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I love Donald Trump, but I don’t like him.

I think he’s racist, greedy, narcissistic, devoid of empathy and compassion, and the unapologetic perpetrator of sexual assault on numerous women. I find him to be a profoundly dangerous and despicable human being. But I do love him.

I love him when I remember his humanity, when I remember he was once an innocent, curious, loving child like all of us. I love him when I imagine how miserable he must be to act with such insecurity and hatred, and when I consider how unloved he must feel to show such lack of love for others. I love him when I remind myself that I am dedicated to love, and that real love has no conditions, not even with Donald Trump. Not with anyone.

Author and proud Witch Danielle Dulsky has committed her life to revealing the inherent nature of Witchcraft: an ancient spiritual path that rejects religious dogma in favor of female empowerment and a deep reverence for the Earth. In her first book, Woman Most Wild, she reclaims the Earth-centered power of aligning with our wildest, freest selves to create an inclusive world for all. In her forthcoming book, The Holy Wild (publishing on September 18, 2018), she goes even more deeply into the old myths and helps to re-empower women who feel alienated from their spiritual lives — especially those who once tried to fit into traditional religions and found them sexist and lacking. 

Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In his compelling new book, Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.

Together with her fiancé, Dr. John Waddell, Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, a.k.a. SARK, coauthored Succulent Wild Love about relationship liberation, offering guidance and wisdom from the wonderful and playful life they lived together as a couple. Dr. Waddell died shortly after their book was published, and this week on the New World Now podcast, SARK sits down with host Kim Corbin to share how her practice of deeply grieving while also wildly living — which work together, just like a bird’s wings — has allowed her to feel more love more often while navigating the loss of her fiancé.

In the twenty-first century, one might wish that pain were an easily treatable nonissue. It is not. Millions of doctor and emergency room visits stem from pain, and addiction to pain medications, which is rampant in the United States, often takes root when someone in pain is attempting to manage unremitting discomfort. 

In The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living With and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain, author Sarah Anne Shockley, who has personally lived with chronic pain since 2007, offers fellow pain sufferers a compassionate and supportive guide for living with pain that can be used alongside their ongoing medical or therapeutic healing programs. We hope you’ll enjoy this excerpt from the book.

Why has a tiny old mining town straight out of Gunsmoke or Deadwood — Crestone, Colorado — become home to twenty-five spiritual centers representing nearly all the brand-name faiths of the world? In his new book, Enlightenment Town: Finding Spiritual Awakening in a Most Improbable Place, Jeffery Paine narrates a truly unique adventure. With the keen eye of a storyteller, the insights of a scholar, and the heart of a seeker, he explores Crestone’s wintry, oxygen-thin mountain geography and introduces a cast of spiritual mavericks and unlikely visionaries. Paine finds in Crestone a remarkable dedication to coexistence. Paradoxically, the town’s amazing spiritual diversity highlights fundamental commonalities in a way that will strike and even inspire believers, agnostics, and searchers of every stripe.