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.
Affirmations for Empaths: A Year of Guided Journaling by Judith Orloff, MD
Make the most of your gifts as a sensitive, caring person with this weekly affirmation journal from the foremost expert on empaths. An affirmation can be your most potent ally for immediate self-care when you’re feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or stuck in negative thinking. “Affirmations are like friends you can call on when you need protection, grounding, a loving attitude adjustment, or a reminder of your strengths,” says Dr. Judith Orloff.
Affirmations are powerful tools that can radically enhance the quality of your life―especially when used daily. Dr. Orloff offers key strategies for getting the most out of affirmations, with guidance for strengthening your intentions, reinforcing the energy of affirmations, and creatively personalizing your practice. You’ll have 52 affirmations to explore, with space for weekly journaling, organized into eight topics.
The Resilient Life: Manage Stress, Prevent Burnout, & Strengthen Your Mental and Physical Health by Susan Biali Haas, M.D.
The world is experiencing unprecedented levels of burnout, stress, and mental health challenges. This comes with the inevitable fallout: poorer health, chronic exhaustion, strained relationships, and decreased satisfaction and performance at work. You’re so tired of being stressed and tired, but how can you tell the difference between run-of-the-mill stress, burnout, and serious mental health issues like depression or anxiety? And what can you do about it?
Throughout the pages of The Resilient Life, you’ll learn how to identify, address, and protect yourself from burnout; easy neuroscience-based techniques that can “rewire” your brain, reduce stress hormones, decrease anxiety, and help restore your sense of calm and control; and how to reconnect with and make time for what matters most, allowing you to reclaim meaning, purpose, and passion in your life. The Resilient Life can truly help you to finally break free from overwhelm, get unstuck, and move forward with renewed clarity, energy, well-being, and purpose.
An Overachiever's Guide to Breaking the Rules: How to Let Go of Perfect and Live Your Truth by Heather Whelpley
You've been surrounded by messages your entire life telling you to work harder, produce more, and ALWAYS do your best. Over time, those messages become rules you follow, often without knowing it. They make you believe everything will fall apart if you slow down. They tell you it's your job to be responsible for everything and take care of everyone. They make you feel guilty for saying no. They tell you to DO more, WORK more, and BE more. It's time to stop. It's time to break the rules.
An Overachievers Guide To Breaking The Rules invites you to get off the hamster wheel of constant performing, take a breath, and rediscover your truth. Join speaker and women's leadership development consultant Heather Whelpley as she shares her life-changing journey to let go of proving, pleasing, and perfecting—and guides you to do the same.
Become the Fire: Transform Life's Chaos into Business and Personal Success by Elisa Schmitz
What does it mean to become the fire? It means not allowing yourself to be in the fire, getting burned, but instead using the fire to ignite your motivation and drive, passion, and grit. Elisa Schmitz is no stranger to life’s fire. As a child, she lived in Puerto Rico; war-torn Beirut, Lebanon; and finally Chicago. All along, she looked for and found what she needed to survive and thrive. Here, she teaches ten lessons, including: becoming visionary and owning your authentic self; getting comfortable with being uncomfortable; being gritty and courageous; making friends with failure; and being your best, despite your circumstances. These practical, actionable lessons will propel anyone who wants to start something, grow something, or become something new and better.
A Map to Your Soul: Using the Astrology of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water to Live Deeply and Fully by Jennifer Freed, PhD
A Map to Your Soul offers practical exercises for topics ranging from communication styles to creativity, home styles to psychic development, health habits to belief systems. Some of the advice is as simple as the color scheme that will make you feel most at peace in your bedroom. Other advice is as nuanced as how to better listen to your loved ones and how to fulfill your soul’s purpose. With a PhD in psychology in addition to her expertise as an astrologer, Dr. Jennifer Freed is here to show you to how to decode and tap into your gifts in this practical guide to life. She explains how your astrological birth chart can point you to the life you want and offers self-assessments to pinpoint your most effective strategies.
What’s Your Big Three? How Sun, Moon & Rising Signs Reveal Who You Really Are by Andrea Taylor
Discover How Your Big Three Affect Motivation, Fears, and Challenges
Your sun sign represents your will, your moon sign shows how you feel, and your rising sign—AKA your ascendent— indicates what people first notice when meeting you. This beginner-friendly book explores the meaning of each zodiac sign and how your big three work together. Learn what energies you inherited and uncover deep truths about the way you think, love, and act. Discover how these signs affect the motivations, fears, and challenges of both yourself and others. Andrea Taylor shares the tools you need to understand who someone is and how they behave in most situations. With her guidance, you’ll enhance self-awareness and promote happier, more accepting relationships with friends and family.
The Tarot Apothecary Shifting Personal Energies Using Tarot, Aromatherapy, and Simple Everyday Rituals by Ailynn E. Halvorson
Create meaningful change and live the life you’ve always wanted with Ailynn Halvorson’s unique tarot apothecary approach. By combining the wisdom of tarot, aromatherapy, meditation, and everyday ritual, you can build a magical practice in alignment with your soul. Ailynn shows you how to use numerology to discover which cards reflect your true identity and what challenges to expect in the coming year. She also helps you embrace powerful tarot archetypes with plant allies, crystals, and altar decorations that support your goals and allow you to grow. With Ailynn’s guidance, you can make customized mantras, essential oil blends, and teas to nurture a desired shift in your personal energy. This book teaches you how to honor your own magic, take control of your life, and achieve the transformation you’ve been seeking.
Connection to the Cosmos: Remembering Your Galactic Heritage and Embracing Your Oneness by Lisa Thompson
Dr. Lisa Thompson always had an innate knowing we were not alone in the Universe. She felt like she was from beyond this Earth, but she didn’t know why. After years on her spiritual path, she now remembers and embraces that she is here on Earth as an Arcturian Starseed, with many parallel lives in other non-Earth realms. She is honored to be able to share her knowledge and experiences with you. The truth is out there, and even more importantly, the truth is inside of us. It’s time to remember your galactic heritage and embrace your oneness.
Past Lives in Ancient Lands & Other Worlds Understand Your Soul’s Journey Through Time by Shelley A. Kaehr
Explore case studies of past lives from ancient lands and other worlds, including experiences in ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, Lemuria, Atlantis, planets beyond Earth, and more. In addition to sharing some of her most exciting client regression sessions, Shelley A. Kaehr guides you through uncovering your soul’s earliest experiences and clearing out unwanted influences from these times.
Past Lives in Ancient Lands & Other Worlds includes more than fifty engaging activities to help you discover and make sense of your soul history. You can create a journal, complete a past life regression, and conduct healing exercises. This book will help you pinpoint where your soul existed in the past so you can find meaningful answers to questions about your current life, while getting to know your true self better than ever before.
Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates by Tina Welling
A decade ago, Tina Welling began teaching journaling workshops for the mostly male inmates at the Teton County jail in Jackson, Wyoming, where she lives. What began as a little-understood impulse on her part became a meaning-filled enterprise with surprising results. They talked and wrote about self-esteem, anger, forgiveness, compassion, personal power, codependency. She gave the men one hour a week to explore their inner lives; they gave her an unprecedented experience of intimacy and vulnerability.
Replete with the kind of gorgeous writing for which Welling is acclaimed — Tuesdays in Jail is part memoir, part riveting exploration of a world most of us will never experience, and wholly an enlightening and compelling read.
