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.
Energy Work for the Everyday to Elite Athlete How to Achieve Optimal Sports Performance by Cyndi Dale
World-renowned energy healer Cyndi Dale presents the ultimate book on applying energy concepts and practices to athletes and coaches of any age and level. Featuring more than fifty-five hands-on exercises, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about subtle energy and sports performance.
All sports-related challenges are energetic in nature, and so the solutions also lie in the world of energy. Cyndi shares the many tools in her energy medicine bag, including injury prevention and care, the keys to mechanics, athletic preparation, dealing with ups and downs, coaching, and more. Her techniques have helped an injured football player heal in half the average time, a downhill skier start winning competitions again, and a seventy-five-year-old woman prepare for a spiritual quest in Spain. They can help you, too.
A Year of Angel Guidance An Introduction to Twelve New Guardians by Leeza Robertson
Connect with twelve new guardian angels using this month-by-month guide. Each guardian is the focus of an entire calendar month, guiding you daily based on that angel’s theme. Willow shows you how to manifest your goals in March, Solis ignites your passion in August, and Sophia encourages you to reflect in November. Leeza Robertson provides messages received from the angels to help you navigate the human experience.
This year-long devotional introduces you to lesser-known angels who want to assist with everyday concerns and show you the path to peace and abundance. In addition to daily messages, you’ll enjoy a prayer of connection and a closing ceremony each month that helps deepen your angelic practice. From Jana, the angel of doorways, to Sylvania, the angel of transitions, these divine guardians will be with you all 365 days of the year.
Navigating the Messy Middle: A Fiercely Honest and Wildly Encouraging Guide for Midlife Women by Ann Douglas
In Navigating the Messy Middle, Ann Douglas pushes back against this toxic narrative, providing Gen X women with evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife.
In this deeply validating and encouraging book, Douglas interviews well over one hundred women of different backgrounds and identities, sharing their diverse conversations about the complex and intertwined issues that women must grapple with at midlife: from family responsibilities to career pivots, health concerns to building community. Readers will find a book that offers practical, evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife, coupled with compelling first-person stories. Both a midlife love letter and a lament, Navigating the Messy Middle celebrates the beauty and rages at the many injustices of this life stage, and provides readers with the tools to chart their own course.
Build Your Village: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Every Stage of Life by Florence Ann Romano
In Build Your Village, philanthropist and businesswoman Florence Ann Romano helps you to build lasting relationships with those in your life, dispel isolation, and improve your overall happiness and health. Each chapter teaches you to foster the villager qualities within yourself and to find others who display these qualities. From identifying the six types of villagers needed to complete a fully functional village to what to do when you’ve lost your community, this book serves as a step-by step guide complete with quizzes, gut check questions, and action steps as you learn the importance of support systems as well as how to nurture them and find meaningful connections.
The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine A Comprehensive Reference to Healing Modalities from Acupressure to Zero Balancing by Linnie Thomas
This newly revised edition of The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine is an expansive reference for laymen, students, and practitioners wishing to know more about energy healing practices. With newly added modalities, updated course listings, an improved list of energy medicine associations, and other fresh content, this comprehensive directory features dozens of different healing schools and programs in a field that is constantly growing and evolving. Linnie Thomas covers fifty-six energy healing modalities, such as Reflexology, Healing Touch, LomiLomi, Holotropic Breathwork, Thought Field Therapy, and others. She lists each therapeutic method, certification requirements for practitioners, descriptions of courses (including contact information), and codes of ethics, making it easy to find the information you need to explore these healing techniques for yourself.
Wildhearted Purpose Embrace Your Unique Calling & the Unmapped Path of Authenticity by Kris Franken
When it comes to living your greatest purpose, let wildflowers be your muse. Building on the wisdom in The Call of Intuition, Kris Franken shares her unique process for realizing your full potential and learning to live authentically through nature. She presents dozens of simple and inspiring practices to help you discover the dreams of your soul, design your own process of growth, and live your purpose every day.
Each chapter includes dreamwork, vision boards, journal prompts, and other exercises that support your journey to become more mindful, joyful, grateful, and empowered. By exploring your inner landscape and connecting deeply with your kaleidoscope of gifts, you can find the purpose already imbued in the light of your being and learn to bloom along the unmapped paths of life.
The Art of Feminine Negotiation: How to Get What You Want from the Boardroom to the Bedroom by Cindy Watson
Art of Feminine Negotiation debunks myths and multi-generational gender conditioning that have stopped women from fully stepping into their power. Uncover the unconscious biases that have limited women from becoming the biggest and best versions of themself. Learn the key skillsets that mark superior negotiators, explore how women already possess these skills in spades, and master how to start invoking these essential skills with intention in everyday life. Whether looking to negotiate a better relationship with an intimate partner or children, or negotiate the position, money, and respect deserved, Art of Feminine Negotiation will elevate one’s persuasive powers and influence, both personally and professionally. The book addresses both theory and practice and while packed with valuable research and information, it’s written in a personal conversational tone that makes it accessible and enticing. With hands-on, practical advice about tactics, strategies, and tools to up anyone’s negotiation game, as well as tips on where and when to apply them, readers will come away ready to get what they want and deserve from the boardroom to the bedroom.
When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal by Brianna Wiest
Healing is not a one-time event. It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be.
In her follow up collection to the international bestseller 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest shares 45+ new pieces that will help you find your inner sanctum and embark on the path of true transformation. Wiest's words are a balm for any soul on the journey of their own becoming.
Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth by Rebecca Wildbear
Wild Yoga invites you to create a personal yoga practice that seamlessly melds health and well-being with spiritual insight, Earth stewardship, and cultural transformation. Wilderness guide and yoga instructor Rebecca Wildbear came to yoga after a life-threatening encounter with cancer in her twenties. Over years of teaching and healing, she devised the unique practice she presents in Wild Yoga. In this book, she guides you in connecting to the natural world and living from your soul while also addressing environmental activism. Whether you are new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, by engaging in this vibrant approach, you’ll discover greater levels of love, purpose, and creativity, along with the active awareness we know our planet deserves
Archangel Alchemy Healing: The Celestial Science in the Vibration of the Universe by Alexandra Wenman
Restore your divine blueprint with the cutting-edge celestial science of archangel healing. Channeled directly through the Archangels, primarily Gabriel and Metatron, Archangel Alchemy is an angelic energy healing system that aligns you with the angelic kingdom and allows you to connect with your purest divine blueprint. Providing meditations, invocations, channeled guidance, and healing practices, Alexandra Wenman shows you how to tap into your own magical and healing gifts by experiencing and embodying angelic qualities and vibrations. Alexandra draws on scientific research from quantum physics and the sacred geometry of nature, as well as psychology and metaphysics, to show how and why Archangel Alchemy healing works. With numerous practical applications, this comprehensive guide enables anyone to harness the power of angelic energies to heal, harmonize, and fully align with your soul purpose.
