Books like Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
12 books with a reading profile close to Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living by Shauna Niequist. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Also inward-looking · self help, personal growth
Cheryl Strayed compiles a series of anonymous advice columns written under the pseudonym Sugar, originally published on the website The Rumpus.
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Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Rachel Held Evans uses the framework of seven traditional sacraments—baptism, confession, holy orders, communion, confirmation, anointing the sick, and marriage—to structure her memoir of religious deconstruction and re…
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
After filmmakers approached Donald Miller to adapt his memoir into a movie, he discovered that his actual life lacked the necessary structure for a functional screenplay.
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Eat, Pray, Love
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert faced a debilitating realization that her stable marriage and career did not provide the fulfillment she expected.
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Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
John Mark Comer argues that modern Christianity has exchanged the rigorous apprenticeship of Jesus for a passive belief system.
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Notes on a Nervous Planet
by Matt Haig
Also inward-looking · self help, personal growth
Matt Haig examines the link between the acceleration of modern life and the rise of personal anxiety.
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Untamed
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Glennon Doyle recounts the moment she realized her life was constructed around societal expectations rather than her own desires.
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Reasons to Stay Alive
by Matt Haig
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
At twenty-four, Matt Haig experienced a physical and mental breakdown in Ibiza that led to years of severe depression and panic disorder.
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Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott
Also inward-looking · personal growth, memoir
Anne Lamott details her transition from a chaotic, addiction-fueled upbringing into a singular practice of Christianity centered at St.
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One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
by Ann Voskamp
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir
Ann Voskamp centers her narrative on the Greek concept of eucharisteo, which connects grace, thanksgiving, and joy.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · personal growth, memoir
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed faced the collapse of her world following her mother’s sudden death from cancer and the subsequent disintegration of her marriage.
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · self help, personal growth
In this follow-up to her autobiography, Michelle Obama outlines the specific habits and mental attitudes she uses to navigate periods of political and personal instability.
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