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.
Missing Element, Hidden Strength Apply the Natural Strength of All Five Elements to Unlock Your Full Creative Potential by Tisha Morris
Tap Into the Power Found in Balancing the Elements Within.
While all five Chinese elements are contained within our energy system, we each embody a primary element, which defines our natural strengths, and a weak or missing element, which reflects our untapped potential. When you embrace your missing element—water, wood, fire, earth, or metal—you can pull yourself out of a rut and bring more harmony and success into your life and work.
Tisha Morris teaches you how to apply the ancient wisdom of Taoist principles, so you can identify and improve your most challenging element. Moving your desk to the power position and expressing your energy with clothing are just a couple of the ways to awaken dormant aspects of yourself and integrate your creative right-brain with your business left-brain. It’s time to turn your missing element into your hidden strength.
The Healing Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Positive Vibes by Amy Leigh Mercree
A room-by-room approach to increasing the positive vibes in your home—creativity, energy, inspiration, clarity—with a toolkit of techniques that will give you plenty of ideas for improving your living and working spaces.
Everyone wants a home that fills them with an all-encompassing feeling of peace: a home that fills the soul with clarity, energy, love, and safety, and supports our perfect experience here on earth. The Healing Home is a guide to designing and living that isn’t just about choosing the right throw pillows or organizing your stuff. Its bounty of energetic techniques—including Feng Shui, space clearing, crystal healing, meditation, and mindfulness—emphasizes the connection between body, mind, and spirit in the bedroom, bathroom, living room, and more.
Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint: A Powerful Guide to Transformation Through Disentangling Multigenerational Patterns (Sounds True, June 2022) by Judy Wilkins Smith
Every human being is born to be remarkable. And yet every human being is shaped by patterns handed down by their ancestors—invisible multi-generational patterns of decisions, thoughts, feelings, actions, inactions, reactions, and choices that limit their responses to events and influence every decision of their lives, unconsciously running the show. In a series of easy-to-understand steps, Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint shows the reader how to uncover these Emotional DNA patterns, understand the limitations and the gifts they bring, embrace them, make new choices and rewire the brain, allowing the reader to transform and rise up, like the phoenix, into the best of who they really are.
Written for the beginner, as well as for those who want to take systemic work and constellations to the next level, the book reveals how every individual can change and heal their Emotional DNA and be transformed through this amazing approach forever.
Unlock the Power of Your Chakras An Immersive Experience through Exercises, Yoga Sets & Meditations by Masuda Mohamadi
Explore the rich country of your inner world with this full-color book’s detailed approach to understanding the chakras and using a variety of physical and mental exercises to bring balance to each of them. Esteemed yoga teacher Masuda Mohamadi combines the wisdom and philosophy of yoga with accessible practices, such as meditations and kriyas for better healing, prosperity, strength, balance, and energy. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific chakra and helps you have an immersive experience with it through exercises, affirmations, journal prompts, and more. Combining the tradition of yoga with current psychology studies and Mohamadi’s own experience, this book brings you closer to your true nature and opens you to deeper levels of love and compassion.
Awaken Your Inner Goddess: Practical Tools for Self-Care, Emotional Healing, and Self-Realization by Dr. Dara Goldberg
This spiritual guide will empower you to reach your full potential. With more than 10 years of practice in spiritual empowerment therapy, author and licensed psychologist, Dara Goldberg, PhD, will help you tap into your inner goddess with practical skills and insights. This guide helps you determine who you are, what you want, and how to get there with exercises and tools drawn from both spiritual wisdom and evidence-based psychology. Throughout each section, you’ll draw wisdom and strength from goddesses throughout history, from Greek mythology to the Chinese zodiac to Ancient Egyptian deities. Inside this empowering book, you’ll find: Spiritual reflection exercises; Practical tools, quizzes and thought experiments to help you identify potential barriers that may be holding you back and Thoughtful prompts. Awaken Your Inner Goddess with the tools you need for self-discovery.
Brave Boundaries: Strategies to Say No, Stand Strong, and Take Control of Your Time: The Key to Living Empowered by Sasha Shillcutt, MD
An essential guide for women on how to set strong, workable boundaries to safeguard their health, happiness, and wellbeing. No matter how educated they are or how far they have climbed up the ladder, women are taught one thing over and over at every stage of their lives: when someone asks you for help, you say yes. This leads to feelings of immense failure, inauthenticity, and burnout. Dr. Sasha Shillcutt has known this feeling, too, but now she understands and shows women there is another way. Having coached thousands of professional women and business leaders in her classes and conferences, she knows that setting boundaries is the essential lesson that they need to learn in order to avoid burnout and a loss of themselves in their incessant drive to please and say yes. In her special down-to-earth way, Sasha will show readers how to erect fences that protect their physical and mental health while providing opportunities for joy and growth. Readers will learn that boundaries are kind, not restrictive, and being a person with boundaries is the most empowering and peaceful way to live. They will learn to say no to others and say yes to themselves.
Sun Signs in Love Relationship Compatibility by the Stars by Desiree Roby Antila
Bring clarity and harmony to your romantic relationships with this book on the twelve sun signs and how each one approaches matters of the heart. More than a compatibility book, Sun Signs in Love proves that there are no bad matches—every sign can match with any other if you have the right knowledge. Join Desiree Roby Antila on a thorough exploration of all the signs, including their general characteristics, how they interact with other signs, how they are in bed, what actions can cause a breakup and more. This comprehensive book also provides various associations for every sign, including elements, planets, flowers, crystals, animals, and more. From each sign’s mythology to advice for resolving differences, Sun Signs in Love helps make your current and future relationships sail smoother and happier.
Dr. Nita's Crash Course for Women: Better Sex, Better Health, Better You by Nita Landry, MD, OB-GYN
Doctor visits for women are often brusque, unpleasant fifteen-minute affairs with feet in stirrups and curt questions about sexual behavior. Many women leave with unanswered questions and unmet needs. Dr. Nita’s Crash Course for Women offers an edgy and educational, inspirational, and even fun girlfriend’s guide to contemporary womanhood. This frank, health-forward “sexploration” and general wellness guide addresses: ditching fundamental misunderstandings about female anatomy and enjoying healthy, happy sex lives; clearing confusion about period problems, sexually transmitted infections, orgasms, and hush-hush female issues; finding the right doctor and asking the right questions; escaping emotionally and physically abusive relationships; and more.
Make Space for Happiness by Tracy McCubbin
It's time to make room in your life for happiness to blossom. Do you feel like you have too much stuff? A cluttered space isn't just inconvenient―the truth is it's hard to lead a joyful, purposeful life when the things around you detract from your relationships, habits, and goals. But decluttering is more than getting rid of the stuff you already have. To make real change in your home, you need to look at how these excess possessions got there in the first place. This book examines the acquisition cycles that keep our homes overcrowded and distract us from going after the meaningful things we really want in our lives. Make Space for Happiness gives you a seven-step roadmap to clearing your life and opening yourself up to all the good meant to come your way. Renowned decluttering expert Tracy McCubbin will help you revolutionize your living space and your mindset by focusing on clutter clearing as a path to positivity in every area of your life. Make Space for Happiness provides flexibility, support, and inspiration as you re-envision your home as the starting point of the joyful life that's waiting for you.
Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life
by Dr. Sharon Blackie
For any woman over fifty who has ever asked “What now? Who do I want to be?” comes a life-changing book showing how your next phase of life may be your most dynamic yet. As mythologist and psychologist Sharon Blackie describes it, midlife is the threshold to decades of opportunity and profound transformation.
Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our culture’s focus on youthfulness. Blackie explores these archetypes in Hagitude, presenting them in a way sure to appeal to contemporary women.
