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.
Practical Happiness: Four Principles to Improve Your Life by Pamela Gail Johnson
Learn how to think differently about your happiness with a philosophy for creating a realistic yet joyful life. People think happiness is a singular feeling, but it isn’t. The real way to feel happier is to expand your definition of happiness and manage your Happiness Zappers. Pamela Gail Johnson, founder of the Society of Happy People, identified the four practical happiness principles that have helped thousands of people shift their mindsets so they naturally notice more happiness, whether it feels sparse, abundant, or somewhere in between. Pamela shares real stories from real people who put the four practical happiness principles into action. With thought-provoking workbook-style questions, you can immediately apply these principles to your life.
Called To Be Creative: A Guide to Reigniting Your Creativity by Mary Potter Kenyon
"I’m not creative. I could never do something like that. I don’t have time to be creative." Does any of this sound familiar? Do you find yourself wishing that you had pursued your creative talents before it was too late? In a world full of creativity, there is no such thing as “too late.”
Called to Be Creative is for anyone looking to reignite that tiny spark inside of them and invite creativity into their lives through simple, everyday practices. A certified grief counselor and a Program Coordinator for Shalom Spirituality Center, Mary Potter Kenyon walks you step by step through the process of exploring your true potential in this inspirational guide to embracing your innate creativity. With in-depth research from the most notable creative authorities, insight from creative pioneers, her personal experiences, and small activities to kick-start your own creative revolution, Kenyon offers you everything you need to live a more creative life.
Your Next Chapter: Ditch Your Doubt, Own Your Worth and Build the Business You Really Want by Angela Raspass
What will unfold in Your Next Chapter? Angela Raspass knows from first-hand experience that self-doubt can be the greatest obstacle preventing us from achieving our true capabilities. Now an experienced business mentor and women's coach, Angela has helped hundreds of women ditch their doubt and create their own exciting new business chapters. In 'Your Next Chapter', Angela now offers inspiration, guidance and simple tools to help you navigate doubt, anchor into your true worth and access your courage, confidence and creativity. She also shares her own raw stories of recovery from addiction, and transition through three major work-life changes to the business that sustains her soul today. By blending your skills, experience and values into a sustainable model of contribution, fulfilment and financial reward, you'll absolutely love life in Your Next Chapter.
Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake Up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy by Andrea Scher
“The PERFECT guide to help us slow down and find the beauty and wonder right in front of us.”—Brené Brown. Spark your sense of wonder and lift your spirits with this collection of fun, creative activities and ideas to help cultivate daily joy, illustrated with full-color photographs, artful watercolors, and inspiring stories. Wonder Seeker reminds us that no one is too busy (or too old) to experience daily gratitude and delight. Filled with 52 fun, easy, and incredibly creative prompts and activities, this guide to joy helps us to step out of our ordinary lives, even for just a moment or two each day, to witness the magic all around us. Andrea provides simple practices that bridge creativity and mindfulness and allow the imagination to play. These activities can be done anywhere and can be enjoyed solo, or with friends, family, and even strangers.
Letters to the Universe: 50 Guided Letters to Help You Script and Manifest the Life You Want by Kelsey Aida Roualdes
Center your energy, raise your vibration, and put your goals out into the universe with this essential set of tear-out letters to help you script your manifestations and create the life of your dreams. If you ask, the universe will listen! Writing down your manifestation goal is an easy way to raise your vibration and focus your energy on making it happen. This collection of fifty templates can help you figure out what it is you want, why you want it, when you want it, and what your life will look like when you’ve found it. Asking the universe for help is a powerful tool that can amplify your manifestation energy. All you need is a pen, Letters to the Universe, and your deepest desires!
On Purpose: The Busy Woman's Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success by Tanya Dalton
Are you filling your calendar or are you filling your soul? In her latest book, productivity expert Tanya Dalton helps you to define your purpose and live with intention...even if you feel you are too busy to pursue your big dreams. She offers cutting-edge research and thought-provoking real life stories of women and leads you through innovative, yet deceptively simple exercises designed to help you understand: how to create a map to your ideal future; actionable strategies to move forward with confidence; simple shifts to turn unexpected obstacles into opportunities; and daily steps you can take toward a more fulfilling life. Living On Purpose isn't about changing who you are. It's about rising up and becoming the best version of you--adjusting your mindset so you can discover your daily choices. On Purpose will help you find the unhurried purpose that is hidden in each one of your days when you stay true to your soul's path.
PS I Love Me: 12 Steps for a Self-Love Transformation by Gina Swire
Self-love, you say? What on earth is that nowadays?! And how can it help me live better? Gina Swire is a self-love expert who has dedicated her life to figuring that out for you. She’s worked with thousands of women, of different ages and backgrounds, all over the world. She’s seen all the patterns and learnt the tricks, hacks and practices to help even the most sceptical woman transform. PS I Love Me will help you bypass years of struggle and welcome an abundance of flow, humour and grace into your life.
A brand-new spin on a misunderstood topic, Gina wants every woman to have the keys to the queendom. Self-love is exactly what the world needs in order for us to ascend together in this powerful time to be alive. Remember, with self-love, anything is possible!
Rock Your Midlife: 7 Steps to Transform Yourself and Make Your Next Chapter Your Best Chapter by Ellen Albertson, PhD, RD
Are you feeling stuck at midlife? Want the energy, confidence, and clarity to make your next chapter your best chapter? Are you looking for a roadmap that will help you to discover and become the woman you want to be as fast as possible… without confusion, frustration, and discouragement?
In this inspiring, motivational, and action-oriented book, Dr. Ellen Albertson, aka The Midlife Whisperer™, busts outdated concepts of midlife and prickly, crisis-driven, over-the-hill life plans. The book challenges everything you’ve been told about getting old and provides proven solutions to make midlife the best time of your life. Whether you want to love and accept yourself, have more fulfilling relationships, or live authentically with passion, meaning, and purpose, Rock Your Midlife is your roadmap to get results.
The Five-Element Solution: Discover the Spiritual Side of Chinese Medicine to Release Stress, Clear Anxiety, and Reclaim Your Life by Jean Hanner
Use the powerful spiritual principles of Chinese Medicine to discover your personality type and bring balance to all areas of your life with this practical, solution-oriented book from expert Jean Haner. Based on the traditional wisdom of the Chinese Five Elements-Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal-the quizzes and step-by-step guidance in this book will help you discover how to solve problems in ways that fit your unique personality type. Drawing from over 30 years of experience, Jean Haner offers specific strategies from the spiritual side of Chinese medicine to help you create true and effective change. With short-term practices and select activities, such as aligning with your "magic hours," new ways of clearing clutter, and even adding certain colors and foods to your life, you can get solutions for any problem at three different levels-simple remedies, full prescriptions, and a five-week "reboot" plan-to get your entire life moving in the right direction again.
Relationship Essentials: Skills to Feel Heard, Fight Fair, and Set Boundaries in All Areas of Life by Lauren Reitsema and Joneen Mackenzie
Build life-enhancing relationships, restore damaged ones, and prevent communication breakdowns before they happen. Using real-world examples, illustrations from their own lives, and a research-based approach, dynamic daughter-mother duo Lauren Reitsema and Joneen Mackenzie guide you through familiar relationship situations. Their suggestions can be used with your partner, coworkers, children, extended family members, and friends. Drawing from their experience teaching thousands through The Center for Relationship Education, they introduce practical, easy-to-use strategies that will help you communicate more effectively and work through relationship challenges with confidence. When applied in any area of your life, these tools can have seemingly miraculous love- and life-enhancing results.
