Top 10 Inspirational Books – October 2015

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.

Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Cultivating Joy
by Inspired Living Publishing and 38 visionary women

From the publisher behind the international best-selling phenomenon, Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness, comes a brand new collection of thirty-eight original stories to make your heart smile and your soul soar!
In this powerful volume, publisher Linda Joy has gathered intimate stories from women who know what it means to live in joy, every day. These moving, heartfelt tales illustrate how authenticity, inner courage, and a deep belief in the power of choice guided each of these amazing women to create lives of peace, beauty, and abundant joy.
Like a beautiful, blooming rose, joy can be cultivated—day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. These raw, honest stories from real women will prove to you that, no matter your past experience or current circumstances, joy is there in your life, too, just waiting for you to help it blossom.

 

Tiny Buddha’s 365 Days of Tiny Love Challenges
by Lori Deschene

From the founder of the popular online community Tiny Buddha.com comes a daily inspirational guide of simple and creative challenges to help you actively spread love to those around you.
Tiny Buddha’s 365 Days of Tiny Love Challenges is a simple guide to help readers pursue happy, connected lives and bring greater love into the world.
Each week begins with an inspirational message written by members of the TinyBuddha.com online community, followed by seven days of short challenges that focus on self-love, giving and receiving love in relationships and friendships, and spreading love in the world.

The Power of Surrender: Let Go and Energize Your Relationships, Success, and Well-Being
by Judith Orloff, MD

Are you longing for your life to be easier and more fun? Would you like to stop pushing, micromanaging, and forcing things so you can relax? What if you could enjoy what you have instead of always lusting for “more”? What if you could live in “the zone,” propelled by powerful currents toward the right people and opportunities? What if you could stop worrying about money and live with more emotional ease in the moment? If you answer “yes” to all these questions and desire lasting positive change, then prepare to experience the ecstasy of surrender.
The art of letting go, Dr. Judith Orloff explains, is the secret key to manifesting power and success in all areas of  life, including work, relationships, sexuality, radiant aging, and health and healing. Once embraced, surrendering removes roadblocks and the exhaustion that comes from “trying too hard”—and it helps you achieve goals more effortlessly and brings ongoing happiness.

 

The Positive Focus Journal: Daily Prompts for Creating Your Best Life Every Day
by Stacey Curnow

Combining proven elements of positive psychology with simple daily practices, The Positive Focus Journal is designed to help you optimize your mood and create your best life. With a structure to help you focus on what’s good, you’ll discover how to change your thoughts and change your life for the better. With three months of daily prompts, this book is for you if you’ve always wanted to keep a journal, but found the blank page daunting. “The Positive Focus Journal is a gift to women who want to take their happiness into their own hands. It offers the tools to transform your life with ease and joy.” ~ Linda Joy, Publisher of Aspire Magazine and Inspired Living Publishing
 

Persephone Rising: Awakening the Heroine Within
by Carol S. Pearson

In this empowering work, the bestselling author of The Hero Within and Awakening the Heroes Within speaks to the heroine in every woman, offering potent strategies to forge lives of greater happiness and fulfillment—through activating the archetypes inherent in the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone.
Illuminating ancient wisdom for a modern audience, Persephone Rising offers meaningful and effective strategies to answer the call to heroism in our own lives: to locate and harness the unique potential within each of ourselves, and ultimately to develop our own innate heroic gifts. Just as Demeter and Persephone discovered, in the midst of great difficulty, their own powers, gifts, and abilities for creating a better path not only for themselves, but the world, Persephone Rising teaches that each one of us has more options than choosing whether to lean in or out—we have the power to change ourselves, and thus our world.

 

Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps To Living Happily Even After
by Katherine Woodward Thomas

We enter our romantic relationships with great love, hope, and excitement–we’ve found the ‘one’, so we plan and forge our futures together.  But sometimes, for many different reasons, relationships come undone; they don’t work out. Commonly, we view this as a personal failure, rather than an opportunity. And instead of honoring what we once meant to each other, we hoard bitterness and anger, stewing in shame and resentment.
Yet there is another path to the end of a relationship–one filled with mutual respect, kindness, and deep caring.  Katherine Woodward Thomas’s groundbreaking method, Conscious Uncoupling, provides the valuable skills and tools for you to travel this challenging terrain with five thoughtful and thought-provoking steps.

Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic Paperback
by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Do you ever wonder why your child acts the way he or she does? Are you at a loss regarding your child’s emotional intelligence and how to prevent meltdowns? Do you find yourself getting frustrated and feeling like you’re at the end of your rope? You are not alone! Many parents are dealing with the same challenges.
Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller—voted one of the top twenty parenting books—provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.

 

Eat Like A Goddess, The Secret Recipe to End Your Obsession with Food and Lose Weight Without Trying
by Sandy Zeldes

As a savvy health conscious woman you probably already are well aware of the benefi ts of a healthy diet, emotional well-being, and having balance in your life. Physical and mental health are signifi cant contributions to living a full and meaningful life, right? The problem becomes doing the things we know we have to to stay healthy and balanced. There is an information overload out there and a plethora of new, hip diets. I like to joke sometimes that my clients know more about diet trends than I do as a chef and nutritionist! In fact, many would definitely call it an obsession of theirs. Unfortunately, this doesn’t get them the results they seek, or it would be great to have all of this knowledge. So what’s really going on? That is the subject of this book.

Embrace Your Inner Self
by Sangita Patel

When we embrace our inner child,we awaken our natural ability to heal physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Many people do not realize their own power. I did not believe it for most of my lifetime either but once I had experienced it, I felt like I was reborn again. In my first 40 years of this circle of life, I was often a victim. I suffered pain and struggle to over come obstacles. I had so much anger, frustrations and sadness inside of me and toward the world. But now my life has changed. In Embrace Your Inner Self I share with you my life journey and how my life was completely transformed in an instant using holistic tools with the haling power of love, forgiveness and kindness.

 

Sacred Symbols: Coloring Experiences for the Mystical and Magical
by Lydia Hess

A dazzlingly beautiful adult coloring book of mystical, magical symbols, packed with original art and evocative wisdom words—a creative and inspiring invitation to nourish our souls and reconnect with our spirit—part of the “Coloring Books for the Soul” series.
Illustrated by renowned designer Lydia Hess, Sacred Symbols is designed to engage the senses, reduce stress, encourage relaxation, and deepen mindfulness. Color away daily anxiety and nourish the soul as you lose yourself in her captivating images. The illustrations are enhanced with beautifully lettered wisdom words that can also be colored and embellished, deepening your engagement and adding allure to the experience.