Batture House Books
The independent publishing imprint of Collective Practices Media
Batture House Books publishes books, field guides, workbooks, and companion audio practices for contemplative practice in ordinary life, especially work that resonates with life along the Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida, and adjacent southern states.
Our publications are grounded in meditation, spiritual history, lived experience, and the practical work of returning to presence in the middle of real life: work, family, conflict, grief, aging, leadership, transition, repair, and renewal.
Batture House Books is the publishing home for the forthcoming Meditation with Mercy.
Coming Winter 2026-27
Meditation with Mercy: A Beginner’s Guide (And We’re All Beginners)
Meditation with Mercy, introduces a grounded and compassionate approach to meditation for readers who are new to practice, returning to practice, or beginning again in a new season of life. This is meditation for the life readers are already living. In the Gulf South, that life may include work, family, caregiving, conflict, grief, recovery, reinvention, and going to church on Sunday. Meditation with Mercy makes room for that whole reality.
This is not a book about achieving perfect calm or becoming a different kind of person. It is a book about learning to sit, breathe, notice, return, and live with more mercy toward ourselves and others. Drawing on meditation, spiritual history, lived experience, and ordinary moments of practice, Meditation with Mercy invites readers to approach meditation as a way of becoming more present to the life they actually have.
Formats planned: ebook, paperback, audiobook, and companion audio practices.