The Radiant Heart of the Cosmos:

Compassion Teachings for Our Time

by Penny Gill

Publication Year: 2022

Winner of the 2023 Nautilus Silver Award (category: Rising to the Moment)

We live in a time of great tumult and suffering. The wise among us know that we desperately need healing, not more blame, violence and greed. The Radiant Heart of the Cosmos: Compassion Teachings for Our Time invites us to begin the work of healing the suffering in our own lives and then in our communities and our world.

Through Penny Gill’s conversations with Teachers Manjushri and Kwan Yin, we learn skillful ways to uncover our deeply defended hearts and then to recognize our own Heart Center, our portal to the Source of the great compassion streaming throughout the universe. The Teachers explain the intimate relationship between compassion and suffering, along with the importance of reclaiming our emotional lives and our access to the Divine Feminine. Restoring the balance between masculine and feminine energies will enable us to heal our Earth and recognize our interdependence with all of life

This urgent task begins in the heart of each one of us. In this complex, polyphonic text, Penny Gill and her Teachers encourage you to walk your own Spiral Path of healing—for yourself, for the world, and for the future we create in each moment.

Front cover photo by Hendrik Zwart, Nordic Light Photo Tours

Nature, Culture, and the Sacred

A Woman Listens For Leadership

by Nina Simons

Publication Year: 2022

Winner of the 2018 Nautilus Gold Award (category: Women)
and 2018 Nautilus Silver Award (category: Social Change & Social Justice)

Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons offers inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership with resilience and joy. Informed by her extensive experience with multicultural women’s leadership development, Simons replaces the old patriarchal leadership paradigm with a more feminine-inflected style that illustrates the interconnected nature of the issues we face today.

Sharing moving stories of women around the world joining together to reconnect people, nature and the land—both practically and spiritually—Nature, Culture and the Sacred is necessary reading for anyone who wants to learn from and be inspired by women who are leading the way towards transformational change by cultivating vibrant movements for social and environmental justice.

Expanded Second Edition!

What I Forgot

…and Why I Remembered

A Purposeful Memoir

by Jennifer Browdy

Finalist in Autobiography/Memoir in the 2018 International Book Awards

Publication Year: 2022

Fifth Anniversary Edition: 2022

In this lyrical, hard-hitting memoir, one American woman’s journey is set against the larger landscape of the political upheaval and global climate disruption of her time and place. In telling the story of a generation who “forgot” how important the health of our planet is to our personal and collective well-being, Jennifer Browdy calls on readers to remember our primary connection to the Earth and begin the process of transformation at the intersection of the personal, political and planetary.

“Demonstrates how vibrant and rewarding an engaged life can be.”— Mary Pipher

“Jennifer Browdy has chosen to write what she calls a “purposeful memoir….Her choice can inspire us all to see how our lives have been hijacked or distracted from what we most deeply desire, and ​ how we can reclaim our lives for the sake of life on Earth.”
— Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life and Active Hope (2022 edition): How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power

“This beautifully written and moving memoir of a woman’s search to find her authentic self, buried beneath decades of social conditioning and academic prejudice…offers hope, inspiration and support to all those who, aware of disaster staring us in the face, are searching for courage and insight into how to respond. A timely and most valuable contribution to the greatest challenge of our times.”
— Anne Baring, author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul

Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future

Inspiration for Writers & Seekers

Images & Text by
Jennifer Browdy, PhD

Gold Medal Winner of the 2022 Nautilus Awards!

Winner of the 2022 Independent Press Awards, writing & publishing category!

Award-winning author Jennifer Browdy, PhD, creates a magical tapestry of inspiration and exploration, weaving her own story together with the inspiring voices and visions of more than 15 of the writer-activists she calls “worldwrights”—writers who write to right the world, including such beloved mentors as Joy Harjo, Audre Lorde, Jane Goodall, Terry Tempest Williams and many more.

Jennifer and the worldwrights invite you on a series of eight Quests, centered around positive qualities that we need more of in life: Clarity, Courage, Vitality, Guidance, Love, Community, Joy and Freedom. Each Quest opens a path for you to explore your life experience through a series of stimulating writing prompts designed to catalyze your memories and imagination, complemented by Jennifer’s stunning photos of the natural beauty of Nova Scotia.

Join Jennifer on the elemental journey of purposeful memoir, a contemplative practice that opens new portals through which to explore the past, with the goal of understanding the present more fully, and stepping with greater intention into the thriving future we all desire.

Gender Artist

A mother's poems about raising a queer child in a straight world

by Lee Schwartz

Publication Year: 2021

Winner of the 2021 Independent Publishers' Association of New England (IPNE) Award for Best Book of Poetry!

At once brilliant and brave, tender and gut-raw, Lee Schwartz’s Gender Artist explores and documents a mother's response to her child’s gender transformation. These are poems that shatter and satisfy, convincing us that the deeply-examined life is the only kind worth living. Gender Artist is a must-read!

—Robin Greene, author of Shelf Life of Fire & Real Birth, Women Share Their Stories

The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir

A Writer’s Companion

by Jennifer Browdy

2017 Nautilus Silver Award Winner for creative process

Publication Year: 2017

Warm and informal, this month-by-month guide to writing memoir is like having an experienced writing coach at your elbow. With a year’s worth of thought-provoking, carefully structured writing prompts and essays on craft, Jennifer offers guidance and companionship for the aspiring memoirist, encouraging you to dig deep into the storehouse of your memories to share the wisdom that only life experience can bring.