Radical Homemakers

Every once in a while you stumble upon a book, or film, or piece of art that just completely stops you in your tracks. It speaks to you in such a way that makes you feel completely validated in where you are at in your life, and gives you that little push of courage to keep going. That you are on the right track. 

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Shannon Hayes' book, "Radical Homemakers" is just such a book.

I haven't read a book in a long time (perhaps ever...) that spoke to me SO much. I had to be careful reading it at coffee shops because it meant so much to me to have my life choices and priorities validated that I would actually start to tear up. 

I read it slowly because I felt like finishing it would mean saying goodbye to a wonderful chapter in a relationship with a good friend. But, I keep it on a shelf in my room that is easy to access and reread sections of it whenever I am feeling discouraged or doubting my life choices.

"Radical Homemakers" is about people like me. And you. And any of those of us who are striving to find a different way of living. A way that doesn't involve going to a job you hate from 9-5 to pay for a house you are rarely in and two cars you don't own.

It's about those of us who want to tread lightly on the planet, raise our children to love love over competition and fierce independence, and who are changing the world one home-canned good at a time. 

Or at least we are trying. 

This book redefines the meaning of "homemaker" in its historical context, reclaiming it for good. Haye's interviews "homemakers" who are young, old, married, single, divorced, religious, non-religious, and everything in-between. She relays their stories and what they are doing and why. It looks different for each and every story.

But Hayes unites the common threads.

I highly recommend this book. Even if your life goals aren't to master canning or sewing (I can't sew to save my life) this book is about so much more than that. It's about becoming aware of the choices we make and how they affect so much more than just ourselves, and even our families. Hayes speaks to our whole culture  in a way that encourages reflection and as well as action. 

Learn more about Radical Homemakers here.

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