THE CASUAL BOOK CLUB; READ AT YOUR OWN PACE
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Personal Power through Awareness
This bestselling spiritual classic by Sanaya Roman with a timeless message has been updated to include an entirely new section on clearing energy that expands upon what was taught in the original book. This includes a powerful process to recognize and clear any unwanted energy, such as thoughts, beliefs, and emotions of others, so you can more easily stay balanced and centered.
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An Outsider's Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We Are
An original and incisive exploration of human nature and the strangeness of social norms, written from the outside looking in--which is helpful to even the most neurotypical thinker. Camilla Pang uses a set of scientific principles to examine life's everyday interactions:
- How machine learning can help us sift through data and make more rational decisions
- How proteins form strong bonds, and what they teach us about embracing individual differences to form diverse groups
- Why understanding thermodynamics is the key to seeking balance over seeking perfection
- How prisms refracting light can keep us from getting overwhelmed by our fears and anxieties, breaking them into manageable and separate "wavelengths" -

Yoga for Emotional Balance
An integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress through yoga and breathing exercises. By Bo Forbes.
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The Four Agreements
In The Four Agreements, a perennial bestseller published in dozens of languages worldwide, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.
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Signs Preceding the End of the World
Signs Preceding the End of the World is a novel by Yuri Herrera about a young woman named Makina who travels from Mexico to the United States to find her brother. The journey is a metaphorical and literal crossing of the border, which is described as a place of danger and disorientation, with Makina facing hardship and cultural clashes along the way.
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist is a novel by Paulo Coelho that follows Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who journeys to the Egyptian pyramids after a recurring dream of finding treasure. Along the way, he learns to follow omens, listen to his heart, and pursue his "Personal Legend," with the universe ultimately conspiring to help him achieve his dream. The book is a story about self-discovery and finding your true destiny through overcoming fear and obstacles.
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The Serviceberry
As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry's relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude.
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Returning Home to Our Bodies
A body-based healing model that interrogates what we’ve been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body—and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices.
Pushing back against a consumerist, pleasure-centric somatics industry that privileges product over process, Abigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self, nature, and community.
Combining the rigor of the scientific method with the poetry and lyricism of movement and somatic studies, Clarke’s somatic learning system—The Embodied Life Method—centers the body as a guide through today’s most seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, reclaiming the body as a source of liberatory comfort in times of great uncertainty and yet, possibility.