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Harvard professor and bestselling author Arthur C. Brooks offers science-based insights on work and life in this curated collection from his ‘How to Build a Life’ column in The Atlantic.
Imagine if your life were a startup. How would you lead it and shape it to be most successful?
That's the question behind The Happiness Files, a rich selection of enlightening and instructive essays by Arthur C. Brooks, known worldwide for his inspiring yet practical wisdom and advice in his weekly column for The Atlantic and in his bestselling books, From Strength to Strength and Build the Life You Want (coauthored with Oprah Winfrey).
The simple answer, as Brooks wisely explains, is to manage your life in a way that leads to truly valuable rewards: love, enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning — in other words, happiness.
Why do women feel so much guilt? We're guilty when we don't do what we think we should, when others get upset with us, even when we indulge in moments of pleasure.
In Guilt Free, psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Reid invites us to let go of all this guilt so we can start making choices based on what we want and need rather than what we think we should be doing.
Some guilt is good, even necessary, but women are uniquely socialized to hold themselves to unrealistic expectations. Guilt drives us to take on more than we should, and do things that we don't truly want to do. Any time we fall short - and we will, because we're human - there it crops up: guilt.
It's too much, and it doesn't have to be this way.
From award-winning writer Jennifer Breheny Wallace, a deeply consequential look at restoring closeness in our relationships and how feeling connected – mattering – can bring purpose and happiness to our lives.
In a world where loneliness, burnout, and disconnection have reached crisis levels, Jennifer Breheny Wallace offers a transformative solution: mattering. Through vivid storytelling and groundbreaking research, Mattering: The Secret to Building a Life of Deep Purpose and Connection reveals how feeling seen, needed, and valued isn't just a nice-to-have ― it's essential for our wellbeing and society's future.
A provocative interactive workbook that leads us to reclaim our true selves so we can find the peace and wellbeing we deserve.
With the publication of her electrifying New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior, Elise Loehnen - often deemed "our culture's therapist" - offered a groundbreaking exploration of the rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered good. She illuminated the centuries-old code of conduct that keeps us disempowered, exhausted, anxious, and disconnected - even from ourselves.
In Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness, Loehnen partners with Courtney Smith, a renowned Enneagram expert and coach, to share tools they have learned from the visionary healers, thinkers, and therapists that prompt readers to dig into the stories they tell themselves. These tools guide us to peel back the layers of cultural programming that prevent us from expressing our full potential. The paradigm-shifting process Loehnen and Smith teach on the pages of this workbook reveals the answers to the questions that tug at our souls: Who am I? What do I want? What's standing in my way?
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I Eat The Stars, Sarah Wilson
Release date: May 26, 2026
We are already living through collapse. Climate extremes, political turmoil, and fractured communities are no longer on the horizon – they are here now. For decades we held on to the hope that everything would turn out fine; but our deadlines have passed, tipping points are unfolding, and clinging to hope can deepen our confusion and despair.
However, with the loss of hope comes relief. Relief that we can stop pretending, release the exhausting effort to believe against evidence, and finally acknowledge our communal fear as we watch our world changing irreparably.
Instead of falling into panic and disillusionment, Sarah shows us how to embrace this era with presence, courage, and awe. Drawing on years of research and over 200 interviews with philosophers, scientists, spiritual leaders, and everyday seekers, she weaves hard truths with soulful practices to help us rise above fear and use our energy to reconnect with what matters most.
Readers will discover how to:
· Confront collapse with honesty while cultivating resilience and creativity
· Find beauty, joy, and connection in chaos
· Reclaim agency through radical simplicity, community, and compassion
Sarah invites readers into a post-hope consciousness rooted not in denial, but in meaning. I Eat the Stars is a vital companion for navigating the times we live in ― and for living fully, fiercely, and beautifully despite them.
Facing Madame X, Jamie Rose
Release date: April 23, 2026
Jamie Rose is an author and coach mentored by legendary therapist Phil Stutz, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Tools, and subject of the hit Netflix documentary, Stutz. Now, Rose brings a woman’s perspective to his work with Facing Madame X: The Tools for Women.
One of Stutz’s main teachings is that everyone has an inner enemy called “Part X”—the voice that says you’re not enough, and you’ll never succeed, so don’t even try. For women, these messages are made more potent by a patriarchy that declares that they’re not pretty, thin, young, smart, or polite as they could or should be. Rose labels the specifically pernicious way this “X” force attacks women as “Madame X.”
Facing Madame X teaches readers how to identify and neutralize the inner saboteur that has suppressed, disconnected, or overpowered their potential. Through case studies of her clients and her own personal journey, Rose helps women to hear and trust their inner voice and connect to the archetypical spirit that is their birthright—the divine feminine—a powerful, creatively benevolent force that will help them reach their full, uniquely beautiful potential and create the life that always felt just beyond their grasp.
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