Self

Field guides to the inward journey—stillness, embodiment, difficult questions, creativity, love, suffering, and the lifelong work of becoming more fully yourself.

Noticing

Learning to notice is the beginning of inner life. These books invite us to slow down, pay attention, and rediscover what is already present in the body, the mind, and the ordinary world.

Becoming Whole Within

The Union explores integration and wholeness through myth, symbol, imagination, and love. The journey toward another becomes a journey inward, where divided parts of the self meet, old projections fall away, and intimacy becomes a path toward greater inner unity.

Questions, Choices & Love

Books about the patterns, questions, relationships, and choices that shape a life. They offer different ways to understand ourselves, meet uncertainty, and live with greater honesty and depth.
Sixty-Four of You — The I Ching Mirror
​A fresh way of reading the I Ching, discovering its ancient patterns as mirrors for the ordinary changes, choices, and seasons of everyday life.
When Cupid Calls – An Anthropology of the Heart
A warm, thoughtful field guide to the myths, rituals, language, and everyday mysteries of human love.
Dangerous Questions – A Journal for Living More Deeply
​A journal for asking better questions, listening inwardly, and meeting your life with more honesty, courage, and attention.

Body & Centering
Books about inhabiting a body, listening to feeling, meeting contradiction, setting boundaries, and becoming more fully present in an imperfect life.
Holy Cow, I’m in a Body 
​ An affectionate field guide to the strange experience of having a body—and learning to meet yourself through curiosity, humor, and embodiment.
Nope!!!
A field guide to standing your ground with clarity and kindness, exploring why saying "no" is often one of life's most generous acts.

All Tangled Up

A field guide to the knots people tie themselves into—mixed motives, impossible choices, misunderstandings, contradictions, and the strange comedy of being human.

Staying Present

Books about meeting life as it is—with its suffering, humor, companionship, uncertainty, and everyday astonishment. Each offers a different way to remain awake and engaged rather than turning away.
Misery – don't step away
A short, unflinching book about suffering, despair, and the choice to stay present without turning away or abandoning yourself.
The Frog Pond –Everyday Astonishment
An invitation to rediscover wonder in the ordinary world around us.

Verbal and Non-Verbal Creativity

Language and art help people imagine, collaborate, teach, listen, disagree, and make something together. These books explore the words, images, and practices that allow creativity and shared intelligence to emerge.
It Must Be Tuesday
A plainspoken book about creativity, freedom, and what Tai Sheridan learned from artist and teacher Douglas Walton. These stories explore trust, mistakes, unfinished work, and the courage to stop forcing everything into shape—and begin seeing what is actually there.
You Gotta Listen! is a plainspoken book about group intelligence, organizational wisdom, and what Tai Sheridan learned from his longtime mentor, Pat Waters. Through stories and practical observations, it shows how groups become wiser when people listen carefully, gather the facts, and resist solving too soon.

​Tai Sheridan – The Roving Anthropologist
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