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.
The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck
In The Way of Integrity, Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us--people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits--all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us feel whole. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Beck uses Dante's classic hero's journey as a framework to break down the process of attaining personal integrity into small, manageable steps. She shows how to read our internal signals that lead us towards our true path, and to recognize what we actually yearn for versus what our culture sells us. With techniques tested on hundreds of her clients, Beck brings her expertise as a social scientist, life coach and human being to help readers to uncover what integrity looks like in their own lives. She takes us on a spiritual adventure that not only will change the direction of our lives, but bring us to a place of genuine happiness.
Permission Granted: Kick-Ass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self-Love by Regina Louise
Permission Granted illustrates proven paths from “you couldn’t possibly” to “just watch me!” Regina Louise puts a unique spin on tried-and-true techniques of personal growth, coaching readers to deeply understand who they are and what they have been through. From this self-awareness, they can move into self-compassion and learn to give themselves the care and support they may have lacked. Past devastations and disappointments turn into motivations and momentum. Louise took herself from a childhood in solitary confinement in a residential treatment center to college and the creation of several successful small businesses. She now works to show others how to dream and do "no matter what."
Getting Through It: Reclaim & Rebuild Your Life After Adversity, Change or Trauma by Alexandra Chauran
Alexandra Chauran presents personal stories and proven techniques
for healing and handling trauma. With her help, you can rebuild your
life in the wake of illness, divorce, death, and other trauma-inducing
circumstances. Alexandra has spent years developing the best
strategies for getting through incredible hardships.
The Self Care Prescription: Powerful Solutions to Manage Stress, Reduce Anxiety & Increase Wellbeing by Robyn Gobin, PhD
Improve your well-being every day with solutions-based, self-care strategies that work. Picture your best life: Where would you work? What would your social calendar look like? What personal interests would you be exploring? This book is your prescription to turn those visions into a reality―with proven self care strategies for every area of your life. The Self Care Prescription empowers you to find balance and purpose in your relationships, work, and life. From creating a plan to spend more time with family and friends, to zeroing-in on a career that you can feel good about, the book will help you create a personalized self care plan. You’ll also learn actionable techniques to fight anxiety, demotivation, or whatever else is holding you back from building the life you want to live.Be the friend you want to be to yourself and others. Be engaged with what you do. Whatever self care means to you, you’ll find your own personal practice in this book.
Mindful Beauty: Holistic Habits to Feel and Look Your Best by Dr. Debbie Palmer
Mindfulness is a simple change we can all make for better health, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. In Mindful Beauty, board-certified dermatologist Dr. Debbie Palmer unveils her secrets to helping patients develop more mindfulness and, in the process, cultivate inner peace and outer radiance. Mindful Beauty is a practical, hands-on guide to looking and feeling more beautiful in the modern-day world. It gives simple self-care tips and tools for slowing down and prioritizing your own well-being. Mindful Beauty will help you on your journey to a happier, more vibrant life.
Conversations with the Brush: Wisdom Tales from the Intuitive Painting Heart by Chris Zydel
Conversations with the Brush is a wildly entertaining and inspirational journey into examining the question of how to become more creatively free and alive using intuitive painting and the expressive arts. It's also a deep investigation into the cultural attitudes, unquestioned beliefs and emotional patterns that get in the way of fully embracing that creative freedom and aliveness. It's a book of wisdom teachings about making art, trusting in your intuition and living a fully expressed creative life. To demonstrate these teachings it employs the time-honored tradition of story telling, based on actual conversations that the author has had between herself and her many students over the past twenty-five years of teaching. It also includes a deeper philosophical commentary on each of the stories that reflects upon the underlying creative issues that the stories bring to light and journal questions and creative prompts that allow the reader to engage with the stories as a psychological and spiritual inner-growth process in a more personally engaged and contemplative way.
The Little Book of Energy Healing Techniques: Simple Practices to Heal Body, Mind, and Spirit by Karen Frazier
Discover energy healing―find more balance and peace. Energy healing is the practice of manipulating the subtle energy flow in your body to improve the way you think and feel. The Little Book of Energy Healing Techniques is your introduction to the basics of energy healing, featuring a series of simple exercises you can do anytime. The Little Book of Energy Healing Techniques allows you to: Start from scratch―Practice the exercises in this book right away―no prior knowledge required. Try it on for size―From sound healing to crystals, you can test out multiple types of energy healing and find what resonates with you. Learn active healing―Learn 5- to 15-minute daily routines for centering yourself to alleviate pain and inner turmoil. See for yourself what the power of energy healing can do for you.
Awaken Your Inner Goddess: Practical Tools for Self-Care, Emotional Healing, and Self-Realization by Dr. Dara Goldberg, PhD
Step into your power―self-reflection and emotional healing for the goddess within. Rediscover your inner goddess, embrace your divine energy, and begin a journey of healing. This guide is packed with exercises and tools from both spiritual wisdom and evidence-based psychology. You’ll find emotional healing treatments and self-realization techniques to strengthen your inner light. Connect with your inner self, identify your divine gifts, and find strength through insightful exercises. Create realistic, achievable goals and learn how to embrace self-care and self-love on the journey to your most authentic state of being. With this spiritual book, you’ll uncover: Spiritual customs―Draw on goddess wisdom from spiritual traditions across time and space from Greek mythology, Ancient Egyptian deities, the Chinese zodiac, and more; Supportive practices―Explore a variety of constructive exercises written by a clinical psychologist that will help you put concepts into action: Journaling prompts―Writing exercises will help you reflect and expand on your self-discovery as you go. Nurture your divinity, heal emotionally, and find your path with Awaken Your Inner Goddess.
Asking for a Pregnant Friend: 101 Answers to Questions Women Are Too Embarrassed to Ask about Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Bailey Gaddis
All too often, pregnant women and the mothers of newborns have questions they are too embarrassed to ask their doctors, friends, mothers, and sisters. Women who summon the courage to ask these questions online are frequently met with unwelcome judgments or inaccurate information. Bailey Gaddis is determined to provide them with real, safe, savvy, and nonjudgmental answers because she was one of them herself. She had so many unanswered questions before and after her child’s birth that she trained as a doula and has since become a beloved and sought-after in-person and online childbirth educator. Her uniquely authoritative, accessible, and sometimes funny treasure trove of answers will leave women heard, informed, reassured — and no longer afraid to ask.
A Radical Approach to the Akashic Records: Master Your Life and Raise Your Vibration by Melissa Feick
Do you want to make radical changes in your life, so you have happier, healthier relationships? Are you ready for deep transformation and becoming your highest vibration? Is it time to transcend your past so you can create a new future? The updated and expanded version gives you the tools and important information you need to become your higher consciousness including: Your Soul Gifts and how to discover what they are; Your real Soul Purpose and why you incarnated on Earth; Applied tools and meditations to raise your vibration and easily read the Akashic Records; How to deal with real life: practical family issues, illness, fear, money stress and emotional or mental turmoil; Essential information about Karma and your past life patterns that keep you stuck in negative patterns and so much more. This book is a step by step guide, giving you the “what, why and how” of achieving mystical experiences through the Akashic Records.
