The Wisdom of Books
Stories and their teachings have always been our way of passing on wisdom - a thread that ties one generation to the next. Within the pages of a book, we meet voices that remind us who we are, that invite reflection, imagination and the gentle art of listening.
When we share a book, we share more than words; we share perspective, compassion, and connection. Each story becomes a conversation across time - a quiet exchange of heart and mind that continues to guide, inspire, and nourish those who come after us.
November 2025
The Red Tent
By Anita Diamant
The Red Tent is a story that feels like a remembering - a return to the ancient bond between women, and the quiet strength that lives within shared experience. Through the eyes of Dinah, Anita Diamant weaves a world where women gather beneath the red tent to birth, bleed, grieve, and celebrate together - honouring the cycles of life that have always united us.
It’s a story of lineage, of mothers and daughters, of wisdom passed hand to hand. Reading it feels like sitting in the circle yourself - wrapped in story, in ritual, in the deep knowing that women have always carried.
A powerful reminder of what it means to live in rhythm, to be held by one another, and to honour the sacredness of our shared womanhood.
October 2025
The Reality Slap
By Russ Harris
The Reality Slap is a compassionate guide for the moments when life doesn’t unfold as we expected — when the ground shifts and we’re left searching for steady footing. Russ Harris writes with clarity and kindness, reminding us that pain and change are not signs of failure, but invitations to grow, soften, and realign with what truly matters.
Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this book offers gentle, practical tools to navigate loss, overwhelm, and uncertainty — not by fighting against them, but by learning to hold them with courage and presence.
It’s a book that helps us reconnect with our values, find calm within the chaos, and build a more grounded, compassionate relationship with ourselves and the world around us
September 2025
Hold Onto Your Kids
By Dr Gordon Neufeld and
Gabor Mate
In a world that moves fast and pulls our attention in a thousand directions, Hold On to Your Kids is a heartfelt call to return to what matters most — our bond with our children. Dr. Gabor Maté and Dr. Gordon Neufeld remind us that true guidance and growth come not from control or correction, but from connection.
This book beautifully explores how, in modern life, children can become more influenced by peers than parents, and how we can gently re-establish that natural attachment that helps them feel safe, seen, and loved. It’s both deeply practical and profoundly human — a guide to slowing down, listening more, and nurturing relationships that give our children a strong sense of belonging in an ever-changing world.
Hold On to Your Kids is a tender reminder that love and presence are the roots from which confidence, resilience, and wisdom grow
August 2025
Code Red
By Lisa Lister
Code Red is a bold and beautiful invitation for women to reconnect with the wisdom of their menstrual cycle — to honour it not as an inconvenience, but as a sacred rhythm guiding every part of our lives. Lisa Lister weaves ancient insight with modern understanding, reminding us that our power, intuition, and creativity all flow in cycles.
This book helps us see our bleed as a teacher, our energy as a tide, and our emotions as messengers — all guiding us toward deeper self-awareness and balance. It’s both a reclamation and a remembering: that slowing down, tuning in, and living in sync with our body’s natural rhythm is not indulgence, but empowerment.
Code Red is for every woman ready to live in harmony with her own seasons — to rest when she’s called to rest, rise when energy returns, and embrace her full cyclical nature with pride and compassion
July 2025
We Are The Stars
By Gina Chick
We Are the Stars is more than a book — it’s an awakening. Gina Chick writes with the kind of honesty and poetry that only comes from a life deeply lived — one that has known heartbreak, loss, survival, and profound love for the wild world. Through her words, she reminds us that even in our darkest seasons, beauty and belonging are never lost — they’re simply waiting to be remembered.
Her storytelling moves like the landscape itself — raw, tender, and breathtakingly real. Gina’s voice carries the wisdom of someone who has walked through fire and found grace on the other side, who understands that healing comes not from escaping life’s challenges, but from leaning into them with open arms.
We Are the Stars is both a memoir and a medicine song — a celebration of resilience, of returning home to nature, and of rediscovering the light that lives within us all. A powerful read for any woman longing to remember her strength, her softness, and her place in the rhythm of life.
June 2025
The Big Leap
By Gay Hendricks
The Big Leap is an inspiring exploration of how we hold ourselves back from the joy, success, and ease we’re truly capable of. Gay Hendricks invites us to look gently at the unconscious limits we place on our own happiness — the quiet ways we shrink, doubt, or delay our own becoming — and shows us how to step beyond them with awareness and courage.
Through simple but powerful insights, he helps us understand that life’s flow expands when we do — when we trust ourselves enough to live in alignment with our gifts, not our fears. His words are both practical and profound, guiding us toward what he calls our Zone of Genius: that state where doing what we love feels effortless, meaningful, and alive.
The Big Leap is a reminder that freedom isn’t about striving harder, but softening into who we already are. A beautiful companion for anyone ready to move through self-doubt, embrace abundance, and take that next gentle step toward a life lived fully — and freely.
May 2025
Slowing Down To The Speed Of Life
By Richard Carlson
and
Joseph Bailey
Slowing Down the Speed of Life is a beautiful, practical guide to living with greater calm and clarity in a world that often feels like it’s moving too fast. Drawing on their deep backgrounds in psychology and human behaviour, Richard Carlson and Joseph Bailey share gentle, research-based insights into how our thinking shapes our experience of stress, time, and peace of mind.
Both authors were pioneers in the field of mental health and wellbeing — Carlson, a psychologist best known for Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, and Bailey, a licensed psychologist and leadership coach whose work has supported countless individuals and organisations around the world. Their approach is grounded in Three Principles Psychology — a philosophy exploring how our thoughts, feelings, and state of mind create our moment-to-moment reality.
Through their compassionate lens, we’re reminded that slowing down isn’t about doing less, but about living with more awareness and presence. When we quiet the noise of our thoughts, life naturally softens — and from that stillness, we rediscover our clarity, creativity, and calm.
April 2025
Hunt, Gather, Parent
By Michaeleen Doucleff PhD
Hunt, Gather, Parent is a refreshing, deeply human look at parenting through the lens of traditional wisdom. Science journalist Michaeleen Doucleff, Ph.D., set out to understand why so many modern parents feel overwhelmed — and what we might learn from cultures who raise confident, kind, and cooperative children without all the stress and struggle.
Drawing on her experience as a correspondent for NPR’s Science Desk and her background in chemistry and biology, Doucleff travelled with her young daughter to live alongside Maya families in Mexico, Inuit families in the Arctic, and Hadzabe families in Tanzania. What she discovered wasn’t a new parenting trend, but an ancient truth: children thrive when they are trusted, included, and invited into the rhythm of daily life.
Her research blends modern psychology with cross-cultural anthropology, offering gentle, practical guidance that helps parents replace control with connection and pressure with presence.
Hunt, Gather, Parent reminds us that raising children isn’t about perfect systems — it’s about community, curiosity, and returning to the natural, cooperative flow between parent and child. A beautiful read for anyone wanting to bring more calm, trust, and togetherness into family life.