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.
Self Sabotage No More: Stop Repeating the Past and Start Creating Your Future by Jennie Potter
Ever Felt “Stuck” But Don’t Know Why Procrastinate for no sane reason? Feel like you are never good enough? Have a persistent, underlying feeling of guilt? Or, simply not living up to your full potential?
In this book, you will learn why you are sabotaging yourself from getting what you want but more importantly, exactly what to do about it. Author Jennie Potter was an “emotional sponge” as a child. She has always had the ability to “see” people’s feelings and emotions and it has guided her entire life. “Self Sabotage No More” are the mindsets and methods that Jennie’s been sharing and using with clients to great success and transformational results.
Create a Life You Love: How to Quiet Outside Voices So You Can Finally Hear Your Own by Stephanie May Wilson
As women, we're often told that we're entitled or unrealistic when we want to create a life we love. We start hearing this message from a very early age, and by the time we're old enough to know what we want, we've also been taught to doubt our instincts and to see selfishness in all our longings. Writer, speaker, and podcaster Stephanie May Wilson has helped thousands of women shrug off the pressure of what they think their lives are supposed to look like and take on the next big decision or life transition with intentionality and confidence.
In Search of You: How to Find Joy When Doing More Isn't Doing It Anymore by Kasey Compton
Forget everything you think you know about success and self-care and learn how to really love yourself, with this revolutionary guide from someone who has been there, acclaimed therapist and self-love spokesperson, Kasey Compton.
Many modern women experience a frustrating phenomenon: No matter how much we accomplish, the feeling of satisfaction we anticipated never actually comes. Raised in a society of gender-influenced expectations—be an amazing mom, be an extraordinary partner, be an incredible executive and execute on all these roles flawlessly—women have lost the one thing that can ever truly fulfill us: self-love.
The One Inside: 30 Days To Your Authentic Self by Tammy Sollenberger, M.A.
The One Inside is a self-guided way to strengthen the connection between your Self and the competing parts inside of you, the parts of you who battle and cause tension, uncertainty, and anxiety. With just one word a day for 30 days, you'll walk through a self-reflective process that guides you back to your true center. Using a succinct, easy-to-approach style, Tammy Sollenberger's The One Inside guides you through the clinically proven Internal Family Systems method of achieving internal harmony. Whether you'd like to become more emotionally aware, feel overwhelmed by seemingly conflicting parts of the self, or often feel stressed by indecision, The One Inside can help access your own inner wisdom--and your most authentic self.
The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting by Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD
How can parents best set their children up for success? In this revelatory book, Dr. Kirshenbaum makes plain that nurture is a preventative medicine against mental health issues. She challenges the idea that the way to cultivate independence is through letting babies cry it out or sleep alone; instead, the way to raise a confident, securely attached child is to lean in to nurture, to hold your infant as much as you want, support their emotions, engage in back-and-forth conversations, be present and compassionate when your baby is stressed, and share sleep. Research has proven that nurturing experiences transform lives. Nurturing is a gift of resilience and health parents can give the next generation simply by following their instincts to care for their young.
Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors: Trauma-Informed Practices to Nurture a Peaceful Relationship with Your Emotions, Body, and Food by Diane Petrella, MSW
Heal the trauma at the root of emotional eating.
Did you experience abuse, neglect, or abandonment when you were younger? Early trauma and other adversity may affect how you care for yourself today. You may struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings and use food to cope.
Healing Emotional Eating for Trauma Survivors offers a trauma-informed approach to overcoming emotional eating using the principles of mindfulness, self-compassion, and neuroscience. In this book, you’ll find step-by-step guidance for calming your body and emotions; connect with your inner wisdom for strength; and release emotional weight from your mind, body, and spirit.
Reclaiming Body Trust: Break Free from a Culture of Body Perfection, Disordered Eating, and Other Traumas by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant
Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not “at home” in your body? The founders of Body Trust, therapist Hilary Kinavey and dietitian Dana Sturtevant, invite readers to break free from the status quo and reject a culture that has taken advantage and profited from trauma, stigma, and disembodiment, and reclaim and embrace their bodies. Informed by the personal body stories of the hundreds of people they have worked with, Reclaiming Body Trust delineates an intersectional, social justice−orientated path to healing in three phases: The Rupture, The Reckoning, and The Reclamation. Throughout, readers will be anchored by the authors’ revolutionary Body Trust framework to discover a pathway out of a rigid, mechanistic way of thinking about the body and into a more authentic, sustainable way to occupy and nurture our bodies.
Untapped Magic: Manifestation Methods for Living a Limitless Life by Chloe Panta
In Untapped Magic, Chloe shares her inspiring personal journey from growing up in Detroit to creating the life of her dreams. Drawing deeply from ancient wisdom and foundational spiritual principles, she presents powerful exercises, affirmations, and mantras that will help you overcome limiting beliefs, demolish anxiety, and replace a scarcity mindset with an outlook of abundance. Untapped Magic is an empowering read for anyone who wants to create a more positive, fulfilling, and joyous life while contributing to the greater good.
Dream Incubation for Greater Self-Awareness: A Handbook by Kelly Lydick, M.A.
Dream Incubation for Greater Self-Awareness: A Handbook includes information on the history of dream practices, the biology of dreams, and activities and worksheets to help use dreams to raise personal consciousness and increase self-awareness.
“Many writers have described the process of dream incubation but nobody has done as thorough a job as Kelly Lydick in this remarkable book. She has provided a step-by-step procedure for programming dreams so that they respond to readers' hopes and goals, using intention as the key to obtaining answers to their questions, as well as remembering and implementing them. Lydick's reader-friendly instructions provide a road map for those readers who suspected that their dreams were of value but who never knew quite how to harvest their insights.” — Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., co-editor, Working with Dreams and PTSD Nightmares
Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self-Discovery by Meredith Heller
Meredith Heller invites you to write as a path toward self-understanding and as a lifelong refuge of friendship with yourself. She used the power of writing to heal and save her own life, and now she teaches others to do the same. In this book, Meredith shares the techniques she developed to help people explore their emotions, find their voice, and better navigate life’s challenges. Filled with potent exercises and inspiring poems from the author and her students, Writing by Heart is a must-read for anyone, from seasoned writer to novice, who wants to discover the transformative power of writing.
