We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is exactly what it sounds like; a guide to living a life focused on empowering yourself and other women around you. The book imagines a global sisterhood governed by the nine Principles introduced in its pages: Honesty, Acceptance, Courage, Trust, Humility, Peace, Love, Joy, and Kindness, a sisterhood where women are happier, healthier, and more productive at doing the things they want to do for themselves.

More than just another self-help book, We moves beyond theory with practical activities to complete, writing daily gratitude lists, saying positive affirmations out loud to the mirror, meditation, and deeply considering the labels we apply to ourselves. It pushes you to be brutally honest with yourself in order to force your body and mind into making the changes to want to make but struggle to find the motivation to achieve. The activities and discussions of each element of the book are interspersed with first-person accounts from the authors where they talk about how they overcame personal difficulties using the Principles gathered here.

At times, We can be a little romantic in its visions and the book could probably have a decent percentage of its length shaved off if it stopped self-congratulating itself and got down to business, however, the key messages here are positive and will benefit nearly every woman who reads it. One of the biggest things I took away from it was this: “Taking care of yourself emotionally, physically, and spiritually is a profoundly political act”. In a culture that constantly criticizes women’s bodies, choices, and beliefs, this is a statement worth internalizing and repeating to yourself whenever you feel that self-doubt beginning to creep in once more.

WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is a nicely written book. I enjoyed the nine principles presented in this book. Many of the principles have been gone over before in self-help books, but this one brings these principles to women and shows them how they can impact their lives and change themselves. The authors give examples from their lives as well as ideas to implement the principles. If you are new to the self-help genre I would recommend this book. If not, you may find information you gave read before but presented in another way. I would recommend this book to those wanting to improve their lives and themselves.

I was not expecting to like this book as much as I did, but the introduction to self-care, the compassion and the examination into the self. This is amazing, and I highly recommend

This book is a compilation of various other self-help tips. While the authors do a good job of taking into account that not everyone can simply do these steps due to lack of financial means or time, some of them feel too outside of the scope for some people.