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.
Life Shifts: Women's Stories of Surrendering To and Rising Above Life's Challenges by Linda Joy and 23 transformational authors
We all receive, at one time or another, a curveball—a diagnosis, a loss, a shift in consciousness—that causes us to feel an internal earthquake. These pivotal moments may appear as a sudden internal awareness that leads to a deeper understanding of ourselves and nudges us to make new choices from our inner wisdom. They may arrive as whispers or shouts—calling on us to face a new chapter in our lives. Life Shifts features stories from empowered women who courageously and vulnerably share their stories of navigating life’s curveballs and subsequent journeys of transformation, resilience, and courage. The collective wisdom in Life Shifts is intended to inspire you to believe in possibility—despite your current circumstances—and encourage you to find the nuggets of wisdom and gifts on your journey.
The Emotional Edge: Discover Your Inner Age, Ignite Your Hidden Strengths, and Reroute Misdirected Fear to Live Your Fullest by Crystal Andrus Morissette
Ever Feel Like Your Inner Age Doesn’t Match Your Outer One? The Emotional Edge empowers you to stop reacting in knee-jerk ways that hurt and instead start expanding your life to become the greatest expression of you possible. Once you know your Emotional Age, you can take any needed steps to become an authentic adult so you stop giving your power away. You’ll learn:
You’ll learn: Whether you’re a Parent, Child, or Adult ‘archetype’—take the Emotional Age Quiz and find out; When you’re inadvertently sabotaging yourself and why; How to channel fear and anger into courage and willingness; How to change your communication scale and style from passive or aggressive to assertive, accepting, and ultimately peaceful.; Methods for fine-tuning into your unique needs mentally, emotionally, and physically; Ways to live your best life without guilt, shame, or blame; And lastly, how to rewrite and re-route your relationship, work, and bliss paths. Never feel like a victim of circumstance, genetics, or your past again. Instead of letting your emotions get the best of you, now it’s time to get the best of them!
Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life by Radha Agrawal
How is it that the internet connects us to a world of people, yet so many of us feel more isolated than ever? That we have hundreds, even thousands of friends on social media, but not a single person to truly confide in? Radha Agrawal calls this “community confusion,” and in Belong she offers every reader a blueprint to find their people and build and nurture community, because connectedness—as more and more studies show—is our key to happiness, fulfillment, and success. A book that’s equal parts inspiring and interactive, and packed with prompts, charts, quizzes, and full-color illustrations, Belong takes readers on a two-part journey. Part one is Going IN—a gentle but intentional process of self-discovery and finding out your true energy levels and VIA (values, interests, and abilities). Part two is Going OUT—building on all that you’ve learned about yourself to find those few special people who feed your soul, and discovering, or creating, the ever-widening groups that align with your aims and desires.
Self-Healing Anxiety: A Practical Guide For Women. A Heart-Centered Guide To Stop Overthinking The Past And Worrying About The Future by Dr. Samantha Wellappili
Discover how you can create a stress-free environment to help combat your anxiety so you can embrace holistic wellness, improve your mental health, and bring more joy into your life. Are you looking for a way out from the stress and anxiety you experience on a daily basis so you can finally get that sense of relief you’re looking for? Do you want to know the secrets of holistic wellness that can transform every aspect of your life so you can be more organized, less nervous, and more confident? If so, this book is the one for you! Anxiety is a by-product of living in a hectic modern society and constantly trying to keep up with a high-paced, stressful life. To truly overcome your anxiety and stop your life from feeling like it is spiraling out of control, you need to address the root cause.By changing simple habits and creating uplifting new routines, you can start to feel more in control. What’s more, undergoing this transformative journey will open you up to a new way of living that will not just reduce your anxiety symptoms but also improve your physical health and improve the quality of your professional and personal relationships too. Learn how you can utilize holistic wellness techniques and introduce more joy into your daily life – by breaking down each problem to find a solution; it will give you the long-term relief you need.
Life Reboot: An Inner Wisdom Guide to Finding Your Passion and Purpose by Sarah Wall
Life Reboot: An Inner Wisdom Guide to Finding Your Passion and Purpose will inspire and encourage you to look within to find answers to life's questions. You will be given tools and strategies, based in yoga and meditation, to understand the inner workings of your mind. You will also learn how to listen to the wisdom of your body, empowering you to create a life you love.
Embodying Grace: Trusting Yourself, Your Life, and Your Divinity by Lori Leyden, PhD, MBA
This book offers you the wisdom that Dr Lori Leyden has discovered and field-tested over the past two decades, and the tools she developed to achieve embodied grace on a day-to-day basis. You’ll discover the five stages of embodied grace and The Grace Process®, learn what they do and how they work, explore the power of your heart-brain-body connection and learn a straightforward formula to accelerate your spiritual journey. With practice you will be able to navigate life’s challenges with a deeper love for yourself, compassion for the circumstances you find yourself in and a stronger sense of connection with the Divine. The result is that you will feel safe enough to be fully present in your heart, with access to all you need for peace, healing and transformation. As Dr. Leyden fervently claims, The time for spiritual ‘practice’ is over because until and unless we consistently embody and live from our spiritual values, rather than just thinking about them, we won’t achieve the healing we are seeking.With the purchase of this book, you’ll find instructions to access a special embodying grace meditation transmission that Lori recorded to connect you with the transformative resonance field of grace. In addition, Dr. Leyden’s Embodying Grace Companion Journal is an excellent resource for documenting your progress and recording your insights.
Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening by Connie Zweig
Within each of us is a spiritual longing that prompts us to unite with something greater than ourselves, to awaken to our unity with all of life. Yet, no matter the spiritual path we choose, we inevitably encounter our own shadow, those unconscious aspects of ourselves that we suppress or deny, or the shadows of our teachers. Meeting the shadow can derail the journey, but, according to Connie Zweig, Ph.D., we can learn to recover from loss of faith and move from spiritual naivete to spiritual maturity.
Use Your Planets Wisely: Master Your Ultimate Cosmic Potential with Psychological Astrology by Jennifer Freed, PhD
Embark on a journey of self-discovery and archetypal transformation with psychological astrology. Your cosmic DNA is written in the skies―and when you explore the celestial threads that weave together your unique tapestry, you discover a map to your greatest potential in this lifetime. Written by popular astrologer and depth psychologist Jennifer Freed, PhD, Use Your Planets Wisely is an innovative and transformative guide to personal evolution through astrology. Bridging the archetypal nature of the birth chart with an understanding of psychological growth, Freed helps us see the many parts of ourselves with new clarity―both the parts we love and the parts we try to hide―and then work with each part as we come into greater alignment with our most joyful and impactful lives.
Use Your Planets Wisely is written with the complete beginner in mind, though even experienced readers will find value as Freed expertly demystifies elements of astrology that are often either overlooked or overly complicated. This book is your invitation to embark on a journey to greater connection, joy, and purpose with the archetypal guidance of the stars.
The Emotionally Exhausted Woman: Why You’re Feeling Depleted and How to Get What You Need by Nancy Colier
Are you feeling emotionally exhausted? Do you worry about being likable (at all cost)? Are you trying to do it all and be it all—all the time? This radically different self-care guide will help you find the courage needed to express your deepest needs, nurture self-awareness, and be yourself in a world that expects you to be everything to everyone. Written by therapist and spiritual teacher Nancy Colier, The Emotionally Exhausted Woman offers the validation, emotional support, and empowering skills you’ve been craving. You’ll discover insights grounded in self-respect and awareness, to help you be on your own side and uncover your deepest psychological, spiritual, and emotional needs without feeling guilt, shame, or judgment. You’ll learn why you are feeling depleted, why you take care of others at the expense of taking care of yourself, and how to develop a deeper form of self-care beyond the temporary respite of a spa retreat, bubble bath, or manicure. Finally, you’ll nurture greater awareness of what you truly need to achieve lasting vitality and fulfillment. This empowering guide will help you gain a newfound awareness of your own needs, and find the courage to live a life that both nourishes and inspires you.
You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas
From beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas comes an essential guide for radical self-acceptance. Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology’s cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani shows how your birth chart—a snapshot of the sky at the moment you took your first breath—reveals your unique talents, challenges, and opportunities. Fortified with this knowledge, you can live out the life you were born to. Marrying the historic traditions of astrology with a modern approach, You Were Born for This explains the key components of your birth chart in an easy to use, choose your own adventure style. With journal prompts, reflection questions, and affirmations personal to your astrological makeup, this book guides you along the path your chart has laid out for you.
Chani makes the wisdom of your birth chart accessible with three foundational keys: The First Key: Your Sun (Your Life’s Purpose); The Second Key: Your Moon (Your Physical and Emotional Needs); The Third Key: Your Ascendant and Its Ruler (Your Motivation for Life and the Steersperson of Your Ship)
Astrology is not therapy, but it is therapeutic. In a world in which we are taught to look outside of ourselves for validation, You Were Born for This brings us inward to commit to ourselves and our life’s purpose.
