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.
SHINE!: Stories to Inspire You to Dream Big, Fear Less & Blaze Your Own Trail by Twenty-Four Visionary Women
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Are you ready to step through your fears and SHINE?
Enjoy this powerful collection of illuminating, heart-opening stories to inspire you to shine your light in the world. In SHINE! a collective of twenty-four empowered women revisit the moment in which they decided to take off their masks, and stop playing small, and shine as brightly as they dared. These moments triggered a landslide of change that brought down the walls these women had built to hide their true selves, and empowered them to step onto life’s stage like the superstars they are. Each of us is a supernova in disguise, a brilliant light that can illuminate the world. Let these powerful stories show you how you, too, can let your light shine as a beacon in your own life, and the lives of others.
Life Is Long!: 50+ Ways to Help You Live a Little Bit Closer to Forever by Karen Salmansohn
Want to live forever? This handy little guide will get you close!
Best-selling author and wellness expert Karen Salmansohn presents a witty, inspiring collection of the top 50+ tips for a long and healthy life, backed by a wide range of longevity research. You'll discover insights from the world’s Blue Zones (where people live extra long) and takeaways from fascinating studies on everything from coffee to fasting to hidden toxins. Distilling the latest science into longevity practices that are quick to read and jam-packed with playful humor.
Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster by Linda Graham, MFT
Whether it’s a critical comment from the boss or a full-blown catastrophe, life continually dishes out challenges. Resilience is the learned capacity to cope with any level of adversity, from the small annoyances of daily life to the struggles and sorrows that break our hearts. Resilience is essential for surviving and thriving in a world full of troubles and tragedies, and it is completely trainable and recoverable — when we know how. Author Linda Graham offers clear guidance to help you develop somatic, emotional, relational, and reflective intelligence — the skills you need to effectively cope with life’s inevitable challenges and crises.
The Emotionally Healthy Child: Helping Children Calm, Center, and Make Smarter Choices by Maureen Healy
While growing up has never been easy, today's world undeniably presents kids and their parents with unprecedented challenges. The upside, cites Maureen Healy, is a widespread acknowledgment that emotional health, resilience, and equilibrium can be learned and strengthened. Healy, who was a "wild child," the kind, she writes who left babysitters "wondering if they wanted children" knows her subject. She has become an expert on teaching skills that address the high sensitivity, big emotions, and hyper energy she herself experienced. Three simple steps are key ― Stop, Calm, and Make a Smart Choice. While not always easy, these steps are powerful and Healy shows readers exactly how to implement them. Children move from acting out or shutting down, experiencing frequent physical symptoms such as head and stomach aches or hurting themselves or others, to recognizing they are being triggered, feeling their emotions, and using strategies to respond from a calmer place. As adults learn to model these skills, both adults and children become freer to do and be their best.
The Pain Companion: Everyday Wisdom for Living With and Moving Beyond Chronic Pain by Sarah Anne Shockley
Where do you turn when medication and medical treatments do not relieve persistent, debilitating pain? What can you do when pain interferes with work, family, and social life and you no longer feel like the person you used to be? Relying on firsthand experience with severe nerve pain, author Sarah Anne Shockley accompanies you on your journey through pain and offers compassionate, practical advice to ease difficult emotions and address lifestyle challenges. Her approach helps reduce the toll that living in pain takes on relationships, self-image, and well-being while cultivating greater ease and resilience on a daily basis. Dozens of accessible, uplifting practices guide you every step of the way from a life overcome by pain to a life of greater comfort and peace. The Pain Companion also offers profound insights for medical practitioners and invaluable guidance for anyone who loves or cares for others in pain.
Happy Again! The Art of Positive Separation by Eveline Jurry
People going through a divorce or separation have only one wish: to be happy again!
If you're going through a breakup or divorce, it's not enough to understand your emotions, reactions, and what caused your relationship to end. You need immediate, implementable action steps to move through the chaos and pain and connect to your happy future on the other side. Eveline Jurry’s Positive Separation Method ™ provides a blueprint for getting through each day with your energy intact and your new, joyful life in sight.
Happy Again! also includes motivational stories from well-known thought leaders including Marci Shimoff, Janet Bray Attwood, Chris Attwood, Lisa Nichols, and Debra Poneman, as well as Eveline’s clients who have created their own Positive Separations.
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness by Ingrid Fetell Lee
Designer and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee presents groundbreaking research to explain how making small changes to your surroundings can create extraordinary happiness in your life. In Joyful, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explores how the seemingly mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day have surprising and powerful effects on our mood. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and psychology, she explains why one setting makes us feel anxious or competitive, while another fosters acceptance and delight -- and, most importantly, she reveals how we can harness the power of our surroundings to live fuller, healthier, and truly joyful lives.
Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change by Beth Comstock
Imagine It Forward is an inspiring, fresh, candid, and deeply personal book about how to grapple with the challenges to change we face every day. It is a different kind of narrative, a big picture book that combines Comstock’s personal story in leading change with vital lessons on overcoming the inevitable roadblocks. One of the most successful women in business, Comstock shares her own transformation story from introverted publicist to GE’s first woman Vice Chair, and her hard-won lessons in shifting GE, a 125 year old American institution, toward a new digital future and a more innovative culture.
Organizing Your Home With Sort and Succeed: Five Simple Steps to Stop Clutter Before It Starts, Save Money, & Simplify Your Life by Darla DeMorrow
Organizing Your Home with SORT and SUCCEED - Five Simple Steps to Stop Clutter Before It Starts, Save Money and Simplify Your Life is the organizing book for people feeling overwhelmed by their stuff. In this book. Certified Professional Organizer® shares an efficient way of organizing that works for people who are mostly organized already, and is do-able even for people who are disorganized. Whether you are downsizing your home, looking for organizing solutions for people with ADHD or want to save money organizing, this home organizing book will take just about an hour to read so you can get started and stop clutter from stealing your life. Change your life with these simple steps to organize your space, learn neat ways to save money and simplify your life.
Empath: Understanding Your Gift, Protecting your Energy and Finding Peace in a Chaotic World by Jessica Greiner
Do you constantly feel the negative energy circulating a room? Do you empathize so intensely that you actually feel the emotions of others? Do you have a deep connection with nature that allows you to feel the distress of the world? If so, you are a part of a unique community of individuals called Empaths. Empath: Understanding Your Gift, Protecting your Energy and Finding Peace in a Chaotic World, will help you to develop applicable techniques to help guide your life.
