Life Lessons:
Self-Improvement, Coping with Grief/Loss, Rising to the Challenge

Allen, Roberta. The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Anderson, Joan. Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Andrus, Susan M. Beyond Mars & Venus (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Relationships; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Arrien, Angeles. The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Life Lessons; Elders Azar-Rucquoi, Adele. Money as Sacrament: Finding the Sacred in Money (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Baldwin, Christina. Lifelines: How Personal Writing Can Save Your Life (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Creative Life; Life Lessons Betts, Emilie. Shadows in My House of Sunshine (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Borysenko, Joan Z., Ph.D. Inner Peace for Busy Women: Balancing Work, Family, and Your Inner Life (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Life Lessons; Active Life Bryson, Karen Mueller, Ph.D. Those They Left Behind: Interviews, Stories, Essays and Poems by Survivors of Suicide (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons Cameron, Julia. The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size (reviewed by Becky Lane) Life Lessons; Creative Life; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Cameron, Julia. The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Life Lessons; Creative Life; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Chapman, Joyce. Celebrate Your Dream; Celebrate Your Dream Workbook (reviewed by Maggie Knorr) Chapman, Joyce. Live Your Dream; Live Your Dream Workbook (reviewed by Maggie Knorr) Clift, Eleanor. Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons Coyle. Margaret 'Meg'. Messages to Me: Words Collected on the Road to Silence (reviewed by Tracie Nichols) Poetry; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons DiSesa, Nina. Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Edgar, Robin. In My Mother's Kitchen (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Relationships; Life Lessons Edwards, Elizabeth. Saving Graces (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Memoir; Active Life; Body Language; Relationships; Life Lessons Erlbaum, Janice. Have You Found Her (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Finnamore, Suzanne. Split: A Memoir of Divorce (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Garfield, Charles, Cindy Spring, Sedonia Cahill. Wisdom Circles: A Guide to Self-Discovery and Community Building in Small Groups (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Geiss, Charlene and Claudia Jessup. Inner Outings: The Diarist's Deck of 33 Cards and Book of Exploration (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (reviewed by Stephanie Barko) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Giles, Laura. The Other Child: Children of Affairs (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Anthologies/Collections; Relationships; Life Lessons Gillespie, Spike. Quilty as Charged (reviewed by Tracie Nichols) Memoir; Life Lessons; Arts/Crafts Goldman, Connie. The Gifts of Caregiving (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Elders Grace, Maria. Reel Fulfillment: A 12-Step Plan For Transforming Your Life Through Movies (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Grandcolas, Lauren Catuzzi with Yvette Bozzini. You Can Do It! The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Life Lessons; Active Life Grandcolas, Lauren Catuzzi with Yvette Bozzini. You Can Do It! Workbook (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Life Lessons; Active Life Hanauer, Cathi, editor. The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Anthologies/Collections; Relationships; Life Lessons Heim, Susan M. It's Twins!: Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy through Adolescence (reviewed by Danelle Sasser) Life Lessons; Relationships Holstein, Dr. Barbara Becker. The Enchanted Self: A Positive Therapy (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Holstein, Dr. Barbara Becker. The Truth: My Secret Diary. I'm 10. I'm smart. And I know everything! (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Hood, Ann. Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Hornbacher, Marya. Madness: A Bipolar Life (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Ingerman, Sandra. Shamanic Journeying: A Beginner's Guide (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Life Lessons Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Life Lessons Junious, Ellen Denise. Unleash the Power of Personal Advantage: 7 Keys to Unlock Your Potential for Success (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Life Lessons; Active Life Keeley, Maureen P., Ph.D. and Julie M. Yingling, Ph.D. Final Conversations: Helping the Living and the Dying Talk to Each Other (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Relationships Kingsolver, Barbara. Small Wonder (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Kingsolver, Barbara. Small Wonder (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Kingston, Karen. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (reviewed by Melanie Alberts) Life Lessons; Creative Life Kreinin, Tamara & Barbara Camens. Girls' Night Out: Celebrating Women's Groups Across America (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons Lerner, Harriet Goldhor. The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Body Language; Life Lessons Lindbergh, Reeve. Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age—and Other Unexpected Adventures (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Lobenstine, Margaret. The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Life Lessons; Creative Life; Active Life Louden, Jennifer. The Life Organizer: A Woman's Guide to a Mindful Year (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) McDonnell, Jane Taylor. Living to Tell the Tale (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Creative Life; Life Lessons Mogel, Wendy. The Blessings of a Skinned Knee (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Life Lessons; Relationships; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Murdock, Maureen. Fathers' Daughters: Breaking the Ties That Bind (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Life Lessons; Relationships Murdock, Maureen. The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Myers, Linda Joy. Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Paris, Anne, Ph.D. Standing at the Water's Edge: Moving Past Fear, Blocks and Pitfalls to Discover the Power of Creative Immersion (reviewed by Joan Shaddox Isom) Creative Life; Life Lessons Pearl, Nancy. Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Pearl, Nancy. More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Pert, Candace B., Ph.D. Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language; Life Lessons Phillips, EJ. Woman: What She Has Done With Where She Has Been (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Life Lessons; Anthologies/Collections Phillips, Jan. Divining the Body: Reclaim the Holiness of Your Physical Self (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language; Life Lessons Pierce, PJ. Let Me Tell You What I've Learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Life Lessons; Active Life; Anthologies/Collections Reilly, Lee. Teaching Maggie: Letters on Life, Writing, and the Virtues of Solid Food (reviewed by Tracie Nichols) Life Lessons; Relationships; Creative Life Rogers, Barb. Twenty-Five Words: How the Serenity Prayer Can Save Your Life (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Roth, Gabrielle. Maps to Ecstasy: Teachings of an Urban Shaman (reviewed by Paulette Rees-Denis) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language; Life Lessons Roth, Gabrielle. Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Passage (reviewed by Paulette Rees-Denis) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Body Language; Life Lessons Shaffer, Veronica A. I Hear Your Cry: Women in Prison (reviewed by Carol Waid) Snyderman, Nancy L. Necessary Journeys: Letting Ourselves Learn from Life (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Stanczak, Sherri A. From the Heart of a Mother (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Thoele, Sue Patton. The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance & Opening Your Heart (reviewed by Becky Lane) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Thomas, Pattie (with Carl Wilkerson). Taking Up Space: How Eating Well & Exercising Regularly Changed My Life (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Active Life Tiberghien, Susan M. Circling to the Center: One Woman's Encounter with Silent Prayer (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Life Lessons Tirabassi, Becky. Keep the Change: Breaking Through to Permanent Transformation (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Life Lessons; Body Language Woodman, Marion. Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Wooldridge, Susan G. Foolsgold: Making Something From Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Life Lessons; Creative Life Yen Mah, Adeline. Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Youngs, Bettie B., Ph.D, Ed.D, Susan M. Heim, Jennifer L. Youngs. Oh, Baby! 7 Ways a Baby Will Change Your Life The First Year (reviewed by Kara Flathouse) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Relationships Zackheim, Victoria, editor. For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language