Top 10 Inspirational Books – October 2018

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.

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown

In her #1 New York Times bestsellers, Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

The Art of Psychi Reiki by Lisa Campion

Learning Reiki opens you to the world of energy healing and is a powerful way to express your gifts as a healer. It will also increase your sensitivity and open your psychic and intuitive gifts to the fullest!

 

 

Quantum Success: 7 Essential Laws for a Thriving, Joyful, and Prosperous Relationship with Work and Money by Christy Whitman

In the bestselling tradition of The Secret, learn how to use the law of attraction for your career to access greater financial success and fulfillment in this positive, detailed guide from celebrated life coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Having It All, Christy Whitman.

Whether your vision of an ideal career is starting your own business, rising to a different position within your current company, or landing your very first job, Quantum Success will help you make the prosperity and fulfillment of your dreams a reality.

Through her accessible, empowering writing, Christy Whitman shares the fundamental principles that she’s discovered after more than twenty years of studying universal forces—such as polarity, alignment, resonance, momentum, and magnetism—and explains how to harness these forces to optimize your wealth and career. 

Step into Your Moxie: Amplify Your Voice, Visibility, and Influence in the World by Alexia Vernon

Step into Your Moxie is a soul-stirring call to action for women to speak up for themselves and the ideas and issues that matter most to them. Alexia Vernon fuses hilarious stories and actionable advice to slay diminishing self-talk and cultivate the mind-set and behaviors to walk into any room (or onto any stage) and move people to action. She has created a timely, refreshingly playful guide for women to communicate with candor, clarity, compassion, and ease every time they open their mouths to speak ― in their careers, businesses, communities, and homes. 

Recover, Rebuild, Thrive. A practical guide to moving on from difficult life changes by Christiana Star

Recover, Rebuild, Thrive is a practical and powerful ‘how-to’ book for personal transformation, empowerment and success in the aftermath of trauma, pain and change.

While adversity is often seen as leading to psychological scarring for life, it can also be a catalyst for inner growth, reassessment of priorities, increased emotional maturity and thriving in life.

Using real life stories, the book provides inspiration, hope and clarity, insights and information with many easy-to-use practical strategies. It offers clear direction and reassurance that instead of suffering and helplessness you can make the changes you desire.

Getting to Know YOU, Embrace Your Unique Blueprint to Make Decisions You Love and Trust by Karen Flaherty

Do you have trouble making choices sometimes? Have you heard of Human Design? It’s a new personality assessment tool for helping you find easier ways to make decisions each and every day! And it’s unique to you! 

Or are you looking for a new way to understand your energy and how you’re wired? To understand yourself? And your family, friends and co-workers, too?

Or perhaps you’re looking for a way to be more authentic and find your passion? 

“Getting to Know YOU: Embrace your Unique Blueprint and make Decisions you Love and Trust” (including a free audio book)  is a Human Design Guidebook for you, if you’re wanting to get from Point A to Point B without fear. It’s a primer on Human Design – no jargon, no woo-woo, no fairy dust!

 

Imperfect Courage by Jessica Honegger

With Imperfect Courage, Noonday Collection Founder and co-CEO Jessica Honegger shares real-life inspiration for readers to recognize their own worth, embrace vulnerability, connect with community, and find the courage to achieve their full potential. Jessica shares stories from her own global entrepreneurial journey to bring home these lessons—from taking a leap of faith by hosting her first Artisan-made jewelry Trunk Show to bring her adopted son home, to confidently running one of the fastest-growing and most successful fair-trade companies in America today, Jessica shares wit and wisdom from someone who has pushed past her comfort zone, lived to tell the tale, and now encourages others to experience the same exhilaration.

 

Unlocking Secrets: My Journey to an Open Heart by Kathe Crawford

Kathe Crawford was barely 31-years-old and the mother of two young children when she and her husband received devastating news—information that they agreed to keep secret from everyone in their lives, including their families. As the years passed, this secret weighed heavily on Crawford, even more so as she continued to respect her husband’s wishes for more than 20 years after his death.Raising two sons as a single parent, Crawford was determined to build a successful career and a stable home. But this proved increasingly difficult as her secret became an exhausting facade. For so many years, survival had meant hiding the one thing that she thought would harm herself and her family the most. But when she could no longer maintain the protective wall around her heart, she discovered a deeper legacy of keeping secrets that she had inherited from her parents. The only way to heal would be to open herself to her heart and then to allow others to see her as she was, without secrets and without pretense. In her debut memoir, Crawford shares her spiritual journey from hiding in the shadows of her secrets to embracing the light of absolute authenticity, learning that self-love is perhaps the most important love story of all.

The Ultimate Guide to Chakras: The Beginner’s Guide to Balancing, Healing, and Unblocking Your Chakras for Health and Positive Energy by Athena Perrakis, Ph.D 

Athena Perrakis, leading metaphysical teacher and creator of the world’s largest online metaphysical resource website, SageGoddess.com, addresses the nine major chakras we can tap into to balance, heal, and manifest. This guide explains how and why different crystals, essential oils, and sacred plants help to support each chakra.

Each chapter of The Ultimate Guide to Chakras includes magical exercises for accessing the energy of each chakra, including meditations, journal exercises, and working with goddesses and spirit guides. Readers will even learn how to create a dedicated chakra altar. Lavishly photographed and illustrated, this guide promises to be an essential volume for beginners and experienced energy workers alike.

 

The Self Esteem Workbook for Women by Megan MacCutcheon, LPC

Build confidence and maintain self esteem in 5-steps with actionable exercises from The Self Esteem Workbook for Women. No one is born with self esteem―we have to build it. The Self Esteem Workbook for Women provides an actionable plan to build self esteem and live everyday with confidence.This 5-step program is specifically designed to help women overcome the unique challenges they face―from body image to childrearing― on the path to building self esteem. Through a series of interactive questions, prompts, exercises, and real-life stories from women, you’ll gain the tools you need to conquer criticism and boost your self esteem.Be your most confident self at work, home, and wherever else life takes you.