An International Women's Day Gift - What is Dying to be Born?

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

~ Toni Morrison

I am beyond excited to share with you today a juicy project that I have been working on all year!  Though I didn't write this book, I did compile it because it was a book I really wanted to read.  I'm guessing most of you will feel the same way when you dig into this collection of wisdom, poetry and art from these intelligent, open hearted women. This was a labour of love for me and all the women involved. It is a celebration of the imagination and vision of women.  The ideas in this book are important and my dream is that they will be shared widely and freely, with love, so that they can make a difference.

Here is a list of the amazing women who contributed to this book:

Kelly Diels

Martha Beck

Jan Phillips

Leah-Piken Kolidas

Kelly McGonigal

Anne Jackson

Brené Brown

Flora Bowley

Laura Berman Fortgang

Deanna Zandt

Colleen Wainwright

Shilo Shiv Suleman

Linda Stone

Melvina Johnson Young

Patti Digh

Melanie Schambach

Maya Stein

Tara Hunt

Andrea Learned

Margaret Wheatley

Kyra D. Gaunt

Susan Wooldridge

Anne Mai Bertelsen

Pamela Tanner Boll

Cheryl Sorg

Dori J. Maynard

Pamela Slim

Danielle LaPorte

Jane Fulton Alt

Marlene Schiwy

    Download What is Dying to be Born

(note this is a large file - 43MB. If you have trouble downloading it, here is   a smaller version  of 1.4MB but with less resolution)

Comments

[Trish]

Happy International Women's Day! I'm excited to have found you rwebsite Lianne - please enter me into the drawing for Jan Phillips' CD setThanks,Trish

[Andrea Learned]

Thanks for including my essay on sustainability, Lianne. The contributors you gathered, and their thoughts on many important issues of the day are a great way to celebrate International Women's Day, Month... and forever.

[leah]

Congrats, Lianne on putting together this beautiful project!

[Colleen Wainwright]

Lovely and amazing job, Lianne. Thank you for making and sharing such a beautiful thing.

[Ghotihead59]

can't wait to dive into this and do some knitting on this cloudy day in Arizona. thanks for the hard work.

[Linda Bannan]

Wow! What an amazing collection of wise and caring women! Thank you so mch for cmpiling all of this wisdom in one book! I want to read it too!

[Square-Peg Karen]

What a wonderful International Women's Day gift! Thank you!!

[Jennifer]

What a great gift!Can't wait to hunker down and read it all!

[Beth]

WOW! What a great idea!

Have a wonderful International Women's Day!

[Kathy]

Hi Lianne - what a great idea and a beautiful gift. Can't wait to see what you do next, perhaps with your photography??? (hee hee)Really grateful to you for creating this labor of love.

[Maureen]

How marvelous of you to make this available! Just wonderful! Thank you.

[Clara]

What a great project! I've been reading straight for the past half hour, and looking forward to more.

[Caren]

What an incredible collection! Thanks so much for the compilation - you're quite a conduit!!

[Samantha]

Just found your blog through Creative Every Day on Twitter, what a nice thing to wake up to!

Off to snoop around your site now :)

Happy Women's Day! :D

[Margaret Williams]

A wonderful gift from you and all the women who participated! I will treasure it.

[Erin Coughlin Hollowell]

Thank you so much for this lovely project. So glad to find your site.

[Flora Bowley]

Beautiful and inspiring! Thank you!

[twitter.com/oliveandhope]

Beautiful! I can't wait to dive in :)

[Randi Nervig]

I just finished reading this - the over-riding message I got seems to be that women have a definite contribution to how the world functions and it's time we start being heard. Thank you so much for compiling these thoughts and then making them available.

[Diane]

I've just begun reading this; it's wonderful! Thanks for following your dream and making it happen; you're an inspiration.

[carol]

Looking forward to reading the book...

Thanks!

[Chris Tessnear]

Love the Ebook Dying to be born. AND thanks for having a lower res download. I'm still on dial up and it helped me to get it effortlessly.WOuld love to be entered in drawing for Jan Phillips CD set. love her and her work.Will visit your blog often.

[Jackie Walker]

So impressed with what you've pulled together, hearty congratulations, and although this is my first time visiting your blog, it will be the first of many!

I'd love to be entered into the draw.

[Inside-my-shell.blogspot.com]

Happy Women's Day! I'm so glad I stumbled over this and I'm sure I'll return soon.

[Patricia Erskine]

A labor of love indeed! This is just what I need in this culture of mass distraction, to look below the surface and think about whose life am I living? Who is my life in service to? Where is the greatest hunger? What activates the energy or fails to activate the energy? Blessings on your well considered life!