Recommended Reading
Clean: The New science of Skin
My favorite book of 2020, author James Hamblin does excellent work of uncovering the deep deception that belies the beauty industry, and how less is more where it concerns healthy skin.
Fourfold path to healing: Working with the laws of Nutrition, therapeutics, movement and meditation in the art of Medicine
Published in 2004, written by a practicing medical doctor with a career of experience at the time, and based on centuries of wisdom, this book transcends health trends, offering an empowered and responsible approach to holistic health, and my favorite of 2021.
Atomic Habits
Yes, it’s worth the hype from 2022. If you’re not in the habit of reading regularly, this one will make you feel accomplished as you swiftly thumb it’s pages, inspired to integrate better habits throughout your day. The “bracket your day” concept of SALT+OIL meditative body care is itself a habit stack that can buttress cues for journaling, prayer, reading, deep work, and effective household routines.
poRTAL: tHE aRT OF CHOOSING ORGASMIC, PAIN-FREE, BLISSFUL BIRTH
This is a book for anyone who has experienced birth, which is to say, anyone who has, in fact, been born: one need not be pregnant, or pursuing fecundity. There is no occult technique or uncovered secret, but a coming to terms with God, reality, and self, and how that itself enables an experience as audacious as organismic birth, which is merely a symptom of living in surrender to God. This is the kind of read that will restore your faith in humanity, and make you want to devote yourself to God through the commonplace things of everyday life, just as God intended. This was the best book of 2023.
The Reclaimed Woman: Love your shadow, embody your feminine gifts, experience the specific pleasure of who you are
This book says all the quiet parts out loud. Just listen, and see how your body feels in response. Consider your own experiences, and those of the women around you. What if we set ourselves and the men in our lives up for success? What does that even look like? This is a start, and my favorite of 2024.
