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.
Forgive Everyone for Everything: 21 Days to Clear Your Mind, Heal Your Heart, and Manifest a Meaningful Life by Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant's classic book on forgiveness gets a modern update. Take back your power, heal toxic relationships, and harness the energy of your thoughts. Too many of us feel stuck, trapped in relationships, and weighed down by past trauma. We might be quick to judge and slow to pardon, and self-righteous about our feelings as we dwell on memories of what we or others did (or failed to do). With this book, New York Times best-selling author and spiritual leader Iyanla Vanzant challenges us to embrace the new power of forgiveness. With her 21-Day Forgiveness Plan, you’ll explore relationship dynamics with your parents, children, friends, partners, yourself, and even God. Through journaling work and Emotional Freedom Techniques (also known as “tapping”), you’ll learn to see yourself, your life, your every experience, and every person in your life from a different perspective. The free audio download that accompanies this book contains personal guidance from Iyanla on the Forgiveness Process, supportive meditations, and 18 daily prayers.
Living in Wisdom: A Path to Embodying Your Authentic Self, Embracing Grief, and Developing Self-Mastery by Devi Brown
From Devi Brown, master well-being educator and voice of the Chopra app, this full-bodied guide offers inside-out advice for getting unstuck, relieving your internal suffering, and harnessing the power of your authentic self for true personal growth. We endure so much over the course of our lives. Some of it is beautiful; some of it traumatic and sometimes, that trauma can keep us from realizing and embracing all the good we cultivate; our successes and achievements and positive relationships. This book is for those who feel like something in life is missing, like they want to change some aspect of their lives or themselves, but are being held back as they are denying the true origin of these feelings...so they are stuck. They may be high-achievers and externally, their life looks perfect, yet they are struggling to accept themselves, or even like themselves. They lack the tools, self-trust and personal power to make their ideal life real. In this space, Devi Brown offers help for those struggling to recognize the barriers that keep them from experiencing joy, vulnerability, and self-knowledge. Sharing the wisdom she has gathered as a healer and master well-being educator, Brown guides readers along the path to self-mastery through a combination of spirituality, psychology, ancient wisdom traditions, edgy holistic self-care, and her own inspiring and surprising life experiences.
Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion by Dr. Wendy Suzuki
As a neuroscientist, Dr. Wendy Suzuki has discovered a paradigm-shifting truth about anxiety: yes, it is uncomfortable, but it is also essential for our survival. In fact, anxiety is a key component of our ability to live optimally. Every emotion we experience has an evolutionary purpose, and anxiety is designed to draw our attention to a number of negative emotions. If we simply approach anxiety as something to avoid, get rid of, or dampen, we actually miss an opportunity to not only manage the symptoms of anxiety better but also discover ways to improve our lives. Listening to our worries from a place of curiosity, instead of fear, can actually guide us onto a path that leads to joy.
You Have the Magic: Harness the Power of Your Mind to Transform Your Reality by Haley Hoffman Smith
Through a radical new approach to manifesting the life of your dreams, subconscious breakthrough coach Haley Hoffman Smith empowers you to embrace the potential within your own mind to unlock magical change in your world. What if you discovered you already have everything you need within you to achieve your dreams and live the life you’ve always wanted? While it may sound like magic, science backs this one up: through neuroscience-supported practices for rewiring our brains and subconscious minds, we can change our lives. In fact, many are already doing it. This book lays out the steps of popular life coach Haley Hoffman Smith’s Subconscious Breakthrough Formula, teaching you to change your life by identifying limiting beliefs and releasing them. The results will create energetic ripple effects throughout your existence and show you that you are the only magic you need.
Start Your Second Act: How to Change Careers, Launch a Business, and Create Your Best Life by Shannon Russell
The ultimate guide to pivot with purpose, reinvent your career, and produce your best life.The career that once inspired you no longer fits your life, and a nagging voice inside tells you there’s something more. When your mind, heart, and dreams no longer align with your current path, it’s time to start your second act.
Shannon Russell, a former TV producer turned entrepreneur and career/business coach, understands the fears and challenges of disrupting your carefully planned career and taking the leap into something more. Drawing on her personal experiences and the success stories of other women, she shares her proven three-step Second Act Strategy (reflect, research, realize) to guide you from where you are now to where you want to be.
Choose Your Self: How to Embrace Being Single, Heal Core Wounds, and Build a Life You Love by Megan Sherer
If you’ve been waiting for your life to start once your relationship status changes, it’s time to rethink things and learn to choose your self first. We often relate to singlehood as a phase that should be rushed and remedied by finding a partner, rather than relating to it as our most potent opportunity for growth. But if the priority is on being chosen over being the one to choose, you’re more likely to keep ending up with the wrong partner. It’s time to break these old patterns and embrace single life with compassion. “One of the great advantages of spending time intentionally single,” shares expert coach and therapist Megan Sherer, “is having time to self-reflect, to learn from your past, and to experiment with new ways of being. Key word: intentionally.”
Evolve Into Your All: Create & Live in the 5th Dimension of Love, Joy & Prosperity! by Amanda Slade
Enter into the infinite possibilities of the 5th Dimension–a realm where Love, joy, peace, passion, and prosperity naturally thrive rather than living in fear, pain, and struggle. Evolve Into Your ALL is your roadmap to creating the life and business you desire through a transformative journey to claim the ALL of you–without self-doubt, limitations, or sacrifice. With a combination of science and spirituality, it offers practical tools and powerful insights which unveil 5th Dimension Elevation Principles to help you align with your fullest Potential, Soul's plan, and abundant prosperity. Through The Diamond Co-Creative System® and its Elevation Codes, you will uplevel your consciousness and adopt new ways of BEing that positively shift your life, relationships, spirituality, health, finances, and career or business. Trust and believe in yourself and the Universe to rise to extraordinary heights and manifest what you truly desire!
Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career by Suzy Welch
An inspiring, wise and highly practical method for discovering your true self and identifying the fulfilling career meant just for you. No matter where we are in our lives, be it atop the heights of achievement or just setting out on our journey, we’ve all had that moment where we’ve wondered, What is my purpose? What was I born to do? The answer can feel just within our grasp or as far off as the horizon. Either way, how in the world do we get there?
Enter Becoming You, a joyful, deeply researched, and immediately applicable step-by-step guidebook to help you answer that very question. Original, research-driven, and transformative, Becoming You is based on the widely acclaimed class at NYU Stern School of Business taught by Professor Suzy Welch, a three-time New York Times-bestselling author, Top 5 career podcast host, CEO advisor, and tech innovator.
Flex Your Feelings: Train Your Brain to Develop the 7 Traits of Emotional Fitness by Dr. Emily Anhalt
This is Atomic Habits for your mental health—a data-driven, practical, step-by-step plan for developing the 7 essential traits of emotional strength necessary to face all of life’s challenges and become the best leader, entrepreneur, and human you can be. Can you train your brain for greater emotional health, just like you train your body for better physical fitness? We know how to push our bodies for peak physical fitness—but when it comes to our emotional health, many of us just wing it. What if you could coach your mind for greater satisfaction and success, just like you train your body to get stronger? That’s the promise of Flex Your Feelings, a data-driven, step-by-step plan for developing the 7 essential traits of emotional fitness necessary to become the best leader, entrepreneur, and human you can be. Here’s the good news: emotional fitness can be LEARNED…even if you didn’t grow up with mentally strong role models, and even if you’re not sure how to do it. Dr. Emily Anhalt—psychologist to the Silicon Valley tech elite and founder of Coa, the “gym” for mental fitness—offers a prescriptive, 7-step plan to help you develop the emotional strength and flexibility to cope with whatever comes your way.
Forget the Fairy Tale and Find Your Happiness by Deb Miller
In Forget the Fairy Tale and Find Your Happiness, Deb Miller learns to slay the myth of Prince Charming and redefine what it means to live happily ever after. When Deb’s college sweetheart can’t deliver the fairy tale she expects, she takes charge and creates her own. Her love of tennis opens new professional doors but also leads to a tumultuous second marriage. This powerful memoir chronicles her transformation from a Midwest housewife to a global executive as she navigates societal expectations, personal setbacks, and professional triumphs. Throughout her journey, Deb draws fascinating parallels with Disney’s ever-evolving princesses, who have moved from damsels in distress to courageous, independent characters who embrace their unique strengths and forge their own paths. This is her tale of resilience, pursuing a better life for her children, and finding genuine happiness for herself
