Emotional Labor

This program is read by the author. For readers of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski comes a scathing, deeply-researched foray into the invisible, uncompensated work women perform every day. We’re tired. A stranger insists you “smile more,” even as you...

A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load"—the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of problems large and small—is adversely affecting women’s lives and feeding gender inequality, and shows the way forward for...

Dr. Faith, author of the best-selling Unf*ck Your Brain and Unf*ck Your Intimacy, tackles one of the toughest emotional topics there is with her trademark mix of neuroscience, gentle encouragement, and no-nonsense language. This book isn’t about getting rich quick (or necessarily at all) - it’s about figuring out your own economic values and baggage, and learning to be the person in the world you know you have it in you to be.

Mom Burnout is for exhausted moms who don’t need fluffy self-care advice, they need real-life recovery tools that work on real weekdays. This book gives you a clear path out of survival mode: triage first, stabilization next, then practical systems that reduce the mental load and reset your routines, without asking you to do more, try harder, or become a completely different person. Instead of vague encouragement, you’ll get a step-by-step framework you can actually run, whether you have support or you’re doing most of it alone. You’ll learn how to protect your energy, make ...

From Attorney Ryan, the most well-known labor lawyer in America, the complete guide to workers’ rights that your boss doesn’t want you to read Life for working people is getting harder and more expensive. While employers clamp down with return-to-office mandates, productivity trackers, and...

A Federal Reserve insider pulls back the curtain on the secretive institution that controls America’s economy After correctly predicting the housing crash of 2008 and quitting her high-ranking Wall Street job, Danielle DiMartino Booth was surprised to find herself recruited as an analyst at...

Emotion Rules Everybody knows IQ. A measure of intelligence, genius, the ability to use your brain to rationally figure out the world and find success within. But what's EQ? And why is it arguably more important than IQ? If you don't know, you can't win. And that's only the beginning... So learn the facts. Know the truth, apply the gains. EQ is vital. This guide to emotional intelligence includes: What is emotional intelligence? Who devised emotional intelligence? Why is emotional intelligence so important? How does emotional intelligence affect us? Where can emotional intelligence be ...

An acclaimed author and psychoanalyst shares moving true stories from his practice to explore the central question of our lives: How do we find and keep love? “A profound meditation on love and healing. Powerful and important. Essential reading.”—Tara Westover, author of Educated In these...

You’re the one everyone calls when things fall apart. But no one checks on you. You’re the strong friend. The calm one. The listener. The person who always knows what to say. You hold everyone else together, quietly, competently, endlessly, while carrying a kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. The Untrained Therapist is for the people who became emotional caretakers without ever choosing the role. Written by licensed marriage and family therapist and Navy veteran Francisco Castillo, this book names a truth many people feel but rarely have language for. You’ve been doing ...

Are you tired of giving everything and still feeling unseen? You’re the strong one. The listener. The rescuer. You keep hoping he’ll change—if you love him enough, if you stay long enough. But inside, you’re quietly breaking. This isn’t love. It’s emotional labor disguised as devotion. This book is a lifeline for smart, capable women who keep attracting men they have to fix. Written like a letter from one exhausted heart to another, I Didn’t Want to Fix Him. I Just Wanted to Be Loved. will help you see the patterns, break the cycle, and finally put yourself first without guilt...

Present day, London: When Sophie discovers a photograph of her great aunt Vivi from World War II, it throws her into a world of confusion. Because, as she learns about this secret relative, she quickly realizes that the photograph doesn’t fit with her family’s story. It shows Vivi leaving an address associated with a spy network in London - a place she had no reason to be - and it is dated right before she disappeared.

An instant New York Times Bestseller! A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice,"...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."—Reese Witherspoon Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I...

A therapy session in paperback. A laugh-out-loud survival manual. A mirror for every mother who’s ever said, “I’m fine,” when she’s not. MOM AF is not your typical motherhood memoir. It’s a brutally honest, emotionally charged, and painfully funny look at what it really means to mother, partner, and survive in a world that demands perfection from Black women and working moms. Through unfiltered stories about Chick-fil-A breakdowns, wine-fueled dinners, racial code-switching, toxic in-laws, and marriage fatigue, Christine Michel Carter delivers a voice so raw it could only come ...

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill a seemingly impossible school assignment—and learns about friendship, community, and himself along the way. Herc Beal knows who...

You’re Not Broken. You’re Just Tired A quiet, honest book for women who are done pretending they’re fine. You’ve held it together. You’ve done what was expected. You’ve tried to stay grateful, to keep the peace, to smile through the overwhelm. But deep down, something’s off. Not a crisis. Not a disaster. Just… a slow unraveling. You’re exhausted—and not in the “need a nap” kind of way. More like the “don’t know how to keep going, but still do” kind of tired. This book is for that version of you. What this book is — and what it’s not: It’s not a fix-it ...

An examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. “An indispensable guide to the broader dynamics of work in the contemporary moment.” —Nation You’re told that if...

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION*** NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today ***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION*** Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH Rage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions...

THE VERSION OF ME NOBODY CLAPPED FOR Learning to Value a Life Without Applause You did the hard things. No one noticed. Not the quiet sacrifices. Not the days you showed up when you were falling apart. Not the weight you carried so others didn’t have to. And no one clapped. This book is for you if: • You’ve done everything right—and still feel unseen • You’re the one people rely on, but no one checks on • You’re tired of being “the strong one” • You’ve built a life quietly… and wonder if it even counts • You crave recognition—but hate admitting it Because ...

Sure to become a classic on female empowerment, a groundbreaking exploration of the personal, cultural, and global implications of intergenerational trauma created by patriarchy, how it is passed down from mothers to daughters, and how we can break this destructive cycle. Why do women keep...