resources

Best Tools for Newbies - For Entrepreneurs.pdf

Best Apps for Newbie Entrepreneurs

Find the best communication and marketing apps to help you
 start your business.

90-Day Identity Assessment Worksheet.pdf

90-Day Identity Assessment

Track how you show up for yourself over 90 days and adjust your roles to stop self-abandoning.

Emotional and Lifestyle Management.pdf

3 Questions for Emotional and Lifestyle Management 

Start asking yourself what you need, want, to address your desires, and believe your needs can be met.

Emotions Wheel by
Elissa Surabian Art

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Self-improvement isn't a solution; it's a concept to build on.

Unfortunately, because of capitalism, people cannot benefit from anything for free. Here are some free and paid resources to aid your endeavor to live well.
Check out these books, articles, and videos on human bodies and experiences. Some resources might not serve where you are right now. Send me a message for more recommendations.

Emotions, Feelings, and Mindset

Auyoung, E. (2018). When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind. New York: Oxford University Press.

Farley, M. (2008). Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Gender and Women's Bodies (Hormones, Menstrual Cycles, and more)

Boehm, M. (2021). The Wild Woman's Way: Reconnect to Your Body's Wisdom. United States: Atria/Enliven Books.

Brotto, L. A. (n.d.). Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire. United States: Greystone Books.

Cooper, B. (2018). Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. United States: St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Gay, R. (2014). Bad Feminist: Essays. United States: HarperCollins.

Heiman, J., LoPiccolo, J. (1987). Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual and Personal Growth Program for Women. United Kingdom: Atria Books.

Li, D., Zhang, L., & Wang, X. (2022). The Effect of Menstrual Cycle Phases on Approach-Avoidance Behaviors in Women: Evidence from Conscious and Unconscious Processes. Brain sciences, 12(10), 1417. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12101417

Mintz, L. (2017). Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It. United States: HarperCollins.

Shimoda, R., Campbell, A., & Barton, R. A. (2018). Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle. Behavioral Ecology, 29(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx124

Gay, R. (2017). Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. United Kingdom: HarperCollins.

Learning and Cognition

Bashford, L., Rosenthal, I., Kellis, S., Pejsa, K., Kramer, D., Lee, B., Liu, C., & Andersen, R. A. (2021). The Neurophysiological Representation of Imagined Somatosensory Percepts in Human Cortex. The Journal of neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 41(10), 2177–2185. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2460-20.2021

Race, DEIBs, and Social Justice

Bowen, S. (2021). Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist. United States: HarperCollins.

Baldwin, J. (2013). Nobody Knows My Name. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

DiAngelo, R. J., DiAngelo, D. R. (2018). White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Germany: Beacon Press.

Doukhan, A. (2020). Womanist Wisdom in the Song of Songs: Secrets of an African Princess. Germany: Springer International Publishing.

Hill, J. (2022). Uphill: A Memoir. United Kingdom: Henry Holt and Company.

Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to Be an Antiracist. United States: Random House Publishing Group.

Mahdi, T. C. (2018). Membership vs. being of the community: A qualitative study of the Go-Go music-cultural community (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://tahiramahdi.com/a-qualitative-study-of-the-go-go-musiccultural-community/ 

Metzl, J. M. (2019). Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland. United States: Basic Books.

Roberts, D. (2014). Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Spirituality (various Religious Traditions)

Li, D., Zhang, L., & Wang, X. (2022). The Effect of Menstrual Cycle Phases on Approach-Avoidance Behaviors in Women: Evidence from Conscious and Unconscious Processes. Brain sciences, 12(10), 1417. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12101417

Shimoda, R., Campbell, A., & Barton, R. A. (2018). Women’s emotional and sexual attraction to men across the menstrual cycle. Behavioral Ecology, 29(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx124