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This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels - and provides women with a roadmap to this very important transition that can last from a few months to a few years. Kimberly Ann Johnson draws from her vast professional experience as a doula, postpartum consultant, yoga teacher, body worker, and women's health care advocate, and from the healing traditions of Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and herbalism - as well as her own personal experience - to cover everything you need to know....

When your spirituality includes your sexuality, you access a power that can change the world. “Feminine sexuality is the antidote to a profit-driven, shame-based patriarchy that robs us all of our basic humanity,” explains author and teacher Kimberly Ann Johnson. In Reclaiming the Feminine, Johnson draws from a wealth of disciplines to help women claim their inner authority and become more effective at addressing these harmful and outdated power dynamics in the world.

From trauma educator and somatic guide Kimberly Ann Johnson comes a cutting-edge guide for tapping into the wisdom and resilience of the body to rewire the nervous system, heal from trauma, and live fully.

In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when “good” women didn’t leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could merely expect to be minor characters in the dramas played by men. But secret rebels, like Joyce and her classmate Elise Cowen, refused to accept things as they were.

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives.

Cutting-edge, pioneering conversations on holistic women's health, including sex, birth, motherhood, womanhood, intimacy and trauma with doula, certified Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and author of Call of the Wild and the Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson.

Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration offers an unusual and irresistible look at her life and her myriad interests and accomplishments. Created by the people who know her best - her longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard A. Long, and her niece, Rosa Johnson Butler - it captures Angelou at home, at work, and in the public eye.

How different would your life be if you knew how to better navigate the season you are in? Dr. D'Ann V. Johnson initiates an intimate conversation by explaining the difference between stages and seasons that women experience. Written with the wisdom of a mother and the compassion of a friend, each chapter explores the significance and beauty of every season.

Homegoing by Toni Ann Johnson follows a middle-aged African American woman facing loss as she returns to her conservative, White hometown. The novella tackles issues of race, isolation, childhood trauma, abandonment, and ultimately healing. Homegoing won the Accents Publishing Inaugural Novella Contest.

We follow the family as Phil begins his private practice, as Velma opens her antiques shop, and as they buy new homes, collect art, go skiing, and have overseas adventures. It seems they've made it in the white world. However, young Maddie, one of the only Black children in town, bears the brunt of the racism and the invisible barriers her family's money, education, and determination can't free her from.

Stand Up! tells the story of ten historic female figures who changed the world by standing up for what's right, including legendary Civil Rights activists like Ruby Bridges and Rosa Parks and spanning to contemporary role models like Bree Newsome, who removed the confederate flag from the South Carolina state house grounds, and Mari Copeny, a youth activist who fought for clean water in Flint, Michigan.

Lachelle Jackson appears to have it all: a husband who adores her, a job that fulfills her, and friends that love her unconditionally. When Lachelle learns that she is pregnant, what should be the best experience of her life becomes one of the darkest times she ever endured. Facing a life-threatening pregnancy, in the midst of insurmountable grief, can Lachelle find the strength to fight for her life and that of her unborn baby? Can she overcome depression and move beyond memories of her past to accept God's greatest gift . . . love?

September loves her job as a journalist, but when her target is a mob figure, her life becomes a danger zone.

There is a black serial killer on the loose, and black women are in danger.

Joliet wants tuition money, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.

Four best friends, Carina, Baretta, Abby and Dakota, who are friends forever, as they deal with the issues of their lives...

Anna Ashby thought that her life was over after her soulmate Nick filed for divorce. Leaving DC and its glittering high society world behind, she moves to Ocean City, MD, to start a new life for herself. Almost 20 years later, Anna’s daughter McKenna is given the chance to apply for a prestigious internship with the DC tech giant Alpha-Omega Technologies. Anna is afraid, if accepted, McKenna could unwittingly open the door to the perilous world she left behind.

Yasmin and Brock are married, but their actions are up for discussion. Will they save their marriage in the midst of infidelity? What about the family secrets?

Jessica lost one hundred pounds, and she's ready to show off her body to the world of men. She poses for Playboy and is happy, and able to buy her condo. When she meets producer, Pike King her world changes when she finds out he doesn't date women who tell lies and pose for Playboy. Will Jessica level with him, or let the chips fall as they may?

Michigan and Kindle has the perfect marriage, until an old girlfriend interferes with a a secret of her own. Will a marriage be ruined, or does this old girlfriend want Michigan back?