Elise, Sara
9780063098770, 0063098776
Paperback
 
In this expansive book of compassionate wisdom and self-reflection, entrepreneur and “pleasure doula” Sara Elise uncovers the powerful—and often unexamined— forces that keep us in a state of survival and limitation and asks us to consider a new way to live. 
 
 “Deeply honest, compassionate, and wise. . . . A Recipe for More is a generous book about breaking cycles of suffering, but also choosing pleasure, offering kindness to self, culti-vating an electric network of friendships, and embracing this sweet life. I treasured every page.”—Janelle Monáe, singer, actor, artist, and New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Librarian 
 
 “This is more than a book: It’s a way of being.”—J. Wortham, staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and cohost of the New York Times podcast Still Processing 
 
A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease is an invitation to reimag- ine the ingredients of our lives, those essential components that make up our days. Have we chosen rest, breath, movement, agency, visibility, play, and pleasure? Or are we trapped in the numbing and violent pattern of self-inflicted suffering? Do we celebrate the unique and precious wiring of our brains? Are our relationships a garden of ever-growing and evolving roots? Do we nourish our bodies with what they require to sense and receive? Are we liberated, awakened, and alive? As a Black & indigenous, autistic, queer woman, Sara Elise makes a radical argument for dismantling the systems that oppress us. But it begins with the individual, and the simple recipe of our every day. 
 
Groundbreaking, persuasive, inclusive, and warm—and written in the tradition of authors like adrienne maree brown and Sonya Renee Taylor—A Recipe for More brings the ingredients of an abundant life to all readers so that we might honor ourselves, deepen our communities, and finally be present in each miraculous and life-giving moment.