my library

 

ayurveda

 

inner beauty : reenita malhorta hora

 

career + personal development

 

finding flow : mihaly csikszentmihalyi

the cultural creatives : paul ray + sherry ruth anderson

not just a living : mark henricks

the e-myth: revisited : michael gerber

the martha rules : martha stewart

love is the killer app : tim sanders

the tipping point : malcolm gladwell

unleashing excellence : dennis snow + teri yanovitch

the experience economy : b. joseph pine III + james h. gilmore

creativity + personal development

 

the 12 secrets of highly creative women : gail mcmeekin

the artists way : julia cameron

the 9 muses : angeles arien

circle of stones - woman's journey to herself : judith duerk

creativity: unleashing the forces within : osho

simple abundance : sarah ban breathnach

 

DIY 

 

DIY : design it yourself : ellen lupton

 

feng shui

 

feng shui and health : the anatomy of a home : nancy santo pietro

feng shui for skeptics : real solutions without superstition : kartar diamond

creating sacred space with feng shui : karen kingston

 

inspiration {design}

 

a room of her own : women's personal spaces : chris madden

bloom book : horticulture for the 21st century : li edelkoort

textilestyle : the art of using antique + exotic fabrics to decorate your home : caroline clifton-mogg

creole thrift : angele parlange

 

inspiration {novels + stories}

 

eat, pray, love : elizabeth gilbert

the red tent : anita diamant

traveling with pomegranates : sue monk kidd + ann kidd taylor

women who run with wolves : clarissa pinkola estes

 

mindulness {for birth, motherhood + parenting}

 

mindfulness based childbirth prep {http://www.mindfulbirthing.org/}

mindful motherhood : cassie vieten

momma zen : karen maezen miller

 

places + spaces

 

the power of place : winifred gallagher

the poetics of space : gaston bachelard

topophilia : yi-fu tuan

space + place : the perspective of experience : yi-fu tuan

the architecture of happiness : alan de boton

homes that heal and those that don't : athena thompson

 

poetry + prose

 

east wind melts the ice : liza dalby

 

relationships

 

committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage : elizabeth gilbert

living together : how couples create design harmony at home : erica lennard

the hard questions : susan piver

if the buddha married : charlotte kasl

101 things i wish i knew when i got married : linda bloom + charlie bloom

 

spirit + space

 

the emotional house : kathryn l. robyn + dawn ritchie

spiritual housecleaning : kathryn l. robyn

landscapes of the soul : a spirituality of place : robert hamma

places of the soul: architecture + environemntel design as a healing art by c. day

ecologies of the heart: emotion, belief and the environment : e.n. anderson

 

vastu

 

the power of vastu living : kathleen cox 

the vastu vidya handbook : j. pegrum

 

wabi sabi

 

the wabi-sabi house : robyn griggs lawrence

wabi sabi simple : richard r. powell

wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets & philosophers : leonard koren

living wabi sabi: the true beauty of your life : taro gold

 

women's wisdom + health

 

consciously female : tracy gaudet, md

mother-daughter wisdom : christiane northrup

a woman's book of life : joan borysenko

the circle of life : elizabeth davis

women's sexual passages : elizabeth davis