Books to Spring Clean Your Mindset
Spring has sprung!
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Spring has sprung! 🌺
Written by: Andrea (Senior Barista)
The Grind Culture Detox: Heal Yourself from the Poisonous Intersection of Racism, Capitalism, and the Need to Produce by Heather Archer
By spring, most of us are struggling to keep the New Year’s resolutions we’re pressured to make. Grind culture, a natural consequence of a society that encourages unending productivity, refers to the false belief that you need to be a producer to be considered valuable. Allow yourself to start this season with a little detox from all that!
In this book, Heather Archer:
introduces you the history of grind culture in the US and its disproportionate impact on BIPOC communities;
provides a self-assessment to help you see if you’ve been insidiously sucked into that culture;
and helps you build a transdisciplinary framework for reorienting your relationship to work from a “grind” to a “passion” by outlining the benefits of approaches like mindfulness, herbalism, community building, and many more!
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert takes a deep dive into the mysterious world of inspiration. Weaving together personal narrative and experience, Gilbert shares her story of building her most creative life and provides a realistic (but positive) view into the world of an artist.
Like any good mentor, she serves her insights into the process of letting the muse of creativity move through you with a blend of empowerment and tough love.
In Our Prime: How Older Women are Reinventing the Road Ahead by Susan J. Douglas
In Our Prime is Susan Douglas’s clapback against our cultural understanding of the older woman. It’s time for the country’s largest-ever generation of women over fifty to rewrite the stereotype of the doddering grandma!
Douglas takes on the anti-aging industrial complex, outlining how its capitalist agenda brainwashes women into believing that they need to be forever young and beautiful to be fulfilled.
Celebrating the female activists who forced their way past legal, social, and cultural barriers, Douglas calls on women of all ages to come together in revolution against the structure of gendered ageism.
Toxic Positivity: Keeping it Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy by Whitney Goodman
Spring is often associated with growth, change, and new possibilities. And while it’s not wrong to encourage others to face the future with that mindset, in our society that can often translate to constant pressure to be positive and “look on the bright side” even when we are faced with terrible challenges. In Toxic Positivity, Whitney Goodman defines this worldview and outlines both its prevalence in our society and its impact on our mental health. She then shows you how to help yourself and others process difficult emotions and situations without bypassing them.
This is your guide for owning your emotions this spring, even the heavy ones! Reading it will prepare you to show up more authentically in the world.
