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.
A Return to Radiance: The POWER Method to Ignite Your Soul and Unleash Your Potential by Becca Powers
Designed to help readers unlock the power within them and unleash their fullest potential, Becca Powers’s groundbreaking book gives readers the tools to reclaim brilliance, overcome obstacles, grow resilience, banish impostor syndrome, and craft a life that leaves a legacy of empowerment, impact, and fulfillment. Even those who love their jobs, enjoy parenting, and have good relationships also feel overwhelmed, burned-out, and pulled in many directions, as though the light of their dreams has dimmed. Powers knows this acutely — she was in the same boat just a few years ago. Like Powers, readers can discover how to live a more satisfying, fulfilling life by using her five-step POWER Method.
The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts: Empower Your Thoughts, Balance Your Emotions, and Unlock Vibrant Health and Abundance by Kimberly Snyder
Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and stuck in a cycle of low energy, anxiety, and fear? There is a powerful, often overlooked solution to these challenges: the hidden power within your heart. New York Times bestselling author Kimberly Snyder unveils the secret to harnessing your heart’s intelligence. Combining ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science on heart-brain communication, Kimberly offers transformative insights to help you deeply connect to your heart’s power. This essential guide will lead you through five stages to awaken the vast intelligence and power of your heart. Unlocking this power can lead to extraordinary improvements in your health, relationships, confidence, and overall peace. You’ll also learn the 8-minute HeartAlign Meditation, proven to boost physical, emotional, and psychological balance by 29 percent in just four weeks.
How to Heal After Narcissistic Abuse: A Practical Guide to Dismantling Shame, Healing Trauma, and Thriving After Toxic Relationships by Carolyn Strawson
Reclaim ownership of your life, heal your inner child, and learn to thrive beyond narcissistic abuse with the guidance of trauma-informed coach and somatic therapist Caroline Strawson. How to Heal After Narcissistic Abuse will support you to release inner shame, heal at a deep nervous system level, and reconnect with your true self. This book integrates trauma-informed practices with positive psychology to educate and inspire you to heal from trauma, turn pain into purpose, and step into your strength. How to Heal After Narcissistic Abuse is a practical toolkit full of education, inspiration, and hope. It will remind you that you have the power to successfully process and integrate your experience into your own powerful story of personal growth and resiliency.
Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground by Mirabal Starr
Welcome to the temple of your regular life.
So begins beloved spiritual guide Mirabai Starr’s stunning exploration of finding the extraordinary in the everyday. In Ordinary Mysticism, she helps readers discover their own inner mystic and let go of the limiting belief that spiritual life exists only in traditional places of worship. Mysticism, she explains, is a direct experience of the sacred—no church or clergy required. Our everyday life can be an encounter with the sacred if we pay attention. Starr explores the magic of mundane life, from weeding in our humble gardens to a slow evening walk with a friend to a full kitchen table surrounded by family. Embracing mysticism in our everyday is a way of being more alive in the world, an awakening to the interconnectedness between all things.
Wise Women: Myths and Stories for Midlife and Beyond by Sharon Blackie and Angharad Wynne
A beautifully written collection of stories from European myth and folklore that celebrate women in the second half of life, retold by the award-winning author of Hagitude
Heal Your Past to Manifest Your Future: Trauma-Informed Practices to Release Emotional Blocks and Open to Life's Possibilities by Anna Kress, PsyD
An empowering guide to help you heal the pain of the past, find emotional balance, and achieve the abundance, success, and happiness you deserve. Has anyone ever told you that you can make good things happen if you just think positively? The law of attraction, which is largely based on the idea that positive thoughts and emotions attract positive outcomes—is one of the most popular self-help movements of the last few decades. But if you’ve experienced trauma, you may struggle to think positively, or feel too anxious to believe in an abundant and joyful future. This is especially true if you have unhealed childhood trauma. Written by a psychologist and trauma expert, Heal Your Past to Manifest Your Future acknowledges the profound impact of past trauma on your ability to imagine, move toward, and create a life you truly love; and offers a three-step process to regulate your nervous system, “reparent” your inner child, and rewire your brain to open to new possibilities.
Re-Regulated: Set Your Life Free from Childhood PTSD and the Trauma-Driven Behaviors That Keep You Stuck by Anna Runkle
Introducing a radical healing approach for the adult symptoms of Childhood PTSD. Conventional trauma treatments (talk therapy and medication) simply don't work for many trauma survivors, and now we know why. Researchers have identified the core symptom that drives most other symptoms—neurological dysregulation. The good news is that healing is possible, and in Re-Regulated, author Anna Runkle (aka the Crappy Childhood Fairy) shows you how. Chapter by chapter, she teaches you practical steps to identify signs of dysregulation, quickly re-regulate, and then stay regulated more of the time. From a regulated state, things can move forward rapidly in every area of your life so you can become your full and real self at last. Anna's tools can be used on your own or as a complement to professional therapy. With her help, you can achieve calmness and clarity you never imagined possible.
UPLIFTING: Inspiring Stories of Loss, Change, and Growth Inspirited by the work of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross by Dr. Katie Eastman
In the vast expanse of human experience, there is one constant that binds us all: change. Change and loss are intrinsic parts of our lives, weaving through the very fabric of our existence, both personal and professional. It shapes our destiny, molds our character, and determines the course of our journey. Yet, despite its inevitability, embracing change remains one of the most daunting challenges we face. Uplifting gives readers tools and offers examples of how to rise above loss of all kinds validating the impact of losses both big and small. Author Dr. Katie Eastman doesn’t simply focus on the psychological aspects of change but also takes a comprehensive view, addressing the physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions. Her compassionate perspective provides invaluable guidance for individuals no matter where they find themselves on the ever-evolving path of life.
Living Your Best 5D Life: Timeless Tools to Achieve and Maintain Your New Reality by Maureen St. Germain
A guide to embracing your ascension into 5D consciousness. The new era of Fifth Dimensional consciousness has arrived! Yet many people are stuck in 3D, grasping at old paradigms, while others are unable to stay fully anchored in 5D. As renowned Ascension teacher Maureen St. Germain reveals, it is possible to make spiritual “upgrades” that allow you to shift into 5D and stay there. In this enlightening guide, Maureen shares amazing events she has witnessed, both her own personal 5D experiences as well as those from her students. She details how to navigate your new 5D reality and resolve dynamic challenges that arise in daily life. She also explores how to recognize when you are actively in 5D—when all feels blissful and happy—and explains how to stay in that dimension.
The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius by Kendra J. Adachi
The New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way brings her signature Kind Big Sister Energy to a practical time management book for people weary of productivity but eager to live a good life. If productivity systems tend to let you down, reading The PLAN will be such a relief. In her signature “Kind Big Sister” style, Kendra Adachi offers a fresh take on managing your time. Using the memorable acronym PLAN, you will learn to prepare, live, adjust, and notice like a Lazy Genius, all through the lens of what matters to you in your current season. Refreshingly compassionate and immediately practical, The PLAN is what you’ve been waiting for.
