"With calm and compassionate power, Yasmine is helping us to find our way back home-back to our own selves." -Layla Saad, New York Times bestselling author of Me & White Supremacy "Yasmine's work is monumental, and I am in much better holistic alignment because of her dedicated and helpful offerings to the world."-Alex Elle, author of After the Rain A radical approach to setting boundaries and protecting your energy, rich with tools for self-healing. Imagine a glass jar filled with sugar on a kitchen counter. You are the jar, and the sugar is your energy. If the jar has no lid, people can come in and take as much sugar as they want. Sometimes, they spill that sugar all over. You may try to refill your jar-replenish your energy-through self-care, but because there is no a lid-no protective boundary-you cannot control how much of your vital life force is being drained. The Sugar Jar metaphor is a powerful teaching tool that wellness advocate and coach Yasmine Cheyenne has successfully used with her clients. Now, in her debut book, she makes it available to everyone. Combining stories, exercises, and prompts, The Sugar Jar lets you see just how much energy you have and how much is being used by others. It helps you identify what depletes you, what restores you, and how to recognize destructive patterns. It empowers you to free yourself from performing for and serving others, teaching you to set boundaries to help you heal and recharge. The Sugar Jar frees you from the excess stress and exhaustion that wears you down. It allows you to unleash your authentic self, choose joy, and find lasting balance. A compassionate teacher, Cheyenne offers a unique and much needed perspective. A former member of the Air Force working with victims of domestic violence, she has specifically designed her approach and questions about boundaries, self-care, and self-healing for readers of all backgrounds, and especially readers of color, whose stressors and life challenges have too often been excluded and overlooked. Cheyenne herself has felt unwelcome as a Black woman in predominantly white wellness groups and retreats. Her inclusive message speaks to the needs of BIPOC readers, and accepts them where they are. Warm and honest, featuring a beautiful and inviting two-color design, The Sugar Jar shows you how to make small adjustments that can lead to big changes in your life.

From knitting expert Brandi Harper, a must-have pattern book for modern knitters, with essays on self-care and sourcing creativity There is no such thing as being kind-of a knitter-the wobbly scarves and that oversized sweater you tried to shrink all count too. Each contribution that you make to the world through knitting is meaningful, but maybe you've slowed your commitment to this craft, or you can't seem to find the time to be creative. There's a lot to be distracted by, and the path forward isn't always clear. Brandi Harper aims to bring those challenges to the forefront and help you unearth the immense benefits that knitting has to offer. In her debut book, Knitting for Radical Self-Care, Harper offers tips and suggestions for carving out time for creativity, alongside beautiful patterns to try yourself. The book includes ten original patterns inspired by revolutionary women of color, and Harper will speak to these women and their immense impact on her life and our world. The patterns include detailed instructions, alongside her original prose, all designed to inspire.

Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career helped shape the horror and fantasy genres of literature, film, and television for over sixty years. Matheson authored more than 90 short stories and over two dozen novels, many of which-including I Am Legend, A Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come, The Shrinking Man, Hell House, and Bid Time Return-have been adapted into feature films. Despite his extensive body of work and influence, Matheson has remained largely outside the scope of academic scrutiny. In Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey Cheyenne Mathews and Janet V. Haedicke present a number of essays that provide the first critical overview of Matheson's texts. The essays in this collection cover seven of Matheson's novels, a sampling of short stories, and several adaptations for both film and television. The chapters are arranged thematically and address the sociopolitical anxieties reflected in Matheson's oeuvre, consider his precursors and successors, and situate him within narrative traditions of mythology, cinema, genre, and memory studies.By providing an overview of his career, Reading Richard Matheson illustrates how such a commercial writer can contribute to academic discourses of literature and film. Though the articles use a variety of theoretical frameworks, the crossover nature of the collection reflects the broad range of Matheson's output. As such, this volume will appeal to both fans of Matheson's work in general as well as to scholars of literature, film studies, cultural studies, genre studies, media studies, memory studies, and popular culture.

Beer Places is, most essentially, a road map for craft beer, taking readers to various locales to discover the beverage’s deep connections to place. At another level, Beer Places is an academic analysis of these geographical ties. Collected into sections that address authenticity and revitalization, politics and economics, and collectivity and collaboration, this book blends new research with a series of “postcards”: informal conversations and first-person dispatches from the field that transport readers to the spots where pints are shared, networks forged, and spaces defined. With insight from social scientists, beer bloggers, travel writers, and food entrepreneurs who recount their experiences of taprooms, breweries, and bottle shops from North Carolina to Zimbabwe, Beer Places reveals differences in the craft beer scene across multiple geographies. Situating craft beer as an emerging and important component of food studies, the essays in this volume attest to the singular power of craft beer to connect people and places.

This is a tender book of poetry, written by a young mother of two, as she was dying of cancer. Ms. Cheyenne wrote most of these poems during the last three years of her battle. The reader will never forget the haunting rhythms transcending these pages. A divorced single mother, raising two sons, fights for her life against cancer. In the three years before her death, she keeps going by writing her deepest feelings in free verse poetry. This is Tests Of Being. Here Nur Cheyenne opens her heart on her relationships with family, friends, physicians, death and God.