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.
Reclaiming Wellness: Ancient Wisdom for Your Healthy, Happy, and Beautiful Life by Jovanka Ciares
Many of the most popular approaches to mind, body, and spirit wellness are rooted in age-old practices from around the world and come from communities of color. But more often than not, they are primarily marketed to and used by the cultural elite.
Reclaiming Wellness highlights the multicultural roots of a wide variety of popular wellness practices like herbalism, meditation, visualization, hypnosis, yoga, plant-based eating, and sound healing, and makes them easy to implement for all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, income, or social status.
Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking by Dr. Caroline Leaf
Toxic thoughts, depression, anxiety--our mental mess is frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our runaway thoughts. But we shouldn't settle into this mental mess as if it's just our new normal. There's hope and help available to us--and the road to healthier thoughts and peak happiness may actually be shorter than you think. Backed by clinical research and illustrated with compelling case studies, Dr. Caroline Leaf provides a scientifically proven five-step plan to find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life so you can experience dramatically improved mental and physical health. In just 21 days, you can start to clean up your mental mess and be on the road to wholeness, peace, and happiness.
The Life Plan: Simple Strategies for Building Confidence in a Changing World by Shannah Kennedy
With more than twenty years of experience as one of Australia’s foremost life coaches, bestselling author Shannah Kennedy describes her approach to living your best life in The Life Plan, a workbook that gives you a collection of simple strategies designed to build your confidence, prioritize your goals, and make your dreams a reality in a changing world. Do you want to change your life? Do you find yourself not quite accomplishing all of your goals and dreams? Do you feel stagnant in your routine and need to establish a new one? The Life Plan has you covered. Shannah’s time-tested strategies will motivate you to retake control over your life, give you space to explore your true self and values, and provide a how-to manual on creating new beneficial wellness habits, prioritizing your professional and personal goals, and effectively developing and maintaining methods for self-care and the revitalization of your life.
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet outlook on life, and why we’ve been so blind to its value. Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death —bitter and sweet—are forever paired. Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain. If we don’t acknowledge our own heartache, she says, we can end up inflicting it on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know—or will know—loss and suffering, we can turn toward one another. At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, Bittersweet brings us together in deep and unexpected ways.
The Secret Psychic: Embrace the Magic of Subtle Intuition, Natural Spirit Communication, and Your Hidden Spiritual Life by Angela A. Wix
This unique and inspiring resource shows you how to practice your subtle energetic abilities and fully embrace your spiritual nature—even if you feel like you can't yet be open about it with those around you. Angela A. Wix answers your burning questions about what it means to be a secret psychic, how to overcome common challenges, and how to integrate your experience so you don't feel stuck. The Secret Psychic also helps you understand spirit communication and offers guidance on how to reveal your hidden self to others when you're ready. In addition to more than twenty hands-on practices, you'll find empowering support from professional psychics, mediums, and intuition experts included in this book: Melanie Barnum, Cyndi Dale, Sherrie Dillard, Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray), John Holland, Jodi Livon, Danielle MacKinnon, Michael Mayo, Chanda & Troy Parkinson, Kristy Robinett and Jurema Silva.
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest
This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
Fulfilled: Let Go of Shame, Embrace Your Body, and Eat the Food You Love by Alexandra MacKillop
Today's culture has distorted the way we women view our bodies. We are hyper-critical, obsessed with weight loss, and distracted by the countless advertisements we see to eat, exercise, and dress differently. In Fulfilled, nutrition expert Alexandra MacKillop explores physical, mental, and spiritual health through a non-diet lens, encouraging you to respect your body, honor your hunger, and embrace the unique size and shape that God created for you. Fulfilled provides tangible steps toward changing your beliefs about food and your body. As you develop your knowledge of intuitive eating, you'll realize that you can love and eat foods of all types. With Alexandra as your guide, you'll learn how to enjoy food without sabotaging your fitness goals, honor the unique body God created for you, and live out a life of love and freedom--all under the umbrella of grace.
Memoir as Medicine: The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story by Nancy Slonim Aronie
A wonderfully fresh and frank guide to why and how to write personal stories that will heal, liberate, inspire — and entertain — both writer and reader. Writing has been medicine for Nancy Slonim Aronie. In teaching memoir writing, Aronie has found that everyone has a story to tell and that telling it is important. Sharing “this is who I am, these are the things that shaped me, this is where I am now” allows a kind of magic and healing to happen. Over decades of writing and teaching, Aronie has created a set of prompts, directions, and examples that she shares in Memoir as Medicine. She shows readers how to write through where they have been and into deep understanding, profound healing, and even unexpected joy.
Peace in Passing: Comfort for Loving Humans During Animal Transitions by Maribeth Decker
Does grief still grip your heart whenever you think about the loss of a beloved animal? Or, when you anticipate losing an animal that is starting to decline? Losing our animals is one of the most difficult parts of loving them.
In Peace in Passing, Maribeth Decker debunks the myths about animals’ passing which leave us crippled with grief, unable to find peace. She offers instead a roadmap to support you as you negotiate the treacherous path we walk before, during, and after our animals’ transition. This book will help you find peace amidst the enormous loss of your beloved animal companion. This second edition is expanded to include information on ways to ease their physical decline; energetic techniques to connect you with your animal; and how to view the timing of their death through a spiritual lens.
Energy Medicine for Beginners: 40+ Simple Practices to Find Health and Happiness through Energy Healing by Sarah Parker Thomas
Bring body and spirit into balance with healing energy. For those who are seeking to improve holistic wellness and energy flow, Energy Medicine for Beginners is the perfect place to start. Discover exactly what energy medicine is and how to harness it to align the physical, mental, and spiritual self. These meditative exercises are designed for anyone to begin anytime, to start feeling healthier and more positive right away. You'll discover: Holistic healing strategies―Practice guided techniques to relieve a range of emotional and physical conditions, from anxiety and grief to back pain and sinus pressure. An energy medicine overview―Discover the historical and cultural roots of energy medicine and an introduction to the core healing modalities, including chakras, meridians, and auras. Modern and relatable guidance―Clear language, labeled illustrations, and examples from real life make this book an ideal companion for independent energy healing. Promote healing inside and out with the power of energy medicine.
