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Living Authentically Books
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,590 ratings — published 1989
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.19 — 500,094 ratings — published 1997
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.13 — 841,038 ratings — published 2020
Don't Believe Everything You Think (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 3.79 — 42,319 ratings — published 2022
The Courage to Be Disliked: A single book can change your life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 3.93 — 127,147 ratings — published 2013
Betting on You: How to Put Yourself First and (Finally) Take Control of Your Career
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 3.88 — 592 ratings — published 2021
Facing and Overcoming Codependency: From Being Needy & Clingy to Having Amazing, Authentic, and Loving Relationships (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.04 — 25 ratings — published
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.29 — 238,599 ratings — published 2012
The Gifts of Imperfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.25 — 217,544 ratings — published 2010
Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,187 ratings — published 1989
Nurture Your Soul: A Personal Growth Journal for Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Black Girl In Love (with Herself): A Guide to Self-Love, Healing, and Creating the Life You Truly Deserve
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.47 — 217 ratings — published 2021
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.13 — 33,549 ratings — published 2021
The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,740 ratings — published 2020
In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as living-authentically)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,977 ratings — published 1998
“Being queer was like holding the golden ticket to a club nobody wanted to go to. I had no idea that once I blasted down those closet doors, with their bouncers of fear, religion, and internal bias, the club would be lit. The way a party can be when everyone inside finally knows what it means to come home.
My queerness is a Tupperware container (thank god) that nobody will ever find a lid for. A box that cannot be closed. The reclamation of wholeness over goodness, transforming the perpetual misfit into one holy hell of a celebration.
Owning my queerness was like learning the desert floor was once the bottom of the ocean, meaning the towering 200-year-old saguaro watching over me was somehow born underwater. It is the dogged insistence on coloring outside of every single line.
It is the refusal to accept a singular definition that makes the word witch at me finally feel at home in the spaces where words are left behind.
My queerness rests its foundation on a ground named freedom. I speak it loudly because I have the freedom to do so without fear of reprisal or harm. I claim this life of mine under the rainbow and the complexity of the history it has given me fiercely.
To love a woman in a world that said I must not will never be anything but a revolution.
And when I kiss her, trust me, entire galaxies are mine.”
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My queerness is a Tupperware container (thank god) that nobody will ever find a lid for. A box that cannot be closed. The reclamation of wholeness over goodness, transforming the perpetual misfit into one holy hell of a celebration.
Owning my queerness was like learning the desert floor was once the bottom of the ocean, meaning the towering 200-year-old saguaro watching over me was somehow born underwater. It is the dogged insistence on coloring outside of every single line.
It is the refusal to accept a singular definition that makes the word witch at me finally feel at home in the spaces where words are left behind.
My queerness rests its foundation on a ground named freedom. I speak it loudly because I have the freedom to do so without fear of reprisal or harm. I claim this life of mine under the rainbow and the complexity of the history it has given me fiercely.
To love a woman in a world that said I must not will never be anything but a revolution.
And when I kiss her, trust me, entire galaxies are mine.”
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“Life can sometimes seem an endless experience in compromise, in bending into the break, in the give + take + lead + follow of interconnection. This is all so good and necessary to building a community of souls, trusting that we are not in this world on our own, learning the power of leaning into the collective good. And yet. There are spaces and places and ideals in my life that are not open to discussion, not up for negotiation, not an invitation to debate or argue or compromise. Leading this list are the terms of my own freedom, the ways I have learned to know and name my ownership of this one life I am living. I have come to name this sense of ownership my personal sovereignty. It is mine and mine alone. The container of this sovereignty—what it includes and leaves behind, the way it moves through the world, how it dances with others—all of this may change a million times over, but that is mine and mine alone to decide.”
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