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.
365 Happy Bedtime Mantras: Improve Your Sleep, Release Stress, and Enjoy Your Dreams by Shannon Kaiser
From “one of the freshest voices in mental health and wellness” (Marci Shimoff, New York Timesbestselling author), a year’s worth of nightly practices to help you establish healthy sleep habits so that you can relax, de-stress, and dream deeply for a better well-being.
Millions of Americans are struggling with sleep disorders or insufficient sleep, putting them at risk for numerous other health issues. For them, every night can feel like a losing battle. Now, 365 Happy Bedtime Mantras seeks to reverse the epidemic of poor sleep by helping you balance both the body and mind with self-love and relaxation-promoting mantras, meditations, and bedtime rituals. Whether you want to improve your quality of life with better sleep, effectively transform your evening routines, practice more self-care and self-love, or simply add more mindfulness moments to your life, you will find what you need in this wonderous book
Chakras, The Vagus Nerve, and Your Soul: Journeying to Wellness Through Subtle Energy and Your Nervous System by C.J Llewelyn
A follow-up to Chakras and the Vagus Nerve, this book features a myriad of ways to raise your awareness and bring calm to your body. While the previous book covered questions about what the chakras and vagus nerve are, this book covers—how to understand internal messages from your body, how to not act against what your body is doing, and how to live a more balanced and peaceful life. The chakras and vagus nerve are mirrors of each other; learning to tune into what they tell you is vital. C. J. Llewelyn, M.Ed., shares meditations, writing prompts, and visualizations in every chapter, each designed to meet you where you are and help you move forward. With more than forty-five exercises to enhance your learning, this book teaches you to trust your inner wisdom.
Wealth Witchery Manifesting Magic, Money, and Success by Pamela Chen
The rich witch life of your dreams is within reach with this accessible guide to manifesting abundance. Wealth Witchery teaches you how to tap into your inner magic to influence the flow of money, regardless of your current circumstances or past experiences.
Through success stories and her five-step Richcraft Manifestation System, Pamela Chen encourages you to transform money energy. She offers easy-to-follow spells, exercises, and “richuals” to welcome the vibration of wealth into your life. Focus your magic on your goals with spiritual and energetic tools, such as oils, herbs, tarot cards, crystals, and moon phases. Create an abundance altar, prosperity dream board, and wealth journal. With simple daily and weekly practices, Wealth Witchery offers the magical boost every go-getter needs to live their best life
Your Enneagram and Money: Transforming Enneagram Edges into Financial Freedom by Khara Croswaite Brindle and Hannah deGroot
In this groundbreaking book, Khara Croswaite Brindle and Hannah DeGroot explore how the Enneagram informs money beliefs and behaviors as they relate to your relationship with money. Broken up into three parts, they begin with looking at money challenges for underearners and professionals. Next, they look at each of the nine Enneagram types as they relate to relational and individual challenges with money. Finally, they provide simple tools for increasing money flow in your personal and professional life from the lens of financial therapy. This is the definitive book on the intersection between the Enneagram and money.
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The Night House: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Rites, and Magick for the Wise and Wild by Danielle Dulsky
Fairy tales are more than mere bedtime stories; they are living, breathing repositories of ancient wisdom and magick. The Night House peels back the layers of these timeless narratives to reveal their potent role as guides for navigating today’s world. Rich with insight and a deep reverence for the ancestral art of storytelling, author Danielle Dulsky's latest work reclaims the hidden power of fairy tales as spell books, treasure chests, and sacred rites.
Karma Healing: Unblock Your Life on the Soul Level by Yael Eini
Offering a deep dive into the intricate web of karmic patterns and soul lessons, this insightful guide explores the concept of karma and its profound impact on our present lives. A better understanding of deep-rooted issues will help you dissolve karmic knots, release past trauma, and rewrite soul contracts as you learn to identify and work through soul lessons, past life experiences, and reincarnation patterns. As you intuitively engage with soul systems and past lives in Karmic Constellation—a transformative tool combining elements of energy healing and family constellation—you not only heal but also recognize how you grow through your experiences.
With guidance, transformative practices, and inspiring case studies, this essential guide provides everything you need to heal yourself and your soul to bring love, contentment, and freedom back into your life.
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable?
Despite our constant search for new ways to optimize our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. what is truly worthwhile.
In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. As it turns out, we’re searching for external solutions to an internal problem. We won’t find what we’re searching for in punishing diets, productivity apps, or the latest self-improvement schemes. Yet all is not lost—we just need to learn how to take time for ourselves, without agenda or profit, and redefine
Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay by Cyndie Spiegel
Cyndie Spiegel first began taking note of microjoys during the most difficult year of her life—when she experienced back-to-back unprecedented and devastating losses—and she found that these fleeting moments of hope helped her move through each day with a semblance of comfort and a lot more joy. Through beautifully written narrative essays and prompts, Cyndie shares the microjoys that have kept her going through tough times and shows us how we can learn to see the microjoys in our own lives. Microjoys don’t change the truth of loss or make grief any more convenient, but they allow us to temporarily touch joy, keeping us buoyed and moving forward, one moment at a time.
Open When: A Companion for Life's Twists & Turns by Dr. Julie Smith
Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Julie Smith returns with this highly anticipated handbook full of “break in case of emergency” advice for dealing with mental health challenges in the moment they occur. In this essential guide, Dr. Julie teaches her millions of readers and clients how to navigate life’s toughest occurrences while they’re happening, rather than moments or years after the fact. What if we can learn to harness our emotions and stay present so we can process and choose how to respond to a situation? Picking up where Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? leaves off, Dr. Julie shares the research-backed concepts and powerful skills we can use to weather our most vulnerable moments. Learn how to move through any situation with grace. Open When teaches each of us to find and listen to the positive voice within when we need it most, and to care for our future selves and our mental health.
The Art of Aliveness: A Creative Return to What Matters Most by Flora S. Bowley
Are you ready for more joy in your life? Writer Flora Bowley believes that everyone can learn how to create a joy-filled life by practicing what she calls The Art of Aliveness.Aliveness, in this context, goes well beyond the acts of sleeping, eating, working, etc., inviting us instead to look into the depths of our own experience, embrace what we find there, and commit to bringing our truest self into the world.
The Art of Aliveness teaches us how to create beauty out of sorrow, find meaning in the apparent madness that we sometimes find in the world, and choose to build a life we love regardless of the cards we’ve been dealt. Packed with exercises and writing prompts, The Art of Aliveness offers readers a way to make lasting change in their lives. If you’re ready to be the artist of your life, this book can show you how.
