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By weaving together historical and cultural commentary, humorous and poignant anecdotes, and experiential tools backed by science, The Pleasure Is All Yours is a step-by-step guide to help you release barriers to receiving life’s pleasures and deeper connections with others.

Lovers know that love is both vast and intense. This would seem to make it resistant to philosophical or rational analysis. Yet love's vastness and intensity are what carry it into all spheres of our lives—ethical, political, spiritual, physical. As a result, considerations of what it means to...

Welcome to "In Presence We Trust" a podcast about the art and heart of holding group transformational spaces. Created by Rachel Rickards founder of The Field Facilitator Training This podcast is here to empower facilitators, coaches, and space-holders to evolve their craft, deepen embodied leadership, and harness the transformative power of presence. In each episode, we'll harvest insights from pioneering facilitators and get a glimpse into what it means to walk this path, how they got to where they are today, and what's required to stay present to what wants to come through the collective ...

This book presents a range of areas in which we can seek the meaning of life, including love, family, friendship, work, self-knowledge and nature. We discover why some things feel meaningful and others don't, and learn how to introduce more meaning into our daily lives.

The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied, and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is simplicity: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful, and focused on the essentials. But finding simplicity is not always easy; it isn’t just a case of emptying out our closets or trimming back commitments in our diaries. True simplicity requires that we understand the roots of our distractions – and develop a canny respect for the stubborn reasons why things can grow complex and overwhelming.

Brought to you by Penguin. We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn't change. Or at least, not immediately. In this...

Our insatiable demand for animals - for jewelry, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur - is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Rachel Nuwer, an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology, takes listeners on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional medicine black markets in China, and wild meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to 10 countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving the demand.

The seer realm lies just beyond what your natural eyes can see. This dimension is full of activity, both angelic and demonic. The Seer Dimensions offers revelation and practical teaching that will help you understand and navigate the heights and depths of the spiritual world. Many people who see in the spirit often don’t know what they are seeing, or understand the dimensions of spiritual sight. But this landmark audiobook will help you unlock these mysteries!

Experience the Power of Pleasure to Nourish Your Life Did you know that sex can be ecstatic, delicious, and spiritually awakening all at the same time? That men can be multi-orgasmic? And that you can experience an orgasm in your whole body? While most of us only know a fraction of what sexual...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed off high buildings, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who...

Are you one for asking too many questions? About life, the way you create, love, or why you do the nonsensical things you do? Welcome to Adventurous Thoughts. Your oasis for conversations that expand your horizons about what's possible as a human. I'm your host, Rachel Leedom. Serial entrepreneur and web designer by day, singer-songwriter by night, and dolphin only in my dreams. Alongside these deep existential musings, you can expect notes of comedy, romanticism, and ceaseless optimism (in the face of my instinctive pessimism #human).

Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek self-fulfillment; we want to liberate women to find meaning and self-worth outside the home; and we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change. Weighing the pros and cons of having children, millennials and zoomers are finding it increasingly difficult to judge in its favor. With lucid argument and passionate prose, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer the guidance necessary to move beyond uncertainty.

This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn’t depression, rage, or bitterness. It’s a serene, wise, and kindly response to the difficulties of being alive. It helps us navigate a wise and rational middle ground between extreme despair and naïve optimism. But melancholy is a well-kept secret. It isn't celebrated or recommended. It remains relatively unexplored in a hyper-competitive, noisy, frantic age.

Transcendentalism remains the most important literary and philosophical movement to have originated in the United States. Most accounts of it trace its emergence to a group of intellectuals dissatisfied with their religious, literary, and social culture. Yet there is a forgotten history of transcendentalism that features women who were central to the development of the movement. Bright Circle is intended to reorient our understanding of transcendentalism. It recounts the lives of Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Lydia Jackson Emerson, and Margaret Fuller.

The Lovolution Movement Podcast is a collection of meaningful stories from people impacting the world in creative and positive ways. Our intention is to highlight some of the good things happening in the world. It's a challenging time for humanity, and our intention is to bring hope and optimism through these inspiring stories. The podcast is hosted by Human Potentialist, Coach and Mindfulness practitioner Rachel Hayek, one of the Co-founders of the Lovolution Movement. Venetia Nielsen, Visionary and Co-founder of the Lovolution Movement will be a regular guest.

Welcome to The Good Seed Podcast where we believe that through the right mindset and actions, nothing is impossible. Whether you're on a path of self-improvement or self-discovery, this podcast is designed to support and inspire you every step of the way. Our discussions cover a wide range of topics such as success, confidence, abundance, dating, loss, grief, and unlocking your potential. Rachel and Ally bring you genuine, heartfelt advice, ensuring every episode is filled with wisdom, encouragement, and practical insights. We place a high value on authenticity and strive to maintain a ...

A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short. This ground-breaking biography draws on never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how Simone de Beauvoir became herself.

Host Rachel Godfrey is an entertainment writer, former missionary kid, and recovering evangelical who is looking for something to believe in. Every episode, she brings on smart folks of all different faiths to share what they believe. Plus, they will talk about everything from American prosperity gospel, Andrew Lloyd Webber's contributions to religious theater, whether all dogs go to heaven, and more! Answer this altar call and welcome to Faith Healing!

Dangerous Jokes develops a novel, well-researched, and compelling argument that lays bare the power of demeaning jokes in ordinary conversations. Claire Horisk draws on her expertise in philosophy of language and on evidence from sociology, law, and cognitive science to explain how the element of humor—so often used as a defense—makes jokes more potent than regular speech in communicating prejudice and reinforcing social hierarchies.

Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine.