Top 10 Inspirational Books – May 2015

Welcome to this month’s Aspire Magazine Top 10 Inspirational Books list! You’ll discover inspirational and empowering books, written by women and for women, each dedicated to sharing a universal message of love, hope and self-empowerment. Through their wisdom-filled books, these visionary female authors are illuminating the path for women on the journey of healing and self-discovery. Add these transformational books to your inspired living resource library.

Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles
by Rivvy Neshama

**Winner of 5 National Awards** When Rivvy Neshama was twenty-two and about to get married, her mother gave her a book of handwritten recipes that taught her how to make a good roast — but not much else. And no one gave her the recipe to make a good marriage or a good life. That took years of searching on a path with many turns.
Now, like a handwritten recipe book, Recipes for a Sacred Life is passing on the most meaningful and inspiring stories from the author’s life. Written with heart and humor and steeped in ancient wisdom, these short, true tales reveal how ordinary encounters — with friends, nature, family, and strangers — can suddenly connect us with the sacred, adding love, joy, and purpose to our lives.

 

Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer
by Eva Selhub, M.D.

An internist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School fuses Eastern practices with cutting edge Western medicine to help you connect body and mind to transform your health today and tomorrow.
Over the course of her decades-long career, Dr. Eva Selhub has discovered a fundamental truth: health, happiness, and strength are often a direct result of the affirmative choices we make, regardless of whatever genetic or environmental setbacks we face.
In Your Health Destiny, Dr. Selhub teaches you how to pay attention to your body’s signals, to understand what these signals mean, and to make the right choices that will bring amazing results to your health, now and for the future.
 

The OM Factor: A Woman’s Spiritual Guide to Leadership

by Alka Dhillon

How can successful women flourish when they’re caught in a never-ending battle of seemingly conflicting interests: ambitions to pursue demanding careers, dedication to home and family, desire for intellectual self-improvement, and yearning for fulfillment of emotional and spiritual needs?
The OM Factor®: A Woman’s Spiritual Guide to Leadership provides seven essential tools and seven key character traits to cultivate for personal success and well-being. The author describes seven “plug-and-play” tools designed to quickly deliver effective results in emotionally challenging situations. Recommendations for applying the tools are followed by ways to cultivate seven important traits to achieve a spiritual evolution.

 

Healthy, Happy, Sexy: Ayurveda Wisdom for Modern Women
by Katie Silcox

**NY Times Bestseller** A hip, sensual Ayurveda bible for the modern woman, teacher and yoga instructor Katie Silcox offers a spirit-infused yet pragmatic guide that seamlessly brings this ancient wisdom into our modern lives without sacrificing the occasional rendezvous with red wine, fashion magazines, and other sensual pleasures.
Healthy Happy Sexy offers not only a philosophy of life, but a time-tested (we’re talking thousands of years!) method for living your most radiant, healthy, and sexually vital life possible. Covering everything from how to have the perfect poo to glowing skin to deeper sexual fulfillment, this book is a complete guide to women’s health. Through evocative questions, journaling exercises, simple but deep meditations, and easy to make natural recipes for common health and beauty needs, Katie gives reader a method to heal, entertain, inspire, and remind themselves that they are one sexy mama.

Life Is a Verb: 37 Days To Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally
by Patti Digh

In October 2003, Patti Digh’s stepfather was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died 37 days later. The timeframe made an impression on her. What emerged was a commitment to ask herself every morning: What would I be doing today if I had only 37 days left to live? The answers changed her life and led to this new kind of book. Part meditation, part how-to guide, part memoir, Life is a Verb is all heart.
Within these pages—enhanced by original artwork and wide, inviting margins ready to be written in—Digh identifies six core practices to jump-start a meaningful life: Say Yes, Trust Yourself, Slow Down, Be Generous, Speak Up, and Love More. Within this framework she supplies 37 edgy, funny, and literary life stories, each followed by a “do it now” 10-minute exercise as well as a practice to try for 37 days—and perhaps the rest of your life.
 

 

Holistic Energy Magic: Charms & Techniques for Creating a Magical Life
by Tess Whitehurst

You are a magical being! Access your natural abilities to create positive change and manifest success in every area of your life. Interweaving both ancient and modern spiritual techniques in a uniquely accessible way, this book will help you transform your personal challenges into beautiful opportunities for growth, expansion, and new understanding.
Holistic Energy Magic provides instructions for tool-free magic and important insights into the foundations of personal power: intention, visualization, symbolic action, grateful expectation, and alignment with All That Is.
 
 

Mind, Body, Home: Transform Your Life One Room at a Time
by Tisha Morris

Your Home is the Key to a Successful, Holistic Life. Awaken to the energetic connections between you and your home. When you make conscious changes to your living space, you can transform your life and uplift your soul.
Mind, Body, Home presents your home as an integral component for holistic living, correlating every room with its physical, mental, or emotional counterpart in you. Your home is a reflection of you, and being in tune with its energy allows you to create positive changes in your life. From foundation to roof, it holds the power to enhance your health, improve your relationships, and attract more prosperity. Open the door to the heart of your home and discover a whole new way of seeing and living within it.

 

Radical Awareness: 5 Practices for a Fully Engaged Life
by Catherine Dowling

Experience a profound engagement with life through the transformational power of spiritual awakenings. Presenting a simple and safe system that can be applied to daily living, Radical Awareness shows you how to achieve the mystical state of oneness. You’ll discover meditation techniques, hands-on exercises, and breathwork methods for enlightenment and expanded awareness.
Exploring five practices for turning everyday experiences into opportunities for spiritual growth, you will learn to move past fear and self-sabotage, break the bonds of anger, understand the expectations of others, honor your own values, and more. Grounded in the knowledge of ancient and contemporary world wisdom traditions, it is a down-to-earth, for living with passion, abundance, and serenity.
 

Forgive and Be Free: A Step-by-Step Guide to Release, Healing and Higher Consciousness
by Ana Holub

Forgiveness will heal you, free you, and catapult your life into a completely new territory of blessings and miracles. This comprehensive guide offers a step-by-step approach to forgiveness with the spiritual foundation that is necessary for ultimate healing.
Follow the ten easy steps to become stronger and more compassionate: • Create a sacred space • Tell your story • Navigate your emotional body • Embrace your fear with love • Listen for hidden messages • Release with breath • Witness the changes • Learn the lessons • Expand your soul • Emanate a new life. With personal stories, case histories, and hands-on exercises, Ana Holub brings you safely through emotional hardships and into serenity.
 

 

Who Stole Your Joy? Finding Your Way Back Home
by Kari Joys

“Who Stole Your Joy?” brings forward a compelling message of hope. It describes the process of losing the joy and innocence of childhood, through the painful experiences of our lives, as well as the opportunity we have to regain our joy, through the choices we make every day. With stunningly beautiful illustrations by an emerging Greek artist, this book illustrates the healing journey that can be accessed by everyone. It’s empowering and uplifting to understand the natural path we can choose at any time to come home to our joyful, authentic self. “Who Stole Your Joy?” clearly demonstrates that joy is indeed our birthright! No matter where we are in our lives, this powerful little book shows us that there is always a way out of the darkness.