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Recommendations

This is a space for GGN members to share recommendations on articles, books, movies, and music. Basically anything that inspires you that you would like to share with our network so that they feel inspired as well! Fill out the Recommendations form below to share your favorites with GGN members.


Articles, Apps and Podcasts

Podcast – This is Fifty

App:  Insight Timer (meditations to soothe your soul!)

App–Rosy:  This is an app developed by Dr. Lyndsey Harper to give women resources for problems with decreased sexual desire…

Prime Women Redefining the Over 50 Woman

How Changing Your Story Can Change Your Life by Lori Gottlieb

Do Networking Events Move the Needle for Women?

Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper

The Inventive Life Post 50

Females Founders Are Changing the World. Please Stop Calling Them “Mompreneurs”

Goldman Sachs changes policy on IPOs – must have woman board member!

Brain Pickings by Maria Popova

https://darlingmagazine.org/celebrating-women-makes-successful/


Books

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Don’t Wait to Live…Live Now by Shontelle Mixon (member)

Sound Business Bites by Margery Miller (member)

The Transparency of Things:  Contemplating the Nature of Experience by Rupert Spira

The Great Awakening: Concepts and Techniques for Successful Spiritual Practice by Dr. Michael Sharp

Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself:  How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Dare to Lead by Brene Brown

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer

Confessions of a Recovering Helpaholic by Margery Miller (member)

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Gift of Crisis by Susan Mecca (member)

This Land of Strangers: The Relationship Crisis That Imperils Home, Work, Politics, and Faith by Robert E. Hall

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

New Power by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms

The Four-Fold Way by Angeles Arrien

Outrageous Openness by Tosha Silver

Failing Forward by John Maxwell

You Are a Bad Ass by Jen Sincero

Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte

Goddesses Never Age by Christiane Northrup

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Headstrong — Surviving a Traumatic Brain Injury without Losing My Mind by Donna Valentino (member)

Heartstrong — Overcome Obstacles and Life Life to the Fullest by Donna Valentino (member)

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury

Brag!:  The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It by Peggy Klaus

Switchers:  How Smart Professionals Change Careers – and Seize Success by Dr. Dawn Graham

Bulletproof Your Career by Patricia Romboletti

Stepping Out of Line:  Lessons for Women Who Want It Their Way . . . In Life, In Love, and At Work by Nell Merlino

A Fearless Heart:  How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives by Thupten Jinpa

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:  The Definitive 4th Edition by Betty Edwards

The Snow Child:  A Novel by Eowyn Ivey

Quiet Mind Epic Life:  Escape The Status Quo & Experience Prosperity Now by Matthew Ferry

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Golf in the Kingdom by Michael Murphy

Don’t Push the River:  It Flows by Itself by Barry Stevens

When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

In the Flow of Life by Eric Butterworth

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing by Caroline Myss

Retirement Your Way — The No Stress Roadmap for Designing Your Next Chapter and Loving Your Future by Gail M. McDonald & Marilyn L. Bushey

Getting Love Right:  Learning the Choices of Healthy Intimacy by Terence T. Gorski

Who Moved My Cheese?  by Spencer Johnson

Motherless Daughters:  The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman

The Voice in the Wind by Carla Neff Gordan

The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore by Alan Cohen

4-Hour Work Week by Tom Ferriss

Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone & Benjamin Zander

God on your Own by Joseph Dispenza

Heal Your Body by Louise Hay

Intentions at Work by Ann Ranson (member)

Letters to the Scattered Brotherhood by Mary Strong

Living with the End in Mind by Erin Tierney Kramp & Douglas H. Kramp

Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton

On Death & Dying by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Peace is the Way by Deepak Chopra

Power of Decision by Raymond Charles Barker

Power Through Constructive Thinking by Emmet Fox

Something More. Excavating Your Authentic Self by Sarah Ban Breathnach

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

The Game of Life by Florence Scovell Shinn

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes

The Boy Crisis:  Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It by Warren Farrell PhD and John Gray PhD
Prince Charming Isn’t Coming: 

How Women Get Smart About Money by Barbara Stanny

Strong Is the New Pretty:  A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves by Kate T. Parker

Midlife Orphan:   Facing Life’s Changes Now That Your Parents Are Gone by Jane Brooks

Raising Cain:  Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Michael Thompson PhD and Dan Kindlon PhD

Anatomy of Love:  A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen Fisher

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth:  Live them and Reach Your Potential by John Maxwell


Movies

I Am not an Easy Man

Hearts Beat Loud — loved it!

RBG – loved it!! — saw it twice!!!

On the Basis of Sex

I Feel Pretty — Amy Schumer gave us some really important things to think about!

Given (Netflix)

Hector and the Search for Happiness (Netflix)

Juanita (Netflix)

Italian for Beginners (Amazon video)

Bread and Tulips (Amazon video)

Stranger Than Fiction (not sure where to find it!)


Music

Check out our Spotify playlist!


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