Top 10 Inspirational Books – April 2015

Welcome to this month’s Aspire Magazine Top 10 Inspiring 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.

Reform Your Inner Mean Girl: 7 Steps to Stop Bullying Yourself and Start Loving Yourself
by Christine Arylo and Amy Ahlers

There is a silent epidemic spreading like wildfire among women—and no one seems to be talking about it. It’s in our boardrooms, classrooms, and living rooms on every continent, and it’s creating depression, stress, and isolation. Who is this culprit? Meet your Inner Mean Girl, the judgmental, critical, and belittling inner bully that almost every woman hears running through her mind on a daily basis. The Inner Mean Girl creates undue anxiety, cajoles you into making bad choices, and then berates you when they don’t work out.
But there is a cure. Reform Your Inner Mean Girl introduces the universal seven-step program that helps women transform their relationships with themselves from self-sabotage to self-love. With a mix of play, humor, creativity, and self-inquiry, Reform Your Inner Mean Girl transforms a woman’s self-bullying thoughts, emotions, actions, and feelings, and helps her get in touch with a much more powerful voice—her Inner Wisdom. After graduating, women can finally make choices that create more happiness, peace, love, and success

 

The Soulmate Lover: A Guide to Passionate and Lasting Love, Sex and Intimacy
by Mali Apple and Joe Dunn

This groundbreaking guide to intimacy will show you how to create and sustain a connected, compelling, and truly passionate relationship. Chapters such as “Connecting with Your Sexual Energy” and “Opening Up to Your Orgasmic Potential” will have you feeling more comfortable in your body and more confident in your sexuality. “Seduction, Intimacy, and Keeping the Spark Alive” shows singles how to attract a partner who’s ready for a deeply intimate relationship and couples how to energize their sexual connection.  And “The Art of Sexual Healing” explores how to lovingly transform many sexual issues into opportunities for heart-opening, erotic pleasure.

 

The Dolphin’s Dance: Discover Your True Self through a Powerful 5 Step Journey into Conscious Awareness
by Micheline Nader

Do you ever feel as if you’re searching for yourself? Do you sense that there are parts of you that have been lost-fears, longings, and potential that are beyond your reach? In The Dolphin’s Dance, Micheline shares a carefully constructed process for shedding light on, and reclaiming, those lost parts of the self. Her 5-stage process enables you to bring conscious awareness to the complex package of emotions, beliefs, and behavior patterns. Through illuminating personal stories, structured exercises, and accessible examples, this book shows you how to free yourself from the imprints of the past and deconstruct the false identities that limit your potential for joy, creativity, and self-expression.

1,352 Days: An Inspirational Journey from Jail to Joy  by Karen Volo

An inspirational journey of overcoming tremendous fear, powerlessness, frustration and betrayal as Karen Volo found herself embroiled in nightmare that lasted almost four years. You never forget the days that completely change your life. Imagine returning from a successful business trip, feeling great because everything had gone to plan. You’re getting ready to board the plane home to Europe where your young daughters are waiting to see you. There’s a tap on your shoulders and suddenly two US Marshalls are escorting you away from everything familiar to a high security holding facility. In just a matter of seconds, your life is turned upside down. As days turn into months and years, it is love, faith, and hope that keeps you going, with your second husband fighting to get you home and your daughters growing up without you… for 1,352 days.

 

Awaken the Spirit Within: 10 Steps to Ignite Your Life and Fulfill Your Divine Purpose
by Rebecca Rosen

With a unique and refreshing blend of self-help, wisdom, and spiritual insight, Rebecca Rosen helps us “wake up” and start living our lives with divine intention and purpose. We all want to be happy and fulfilled. We want to understand the very point of our lives—why we’re here and what we’re meant to do. Yet, when we think about how to get from here to there and answer life’s “Big” questions, so many of us don’t know where to begin. The advice from so many different people and sources can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. In Awaken the Spirit Within, acclaimed author and spiritual medium Rebecca Rosen offers us an inspired and invigorating prescriptive program to give our lives clarity and deeper meaning. With Rebecca’s down-to-earth and conversational style, this book will help you learn how to:   Create more peace and fulfillment in your personal relationships,  Gain confidence in your natural talents and abilities,  Succeed in greater degrees at your job, Develop financial abundance and prosperity, Conquer addictions and negative thinking, Find freedom from weight struggles and poor body image, Gain the clarity to make the “right” choices and decisions for your life and so much more.

Parenting With Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious, Confident, Caring Kids

by Susan Stiffelman, MFT

Our children can be our greatest teachers. Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman writes that the very behaviors that push our buttons — refusing to cooperate or ignoring our requests — can help us build awareness and shed old patterns, allowing us to raise our children with greater ease and enjoyment.
Filled with practical advice, powerful exercises, and fascinating stories from her clinical work, Parenting with Presence teaches us how to become the parents we most want to be while raising confident, caring children.
 

 

The Hormone Reset Diet: Heal Your Metabolism to Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 21 Days

by Dr. Sara Gottrfried

Harvard-educated physician and New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure shows you how to grow new receptors for your seven metabolic hormones, making you lose weight and feel great fast!
When it comes to weight loss, most people don’t think about hormones. But when you develop resistance to your seven major metabolic hormones—cortisol, thyroid, testosterone, growth hormone, leptin, insulin, and estrogen—your body adjusts by increasingly raising your hormone levels and ultimately slowing down your metabolism. And a slower metabolism leads to weight gain and difficulty losing weight. The solution, Dr. Sara Gottfried contends, is to reset the efficiency of your hormones by repairing and growing new hormone receptors.
Based on leading scientific research, The Hormone Reset Diet is her proven weight loss and energy program to reverse hormone resistance in just three weeks.

Outsmarting Overeating: Boost Your Life Skills, End Your Food Problems
by Karen R. Koenig

The reason you turn to food when you’re stressed or distressed is that you don’t have better ways of managing life’s ups and downs. According to Karen R. Koenig, an expert on the psychology of eating, you can transform your eating habits — and your life — by developing effective life skills. When you have enhanced skills, you won’t need to turn to mindless eating to make it through the day and will get the best out of life rather than letting life get the best of you. With Koenig’s guidance, you’ll learn how to establish and maintain functional relationships, take care of yourself physically and emotionally, think rationally, and create a passionate, joyful, and meaningful life. When these behaviors take root and become automatic, food becomes what it is meant to be: nourishment and one of life’s many pleasures.

 

Life Loves You: 7 Spiritual Practices to Heal Your Life
by Louise Hay and Robert Holden

Together, Louise Hay and Robert Holden look at what “Life loves YOU” really means—that life doesn’t happen to you; it happens for you. Life is on your side. And when you understand and live in line with this philosophy of basic trust, you open yourself up to countless opportunities to experience greater happiness, creativity, prosperity, and love.
But the authors don’t expect readers to take their word for it. In fact, they outline seven practical and straightforward experiments that will help readers experience the loving universe for themselves. These experiments include: Look in the Mirror – learning about Mirror Principle and self-love, Affirm Your Life – creating a Personal Manifesto of affirmations for your life, Follow Your Joy – trusting your inner wisdom and creating an Affirmation Board, Forgive the Past – healing your future, releasing the past, and living in the present, Be Grateful Now – appreciating the good in your life,Learn to Receive – living with an abundance mindset,Heal the Future – visualizing and creating the life you want.

Ignite the Light: Empowering Children and Adults to Be Their Absolute Best
by Vicki Savini

In today’s society kids hardly get to enjoy their childhood, as they are faced with mounting pressures at school, within their family, and among their peers. Children are overexposed to violence and deprived of lessons on self-love and inner peace . . . but imagine a world where they are given tools to speak their truth, follow their hearts, and above all believe in themselves.
You see, deep inside every one of us is a light that shines brightly when we are aligned with our higher self—our absolute best self. When we allow fear to drive our action, we dim that light within. Yet when we believe in ourselves, speak our truth, and do what feels right in our hearts, we ignite the light and become the best possible version of ourselves.
Whether you are a parent, a teacher, a child-care worker, or just a person who would like to leave this world a little more peaceful than you found it, this book will give you the tools to educate, enlighten, and empower our children to see that they are perfect just as they are. Ignite the Light is a practical step-by-step manual for change that provides tools from which all children—and all families—will benefit.

Bless your clutter. Yes, you heard right: Bless it. Bless everything in your life that is superfluous, broken, burdensome, and overwhelming—because it is all here to teach you an important lesson, perhaps the most important lesson there is: what really matters. – See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Breathing-Room/Melva-Green/9781582704579#sthash.nh5QSilf.dpuf

Bless your clutter. Yes, you heard right: Bless it. Bless everything in your life that is superfluous, broken, burdensome, and overwhelming—because it is all here to teach you an important lesson, perhaps the most important lesson there is: what really matters.Everyone’s lives could use some serious decluttering. But decluttering isn’t just about sorting junk into piles and tossing things in the trash. Decluttering can inform us of our burdens, help us to understand our attachments, and aid us in identifying what is truly valuable in our lives.Written by a medical doctor and a spiritual intuitive, with case studies of people just like you, Breathing Room takes you on an enlightening room-by-room tour where each room in your home corresponds to a “room” in your heart, and where declutter­ing will not just make space but improve the spirit.So, if it’s weighing you down, if it’s become an obstacle, if it’s making it near impossible for you to find the things you really love—it’s time for you to let it go and find a little breathing room. – See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Breathing-Room/Melva-Green/9781582704579#sthash.nh5QSilf.dpuf