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The Sho' Nuff Principle

Book Award Winner: The Sho’ Nuff Principle: A High Achieving Woman’s Guide to Self-Care, Self-Promotion, & Self-Celebration by Dr. Lakila Bowden

Mar 19, 2026 | Book Award Winners, Women's Issues

Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis If you struggle with self-care, self-promotion and self-celebration – chances are, you’re a high achieving woman! With humor, care and charisma, Dr. Lakila Bowden’s The Sho’ Nuff Principle is a bold invitation to embrace the superpower of celebratory self-care through her seven high impact cheat codes, making burnout […]

Embrace the Middle

Embrace the Middle: A Woman’s Guide to Mindfully Navigating the Challenges, Celebrating the Joys, and Finding Power in Midlife

Dec 2, 2025 | Book Recommendations & Reading Lists - Nonfiction, Self-Development and Psychology, Women's Issues

Author:  Shayna Gothard Kaufmann Book Title:  Embrace the Middle: A Woman’s Guide to Mindfully Navigating the Challenges, Celebrating the Joys, and Finding Power in Midlife Publishing Information:  Authority Publishing, 2024 Link to Purchase Book: Author Site Synopsis: Physical changes, caretaking demands, empty nests, and losing people we love—all on too little sleep—are common midlife experiences. […]

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Chasing Normal: Finding Love After Surviving Physical and Emotional Abuse

Sep 29, 2025 | Book Recommendations & Reading Lists - Nonfiction, Memoir, Women's Issues

Author: Lisa Gerardy Book Title:  Chasing Normal: Finding Love After Surviving Physical and Emotional Abuse Publishing Information:  Chasing Normal Media, 2024 Link to Purchase Book: Amazon Synopsis: One in four women and one in six men were sexually abused before age eighteen. Lisa was not yet three. She was raised by a single, stressed-out, abusive […]

Embrace the Middle

Book Award Winner: Embrace the Middle: A Woman’s Guide to Mindfully Navigating the Challenges, Celebrating the Joys, and Finding Power in Midlife by Shayna Gothard Kaufmann, PhD

Dec 5, 2024 | Book Award Winners, Women's Issues

Congratulations on your gold book award! Synopsis Physical changes, caretaking demands, empty nests, and losing people we love—all on too little sleep—are common midlife experiences. But there is so much more to the story. Dr. Shayna Kaufmann draws from original research on 619 women worldwide, her psychology and Zen backgrounds, and her own midlife metamorphosis […]

Higher Love

Book Award Winner: Higher Love: A Psychedelic Travel Memoir of Heartbreak and Healing by Anne Kiehl Friedman

Sep 24, 2024 | Book Award Winners, Spirituality and Religion, Travel, Women's Issues

Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis This is NOT your average love story… Her entire life, Anne Friedman chased everything that society told her she should want: Marriage. Professional achievement. Thighs that didn’t touch. But all that got her was depression, anxiety, and disordered eating. When her fiancé dumps her without explanation, she buys […]

Super Woman Wealth

Book Award Winner: Super Woman Wealth: How to Become Your Own Financial Hero by Regina McCann Hess

Jun 12, 2024 | Book Award Winners, Business and Money, Women's Issues

Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis Women face unique challenges when it comes to managing finances. Society tells us we should be caregivers who put everyone in our families before ourselves, including financially. Data shows women tend to live longer than men, meaning we need more money during retirement, but we tend to earn […]

You're Not Alone

Book Award Winner: You’re Not Alone: The Conservative Woman’s Guide to College by Karin A. Lips

Jun 7, 2024 | Book Award Winners, Education and Teaching, Prescriptive Nonfiction, Women's Issues

Congratulations on your silver book award! Synopsis Conservative students today face censoring from their peers, hostile liberal professors, and more. Karin Lips, President of the Network of enlightened Women and editor of She’s Conservative: Stories of Trials and Triumphs on America’s College Campuses, wrote You’re Not Alone: The Conservative Woman’s Guide to College to prepare […]

I Had a Miscarriage

Book Award Winner: I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement by Jessica Zucker, Ph.D.

May 6, 2024 | Book Award Winners, Health and Wellness, Self-Development and Psychology, Women's Issues

Congratulations on your gold book award! Synopsis Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reproductive and maternal mental health, was rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical. She now had a changed perspective on her life’s work, her patients’ pain, and the crucial need […]