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.
Clarity Mapping: A Guided Journal to Living an Intentional Life by Ashley LeMieux
With this life-changing companion workbook to I Am Here, entrepreneur, social media influencer, and author Ashley LeMieux guides you from pain to clarity and healing and inspires and empowers you to chart a course to the future you deserve. The intense pressures of modern life have left too many of us feeing trapped or hopeless in our daily lives, and seemingly without a way forward. In this invaluable workbook, Ashley LeMieux teaches you how to use the insights she introduced in I Am Here to get yourself unstuck. Following her guidance, you will learn how to use the incredible tool she calls “Clarity Mapping” to define your own priorities and create a plan to get you moving toward your dreams. Ashley shows you how to establish a morning practice that will keep you accountable to the change you want to see in yourself and your world.
In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power by Lindsay Fauntleroy
This beginner-friendly book introduces the five elements―water, wood, fire, earth, and metal―as a system for understanding the cycles and rhythms of your body, mind, and soul. With a practical approach that weaves together Eastern medicine, western psychology, and African ancestral principles of spirituality, author Lindsay Fauntleroy teaches you how to use the elements to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
Experiences such as heartache, anxiety, and procrastination are signs that one of the elements is out of balance within you. Discover how to regain your footing, tap into your latent potential, and find your flow with journal prompts, flower essences, yoga poses, and music. By realigning with the elements, you can become the confident, energized, and fulfilled person you were always meant to be.
Everyday MAGIC: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough by Mattie James
Find the motivation you need to feel good about your life with the help of this inspiring guidebook. Today we are all stretching ourselves more than ever to live up to life’s seemingly endless demands, so why do we still feel we are less than enough? Mattie James— mother, influencer, and CEO—believes that living a beautiful life amidst the chaos and pressures is possible. All it takes is a little everyday MAGIC. In this book, Mattie shows you how, helping you to evaluate the tasks and decisions you face in your daily life to make sure everything in your life is MAGIC: Meaningful, Aesthetically pleasing, Goal-oriented, Intentional and Consistent. This honest and practical guide offers tools, insights, and encouragement to help you center yourself within the minutiae of everyday life and evaluate tasks to become intentional about everything you do. The work required to change your life has been inside you all along. It’s not deep, just deliberate. This book begins your journey to connect with yourself so that you can prioritize your own reasons for everything you do.
Radical Confidence: 10 No-BS Lessons on Becoming the Hero of Your Own Life by Lisa Bilyeu
An inspiring and laugh-out-loud guide to building the kind of confidence it really takes to live the life of your dreams, from Impact Theory cofounder and growth mindset guru Lisa Bilyeu. Radical Confidence is the story of how Lisa unpaused her life to cofound a company that went from zero to a billion dollars in just five years and become a leader in the world of personal development. Transforming herself with a growth mindset, Lisa learned to face her insecurities and inadequacies, embrace new challenges, solve her own problems, tell her negative voice to shut the eff up, and become the hero of her own life by life-hacking her way to feeling confident.
Living on Purpose: Five Deliberate Choices to Realize Fulfillment and Joy by Amy Eliza Wong
Many people from all walks of life, even after their many accomplishments and experiences, are often plagued by feelings of dissatisfaction and deep questioning. These feelings may lead them to wonder if the life they are living is the life they were meant to lead. Living On Purpose is the guidebook these people have been waiting for. This book shows readers how to feel more connected to the people around them and how to be truly satisfied by the life they’re leading. It will help them get past the pervasive feelings of lack and dissatisfaction by explaining how to fill the hole that can’t be achieved by more money, more status, or the next big thing.
Written by transformational leadership coach Amy Wong, this book will help shift readers to a mindset of possibility and freedom. Seamlessly merging her personal and professional experience with aspects of social neuroscience, Amy brings intellectual rigor and profound insight to the map of five choices that will lead the reader solidly back to themselves.
Spirits Unveiled: A Fresh Perspective on Angels, Guides, Ghosts & More by Michelle Welch
From ancestors and animal spirits to elementals and extraterrestrials, Spirits Unveiled presents an impressive variety of energetic beings and teaches you how to connect with them. Each chapter introduces a particular kind of spirit and provides an example of sensing its presence, methods for identifying and connecting with it, and strategies for setting boundaries. Michelle Welch demystifies concepts and debunks misconceptions about different spirit beings, and she shares ideas for honoring them.
Spirits Unveiled explores inspirational spirits like angels and spirit guides as well as scarier entities like ghosts and demons. You'll learn how to scry with elementals, connect with an ascended master, protect against psychic attacks, astral travel, and more. Featuring meditations, visualizations, and inspiring stories, this book helps boost your intuition and spiritual experience.
Mirror Meditation: The Power of Neuroscience and Self-Reflection to Overcome Self-Criticism, Gain Confidence, and See Yourself with Compassion by Tara Well, PhD
Discover the power of mirror meditation to help you awaken self-compassion, increase self-awareness, and gain the confidence needed to thrive. Based in cutting-edge neuroscience, Mirror Meditation offers mindful practices for increasing your self-awareness, managing stress and emotions, developing self-compassion, and increasing your confidence and personal presence. Using the three principles of mindfulness meditation—attention to the present moment, open awareness, and kind intention toward oneself—you’ll realize just how much your self-criticisms are affecting you. Then you’ll have a choice—and a practice—to treat yourself with more self-acceptance. Self-awareness can help you break free from both your inner critic and the external world that stokes the fears and anxieties that we are never good enough, never have enough, and are never safe enough. The simple self-mirroring technique in this unique guide isn’t grounded in technology—just a commitment to be present with yourself.
Crazy Joy: Finding Wild Happiness in a World That's Upside Down by Mary Katherine Backstrom
A bestselling author helps readers find radical joy in a world full of constant comparison by accepting that life is a wild ride and happiness fluctuates with our circumstances. Happiness is considered a destination, but the finish line is constantly moving—when we get married, find that dream job, move away from home, have a baby, build a dream house, etc. We are promised that a happy life is tied to these milestones. But what if society has it wrong? What if happiness isn't the goal at all? With her trademark candor and hilarious storytelling, MK paints a picture of a different life—one bursting with a force that is far more sustainable and vibrant: joy. Witty and refreshingly honest, MK invites her readers to embark on a counter-cultural journey toward a life filled to the brim with contentment, humor, and most importantly, Crazy Joy.
The Happy Empath: A Survival Guide For Highly Sensitive People by Christine Rose Elle
Lift the weight of emotions, soothe your sensitive nature, harness your empathic gift. You know how it feels: You’re in a meeting, or on the bus, and realize you’re picking up the emotional state of the person next to you. Life as an empath can feel overwhelming, but The Happy Empath gives you tools to help you navigate charged emotional territory―and stay even-keeled even in stormy moments. High sensitivity can be a valuable gift, and this guide will help you harness and strengthen your skills as an empath while reducing stress and distraction. From the office to home and even online, you’ll learn to protect yourself in 19 different everyday environments―and deepen your relationships with those you encounter. Travel through your life as an empath smoothly with the practical techniques in The Happy Empath.
The Beauty Witch's Secrets: Recipes & Rituals for the Modern Goddess by Alise Marie
Become your most spellbinding self, inside and out, through every stage of your life. Alise Marie guides you into her inner sanctum, where you'll enjoy empowerment and practical magick that elevates your beauty routine from a monotonous chore to a sensual ceremony. Alise presents an abundant collection of plant-powered recipes and rituals for facial and body care, healing baths, kitchen witchery, and much more. Create elixirs, oils, and nectars that give you irresistibly smooth skin and gorgeous hair. Align with the cycles of the moon, explore the power of nature, and connect with goddesses. Featuring photos and time-tested secrets, this book reveals the enchanted beauty that is your birthright.
