Books.
This library is filled with memoirs and non-fiction, but I am keen to stock to the shelves!
Questioning the modern paradigm.
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The Way Home - Mark Boyle
A collection of mark’s insightful reflections as he learns the complexities of living simply on the West Coast of Ireland.
Mark’s writing is humble, moving and thoughtful, offering personal reflections that stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. Love, love, love, should be required reading for all.
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This One Wild and Precious Life - Sarah Wilson
I am obsessed with Sarah Wilson and this is where it all began. Her writing is frank yet friendly as she names the “disconnection” that has catalysed the climate and, ultimately, the meta crisis.
Her pages bring understanding, sympathy and courage as well as the answers and ideas necessary to traverse these wild times.
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If Women Rose Rooted - Sharon Blackie
Reading this felt like coming home. Blackie bares her naked soul, sharing stories of her lifelong struggle to find her place as a wild woman amongst the shadows of the modern day wasteland. Interwoven with mythopoetic Celtic tales, it’s both a warm hug and a rallying cry to awaken the sacred within us.
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Stolen Focus - Johann Hari
Holy shit - this book really cracks it all wide open. Think ‘The Social Dilemma’ documentary but even more in depth, and more desperately harrowing.
Hari explains, with meticulously researched evidence, why our inability to focus is not our fault but the result of deliberate manipulation designed to make us over consume and surrender our data.
Further, the parallels between the attention crisis and climate change are undeniable and deeply alarming.
Human nature.
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Civilized to Death - Christopher Ryan
This book changed my whole life. It’s now the basis on which I compare all modern life and determine what is “normal”.
Ryan busts a wealth of myths we’ve been fed about our hunter gatherer ancestors, making the case that ‘civilisation’ is not all its cracked up to be. It has really helped me understand more about humans and our natural state of being.
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Human Kind - Rutger Bregman
We’ve been taught to believe we’re an inherently selfish, competitive species. This false narrative is the backbone of the extractive systems that plague our modern world. But what if it’s based on a lie? With examples from the real-life Lord of the Flies and hidden flaws in the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman paints a new picture of humanity, with kindness at our core.
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Lost Connections - Johann Hari
Humans ARE nature.
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Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Another book that reached in, whacked me on the head and then ripped my world wide open. A series of short stories that read like poetry from Kimmerer’s life and learnings as an indigenous Potawatomi person. She beautifully weaves indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants, offering an entirely new way of seeing, and living in reciprocity with, the natural world and beyond.
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Losing Eden - Lucy Jones
On my reading list
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The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein
Real-life stories demonstrating how small acts of courage, kindness, and self-trust can help us transition from a world of separation and crisis to one of interconnectedness, meaning and collective transformation.
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The Myth of Normal - Gabor Maté
Explores how modern society's expectations, stress, and trauma shape physical and mental health, arguing that what we consider 'normal' is often unhealthy and disconnected from our true human needs.
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The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben
Reveals the breathtaking intelligence of trees, demonstrating how they communicate, share nutrients and even warn each other of danger — challenging all that we think we know. There’s a full length documentary you can rent online too!
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis Weller
Exploring grief as a transformative force, this book “offers hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world—and a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being alive.”
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor
A deep dive into how modern breathing habits harm our health and how ancient practices and new science reveal simple techniques to restore balance, improve sleep, reduce stress, and enhance wellbeing.
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Embodied Activism
“Instead of thinking about social justice as a process that starts with changing people's minds, Embodied Activism understands our bodies--how we feel in them and relate to others through them--as the sites of transformation”
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The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet - Leah Thomas
Thomas shows how environmental and social justice are inseparable. She highlights how marginalised communities are disproportionately affected by ecological harm and offers a vision and toolkit for building an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable movement.
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World as Lover, World as Self - Joanna Macy
Blending Buddhist philosophy, systems theory, and deep ecology, Macy shows how feelings of grief, fear, and despair for the planet can be transformed into compassion, empowerment, and action. The book guides us to see the world as a living web to which we intimately belong.
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Hospicing Modernity - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Drawing on Indigenous teachings, decolonial thought and personal reflection, Machado de Oliveira explores how to grieve, unlearn, and accompany modernity as it dies, while cultivating new ways of being in relationship with each other and the Earth.
Reader submissions.
Everything is better in community (and this isn’t a one woman show), so let’s co-create!
Send me anything you’re reading, watching or listening to that you think is a beautiful, moving, aha-moment, punch-you-in-the-gut or change-the-world kinda piece!
Let’s build this library and educate eachother, together x