Her Honor: Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges by editor Lauren Stiller Rikleen is a collection of personal stories about respecting female judges. Justice Betty Roberts was the first woman to serve on an Oregon appellate court. Justice Roberts's early days on the...

How We Go On: Self-Compassion, Courage, and Gratitude on the Path Forward by Ken Druck, Ph.D. is an empowering, thoughtful guide to finding a way forward after heartbreaking loss. Druck leads us into a personal examination of each stage of our lives from childhood, including...

Highway to Healing by Shae Pratcher is a heartrending but beautifully victorious account of one woman’s journey coming to terms with sexual abuse perpetrated on her as an innocent child. An army brat, Shae and her family moved around a lot from camp to camp,...

I believe we all have emotional scars, but how many people know that those scars can be transformed into life-changing events? Diane M. Simard does. She shares her ten life principles in Heal Forward: Transform Emotional Scars into Impact. The first step to growth and...

How Did I Get Here? Traveling the Road to Resilience by Andrew Fitzgerald is part memoir, part guide to wisdom for life, and part call to action for self-advocacy. Fitzgerald offers heartfelt anecdotes from his extraordinarily varied and intriguing life, which has included life-threatening health...

Habits4Miracles by Rahul Karan Sharma is a motivational quick read that will help us develop and maintain habits useful for our inner growth, career progression, and well-being. The author offers us eight tools he calls “M.I.R.A.C.L.E.S.” They include the importance of mind talk, working on...

How Do I Get To Be Me? is the second book of the Choosing New Ways Forward Series by Elizabeth Jo. Building on the ideas discussed in the first installment, Shifting Our Relationship With Trauma, this book offers a conversation on moving beyond trauma. As...

How I Think I Should Be Is B***S***: From Hiddenness to Open-Hearted by Eileen Marder-Mirman is a very emotive memoir. The book starts with the first chapter describing how Eileen was born “…I was traumatized, no connection with my mother who was drugged to not...

Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation by Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati is a real-life story of one woman’s courage as she embarks on a journey to a new place, a new language, new people, and a new culture. Getting out of one’s...

It’s a long title but Ryn Gargulinski’s How to Get Through Hell on Earth Without Drinking a Keg or Kicking a Garden Gnome wastes no time in getting straight to the point of how she gets her life back from being a keg hugger to...