student under Zen Master Su Bong, to the rural African landscape of the Eastern Cape and the world of the sangoma mystic healers, where he found his teacher in the medicine woman called MaMngwev
Things That Join the Sea and the Sky by Mark Nepo
A Reader for Navigating the Depths of Our Lives
The Universe holds us and tosses us about, only to hold us again. With Things That Join the Sea and the Sky, Mark Nepo brings us a compelling treasury of short prose reflections to turn to when struggling to keep our heads above water, and to breathe into all of our sorrows and joys.
Inspired by his own journal writing across 15 years, this book shares with us some of Mark’s most personal work. Many passages arise from accounts of his own life events—moments of “sinking and being lifted”—and the insights they yielded. Through these passages, we’re encouraged to navigate our own currents of sea and sky, and to discover something fundamental yet elusive: How, simply, to be here.
To be enjoyed in many ways—individually, by topic, or as an unfolding sequence—Things That Join the Sea and the Sky presents 145 contemplations gathered into 17 themes, each intended to illuminate specific situations.
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This is beautifully written and touches my soul. The perfect encouragement for lingering in my confusion knowing that I will soon gain the wisdom of this stepping stone and continue on my life’s path.
I am in this place you describe, and I’m staying present with the emotions as they arise, accepting. Which is ok when I’m home alone, but when I’m out in the world, and my work in particular, I feel my vulnerability to the upset of others, and I need to hold therapeutic space. What are your thoughts here?
This is one of the most beautiful and thought provoking things I’ve read in a while. Exquisite.
A perspective such as this does not come through the intellectual mind but rather being the expierencer of it.I am getting so much from your writings Matt,deeply profound and brings us to our truth. Thanks again for all you are doing!
Matt, these words are so deeply insightful, touching and supportive! I intend to reread them often as they strongly resonate with me and help put current experiences in a new light.
Dear Mr. Lucata,
The depth of insight as evidenced in all your writing speaks volumes about your spiritual height. I see love beautifully portrayed in all your articles. I’ll love to see you write full books where you explain in your characteristic style this much needed and “greatest” thing in the world – LOVE.
Dear Sunnie, thank you for sharing your heart here and for your very kind words. I look forward to hearing more from you and will be sure to post where when my book is available. Lots of love, my friend…
This is so beautiful and in alignment with many paths I am drawn to- in particular The Pathwork Lectures and ‘The Undefended Self’ by Susan Thesenga. Are you familiar with Pathwork?
Thank you so much,
Carolee
Thank you, Carolee, for stopping by and for your kind words. I am not familiar with Pathwork. Take care, my friend…
I needed every word of this today. I am actively engaged in this struggle and to all intents and purposes have come to the realization that I have struggled with this at one time or another my entire life. I am tired. In my exhaustion it is hard for me to believe the resolution will be clarity and sense of purpose, but I feel the healing balm of the words this day nonetheless. Thank you for posting this. I am deeply grateful to have found this page and to have read this words.
Happy to be connected with you here, Lynda. Thank you for sharing your experience and your journey with us.