Stocking Stuffer Ideas: Wonderful Books for WomenStocking Stuffer Ideas: Wonderful Books for Women

If you're a woman--and especially if you're a mom--there's a decent chance you're the one shopping for you. If so… congratulations! You can get yourself some amazing books this holiday season. The following books aren't all specifically for or about women, but they are relevant to the challenges on which I work with my female clients, and they are personal favorites of mine. I hope they are just as useful for you.

You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero. This isn't a book specifically for women, but let's be honest: so many of us are trained to people-please and not to inhabit our most badass selves. This book is a call to us to be brave and it is a bestseller for a reason.

"You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it's got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid. Says who? You're on a journey with no defined beginning, middle or end. There are no wrong twists and turns. There is just being. And your job is to be as you as you can be. This is why you're here. To shy away from who you truly are would leave the world you-less. You are the only you there is and ever will be. I repeat, you are the only you there is and ever will be. Do not deny the world its one and only chance to bask in your brilliance."

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, PhD. This world has shaken up how we look at women's sexuality in powerful ways. It's given us a shared language to even start talking about women's sexuality. For women, this book can help you understand your body. For women's partners, this can be invaluable in helping you to understand how to show up as a partner and a lover. It, too, is a bestseller for a reason.

"I am done living in a world where women are lied to about their bodies; where women are objects of sexual desire but not subjects of sexual pleasure; where sex is used as a weapon against women; and where women believe their bodies are broken, simply because those bodies are not male. And I am done living in a world where women are trained from birth to treat their bodies as the enemy."

Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life by Sharon Blackie. For the woman of a certain age, with wrinkles, grey hairs, who may be feeling invisible in our society: there's reasons you are feeling that way. Hagitude is a power anthem for women who are no longer young, and who are ready to not fade into invisibility.

"...Unshackled by the ferocious cleavings of menopause, I was able to smash through a lifetime habit of insisting on piecing together what was terminally broken… The truth is, by the time we reach menopause, we've all lived with too much loss; we've all been broken open. We've accumulated too much pain. Menopause is the time to transform it. To stop trying to stitch ourselves back together again into the same old pattern. To put away that darning needle, blunted by our persistent and insistent repair work. To step into the crucible, and let it do its work. We can't mend everything. We can't. And, sometimes, we simply shouldn't.