How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

10 best books like How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care (Marlee Grace): Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, The Mushroom Fan Club, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, Anthony Bourdain Remembered, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
AuthorEmily Nagoski
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.

Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women...
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
AuthorEsmé Weijun Wang
ISBN1555978274
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
AuthorJenny Odell
ISBN1612197493
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.

When the technologies we use every day collapse...
The Mushroom Fan Club
AuthorElise Gravel
ISBN1770463224
Join Elise Gravel as she explores the science of some of nature’s weirdest and wildest characters—mushrooms!

Elise Gravel is back with a whimsical look at one of her family’s most beloved pastimes: mushroom hunting! Combining her love of exploring nature with her talent for anthropomorphizing...
Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power
AuthorPam Grossman
ISBN1982100702
A whip-smart and illuminating exploration of the world’s fascination with witches from podcast host and practicing witch Pam Grossman (The Witch Wave), who delves deeply into why witches have intrigued us for centuries and why they’re more relevant now than ever.

When you think of a...
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
AuthorAdrienne Maree Brown
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing...
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
AuthorCatherine Price
Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone.

Is your phone the first thing you reach for in the morning and the last thing you touch before bed? Do you frequently pick it up "just to check," only to look up...
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
AuthorAustin Kleon
ISBN1523506644
Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...
Anthony Bourdain Remembered
AuthorCNN
ISBN0062956582
A moving and insightful collection of quotes, memories, and images celebrating the life of Anthony Bourdain

When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, the outpouring of grief from his fans around the world was momentous. The tributes spoke to his legacy: That the world is much smaller than we...
Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
AuthorToko-pa Turner
ISBN1775111202
2017 Nautilus Award Gold Winner for Personal Growth

The world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever. Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times.

Most people...
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
AuthorLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN1551527383
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black,...
How to Be Bored (The School of Life Book 4)
AuthorEva Hoffman
Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Excessive busyness and overfilled schedules are the norm, as are their effects on our mental...
HausMagick: Transform Your Home with Witchcraft
AuthorErica Feldmann
ISBN0062906151
Harness the power of magic to create a beautiful, healing living space with this unique illustrated guide from the founder of HausWitch, the popular Salem, Massachusetts, store and online lifestyle brand.

Anyone looking to put together their ideal home—full of beauty, comfort, protection,...
Proposals for the Feminine Economy
AuthorJennifer Armbrust
ISBN1790146704
A holistic vision for a new economic paradigm, founded in feminine and feminist principles. Transmuting the tensions between feminism and Capitalism, Proposals for the Feminine Economy gives us a roadmap forward by insisting that business can be a site of feminist practice if we embody our values,...
Raw Material: Working Wool in the West
AuthorStephany Wilkes
ISBN0870719513
Follow a sweater with an "Italian Merino" label back far enough and chances are its life began not in Milan, but in Montana. Many people want to look behind the label and know where their clothes come from, but the textile supply chain-one of the most toxic on the planet-remains largely invisible. In Raw...
On Being 40(ish)
AuthorLindsey Mead
ISBN1501172123
“Like a pep talk from your big sister, favorite cousin and wise best friend. These 15 smart, funny women expertly capture what it's like to get older... A must read for anyone 40ish or beyond.” —Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo

Fifteen powerful women and writers you know and love—from the pages...
Your Art Will Save Your Life
AuthorBeth Pickens
ISBN1936932296
Writing in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Beth Pickens reminds burgeoning artists that their work is more important now than ever, and advises on fostering creativity, sustaining an innovative practice, and navigating institutional funding as an individual. Partially a self-help...
The Reckonings
AuthorLacy M. Johnson
ISBN1501159003
This extraordinary, timely new collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side—rooted in her own experience with sexual assault—pursues questions of justice, sexual violence, and retribution.

In 2014, Lacy Johnson was giving a reading from The Other Side, her “instant...
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