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 Anderson, Kyra & Vicki Forman, editors. Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum (reviewed by Judy Miller) Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons; Relationships Andrus, Susan M. Beyond Mars & Venus (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Relationships; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Angelou, Maya. Letter to My Daughter (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Arrien, Angeles. The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Life Lessons; Elders Astyk, Sharon. Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment 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 Battenfield, Jackie. The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Life Lessons; Creative Life; Arts/Crafts Belsky, Gail. The List: 100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Betts, Emilie. Shadows in My House of Sunshine (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Memoir; Life Lessons Black, Hilary, editor. The Secret Currency of Love: The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Anthologies/Collections; Relationships; Life Lessons Blair, Pamela. The Next Fifty Years (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus 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 Brill, Alida and Michael D. Lockshin, M.D. Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and her Doctor Negotiate Life with Chronic Illness (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language Brill, Leigh. A Dog Named Slugger: A True Story of the Service Dog That Changed My Life (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Teen/Girls; Memoir; Life Lessons; Animal Companions Brodie, Laura. Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter's Uncommon Year (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Life Lessons Browning, Dominique. Slow Love: How I Lost My Job, Put on My Pajamas & Found Happiness (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative 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 Caffrey, Janine Walker, Ed.D. Drive: 9 Ways to Motivate Your Kids to Achieve (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Life Lessons; Relationships 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) Chapman, Patricia Luce. Survivor's Guide to Grief: Be Like a Starfish and Grow New Legs (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Chittister, Joan. The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Clift, Eleanor. Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons Corrigan, Kelly. Lift (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Coyle. Margaret 'Meg'. Messages to Me: Words Collected on the Road to Silence (reviewed by Tracie Nichols) Poetry; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Day, Sonia. Middle-Aged Spread: Moving to the Country at 50 (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment 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 Digh, Patti. Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life DiSesa, Nina. Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Drenth, Atherton. Following Body Wisdom: How Energy Medicine Can Help Heal (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Biography; Life Lessons; Body Language 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 Ehrenclou, Martine. Critical Conditions: The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive (reviewed by Barbara L. Heller) Life Lessons; Body Language Erlbaum, Janice. Have You Found Her (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Falk, Florence. On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Finnamore, Suzanne. Split: A Memoir of Divorce (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Fortgang, Laura Berman. The Little Book on Meaning: Why We Crave It, How We Create It (reviewed by Deborah Robson) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Fox, Jenifer. How to Discover and Develop Your Child's Strengths (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Fox, Judy Zionts and Mia Roldan. Voices of Strength: Sons and Daughters of Suicide Speak Out (reviewed by Carol Waid) 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 Goodwin, B. Lynn. You Want Me to Do What?: Journaling for Caregivers (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Life Lessons; Creative Life; Elders Grace, Maria. Reel Fulfillment: A 12-Step Plan For Transforming Your Life Through Movies (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Graham, Barbara, editor. Eye of My Heart (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Life Lessons; Elders; Relationships 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 Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda. Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (reviewed by Sherry Wachter) Memoir; History/Current Events; Life Lessons 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 Henley, Marian. The Shiniest Jewel: A Family Love Story (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Hofmann, Regan. I Have Something to Tell You (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Body Language Hoglund, Patricia. Have I Got a Story for You: A Collection of Life's Lessons (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life 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 James, Franke. Bothered by My Green Conscience (reviewed by Judy Alter) Memoir; 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 King, Sorrel. Josie's Story (reviewed by Donna Van Straten Remmert) Memoir; Life Lessons 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 Kinney, Kathy and Cindy Ratzlaff. Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-up Woman's Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life you Deserve (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons Kinney, Kathy and Cindy Ratzlaff. Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-up Woman's Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life you Deserve (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Memoir; Life Lessons Kreinin, Tamara & Barbara Camens. Girls' Night Out: Celebrating Women's Groups Across America (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Anthologies/Collections; Life Lessons Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara. The Third Chapter (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Life Lessons; Elders 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 Miller, Amie Klempnauer. She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus 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, Judy. Managing the Mommy Years: Effective Strategies for Coping with Motherhood (reviewed by Jennifer Melville) Myers, Linda Joy. Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment (reviewed by Patricia Nordyke Pando) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Niesslein, Jennifer. Practically Perfect (In Every Way): My Misadventures Through the World of Self-Help—and Back (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Norton, Joan and Margaret Starbird. 14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Ofri, Danielle. Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Orsborn, Carol. The Year I Saved My (downsized) Soul (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Life Lessons 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 Prisant, Carol. Dog House: A Love Story (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Memoir; Life Lessons; Animal Companions Reilly, Lee. Teaching Maggie: Letters on Life, Writing, and the Virtues of Solid Food (reviewed by Tracie Nichols) Life Lessons; Relationships; Creative Life Robinson, Lynn A. Listen: Trusting Your Inner Voice in Times of Crisis (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Creative Life Rogers, Barb. Twenty-Five Words: How the Serenity Prayer Can Save Your Life (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Roiphe, Anne. Epilogue (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Life Lessons Rosen, Kim. Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Poetry; Life Lessons; Creative Life 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 Rubin, Gretchen. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun (reviewed by Barbara L. Heller) Memoir; Life Lessons SARK. Juicy Pens, Thirsty Paper (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Life Lessons; Creative Life Sartor, Margaret. Miss American Pie (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Relationships Scarborough, Carolyn A. Backyard Pearls: Cultivating Wisdom and Joy in Everyday Life (reviewed by Lisa Shirah-Hiers) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life Shaffer, Veronica A. I Hear Your Cry: Women in Prison (reviewed by Carol Waid) Smith, Anne Marie & Michelle Gamble-Risley. Second Bloom: 10 Steps to Reinvent, Rejuvenate and Realize a New Life (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) 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 Straub, Gail. Returning to My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine (reviewed by Kathy Waller) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus Theroux, Phyllis. The Journal Keeper: A Memoir (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Creative Life 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 Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo. Picking Cotton (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Cultural/Gender Focus 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 Trigiani, Adriana. Viola: In Reel Life (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Teen/Girls; Life Lessons; Relationships Wahlder, Michele. Alphatudes (reviewed by Doris Anne Roop-Benner) Life Lessons; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Weinstein, Sheila. Moving to the Center of the Bed (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Elders Wizenberg, Molly. A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Food/Cooking/Kitchen 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. The Face in the Mirror: Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age (reviewed by Susan Ideus) Life Lessons; Creative Life 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