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Podcast Episode · Writers at the Well · 08/26/2025 · 49m

Weekly meditations to calm your mind, connect to your heart, and take refuge in love. These practices draw from neuroscience, wisdom traditions, and teachers such as Adyashanti, Tara Brach, Pema Chodr...

"Most of us have a natural field of action, an arena, in which we can assert ourselves and make some difference in the world."

Kennedy's new cross-genre novel embraces serious topics with sensitivity and grace.

📚 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 📚 ⁣⁣𝗗𝗮𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 by @tess_callahan ⁣This is family drama at its best. Thank you so much to the author for sharing this beautiful and heartbreaking book with me . Although you could ( and maybe should but I think not ) read April & Oliver first , I’m kind of glad I read this as a standalone . I think not having that background (let’s be honest I was like 30-40% in when I even realized there was another book and only because included into the name of it on the bookmark 🤦‍♀️) it made the story more mysterious ⁣⁣𝗠𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⁣𝗚𝗥 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 4.22 ⭐️ ⁣#ComtemporaryFiction ; 327 pages⁣🐳 Keep watching for some whale watching videos … we were so close to this #humpbackwhale who spent about 45 min with us, that I couldn’t even get a good video without someone in it … I was so close that I even saw his eye 👀. #bestexperienceever 🐳 have you been whale watching or had some close encounters with whales ? ⁣⁣🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴⁣⁣⁣ #Bookreview #readerlife #readerforlife #readersofinstagram #booksofinstagram #igbookstagram #igbooks #readerofbooks #igreads #bookfeature #spiveys📚club #readreadread #unboxing #unboxingreels #unboxingbooks #unboxingvideo #unboxingvideos #bookmail #bookmailisthebestmail #bookmailmonday #bookmail📮 #bookmailisthebestmail📪 #whalewatching #whalewatch #whalewatching🐳

"Giving voice to the concerns of women is paramount in my novels."