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Books and reflections LaVonne returns to often.
A short, honest list of the books LaVonne re-reads, along with a gentle place to keep returning through her newsletter.
Recommended Reading for Women
These are books I return to for language, perspective, and practices that help me think more clearly, care more sustainably, and continue becoming. I hope one of them meets you in the season you are in.
The Mountain Is You
Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
By Brianna Wiest
The Mountain Is You explores why people sometimes stand in the way of the lives and changes they genuinely want. Brianna Wiest connects self-sabotaging behavior to conflicting internal needs and encourages readers to approach those patterns with greater understanding and self-mastery. The book uses the mountain as a metaphor for the inner work required to move forward and become who you are capable of becoming.
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Never Split the Difference
Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
By Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
Drawing from Chris Voss’s experience as an FBI hostage negotiator, Never Split the Difference presents negotiation as an exercise in listening, emotional intelligence, and human connection. It introduces practical techniques such as tactical empathy, mirroring, labeling, and calibrated questions. The lessons can help readers navigate business conversations, boundaries, disagreements, and everyday situations in which both clarity and courage are needed.
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The Right Questions
Ten Essential Questions to Guide You to an Extraordinary Life
By Debbie Ford
The Right Questions offers ten questions designed to help readers examine their choices with greater honesty and intention. Debbie Ford encourages people to recognize whether their decisions are moving them toward the life they want or reinforcing habits that keep them stuck. It is a practical reflection tool for making choices that better align with one’s values, priorities, and vision.
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Rest Is Resistance
A Manifesto
By Tricia Hersey
Rest Is Resistance challenges the belief that human worth should be measured by productivity, exhaustion, or constant work. Tricia Hersey places rest within the traditions of Black liberation, womanism, spirituality, and resistance to grind culture. The book invites readers to reclaim their bodies, imagination, and right to rest while examining the systems that benefit from chronic depletion.
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Sacred Self-Care
Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves
By Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Sacred Self-Care is a seven-week guided experience for developing practices that care for the mind, body, and soul. Drawing from her work as a psychologist, professor, and theologian, Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes connects spiritual reflection with practical changes in everyday behavior. The book helps readers move beyond occasional acts of relief and begin creating a sustainable approach to caring for their whole selves.
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