Get Ready for a Summer Glow Up!
Browse our recommendations to become your best self this summer! Whether you are looking to embrace your creativity, learn to love yourself, or anything in between, we’ve got the read for you.
You are creative! Yes you! Despite what society, friends, family, or social media might tell you, you don’t need to practice the “classic creative outlets” like art, music, or writing to find creative expression. And if you are interested in those outlets, you don’t need to pursue them as a career to live a more fulfilling life.
The key to cultivating the kind of big, juicy life that sparks joy, connection, and fulfillment isn’t chasing the title of “creative”, it’s prioritizing your play. In Prioritize Play, host of the Chaotic Creatives podcast and play enthusiast Rachael Renae reveals that play is more important to our wellbeing than productivity or career titles and should be prioritized as readily as getting groceries, paying your rent, or getting your work done. When we connect to ourselves through play, we become more curious and intentional in how we express ourselves and connect with other people. Within these pages are:
- Mindset shifts to start seeing play in the everyday
- Guidance to help you find your version of play
- Strategies to turn play into a regular practice
- Exercises to release expectations on your creativity
- Lessons in becoming your own hype pal
Through introspection and fun challenges, you’ll see that play is the solution toward overcoming our creative blocks, caring less about what people think of us, and showing ourselves that we do deserve to prioritize our creative ideas. Even when they don’t make money. Even if we’re not “good” at them. Even if they’re not a “traditional” creative outlet. Because we all deserve our version of our Big, Juicy Life!
Leadership coach Erin Weed shares her radical system for bringing your life, career, relationships, and communication into crystal-clear alignment.
Erin Weed is a coach and founder who has helped over 1,000 CEOs, entrepreneurs, artists, activists, truthseekers, and changemakers find clarity of purpose and chart a path forward—all with a simple method called The Dig. The Dig is a process of mining your life experiences to uncover your human operating system, a network of ideas and values that drive you. And in that system you’ll find your Dig Word: the one word that captures your essence and serves as a north star in every part of your life. This isn’t another complicated self-help system. It’s a way to distill your life purpose down to one word that guides you to your best life. In Just One Word, you’ll learn how to find your own Dig Word—and hear how a single word has changed the lives of dozens of Erin Weed’s clients.
You’ll also learn how your Dig Word
reveals your life purpose and how to pursue it,
explains how you operate,
defines your personal brand;
helps you engage more authentically in any situation;
focuses and sharpens your message (even if you don’t think you have one),
makes sense of conflict and strife in your life, and
removes obstacles between where you are and where you want to be.
Can a single word really do all this? Yes, it can—and over 1,000 people have experienced newfound clarity and purpose through their Dig Words. And now, for the first time, you can experience the power of The Dig in your own home, at your own pace, with Just One Word.
Are you a Grinder, believing that the more you work, the more successful you will be? Or are you a Hider, afraid to leave your comfort zone and wishing you had the courage to pursue your dreams? Maybe you’re a Work Hard Play Hard, afraid to slow down and stop the busy-ness that secretly shields you from looking at the real problem underneath. You could be a Pleaser, seeking approval from others often at the expense of your own needs, or a Seeker, hopping from job to job, city to city, with shiny object syndrome, thinking the next thing will fill the void inside or give your life direction.
If you are a successful woman, chances are you’ve been some or all of these archetypes. Because while women are still supposed to “have it all,” being a successful woman still means sacrifice, and for many of us, a heaping scoop of self-doubt as we find ourselves equating our self-worth with our professional success—our success wound. Brooke Taylor knows this all too well: her success wound nearly ruined her promising career at Google and devastated her sense of self.
After taking a step back and honestly assessing her own beliefs, she developed a 5-step program to help other women
(1) diagnose their success wound
(2) discern their toxic success wound strategies
(3) heal their success wound
(4) create a new, internally-guided definition of success
(5) take aligned action towards this vision.
With Healing the Success Wound, readers will adopt a new paradigm of success: aligned ambition—the state of harmony and fulfillment that comes from following”
According to the Center for Disease Control, 194 million Americans—or 76.4% of the population—have at least one chronic illness, and half of them are women. While many of these individuals finally have a diagnosis, and are no longer “sick”, they’re still not “well.” They’ve gone through the treatments, taken the medications, and yet still find themselves suffering.
So, what do you do after you’ve discovered the root of your condition, and you’re still not healed? How do you move past the trauma of being diagnosed (which often takes years for many patients), as well as the trauma of now living with this condition. More importantly, what is this limbo between sick and well that so many patients find themselves in?
The answer is Medical Trauma Brain, a phrase Health coach and patient advocate Amy Kurtz coined after years of research into her own challenges with misdiagnosed Lyme disease. Medical Trauma Brain is the trauma that hangs on pervasively even after the patient is “cured” keeping them stuck in the hell between sick and well. It’s the most overlooked but crucial part of healing, and in But You Look Fine, Amy shares the exact plan she used to move through this integral part of recovery so others can finally break free from their own bridge between sick and well.
“Amy Kurtz exposes a common occurrence that until now has gone unnamed and undiscussed by doctors and patients alike. Not only does she reveal this roadblock to wellness, but she also offers solutions, ones that we can all apply to our lives whether chronically ill, newly diagnosed, or labeled ‘cured.’ This is a paradigm shifting book and a must-read.” —Mark Hyman, MD
People don’t hit the gym just for health or longevity—they want to look good. And that’s not a bad thing. Chasing aesthetics isn’t shallow; it’s powerful. Loving your appearance unlocks confidence and success, and the pursuit of looking great drives self-assurance and discipline, creating real tangible physical and mental health benefits. The Aesthetic Revolution embraces that counterintuitive yet straightforward approach.
Instead of deluding us that change begins in the mind, Dr. Mike Israetel dares us to take concrete steps to transform our bodies so we can more fully love ourselves. With decades of experience in exercise science and practical coaching, he delivers a results-driven roadmap to an aesthetic physique with minimal time investment. No fluff, no gimmicks—just the science-backed truth about how to get lean, muscular, and confident.
The Aesthetic Revolution is an iconoclastic, high-impact book that dares to say what others won’t. We live in vain times. This book doesn’t fight that—it embraces it, flips it, and turns it into the ultimate advantage. It’s for people tired of being told looks don’t matter, when we all know they do.
It’s time to be vain!
Not only is deep, meaningful connection with others something we yearn for, research shows that connection has profound effects on our overall health. Yet so many of us have feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction with our personal relationships, feeling misattuned, misunderstood, or emotionally distant—and confused about why that may be.
In Attuned and Attached licensed professional counselor Yolanda Renteria shares practical strategies to help us take a deeper look at our current relationships and identify our emotional disconnections, which tend to present as hyper-indepdendence, perfectionism, difficulty taking accountability, people pleasing, and more.
Once we know our patterns, we can then:
- Identify safe people and healthy relationships
- Set realistic and healthy relationship expectations
- Repair relationships after a rupture or misattunement
- Develop resources to feel connected more often
By blending clinical research with her own experience of emotional disconnection, Yolanda invites the reader on a healing journey through understanding and validation. Emotional disconnection isn’t wrong; it’s caused by myriad factors throughout one’s life. But there is a way forward. Yolanda’s work especially speaks to those who feel that they had a fine or “good enough” childhood, but still feel emotionally disconnected, lost, and unfilled in their relationships.
Whether you identify disconnection in yourself or in someone close to you, you will learn how to bring more safety and vulnerability into your relationships for nourishing, peaceful, and fulfilling connections.
Racism is easy to spot these days; we know its script, its favorite media tropes, its legislative tactics, and how it makes us feel. But there is another societal ill hiding in racism’s shadow: colorism. Colorism is a social hierarchy that favors people with lighter skin tones and stigmatizes people with darker skin tones. More than a debate on social media about who’s most attractive, colorism frays the fabric of our homes and communities and jeopardizes the lives and livelihoods of individuals most impacted. Dr. Sarah L. Webb’s Colorism arrives as a fresh perspective on how we move toward a world free from harmful stigma and discord—a more liberated, more loving world.
In Colorism, Dr. Sarah shows us how colorism goes unrecognized by most even as it contours our every day lives. She leads us through cultural myths, client testimonies and her own personal stories to demonstrate colorism’s global stronghold on communities of color and white communities alike. She dissects how dating and pop culture can be hotbeds of discrimination. And she lifts the veil on how colorism can determine our access to education, work, social services, and politics. Soulfully told and richly informational, Colorism rounds out with revisions we can all make to show up for one another. After all, bias may be based on what’s on the outside, but true healing starts from within.