The books I keep coming back to, and the ones I think about long after I've finished them. There's a shelf of guided journals too, for the nights you'd rather write than read.
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Soul Tarot
The deck made to go with Tarot for the Wild Soul, built on the same idea that every card is there to support you right now. Chelsea Granger filled it with flowers, roots and light, and the 78 cards come with a guidebook in a keepsake box. If the book changed how you think about tarot, this is the deck to practise with.
Tarot for the Wild Soul
Lindsay Mack's trauma informed approach treats every card as support for right now rather than a prediction about what's coming. There are no good or bad cards, only things worth paying attention to. If tarot has ever felt more like a warning than a comfort, this one might change your mind.
Love Oracles
A pocket sized deck of 45 cards, each one illustrated by Anna Higgie and carrying advice from famous lovers through history, Casanova and Jane Austen and Elizabeth Taylor among them. It covers romance, breakups, family and friendship. It's a great companion to the Ready for Love Tarot when you want a second opinion small enough to carry around.
Ready for Love Tarot
A full 78 card tarot deck rewritten for modern dating, with the old suits swapped for Arrows, Hearts and Matches. I've reached for it when every page of my prompted journals was full and I still had all the feels. When I knew I needed to take a beat but wanted something to do with my head and my hands. It's offered me real guidance, and if you find comfort in the metaphysical, it's a lovely one to keep close.
The Five Minute Journal
Five minutes in the morning, five at night. Three things you're grateful for, three things that would make today great, and then a look back before bed at what went well and what could have gone better. It's the one a lot of people start with, maybe because it asks so little of you.
The Burnout Workbook
Emily and Amelia Nagoski turned Burnout into something you can write in, with questions, exercises and little visual guides. It's about noticing when you're stuck and practising your way back out. You don't need to have read the book first, though the two sit nicely side by side.
The Fair Play Deck
Fair Play, but on cards you can spread across the kitchen table. You lay out the tasks, keep the ones that actually happen in your house, and take turns deciding who owns what from start to finish. There are Unicorn Space cards too, for the things you each love that have nothing to do with the dishes.
The Power of Habit
The book behind the habit loop I keep referencing. Cue, routine, reward. Once you see it, you cannot stop noticing it in your own house.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Decades of real research into what separates the couples who last from the couples who do not. It turns out not to be about never fighting. It is about how you repair afterward.
The Courage to Be Disliked
A conversation between a student and a philosopher, and the best argument I have found for why you do not owe anyone an explanation for your guest list. How someone else feels about your choices belongs to them.
The Couple’s Cookbook
Most cookbooks assume you are cooking for four and freezing the rest. This one assumes there are two of you, and the cocktail section may be the real find.
