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.
Rise Above the Chaos: How to Keep Positive in an Unsettled World by Carolyn Gross
Rise Above The Chaos shows readers how to befriend their hardest trials and re-purpose them to strengthen their soul. One of the biggest problems people are facing today is mental health and emotional stability. With twenty years of research presented to offer life exploration methods to help determine how stress is affecting readers’ lives and health combined with power packed tools to restore, relax, and renew. Carolyn lifts readers’ awareness and helps them gain perspective on how adversity can actually sharpen their wits and skills, ultimately making them more powerful, joyful and confident.
The Art of Psychic Reiki by Lisa Campion
Reiki is a gentle yet powerful, energy healing method— with massage therapists, bodyworkers, and physicians all attesting to its powers to heal. Many deeply sensitive people are drawn to the sacred art of Reiki, but may struggle to navigate the empathic, intuitive, and psychic abilities that open up with this highly effective energy work. The Art of Psychic Reiki is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for learning this sacred healing art while cultivating the psychic and empathetic skills crucial to this energy work. Whether you’re new to Reiki or seeking to deepen your knowledge and enhance your practice, this book will guide you on your healing path.
Love Skills: The Key to Unlocking Lasting, Wholehearted Love by Linda Carroll
Love Skills is a practical guide to creating and maintaining a loving relationship. Exercises, activities, self-assessments, and other tools allow readers to understand where they are in their relationship. The book addresses such thorny issues as the loss of sexual energy, why what once seemed endearing is now annoying, and the many ways that family history and personality type can wreak havoc in relationships. Author Linda Carroll’s well-researched practices help keep love alive in the midst of seemingly intractable differences, and specific, effective solutions to couples’ most common struggles provide a clear map for moving forward.
Your Moontime Magic: A Girl’s Guide to Getting Your Period and Loving Your Body by Maureen Theresa Smith
Let this book coach you through all things moontime, including physical and emotional changes, self-nurturing, mindfulness, and self-love. You’ll be inspired by stories of girls supporting other girls and discover rituals and mythology from many cultures to help you celebrate this special experience. It’s time to remove the needless embarrassment around periods so you can rock your monthly cycles!
We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Laura McKowen
What could possibly be “lucky” about addiction? Absolutely nothing, thought Laura McKowen when drinking brought her to her knees. As she puts it, she “kicked and screamed . . . wishing for something — anything — else” to be her issue. The people who got to drink normally, she thought, were so damn lucky.
But in the midst of early sobriety, when no longer able to anesthetize her pain and anxiety, she realized that she was actually the lucky one. Lucky to feel her feelings, live honestly, really be with her daughter, change her legacy. She recognized that “those of us who answer the invitation to wake up, whatever our invitation, are really the luckiest of all.”
Here, in straight-talking chapters filled with personal stories, McKowen addresses issues such as facing facts, the question of AA, and other people’s drinking. Without sugarcoating the struggles of sobriety, she relentlessly emphasizes the many blessings of an honest life, one without secrets and debilitating shame.
Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life
by Shelley Paxton
Former Harley-Davidson executive Shelley Paxton lived a wildly successful life by most traditional definitions—titles, money, travel, and adventure. Her global career took her to over 60 countries, where she hung with the jet set and flexed her muscles in the boardroom. Yet she felt a gnawing lack of fulfillment that eventually spiraled into illness, divorce, and addiction.
To face the fears and dreams she had been ignoring, Paxton walked away from her 26-year career and embarked on a deeply personal journey to reconnect with her true purpose and deepest desires. She called it her “Soulbbatical,” and it not only changed her life; it became her calling.
Perfect Practice: A Philosophy for Living and Authentic and Transparent Life by Mary Corning
We can shift our perspective and change our world. Life can be exceptionally gratifying when we realize that our thoughts create our interactions and our interactions create our relationships. To truly relate is what living is all about. This book is meant as a seed. Its message offers inspiration for living an authentic and transparent life. As a resource for life, it unites what is seen as separate and heals what is wounded.
Readers will learn how to transform pain into purpose; conflict into confidence and fear into curiosity. These are the shifts we can make to build a better life and a better world in which to live.
The Bright Way: Five Steps to Freeing the Creative Within - Make Creativity a Joyous Way of Life! by Diana Rowan
Wild Magical Soul: Untame Your Spirit & Connect to Nature's Wisdom by Monica Crosson
Weave natural magic into your life and explore the threshold of the otherworld with rituals, crafts, and transformative folklore. Within these pages, you will discover how to connect to the energy where you live and develop your skills as a healer, storyteller, and advocate for the earth. Monica Crosson's powerful rituals support the transformation of your spirit while helping you pass ancient knowledge to new generations that will inherit our world. Written for those who want to live in balance with the land once again, this book guides you on a deep dive into the elemental magic of the wild places as you set your soul free and find your inner wild.
Intentional Tarot: Using the Cards with Purpose by Denise Heselroth
Move Beyond Divination and Into Empowerment with this Beginner-Friendly Guide to Proactive Readings. This innovative book shows you how to become an active participant in your tarot readings by consciously selecting the cards that will fulfill your intentions. Intentional Tarot encourages you to engage with your life's purpose and strengthen your sense of self as you perform readings. With this new approach, you'll learn to get "off book" and add a proactive element to your practice. Designed with different learning styles in mind, Intentional Tarot provides everything you need to understand the cards, develop your personal style, and take action for a successful future.
