• Sabbath: Wayne Muller suggests we create a sanctuary in time every week (if not every day) for devotion, gratitude, silence, and self-nurture.
  • Home Enlightenment: Annie B. Bond has written a handy and comprehensive resource for nurturing your living space in order to keep it beautiful and filled with healing energy.
  • Messages from Amma: Janine Canan edits this collection of teachings from the nurturing modern day Indian saint.
  • Taming the Mind: Thubden Chodron contains concrete spiritual practices for taming our bad habits and cultivating good ones.
  • Rebirth of the Goddess: Carol P. Christ recommends we tap into the nourishing vitalities of the Goddess, which are grounded in the body, the Earth, and nature.
  • Attention Shoppers!: Eve Eliot turns shopping into an opportunity to nurture one's true self, to make important choices, to deepen self-awareness, and to bring about the spiritual process of transformation.
  • The Spirit of Indian Women: Edited by Judith and Michael Oren Fitzgerald have created an exquisite collection of words and photographs of Native American women — the nurturers in their culture.
  • What's Happening to Home?: Maggie Jackson gives an incisive overview of the major challenges to preserving "the boundaries that give us refuge" in this job-centric culture.
  • Leaving a Trace: Alexandra Johnson delivers plenty of good advice on journaling as a tool of self-development.
  • A Place for God: Timothy Jones sees spiritual retreats as "a vacation for the soul."
  • The Star in My Heart: Joyce Rupp uses verse and spiritual exercises to evoke the nurturing powers of Sophia, the feminine wisdom in the Hebrew scriptures.
  • Bless This Child: Editor Edward Searle has gathered quotations, poems and stories celebrating new life.
  • Welcoming Spirit Home: Sobonfu Some's soul-stirring book that is filled with indigenous wisdom about children and community.
  • Boundless Healing: Tulku Thondup recommends meditation exercises to tap the riches of the mind-body connection.

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