--- title: "Sacred Strength: Reclaim Spirit, Voice, and Power This Women's History Month" description: This Women's History Month (and beyond!), Broadleaf Books celebrates women who reclaim their sacred strength through storytelling, faith, and healing. image: https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/hubfs/Broadleaf%20Books/Spring_2026/Blog_Assets/BL_WomensHistoryMonth2026_BlogBanner_FINAL.jpg --- [![BL_logo_4c_horz_lg](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/BL/Logos/BL_logo_4c_horz_lg.jpg?width=290&height=52&name=BL_logo_4c_horz_lg.jpg "BL_logo_4c_horz_lg")](https://www.broadleafbooks.com) - [Excerpts](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/tag/excerpt) - [Interviews](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/tag/interviews) - [Op-Eds](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/tag/op-ed) - [Resources](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/tag/resources) - [Shop Now](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/search/allproducts) ## [Sacred Strength: Reclaim Spirit, Voice, and Power This Women's History Month](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/sacred-strength-womens-history-month) Feb 26, 2026 9:32:00 AM / by [Broadleaf Books](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/author/broadleaf-books) ![BL_WomensHistoryMonth2026_BlogBanner_FINAL](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Broadleaf%20Books/Spring_2026/Blog_Assets/BL_WomensHistoryMonth2026_BlogBanner_FINAL.jpg?width=684&height=399&name=BL_WomensHistoryMonth2026_BlogBanner_FINAL.jpg) Throughout all of history, women have always been bearers of wisdom and catalysts for change. This Women's History Month (and beyond!), Broadleaf Books celebrates women who reclaim their sacred strength through storytelling, faith, justice, and healing. These voices challenge injustice, nurture belonging, and invite us into transformation—within ourselves, our spirituality, and our world.   [![BL_SacredCuriosity_Cover_9798889834694c](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Broadleaf%20Books/Spring_2026/Covers/BL_SacredCuriosity_Cover_9798889834694c.jpg?width=200&height=311&name=BL_SacredCuriosity_Cover_9798889834694c.jpg)](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889834694/Sacred-Curiosity) [Sacred Curiosity](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889834694/Sacred-Curiosity) [Wondering Our Way Toward Wholeness](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889834694/Sacred-Curiosity) [Britney Winn Lee](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/author/7110/Britney-Winn-Lee) Publication date: February 17, 2026 When everything feels gray and hopeless, curiosity emerges as an unexpected path back to color and life. Through personal stories, spiritual reflection, and practical ideas, *Sacred Curiosity* reveals how curiosity slows us down when life feels overwhelming, builds bridges across our deepest divisions, pushes past shame toward liberation, and rewilds our domesticated spirits. In this book, Britney Winn Lee invites us to follow breadcrumbs of wonder toward a more generous, hopeful way of being. 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In *When Women Get Sick* Bloom offers much-needed insight to women and their supporters, diving into essential topics such as building support networks, taming the insurance beast, communicating with doctors, and staying mindful. She exposes the way the healthcare industrial complex disadvantages women, and gives women tools to make the best decisions for them in all areas of their healthcare journey. 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Whether painting women as the archetypal old witch in the woods or the biblical temptress, toxic religion vilifies their wisdom and uses fear to maintain male power. And these harmful stereotypes aren't just historical; they persist in modern religious, societal, and political rhetoric, where confident women are called "nasty" or "radical." *Embracing the Old Witch in the Woods* is a road map for readers to challenge limiting beliefs, confront systemic injustices, untangle from patriarchal Christian attitudes toward women, and tap into the deep well of feminine wisdom. **[Shop Now](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889835233/Embracing-the-Old-Witch-in-the-Woods)**   [![GiveMeaWord](https://blog.broadleafbooks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/GiveMeaWord.jpg?width=200&height=309&name=GiveMeaWord.jpg)](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889831266/Give-Me-a-Word) [Give Me a Word](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889831266/Give-Me-a-Word) [The Promise of an Ancient Practice to Guide Your Year](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889831266/Give-Me-a-Word) [Christine Valters Paintner](https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/author/7999/Christine-Valters-Paintner) Publication date: September 16, 2025 Beginning in around the third century CE, a group of monastics known as the desert mothers and fathers retreated to the deserts of northern Egypt, Syria, and Palestine to pursue lives of silence and prayer. A key phrase, repeated often among the sayings of the desert mothers and fathers, is "Give me a word." 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