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.
Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace by Gabrielle Bernstein
If you were free from fear, who would you have the freedom to be? #1 New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein charts a path to heal trauma, unlearn fear, and remember love.
What if you could wake up every day without anxiety? View your past with purpose, not regret? Live happy, peaceful, and free from fear? You can—and Gabrielle will show you the way.
Her new book presents her most powerful teaching yet: a plan for transforming the pain of your past, whatever that may be, into newfound strength and freedom.
Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection (A Six-Week Artist's Way Program) by Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron returns to the spiritual roots of the Artist’s Way in this 6-week Program. Cameron changed the way the world thinks about creativity when she first published The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity thirty years ago. Over five million copies later, Cameron now turns her attention to creative prayer, which she believes is a key facet of the creative life. In Seeking Wisdom, a 6 Week Artist’s Way Program, readers, too, will learn to pray. In this volume, Cameron shares a mindful collection of prayer practices that open our creative souls. This path takes us beyond traditional religious rituals, welcoming readers regardless of their beliefs and backgrounds. As you journey through each week of the program you’ll explore prayers of petition, gratitude, creativity, and more. Along the way, the three beloved tools of The Artist’s Way―Morning Pages, Artist Dates, and Walks―are refreshed and reintroduced, to provide a proven, grounded framework for growth and development.
Stop Playing Safe: How To Be Braver in Your Work, Leadership and Life by Margie Warrell
Have you ever looked back and wished you’d been braver? Today’s culture of fear is constantly bombarding you with reasons to play it safe. Yet, is it keeping you living too safely, procrastinating and not taking the very actions that would help you enjoy greater self-confidence, professional success and personal fulfillment. If you ever hold back from making changes or taking chances, Stop Playing Safe is for you.
In this fully updated 'post-pandemic' edition, Dr Margie Warrell challenges you to 'rethink risk' and back your boldest goals with braver action. Drawing on her diverse global experience working in coaching, psychology and with trailblazing leaders such as Richard Branson and Bill Marriott, this book will empower you to master fear and 'take the chance' when it matters most. Whether you’re a business owner, climbing the corporate ladder or embarking on an entrepreneurial endeavor, Stop Playing Safe is powerful reading for anyone who doesn’t want to settle for less than the biggest life they’re capable of living.
The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide to Living What Matters by Rebecca C. Morrison
We are born to be happy. Somewhere along the way, our lives get cluttered. The Happiness Recipe is a grounded, approachable, and tactical guide to finding joy. By sharing the tools necessary for understanding what matters most to your happiness, Rebecca Morrison gives you the key to believing in and achieving the kind of happiness that is possible for everyone. By decluttering your days of the “shoulds” and the “have-tos” and focusing instead on what actually matters, a road toward fulfilling joy will be laid before you. No matter how busy or overwhelmed you feel, this book will help you identify what has been standing between you and your happiness, so you can focus your energy on changes that will meaningfully impact your existence.
Holy Love: The Essential Guide to Soul-Fulfilling Relationships by Elisa Romeo & Adam Foley
How can we connect with another on a soulful level if we do not understand ourselves personally and intimately on a Soul level? How can we find a soul mate if we can’t see and feel our own Soul?
These questions are at the heart of Holy Love, which offers readers an invitation to profound growth, fulfilling love, and radical self-discovery via a groundbreaking method designed to transform any relationship into a spiritual path of awakening. Taking religious dogma off the concept of soul, authors Elisa Romeo and Adam Foley's approach is based on the premise that this wise part of ourselves is essential for deeply nurturing relationships that are capable of long-term health and growth.
Intropreneur: Strategies to Build Your Business as an Introverted Entrepreneur by Jen Jones
Can you be an introvert and an entrepreneur? The two may seem worlds apart. After all, when we think of an entrepreneur, we often picture someone outgoing, the hand shaking, networking go-getter type. Conversely, we picture the introvert as one who thrives in solitude, and perhaps even shrinks or retreats from the social intensity entrepreneurship seems to demand. Enter Jen Jones, a successful introverted entrepreneur who has built both a thriving real estate practice and a coaching practice for others just like her - the intropreneur! In this book, Jen takes the reader on a pro-active journey of self-discovery and skill building. You’ll learn 3 keys, including: How to align what’s in your heart with your mindset and the actions you need to take, You’ll discover what type of introvert you are and identify some of the innate gifts you possess, and you’ll learn all about building relationships that allow you to shine in your introvert glory.This book offers a road map and a framework to help intropreneurs of all walks tap into their strengths, build their skills, and be all they hope to be in their business. The world needs your gifts - learn how to share them in your most unique and effective way, starting today.
Empowered, Sexy, and Free: Discover Your Unique Brilliance and Dare to Be the Creatrix of Your Life by Jolie Dawn
Empowered, Sexy, and Free helps women recognize and release “energetic baggage” that is weighing them down — from difficult family dynamics to relationship challenges to work woes and more. And while author Jolie Dawm admits that process won’t always be comfortable, she promises and shows that, “everything that you want for yourself is on the other side of your fear.”
Throughout the book, Jolie fearlessly shares her personal stories of addiction, family trauma, internalized sexual shame, debilitating self-doubt, and fear in a way that anyone who has ever felt less than or out of control can relate to. Each of the practical tools and daily practices she offers come from her lived experience of successfully transforming her life from the inside out.
The Brules of Life: 15 Bullsh*t Rules to Break for a No-Vacation-Needed Life by Tara Sage
Eager to create your life by intentional design? Do you feel restless or tired of all the “supposed tos”? Are ALL rules made to be broken? No. But some are total bullsh*t. The Brules of Life will open the door to the life you have been longing for. Learn how breaking a few bullsh*t rules (a.k.a. “brules”) and rethinking status quo conventions can help you create a life you love so much you’ll never need a vacation! Spotting which rules not to follow can get murky, fast! That is, if you can spot them at all, since many of the biggest culprits hide in plain sight. The Brules of Life is a pragmatic life-hack handbook that will illuminate your path forward. One “brule” at a time, apply practical, easy tips, tricks, and strategies for a new kind of freedom. Full of inspiring stories, sage advice, candid passion-filled musings, and pull-no-punches myth busting, this book will not only challenge conventions, stir your soul, and fire up your motivation — it’ll also help you gain crystal clarity, manifest unstoppable courage, and unleash your truest self.
The Muse in You: Embracing Creativity to Overcome Life's Difficulties by Lynn Newman
Everything we do is creative: the way we think, the way we problem solve, the way we make the most of our lives. But when we experience challenging times, difficult life transitions, or grief from a loss, it’s easy for creativity to vanish and disquiet to settle in. In this guidebook to your emotional health, creativity expert Lynn Newman sends a powerful message: it is possible for you to remake your life into something extraordinary. Through personal stories, exercises, meditations, and inspired questions, learn to create a life on purpose by transcending conflict to find peace and happiness, unleashing the truest parts of yourself to experience more passion and ease, enjoying more fulfilling relationships, and following curiosity to jumpstart your creative journey. If you’re ready to shine more brightly, these lessons are your loving reminders that you are a creative being ready to accomplish your dreams! There is a muse in you!
Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World by Eve Rodsky
With her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Fair Play, (and Reese’s Book Club pick) Fair Play, Eve Rodsky began a national conversation about greater equality on the home front. But she soon realized that even when the domestic workload becomes more balanced, people still report something missing in their lives—that is, unless they create and prioritize time for activities that not only fill their calendars but also unleash their creativity.
Rodsky calls this vital time Unicorn Space—the active and open pursuit of creative self-expression in any form that makes you uniquely YOU. Rodsky reveals what researchers already know: Creativity is not optional. It’s essential. Though most of us do need to remind ourselves how (and where) to find it. With her trademark mix of research based, how-to advice and big-picture inspirational thinking, Rodsky shows you a clear path to reclaim your permission to have fun, manifest your own Unicorn Space in an already too-busy life, and unleash your special gifts and undiscovered talents into the world.Build life-enhan
