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.
Free Your Joy: The 12 Keys to Sustainable Happiness by Lisa McCourt
Joy is nothing more than living in full accordance with your truest inner being! You are joy at your core; you came here as joy. The only reason you're not experiencing a deep sense of inner bliss and wellness in every moment is that you've accumulated some obstructions between your day-to-day self and your true inner self--your inner being that is joy. Claiming the joy that is your birthright is as simple as identifying and releasing these obstructions in order to change your vibrational address, and that’s what you’ll do with the 52 weekly tools in this book!
Empath Children: How to Help a Highly Sensitive Child Thrive and Stop Feeling Overwhelmed by Judy Dyer
Are you struggling to deal with an overwhelmed empath child? Do you want to learn the most powerful strategies to cultivate your child’s empathic gift?
As frustrated as you might feel right now, raising an empath child is one of the greatest blessings the universe could have given you. Empath children are wonderfully powerful creatures and they must be treated as such. As a parent of an empath child, it is essential that you are fully aware of the complexities of this miraculous gift, and how to effectively handle the overwhelm your child will experience as a highly sensitive person.
So how do you ensure that your empath child thrives, while simultaneously managing overwhelm? In Empath Children, Judy shares how to unlock the reservoir of potential deep within your empath child, despite the negative effects associated with overwhelm. She teaches you how to equip your child with the tools they need to navigate this world, not just so they can survive, but so they can thrive in a world that has a limited understanding of who they are.
A Space Between: Holistic Wellness for Menopause and Beyond by Marla Privitera
Have you suddenly put on weight and the things you typically do to take it off no longer work? Do you feel like you don’t know what to eat anymore and are becoming resentful of everyone on social media telling you to just eat like they do? Or maybe you're not really sure why you are reading this book description, but know deep down there is a better way to live? If you said “yes” to any one of those questions, A Space Between will be a light on your path.
A Space Between: Holistic Wellness for Menopause and Beyond is a reckoning. This captivating self-help debut, written in the tradition of storytelling, is both an inspiration and a guide through the transition of menopause. Whether you find yourself beginning to question your estrogen levels, waking up in the night soaked in sweat, noticing you’ve gained some unwanted belly fat, or perhaps have been postmenopausal for years, A Space Between has something for you. Through six reflective chapters, readers will learn to break up with their old ways, write a new story, and cultivate a life of health and purpose.
One Thought Away: You Are One Thought Away from Having Your Dream Life, or Not by Kerry Tepedino
You are one thought away from living your dream life ... or not. Mindset expert Kerry Tepedino introduces One Thought Away—a process that will transform your life and make your biggest, boldest dreams a reality. In her groundbreaking book, Kerry shares the challenges she faced and the pivotal moment that changed her life forever. Now you can learn the same process she has taught to thousands who have used it to transform their health, careers, relationships, and finances.
Read along as Kerry walks you through the steps that transformed her life, and shares how you can immediately begin to implement them in your life, too. In her fresh, engaging signature style, Kerry reveals the power of your thoughts and how you can use them to create a life you never imagined possible.
Detox Your Thoughts: Quit Negative Self-Talk for Good and Discover the Life You've Always Wanted by Andrea Bonior, PhD
Ditch the 10 mental traps that are making you feel anxious and insecure! Toxic thought patterns zap your energy, kill your motivation, and upset your calm. The good news is that you can change not just the way you think, but the way your brain is wired. In Detox Your Thoughts, clinical psychologist Andrea Bonior uses techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness to teach you to understand your thoughts--and your body--in a completely different way. For each of the 10 mental traps, Bonior uses the latest research in psychology and neuroscience to help you disempower and conquer self-sabotaging thoughts and offers a new habit to practice with specific and actionable steps. Negative thoughts will never go away completely, but with this book, you will learn how to eclipse them, improve your mental and emotional health, and change your life.
Self-Care Habits for Busy Women: A Guide to Choosing Yourself Every Day, Breaking Free From an Overwhelming Lifestyle, and 6 Steps to Getting Back on Track by Tula Rhodes
Reduce your anxiety and stress through self-care strategies you can easily incorporate into your day
Women take on many roles throughout the day. Long gone are the days when women were expected to be solely homemakers. Nowadays, in a 24-hour time span, you are expected to be a childcare provider, cook, maid, financial planner, chauffeur, teacher, lover…the list goes on and on.
It’s no wonder you are stressed!
Unfortunately, because of these busy, hectic schedules so many women are shouldering every day, self-care gets pushed to the back burner because there simply just isn’t enough time in the day to give adequate attention to all of your responsibilities and take care of yourself.
But the truth of the matter is that self-care is vital to maintaining your mental health, and there are ways to quickly incorporate it into your busy schedule.
The One-Way Ticket Plan: Find and Fund Your Purpose While Traveling the World by Alexa West
The One-Way Ticket Plan is the inspirational blueprint Alexa West wishes she’d had when she began her travels. The guide to traveling with less fear and more fun, it gives women both the courage and the instruction to turn their dream into a reality, covering: how travel can lower the cost of living; tips for using travel to escape a toxic relationship or job; guidance on traveling safely; and more. The One-Way Ticket Plan reveals a decade’s worth of growth, lessons, embarrassments, regrets, love stories, achievements, and problem-solving strategies packed into an actionable plan for a total life makeover.
Reclaiming Your Inner Sparkle: The Path to Releasing Mom Guilt & Finding Time for You by Catherine Wilde
Find time for yourself WITHOUT the guilt! Do you desperately need a break but struggle with guilt for taking time for yourself? As a mom, there's an endless list of things you need to do. Taking time for yourself may feel unimportant or even selfish. But you're tired of living in survival mode and desperately need a break.
Inside Reclaiming Your Inner Sparkle you'll find: simple ways to find time for yourself as a busy mom; indispensable techniques to help you get out of survival mode and be the calm mom you want to be. Reclaiming Your Inner Sparkle is a revolutionary book that will help you awaken spiritually and create space for yourself without the guilt!
The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic by S.C. Lourie
We are taught to hate mess, whether it's an untidy bedroom or a chaotic divorce. But mess is important, because, like it or not, it is a big part of our lives and who we are. Things go wrong all the time and life rarely goes to plan. How do we stop that from being a recurring negative point in our lives, though?
Life is messy, the process of cleansing and healing is hard, and the only way is through. But what if the process of 'sorting through' didn't have to feel as draining as it often does? What if there were a way of resolving life's mess that could set you upon a path of discovering deeper and truer versions of yourself? What if the mess that comes up along the way liberated you into living an integrated, wholesome, blossoming life?
In The Power of Mess Samantha Lourie offers a way of working through the messy aspects of life that develops a sense of resilience and a quiet assurance that we will be okay. She encourages us to own the mess and see our lives as an epic journey where we pick up the pieces along the way and make something authentic out of them. The loss, hurt and mess are still there, but our perception of their place in our lives has changed.
We've dropped the old maps and manuals behind and started paving our own path through the mess. We are empowered because of it.
Bravery Becomes You: On the Road to Fearless and Free by Sandra Travis Bildahl
What would you do if you were brave? Ready to embrace a new chapter of life and activate what you’ve been longing to do? Bravery Becomes You to the rescue! The new mindset that guides you to live fearless and free to become who you really want to be, doing what you really want to do. Finally, it’s time to Be YOU. And best of all, this book not only shows you how to be who you want to be and do what you want to do, but you’ll discover a compass for decision-making that will get you where you want to go! This is the book that reveals what’s holding you back and why you don’t do what you say you want to do. You'll see how to let go of that “what’s missing” anxiety. You’ll discover that the reason you’re procrastinating happiness.
