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About This Gift Set Our ever-popular self love gift set has been redesigned to celebrate your relationship with your Self better than ever! With a rain-scented compassion candle to light the way (not sold separately), we've also included a beautiful journal, a hardcover version of the best-selling book The Art of Imperfection, plus an invitation to write a love letter of appreciation, or forgiveness, or celebration, or whatever you most need to express to your most glorious Self! —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Self-Love zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 4/8/2005
1. Spilling Open : The Art of Becoming Yourself
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From Amazon.com: Readers of both genders and all generations will find timeless innocence and age-old wisdom in the scrawling, sprawling words of Sabrina Ward Harrison. The format here is a personal journal in which Harrison allows readers to be privy to her colorful pages of free-flowing collages, photographs, and wildly handwritten words. Harrison explores many of the typical questions, confusions, and insights that accompany the journey from adolescence to womanhood. At times her angst feels a tad clichéd ("I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got."), but her gutsy presentation and honesty make her words feel fresh and hard-earned, especially in passages such as this:
Harrison is a gifted writer with an inspiring
amount of heart-on-her-sleeve honesty. She even has the maturity to quote two
of the big Ws--Walt Whitman and Woody Allen--with equal panache. But
more importantly, she earns her readers' trust and hearts. As a result,
Harrison is a woman to watch and a writer to follow.
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From Amazon.com: SARK, an author, artist, and incest survivor with many years of therapy and self-healing behind her, wishes to shine her "beacon of hope to the world" as she encourages and inspires women of all ages to become "succulent." She defines this as transcending past pains and feeling the freedom of full self-expression. Very candidly she shares the tragic, the glorious, the intimate, and the adventurous in her life, dispensing sage advice and a lengthy menu of readily doable suggestions for arousing creativity and nurturing self-discovery. Bubbly, humorous, and at times just far-out, SARK is enjoyable.
3. Imagine a Woman In Love with Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness
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From Amazon.com: Vanquishing once and for all the tired biblical theory of woman as the cause of man's fall from grace, Imagine a Woman In Love with Herself empowers women to move from self-loathing to self-love, from self-criticism to self-celebration. It dismantles the question "What's wrong with me?" by exploring its historical, theological, and personal origins. Patricia Lynn Reilly explores 20 self-affirming qualities that encourage women to be the authors of their own lives and to cultivate knowledge and love of themselves. Each section is filled with reflections and meditations that ask readers to reclaim their inner resources and reconnect with the essential truth about themselves.
Original Release Date: 2002
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From Amazon.com: India Arie seems
comfortable in her own body. She told us as much on both "Video" and "Brown
Skin" from her stunning debut album,
Acoustic Soul, which celebrated the
diversity of feminine beauty, self-acceptance, and spirituality. She addresses
similar themes on her second outing, although much of her original
soul-scouring fire is gone. While she still preaches self-empowerment, many of
her lyrics veer toward the trite, and that's not where we expected to go on
this
Voyage to India. In fact, there are very few
self-revelatory moments like the ones on
Soul. Arie seems bent on journeying to
the center of womankind's mind, rather than unearthing more of her own
autobiography, casting herself as adviser to the disempowered. But that is not
where Arie shines. When she strips her voice down to its unvarnished
essence--leaving all the imperfections in the mix--she is a lithe, ethereal
presence. She's capable of raising chills, as when she sings of a man who
foretells his death on "Good Man." Or on "Complicated Man," where she lets her
voice run ragged, brimming with raw emotion while describing her imperfect
love. Despite some glibness, this is still a voyage worth taking.
2. Trampin'
Original Release Date: 2004
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From Amazon.com: Poet. Punk. Priestess. Patti Smith is still all these, yet much more on Trampin', which ranges from protest songs to hopeful hymns. Though the disc opens with an exuberant exhortation to "discard your Sunday shoes" ("Jubilee") and concludes with a quiet gospel standard, in between Smith's journey to find heaven on Earth is rocky. She calls on Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the poet William Blake for aid. She chants to rebuild a "Peaceable Kingdom," then whips around and unleashes the furious twelve-minute fireball of "Radio Baghdad," a jagged, Zeppelin-esque epic that recalls her 1975 debut, Horses. Her band, featuring longtime guitarist Lenny Kaye, are in superlative form: intertwining hypnotic leads on "Cartwheels;" dropping a mournful surf-tinged solo into "Mother Rose." Marked by both its simplicity and ambition, Trampin' reiterates that Smith remains a quintessential American artist, every inch the equal of Springsteen, Dylan or Lou Reed.
3. Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds, Vol. 1
Original Release Date: 2001
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From Amazon.com: Jill Scott is the singer-songwriter who wrote the unforgettable hook on the Roots' "You Got Me." Jill Scott is a better singer than the garble-mouthed Erykah Badu, who mangled those lines (albeit prettily) on the Roots' single. If Scott had sung them (which she does, and marvelously so, on the group's live album, The Roots Come Alive), we would have known what the hell the words were. Thankfully, Jill Scott has put out her own album, which exceeds all hook-derived expectations. She is, in fact, a wonder--a magically soulful tunesmith who writes tunes like "The Way" and "Watching Me" that feel as comfortable, warm, and sexy as Al Green on a cold day. And then she rips into the songs' haunting melodies with a gorgeous honey-crisp alto that'll leave you wanting more.
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Mermaids
(1990) ~ DVD
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In the early '60s, nomadic single mom Mrs. Flax (Cher) packs up her two
daughters, Charlotte (Winona Ryder) and Kate (Christina Ricci), in a beat-up
Chevy wagon and moves to small-town Massachusetts. Preteen Kate is obsessed
with swimming, while 15-year-old Charlotte is searching for ways to rebel
against her mom (and mom's flirty ways). The route she chooses is to become
fascinated with Catholicism and all its arcane rituals, even though the family
is Jewish. Her coming of age is handled with plenty of
Wonder Years-style voiceovers as she
fantasizes about Christ, the saints, the Pope, the Church--all things
Catholic. Cracks in her religious armor begin to appear, though, in the form
of a hunky local guy (Michael Schoeffling) who works at the convent.
Meanwhile, her mom strikes up a romance with the town shoe-store proprietor,
Lou (Bob Hoskins). Though Richard Benjamin's movie is a bit slow and tends to
lose its focus somewhat in the last third,
Mermaids
also has fairly credible dialogue and surprisingly believable chemistry
between Cher and Hoskins. The segments dealing with JFK's assassination are
handled particularly well, and while Ricci's role is a rather small one, she's
charming nonetheless. It's all too easy for coming-of-age movies to veer
toward the maudlin, but thankfully this engaging comedy-drama seldom does.
Cher, by the way, reprises her 1966
Sonny & Cher look, substituting a tight
skirt and pumps for her turtleneck and fur vest.
(1999) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
This is a wonderful film with stellar performances by the entire cast. It
is about a young woman's quest for the meaning of life. Taking place in the
early 1970s, it is very reminiscent of an era now passed, an era when "flower
power" was the rule of the day.
Here, Kate Winslet plays
Julia, a 25 year-old mother of two children, nine year old Bea, stunningly
acted by Bella Riza, and her younger sister, Lucy, charmingly played by
Carrie Mullen. They abandon their structured, staid life in London, when
Julia decides to leave their father to go to Marrakech in Morocco, then the
capitol of the disaffected, in search of spiritual enlightenment.
Taking her children, Julia
goes on an adventure, an adventure to which Lucy, the younger of her two
daughters, takes to almost immediately. Nine year-old Bea, on the other
hand, begins to yearn for a more "normal," structured life. Julia, however,
will have none of it. Living in a Moroccan slum with her girls, she
romanticizes their existence.
Julia becomes involved with
Bilal, a street performer of sorts, who looks out for them. Wonderfully
acted by Said Taghemaoui, Bilal charms Julia and her daughters. He cannot,
however, support them, and they cannot support themselves. This becomes
clear as they begin a rag tag journey into the Moroccan country side. This is a wonderful movie
with exceptional cinematography. A virtual travelogue of Moroccan life, it
is a visual feast that is sure to delight those who have a hankering for
faraway, exotic places and a thirst for adventure
3.
Elizabeth
(1998) ~ DVD
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One of the big Elizabethan-era
films of 1998, Shekhar Kapur's
Elizabeth
serves up a brimming goblet of religious tension, political conspiracy, sex,
violence, and war. England in 1554 is in financial and religious turmoil as
the ailing Queen "Bloody" Mary attempts to restore Catholicism as the national
faith. She has no heir, and her greatest fear--that her Protestant half-sister
Elizabeth will assume the throne after her death--is realized. Still, the late
Queen Mary has her loyalists. The newly crowned Elizabeth finds herself
knee-deep in dethroning schemes while also dodging assassination attempts. Her
advisers (including Sir William Cecil, superbly played by Richard
Attenborough) beg her to marry any one of her would-be suitors to stabilize
England's empire. No matter that she already has a lover. The passionate
Robert Dudley (Joseph Fiennes) is married, however, and shows he cannot stand
up to the growing strength of the Queen. With the help of her aide Walsingham
(Geoffrey Rush), Elizabeth strikes against her enemies before they get to her
first. But her rise ultimately entails rejecting love and marriage to redefine
herself as the indisputable Virgin Queen.
Cate Blanchett's
Oscar-nominated performance as the naive and vibrant princess who becomes the
stubborn and knowing queen is both severe and sympathetic. Her ethereal, pale
beauty is equal parts fire and ice, her delivery of such lines as "There will
be only one mistress here and no master!" expressed with command rather
than hysterics. As striking as Blanchett's performance is the film's lavish
and dramatic production design. The cold, dark sets paired with the lush
costuming show the golden age of England's monarchy emerging from the Middle
Ages. Rich velvet brushes over the dank stones while power is achieved at any
price, and with such attention to physical detail,
Elizabeth
fully immerses you into its compelling chronicle of pioneering feminism and
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