Reading List and Web Resources
There are many excellent books to help enrich and support you on your journey. These are books that I have found personally helpful and often recommend to clients in my coaching practice. I grouped them into categories and some of them could easily fit into all four.
TO INSPIRE YOU
- Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen
- This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love by Tama Kieves
- The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
- Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow by Marsha Sinetar
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Bridgebuilders: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things by Elaine Voci
TO AWAKEN YOU
- Way of the Peaceful Warrier by Dan Millman
- Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life by Karen Rauch Carter
- The Intuitive Way: the definitive guide to increasing your awareness by Penny Pierce
- Your Owner’s Manual by Burt Hotchkiss
- Meditations to Change Your Life by Louise Hay
- My Stroke Of Insight, A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
- Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn
- Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
- The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
- A Woman’s Journey to God: Finding the Feminine Path by Joan Borysenko
ON WORKING AND CAREER GOALS
- What Color’s Your Parachute by Richard Bolles
- The Girl’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business by Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio
To Build the Life You Want Create the Work You Love by Marsha Sinetar
Do What You Are by Paul Tieger and Barbara Baron-Tieger
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to The Perfect Resume by Susan Ireland
Life’s a Bitch and Then You Change Careers: 9 Steps to Get You Out of Your Funk and On to Your Future by Andrea Kay
- Helpful Websites for Business and Career Interests:
- Catalyst (nonprofit research and advisory organization) www.catalyst.org
- National Association of Women Business Owners, www.nawbo.org
- U.S. Small Business Administration, www.sba.gov
- Women’s Business Centers, www.womenbiz.org
- Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, www.wbenc.org
ON CREATIVITY AND WRITING
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- Succulent Wild Woman by SARK
- Writing as a Way of Healing by Louise DeSalvo
- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
- Writing for Your Life by Deena Metzger
- Journal to the Self by Kay Adams, LPC