For women who love to read!
The Goddess Book group started in 2020, for women who love to read and want to share this passion with like minded souls. With such an amazing range of books available for the Awakened woman, it makes sense to get together and celebrate them. Each month we choose a book to read and then we meet for some interesting conversation in a supportive circle of women.
Some women said they joined the group because they wanted to make more time for reading in their lives and felt that the group would give them the accountability to do so. It's so true that in our busy lives, reading can feel like a luxury, we forget that reading is actually an essential investment in ourselves. Whether you are reading an interesting non fiction book or a good novel, reading expands your mind, teaches you new things and provides powerful inspiration. It's the best form of self care.
So take some time this month to curl up with a good book, you won't regret it!
What are we reading?
Our book for the session on 2nd March 2021
The Happiness Myth: Why what we think is right is wrong
By Jennifer Michael Hecht
The Happiness Myth is a fascinating cultural history that both reveals our often silly assumptions about how we pursue happiness today and offers up real historical lessons that have stood the test of time. Hecht delivers memorable insights into the five practical means we choose to achieve happiness: wisdom, drugs, money, bodies, and celebration.
Hecht liberates us from today's scolding, quasi-scientific messages that insist there is only one way to care for our minds and bodies. Hecht looks at contemporary happiness advice and explains why much of it doesn't work. "Modern culture," she writes, "is misrepresenting me and spending a lot of money to do it."
Rich with hilarious anecdotes about both failed and successful paths to happiness, Hecht's book traces a common thread of advice—she calls it "sour charm wisdom"—that we can still apply today to create authentic, lasting happiness.
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Our book for the session on 2nd February 2021
The Obstacle is the Way
By Ryan Holiday
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, showing that what blocks our path actually opens one that is new and better.
The Stoic philosophy - that what is in the way, is the way - can be applied to any problem: it's a formula invented more than 2,000 years ago, whose effectiveness has been proven in battles and board rooms ever since. From Barack Obama's ability to overcome obstacles in his election races, to the design of the iPhone, the stoic philosophy has helped its users become world-beaters.
Our book for the session on 5th January
You Are a Goddess: working with the sacred feminine to awaken, heal and transform
By Sophie Bashford
You know 'the Goddess' as a divine feminine figure of myth, art and faith - but are you aware that, in truth, the Goddess is a life force that lives in you? Did you know that your multi-faceted experiences of life as a woman are influenced by Goddess consciousness? Do you sense that you have a hidden feminine energy that longs to be seen, accepted, valued - and used for a healing purpose?
In this highly engaging and stirring book, leading intuitive Sophie Bashford takes you on a journey to meet nine Goddess archetypes, which will help you to:
- understand the many ups and downs, emotions and cycles of your life through the 'eyes of the Goddess'
- discover how the Goddesses can ignite your spiritual growth and uncover your feminine healing gifts
- learn how to work with each Goddess for self-healing, positive inner change and empowerment
- get in touch with a divine feminine support and healing system comprising nine archetypes - including Kali, Mary Magdalene, Aphrodite and Isis
Sharing intuitively channelled messages, beautiful guided meditations and moving personal experiences, Sophie leads you into safe territories where your darkest fears can be healed, your deepest dreams awakened and your entire life transformed.
Our book for the session on 3rd November
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to lose your mind and create a new one
By Dr Joe Dispenza
You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher and chiropractor Dr Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology and genetics to show you what is truly possible.
Not only will you be given the necessary knowledge to change any aspect of yourself, you will be taught the step-by-step tools to apply what you learn in order to make measurable changes in any area of your life. Dr Joe demystifies ancient understandings and bridges the gap between science and spirituality. Through his powerful workshops and lectures, thousands of people in 25 different countries have used these principles to change from the inside out. Once you break the habit of being yourself and truly change your mind, your life will never be the same!
Our book for the session on 6th October
Warrior Goddess Training: Become the Woman You Are Meant to Be
By Heatherash Amara
This is a book that teaches women to see themselves as perfect just the way they are, to resist society's insistence that they seek value, wholeness and love through something outside themselves, such as a husband, children, boyfriend, career or a spiritual path.
This book as a message for women struggling to find themselves under these false ideals. Heatherash Amara challenges women to be 'warrior goddesses', to be a woman who:
• Ventures out to find herself
• Combats fear and doubt
• Reclaims her power and vibrancy
• Demonstrates her strength of compassion and fierce love
Her approach draws on the wisdom from Buddhism, Toltec wisdom and ancient earth-based goddess spirituality, and combines them all with the goal of helping women become empowered, authentic and free.
Other books read and enjoyed by members
Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman
Untamed: Stop pleasing, start living by Glennon Doyle