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.
The Art of Self-Nurturing: A Field Guide to Living with More Peace, Joy & Meaning by Kelley Grimes, MSW
Begin the adventure of a lifetime by nurturing the most important relationship you will ever have—the relationship with yourself!
The Art of Self-Nurturing was written to empower you to become the artist of your own life and see self-nurturing as an art form. Rather than living from obligation and overwhelm, you will learn to cultivate a life filled with self-compassion and self-love. The practice of self-nurturing is not about being perfect or completing another thing on your “to-do” list, but rather nurturing a relationship with yourself. It is about recognizing what is nurturing in any given moment and allowing your practice to evolve accordingly. The more we nurture ourselves, the more we know ourselves allowing us to reveal more of who we are in the world. This field guide is designed to make your journey easier and to support you by breaking down the process into three parts: The Foundation of Self-Nurturing, Cultivating a Self-Nurturing Practice, and Integrating Self-Nurturing Practices into Your Life.
Each section is broken into chapters and provides inspiration, best practices, examples, reflective questions, and self-nurturing practices to support you on your journey.
Overwhelmed and Over It: Embrace Your Power to Stay Centered and Sustained in a Chaotic World by Christine Arylo
Overwhelmed and Over It is a call and an invitation to women around the world to free themselves from the self-sacrifice and burnout that far too often runs their lives.
Author Christine Arylo empowers women to wake their fierce feminine heart so they can make profound shifts in the systems in which they work, lead, and live. She identifies twelve specific imprints that are the root causes of burnout, self-sacrifice and overwhelm in five different areas — success, life force, heart, time, and power — in order to illuminate the ways of working that are no longer working. Then she offers women the practical wisdom they need to update those imprints that allows them to embrace a more supported way of working, relating, and creating.
The Essential Guide to Everyday Angels by Margaret Ann Lembo
The angels are waiting to help you―all you need to do is ask! The Essential Guide to Everyday Angels shows you how you can connect with the angels and receive their help for more than fifty specific needs.
Explore the everyday angels and how to experience their presence and assistance. For each angel, discover the associated gemstones, essential oils, colors, and chakras and affirmations. It includes suggestions for aromatherapy, amplifying your prayers, and keeping the doorway to higher consciousness open. You will find everything you need to work and play with the angels while creating a happy, spiritually connected life.
Let Go of the Guilt: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Take Back Your Joy by Valorie Burton
Break Your Guilt Habit! In Let Go of the Guilt, life coach and bestselling author Valorie Burton teaches you a simple, but profound method that will free you from what she calls the “false guilt” that is so common today.
As you peel back the layers, you’ll feel the burden lift. And that’s when you make room for your authentic self and the joyful life that is possible for you. Through her signature self-coaching process, powerful questions, and practical research, she shows you how to:
recognize and overcome the five thought patterns of guilt,
break the surprising habit that tempts you to subconsciously choose guilt over joy,
stop guilt from sneaking its way into your everyday decisions and interactions,
flip those guilt trips so you can keep others from manipulating you, and
stop setting yourself up for stress, anxiety and obligation, and instead set yourself for a life of joy and freedom
Valorie’s journaling questions and research-based process will shift your perspective, give you clarity and courage, and equip you with a plan of action to let go of the guilt for good.
Mindfulness for Children: Simple Activities for Parents and Children to Create Greater Focus, Resilience, and Joy by Sarah Rudell Beach
Simple and fun mindfulness activities to do with children up to age 11 to build beneficial life-long skills that promote resilience, joy, focus, and calm, and improve overall wellbeing. Helping children to be more mindful is a powerful gift. By being mindful they will learn to recognize and manage their emotions, be more able to calm down when they are upset, become better at focusing on important tasks, and more able to interact with others with empathy and generosity. These are fundamental skills that children will need throughout their life, but that they often aren't taught explicitly. Think of how often we demand that children “pay attention” or “calm down”, without ever having shown them how to do so. Now parents can with mindfulness expert Sarah Rudell Beach. Parents first learn how to be more mindful themselves before teaching their children basic mindfulness skills. With easy-to-follow activities, chapter by chapter children learn to Soothe, Focus, Feel, Pause, Appreciate, and Connect. Each activity includes variations for different age groups, along with "emergency" how-tos for particularly stressful moment
The Menopause Switch: Disrupt Aging & Live Your Best Life Past Midlife by Dr. Carissa Alinat
The Menopause Switch was inspired by the successful protocol developed by the author in her private practice to help menopausal women manage their symptoms naturally. If your body has stopped responding to diets and exercise during midlife and everybody is telling you that “it’s normal,” this easy-to-read book will show you how you can simply flip the switch to finally live a normal life again, reducing hot flashes, weight gain, insomnia, and the end of intimacy. Menopause is an unavoidable, natural phase of life which comes with its share of confusion. However, menopausal changes don't have to be dreaded. In The Menopause Switch, Dr. Carissa Alinat offers science-based facts that she translates into easy-to-follow, natural and actionable tips so that any woman suffering from menopause can easily regain the vitality and body of her youth.
From Mom to Me Again: How I Survived My First Empty-Nest Year and Reinvented the Rest of My Life by Melissa Schultz
When her children left for college, Melissa Shultz was certain that she had prepared them for their new lives?but her own life was a different matter entirely. Her house was empty, her purpose unclear. If her life was no longer dominated by the day-to-day demands of mom life, then who exactly was she? And how would she ever move forward?
From Mom to Me Again is the story of one woman's reinvention. Shultz's struggle with the empty nest and the transformation of her marriage, friendships, career, and ultimately herself, is part memoir and part self-help guide. Funny, comforting, and practical, this book tells Shultz's personal story and provides valuable advice for readers preparing to send their children off into the world. She shows women that while they'll always be mothers, it's time for them to take center stage in their own lives once again and embrace this new stage, in both their personal lives and in their professional careers.
Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution by Jennie Lee
It's been said that finding the right question is as important as finding its answer. As author Jennie Lee writes, "Quality questions lead to quality answers. Questions promote deeper thought, connection, and authenticity." In Spark Change, Lee shows you how to identify your most important personal questions and explore how they might redefine the trajectory of your life.
Here, Lee guides you through 108 inspiring prompts designed to deepen your awareness of your innermost needs and initiate powerful shifts throughout your life.
Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving by Angela Santomero
Angela C. Santomero, the creator, executive producer, and head writer of many of today’s most popular educational children’s shows believes in the radical power of kindness, on her shows, and in her life. Inspired by her mentor Fred Rogers, beloved host of the classic, award-winning PBS show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Angela has dedicated her life to teaching others that when you treat yourself and others with warmth, empathy, and respect, life changing benefits follows.
From the true meaning of self-care and the gift of vulnerability, to the importance of active listening or the magic of asking for help, Radical Kindness goes beyond The Golden Rule and entreaties to “be nice,” contending that kindness is the key to recognizing others, and ourselves, as worthy of love and understanding.
You Can Do Hard Things: How to Ditch the Excuses & Achieve Your Dreams by SheriLynn Acala
In You Can Do Hard Things, boss babe and working mom SheriLynn Alcala exposes the common excuses that hold women back from going after their dreams. With honesty, humor, and wisdom, SheriLynn unpacks identity-shaping and life-changing truths that dismantle those lies. You Can Do Hard Things reveals the specific practical strategies that helped SheriLynn overcome the excuses that held her back from starting her business, releasing her past, and dreaming big.
SheriLynn doesn’t shy away from the honest truth that achieving your dreams will be hard work, it will require hustle and passion, and it will necessitate sacrifice. But after all, you can do hard things.
