The Art of Being Human · Book Two
Confessions of an Unapologetic WeirdoThe Art of Being Too Much
Have you ever been told you were too much?
The Practice · Books
Books by Sharon Mackenzie.
Books, frameworks and reflective resources on people, power and systems — publishing is one of the three streams of Spirit Led Counselling, alongside counselling and chaplaincy. Written with warmth, curiosity and a slightly irreverent sense of humour.
The series
The Art of Being Human
Grief → Identity → Belonging
Warm, practical writing on grief, identity, creativity and belonging — maps for being human, one honest question at a time.
The Art of Being Human · Book Three
How to Build — and Belong to — Places Where People Can Actually Be ThemselvesThe Art of Belonging
A hopeful playbook for building — and belonging to — healthy community.
The series
The Sanctuary Within
Spiritual formation, stillness and inner restoration.
A gentler, more contemplative stream for readers drawn to prayer, presence and finding their way back to themselves.
The Sanctuary Within · Book One
A Tabernacle Journey into Prayer, Presence & RestorationThe Way Within
What if prayer was not about trying harder to reach God?
The series
Human Systems
What happens between people — and what happens to us because of it.
Our flagship body of thought: a five-book sequence moving from the system, to the pattern, to the loop, to the self — and finally to the building of something better. How communities, culture and power shape us, how relational patterns repeat — and how a person finds the way back to themselves inside it all.
Human Systems · Book One
Finding your way through the systems we live insideThe Labyrinth
A labyrinth is not a maze. There is a path, and it leads somewhere — even when it feels like you are walking away from the centre.
Human Systems · Book Two
Recognising the Patterns We Get Caught In — and Finding Our Way OutI Know This Shape
Recognising the patterns we get caught in — and finding our way out.
Human Systems · Book Three
How Incompetence, Dependency and Protection Keep Dysfunctional Systems AliveThe Sub-Competent Saviour Loop
How incompetence, dependency and protection keep dysfunctional systems alive.
Human Systems · Book Four
A Personal Reflective Safeguarding Playbook — Clarity · Discernment · ReleaseThe Way Back to Yourself
What if safeguarding wasn't only about protecting yourself from other people — but about learning how not to lose yourself inside relationships?
Human Systems · Book Five
How to Build Healthy Communities People Want to Join, Share and Help GrowThe Architecture of Belonging
A practical guide to community architecture that protects dignity and builds flourishing.
The series
Wild & Holy
For the parts of you that were taught to keep quiet.
A fiercer, faith-infused stream about anger, voice, dignity and sacred wildness — for readers who have been polite for long enough and are ready to hear that holy and furious have always belonged in the same sentence.
Wild & Holy · Book One
Let The Fury Rise and the Shitbags HideNight Fury
Let the fury rise — and the shitbags hide.
More of Sharon's work
Human Systems, essays and the podcast — all part of the same body of work.
