Finding Erin... A True Story of Love & Loss by MICHELLE ELPHINSTONE

$24.99 AUD

Category: Personal Development

Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird

$32.99 AUD

Category: Personal Development

A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. Over the last decade, we have become bett er at knowing what brings us contentment, well-being and joy. We know, for example, that there are a few core truths to science of happiness. We know that being kind and altruistic makes us happy, that turning off devices, talking to people, forging relationships, living with meaning and delving into the concerns of others offer our best chance at achieving happiness. But how do we retain happiness? It often slips out of our hands as quickly as we find it. So, when we are exposed to, or learn, good things, how do we continue to burn with them? And more than that, when our world goes dark, when we're overwhelmed by illness or heartbreak, loss or pain, how do we survive, stay alive or even bloom? In the muck and grit of a daily existence full of disappointments and a disturbing lack of control over many of the things that matter most - finite relationships, fragile health, fraying economies, a planet in peril - how do we find, nurture and carry our own inner, living light - a light to ward off the darkness? Absorbing, achingly beautiful, inspiring and deeply moving, Julia Baird has written exactly the book we need for these times. ...Show more

Body Keeps the Score: Mind Brain & Body by Bessel van der Kolk

$24.99 AUD

Category: Psychology

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. 'Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is one of the West's most urgent public health issues . . . Packed with science and human stories.' New Scientist' Breathtaking in its scope and breadth, a seminal work by one of the preeminent pioneers in trauma research and treatment.' Peter A. Levine, author of In An Unspoken Voice' Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller.' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery ...Show more

Happy As: Why the Quest for Happiness Is Making Us Miserable by Lisa Portolan

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$29.99 (66% off)

Category: Personal Development

A fascinating and fresh insight into the idea of happiness in the digital age

Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle

$35.00 AUD

Category: Personal Development

There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent - even from ourselves. For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realised they had come to her from within. This was her own voice - the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to stop abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world's expectations of her. She stopped being good so she could be free. She stopped pleasing and started living. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanising wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is also the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honour our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts. Untamed shows us how to be brave. And, as Glennon insists, 'The braver we are, the luckier we get.'   ...Show more

Tweak - Growing up on Methamphetamines (FTI for Beautiful Boy) by Nic Sheff

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$19.99 (60% off)

Category: Personal Development

The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timoth e Chalamet.   This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man's addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.   Nic Sheff wa s drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait--but not one without hope. ...Show more

Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

$29.99 AUD

Category: Personal Development | Reading Level: good

For the past few years, Mark Manson-via his wildly popular blog-has been working on correcting our delusional expectations for ourselves and for the world. He now brings his hard-fought wisdom to this groundbreaking book. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-tal k, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor. ...Show more

This One Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson

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Category: Personal Development

In This One Wild and Precious Life, Sarah Wilson explores the central disorder of modern existence: disconnection from ourselves, disconnection from community, disconnection from the preciousness of life on this planet  This One Wild and Precious Life is a journey of the soul, a case for why we need to cast off our too-tight psychic apparel and step bravely into the uncertainty of 'giving a fuck', the whirlpool of finding purpose, and the perilousness of connecting fully, passionately and unequivocally to life again. Sarah's journey pivots from her own anxiety and feeling of disconnection, as she takes the reader on a three-year odyssey to reconnect with the life she feels we are losing via a series of hikes around the world. Throughout, she brings together science and spiritual understandings ('East meets West'), following in the footsteps of artists, poets and philosophers, to amplify the conversation that the world wants and needs to have right now. Elegantly written and uncannily prescient, this is the perfect book for this difficult era of climate carnage and COVID-19, that goes well beyond the data and the political toing and froing, a compelling argument for turning collective crises and shared malaise into rocket fuel for personal and social transformation. And a better world.   ...Show more

Spirit Junkie - A 52-Card Deck by Gabrielle Bernstein; Micaela Ezra (Illustrator)

$31.99 AUD

Category: Personal Development

This is the divine guidance you have been seeking. These beautiful oracle cards will give you the inspiration and motivation you need to share your positivity and gifts with the world. This is a collection of energetically charged cards that will help you step into your unique power and use your gifts to be of service to others. This is for the Spirit Junkies who believe passionately in the goodness of the world, and want to feel empowered and empower others. Created by New York Times bestselling spiritual author Gabrielle Bernstein, this deck features the signature look of her The Universe Has Your Back Cards and Super Attractor Cards. On each card is a watercolour - illustrated with celestial motifs, floral art and mystical elements - showing an inspirational message and call to action, such as: 'I trust that my intuition is always leading me in the right direction' 'Owning my power inspires others to do the same' 'Taking care of myself is a radical act of love' ...Show more