Unboxing October’s Box and Books for Self-Love

In today’s episode, Renee reveals the book of the month and all five of the products in our October True Crime box, plus our featured social justice organization Manavi. Then Phalin preempts seasonal depression with six books she hopes will help bolster her own mental health this fall and winter, and maybe they’ll help you too.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery by Brianna Weist

The Strength in our Scars by Biana Sparacino

Daring to Take Up Space by Daniell Koepke

Don’t F*cking Panic: The Shit They Don’t Tell You in Therapy about Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, and Depression by Kesley Darragh

What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower’s Guide to Why You Are Already Enough by Chidera Eggerue

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna West

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This episode was edited by Phalin Oliver and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose
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Renee Powers founded Feminist Book Club in 2018 to provide a space for intersectional feminists to learn, grow, and connect. When not reading or running the biz, you can find her drinking coffee and trying unsuccessfully to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Favorite genres: feminist thrillers, contemporary literary fiction, short stories, and anything that might be described as "irreverent"