International Women’s History Month: rē•claim Your Self-Empowerment

March marks Women’s History Month, a time each year to spotlight and rē-flect on the contributions women have made throughout history. It’s also an opportunity to recognize the power women wield to make changes from within and the strength to make an impression on the world around us. Women transform lives and continuously move the needle forward. Through the mind, body, and spirit, the possibilities for our being are limitless. 

To celebrate, we’ve rounded up a selection of books from the rē•spin shop to guide you on your journey this month as you connect, awaken, nourish, strengthen and give back to realize eternal beauty.

It’s time to tap into our whole, energetic selves. In Vibrate Higher Daily, Lalah Delia guides readers on a journey toward rē-claiming self-power through vibrational-based living. Delia teaches that by understanding the vibrations that run within all elements of our lives, we can better harness control over the obstacles that keep us from becoming our most authentic selves. As we begin to recognize the people and things in our lives that give us good and bad vibes, we have the final say on how we connect.

Delia calls on readers to rē-consider our daily actions—including who we spend time with, what we read, where we go, and even what we eat—to build more agency and positivity in our lives. By engaging with what feeds and raises our vibration and letting go of the rest, we become our own advocates for truer well-being and connection.

“Supportive community is how you take your power back,” Delia says. “Self-care is how you take your power back. Journeying in grace and remembering who you are is how you take your power back.” 

Find more profound energy and presence by listening to your body’s natural designs. In Energize, sleep expert Dr. Michael Breus and SoulCycle-master Instructor Stacey Griffith tap into the principles of chronobiology and our physical body type to offer a personalized approach to boosting our energy and fighting off fatigue once and for all. 

By rē-synching with our biology, nature, and DNA, we can promote a sense of self-joy, get the most out of rest, and cultivate a greater daily presence. Through a comprehensive and science-backed program consisting of daily movements, sleeping and fasting schedules, as well as mood hacks, we’re presented with the resources to promote happiness within our lives and awaken self-empowerment.

Joanne Lee Molinaro’s debut cookbook, The Korean Vegan Cookbook, is filled with hundreds of pages of stunning photography and 80 plant-based recipes that pay homage to the author’s childhood favorites, as well as satisfying and sentimental moments in her own life. Richly conveyed through intimate stories, recipes range from childhood staples, like Jjajangmyun, the rich black bean noodles Lee Molinaro ate on birthdays, to Gamja Guk, a potato-and-leek soup often prepared by her father.

This cookbook not only grants the opportunity to experience and make plant-based recipes but weaves in a soul-nourishing celebration of how family and food can shape who we are. Through Lee Molinaro’s example, we can reflect on who came before us in our lineage and discover new ways to bring forth that power today.

Stacey Griffin has taken her decade-long experience as a SoulCycle instructor and translated her teachings into a book that shows us how to elevate our health and fitness to a higher level, all while rē-spinning that energy to boost our emotional and spiritual well-being. In Two Turns From Zero, Griffith communicates the belief that everyone possesses the ability to be an athlete and can improve their physical, mental, and emotional life. Griffith directs readers toward embodied self-affirmation through endurance and joy from conditioning advice to moving meditations.

Beyond her health- and fitness-related counseling and actionable ways to visualize and achieve our goals, she helps us rē-frame our sense of purpose to guide us through all life’s challenges.

Giving back is essential to our wellness journeys by way of rē•spin’s core pillars. Authors of Women and Philanthropy, Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz, Martha A. Taylor, and Sondra C. Shaw-Hardy, share how women have rē-invented the world of fundraising and the art of giving back by making decisions for contributions that are rooted in compassion, vision, and responsibility. Together, they explore women’s philanthropic endeavors, study how and why women give, outline what it takes to develop a gender-sensitive giving campaign and describe how to create a strategic plan to involve women as leaders and donors. 

Women and Philanthropy impart novel ways women can empower themselves when it comes to the art of giving and the necessary counsel to help develop women as leaders in the philanthropic space—all to make the future a better, brighter, more self-actualized place.

When we strip back the layers of our physical self, what remains? Who are we as individuals? And do we have a strong enough sense of self-awareness? The Four Faces of Woman explores our identity and the faces we wear daily–the faces that give us strength and the ones that strip that same power away, the faces that tap into our eternal beauty and joy, and the ones that help propel us forward or hold us back. 

Guided by the findings of 300 women from 42 countries, The Four Faces of Woman urges readers to journey toward self-awareness and eternal beauty. Ward’s tools and insights spotlight how readers can harness our multiplicity to unleash our most authentic, most powerful, and highest selves.