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.
Energy Healing for Trauma, Stress & Chronic Illness: Uncover & Transform the Subtle Energies That Are Causing Your Greatest Hardships by Cyndi Dale
Combining insights from mainstream science, psychology, and subtle healing modalities, this book provides a truly holistic approach to recovery. Renowned author and spiritual healer Cyndi Dale shares an impressive array of techniques for resolving challenging energetic and spiritual issues. Trauma and pain caused by environmental, physical, psychological, and spiritual forces can have major effects on every aspect of your life. Join Cyndi as she shows how to align with spirit guides, work with the chakras, locate hidden inner wounds, release negative energies, and much more.
Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World by Sharon Salzberg
From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build our inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world.
In today’s fractured world, we’re constantly flooded with breaking news that causes anger, grief, and pain. People are feeling more stressed out than ever, and in the face of this fear and anxiety they can feel so burnt out and overwhelmed that they end up frozen in their tracks and unable to do anything. In Real Change, Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in lovingkindness meditation, shares sage advice and indispensable techniques to help free ourselves from these negative feelings and actions. She teaches us that meditation is not a replacement for action, but rather a way to practice generosity with ourselves and summon the courage to break through boundaries, reconnect to a movement that’s bigger than ourselves, and have the energy to stay active.
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock
The Heroine’s Journey describes contemporary woman’s search for wholeness in a society where she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing on cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of—feminine values in Western culture. This special anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Christine Downing and preface by the author, illuminates that this need is just as relevant today as it was when the book was originally published thirty years ago.
Hungry for Happiness, Revised and Updated: Stop Emotional Eating & Start Loving Yourself by Samantha Skelly
Break free of the binge eating cycle and heal your relationship with your body by tapping into your intuition through meditation, breathwork, and journaling.
YOU KNOW IT IN YOUR HEART: It's time to break free of the cycle of emotional eating-from calorie restriction and bingeing-to become who you were designed to be. It's time to stop using food numb your pain and begin listening inward to your body's wisdom, to your highest self. Reconnect with your intuition, embrace your body, and heal your relationship with food with this practical and heart-centered guide-now completely revised and updated.
Inspired by her personal journey from struggling dieter to self-love activist, Samantha Skelly's Hungry for Happiness workshops have helped thousands of women end their battles with emotional eating. This book is
filled with her relatable stories paired with journal exercises, mindset-shifts, meditations, and breathwork practices created to help you map your personal path toward feeling whole, healed, and happy.
The Ultimate Guide to Chakras: The Beginner's Guide to Balancing, Healing, and Unblocking Your Chakras for Health and Positive Energy by Athena Perrakis
With The Ultimate Guide to Chakras, tune in to your chakras, the power centers connecting your physical body and the world of energy.
Your chakras are the power centers that translate between the seen world of the physical body and the unseen world of energy. The Ultimate Guide to… series offers comprehensive beginner’s guides to discovering a range of mind, body, spirit topics, including tarot, divination, crystal grids, numerology, witchcraft, aromatherapy, and more. Filled with beautiful illustrations and designed to give easy access to the information you’re looking for, each of these references provides simple-to-follow expert guidance as you learn and master your practice. Athena Perrakis, leading metaphysical teacher and creator of the world's largest online metaphysical resource website, SageGoddess.com, addresses the nine major chakras we can tap into to balance, heal, and manifest. This guide explains how and why different crystals, essential oils, and sacred plants help to support each chakra.
You're Absolutely Worth It: Release Self-Doubt, Embrace Confidence, and Own Your Yes by Velera Wilson
You're an ambitious woman with dreams and goals, but the internal chatter that makes you wonder Am I enough? Can I really ask for that? Do I have what it takes? may be keeping you from your best life. Velera Wilson knows this all too well. For almost two decades, she's led marketing strategy for global brands, but self-doubt started at an early age. Traumatic childhood experiences and unfavorable situations left Velera struggling to understand her worth and impacted her career and relationships. She had to breakthrough limiting beliefs to recognize her value and confidently command it in her life.
In You're Absolutely Worth It, Velera unpacks the process of shifting past self-doubt to own your greatness and relentlessly pursue often-unspoken desires. Filled with deeply personal stories, fiery inspiration and practical advice, she takes you on a courageous journey of self-discovery and eye-opening revelations to help you: Identify your deep-rooted sources of self-doubt, hesitation, and fear; Zero-in on common beliefs and behaviors that can keep you stuck; Address limiting mindsets with powerful truths that affirm your worth; Gain the confidence to ask for, and go after, what you really want.
The Female Archangels: Reclaim Your Power with the Lost Teachings of the Divine Feminine by Claire Stone
Claire Stone has communicated directly with angels since she was a child and therefore knows that the Archeiai, the female archangels, are really twin flames to the male archangels. Claire explains how to work with the 11 Archeiai on a deeper level using affirmations, invocations and rituals. For each situation in life, there is an Archeia you can call upon - e.g., when you wish to manifest a romantic relationship, invoke Charity to guide you on the path of love. The exercises within will help you develop your psychic abilities, discover your life's purpose, connect with heaven and earth, clear your womb space from past sexual partners, banish negative energy, create a love altar and much more. This book does not replace the male archangels, but rather complements them, maintaining a healthy balance between masculine and feminine. The Archeiai are emerging right now and reaching out to all beings on earth to empower, comfort and support us through our earthly journey.
Lunchtime Enlightenment: Expressive Meditations for Manifesting Peace, Prosperity, and Passion by Pragito Dove
Her innovative approach allows you to reap the benefits of meditation in thirty seconds, four minutes or 60 minutes, wherever you are and whenever you need a moment of calm. Drawing on such traditions as Sufism and Buddhism, and such teachers as the twentieth-century mystics, Osho and Gurdjieff, Dove's synthesis meets the needs of contemporary life with attention to the full range of human experience and reverence for the peace and joy possible in every moment.
Find Your Light: Practicing Mindfulness to Recover from Anything by Beverly Conyers
Author Beverly Conyers—one of the most respected voices in wellness and recovery—has guided hundreds of thousands of readers through the process of recognizing family roles in addiction, healing shame, building healthy relationships, releasing trauma, focusing on emotional sobriety, as well as acknowledging self-sabotaging behaviors, addictive tendencies, and substance use patterns. With her newest work, Conyers shows us how the practice of mindfulness can be a game-changing part of recovering from any- and everything. A guided introduction to mindfulness practice as a path to recovering health and sanity - even in unpredictable times.
Discover why Beverly Conyers’ books have been a mainstay for support groups the world over, and why so many have turned to her insights and guidance. As the author of the recovery classic Addict in the Family, she has inspired hope and healing in a way few others have managed to match.
Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change by Paria Hassouri, MD
What do you do when, just before Thanksgiving at your mother’s, your fourteen-year-old son asks you to iron the dress he recently purchased and plans to wear? Readers learn the answer and much more in this wonderfully frank, loving, and practical account of parenting a transgender teen. Paria Hassouri chronicles what amounts to a dual transition: as her child transitions from male to female, she navigates through anger, denial, and grief to eventually arrive at acceptance. Hassouri discovers her capacity to evolve, as well as what it really means to parent and the deepest nature of unconditional love. At its heart, Found in Transition is a universally inspiring portrait of what it means to be a family.
