The Purple Pill: How to Balance Success in a Divided World presents Kiani Mills’s account of realizing that her life was shaped by learned patterns absorbed long before she could evaluate them. She describes how early conditioning guided her toward functioning efficiently in social and...

The In-Between: Living Through the Collapse of the Old Social Contract by E. Imboden is a book for today. It attempts to analyze why the world is in a state of chaos right now. The Old Order, as so many of us knew it, had...

If you are troubled with repetitive patterns that are holding you back, or have a sense of not fitting in, perhaps it is time to review your spiritual past. Stephanie Tingle provides an innovative answer in The Key…to the Whole Situation. For readers unfamiliar with...

Have individuals been manipulated into accepting a subservient role in society? The Tightrope Walker by Sasan Habibvand describes this phenomenon as fundamental humiliation, in which we are dehumanized, stripped of our true worth, and then exploited. In this exploration of that theme, philosophy teacher Shabe...

The Permission Mission by Dr. Cindy McGovern tells us why so many people wait for approval before acting, even when no one is stopping them. Part memoir and primarily self-help, McGovern talks about lessons learned early in life that lean into silence and compliance. These...

The Reset Self is an atypical self-help book by Seravyna Böhm. I use the word "atypical" because, unlike most self-help books, The Reset Self does not want you to learn more, improve more, or be more; instead, it wants you to see beyond what you...

The Silent Breakup: The Untold Story of Disconnection—And the Small Steps Back Toward Healing by Dr. Arica Law is a must-have book for both women and men. It explores the quiet distance that grows between two partners, the connection that slowly fades without notice, and the subtle ways intimacy...

The Caregiver's Game: Unraveling Financial Deceit in the Shadows of Dementia by Charles E. Wallace Jr. is a horrifying true story. Joell Fleming lost everything to dementia. At 78 years old, she had always been a strong woman, until in 2013, dementia started to creep...

Sometimes in life, we feel like we're all alone. Problems seem so big that we start to think there's no way out. However, in adversity, we can be sure that God is always taking care of us. He puts obstacles in our way so our...

David B. Oppenheimer’s The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea offers an intellectual history of how diversity came to be understood as a foundational value across education, law, science, and public life. Drawing on legal history, philosophy, and social science, Oppenheimer traces the...