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.
Enchanted Worlds: The Visionary Collages and Art Couture of Amy Zerner by Amy Zerner and Monte Farber
Amy Zerner takes the world around her and transforms it magically to her own art forms. She combines fabrics, embroideries, and found objects into lushly imaginative collages intended as signposts to spiritual growth and healing. Guided by her husband, Monte Farber, you’ll experience how Amy synthesizes myths, archetypal symbols, fairy tales, and world cosmologies as she conjures sacred spaces; depicts goddesses, gods, and guardian angels; and creates surreal dreamscapes of primeval grottoes, sanctuaries, and utopias. This volume, with many color plates amplified by Monte’s commentary, is filled with amazing images that beckon readers to open their minds, hearts, and senses. Their goal: to remind everyone of their ability to tap into the energizing and rejuvenating energies of peace, love, and bliss that is the birthright of every being. Original and inspiring, this exploration of Amy’s Art and Fashion as languages of self-expression and style will inspire you to create and live in your own enchanted world.
Embrace Abundance: A Proven Path to Better Health, More Wealth, and Deeply Fulfilling Relationships by Danette May
Discover your soul's birthright to peace, purpose, and prosperity. Are you seeking to embrace more abundance and love into your being but finding it hard to do in the noise and muck of daily life? Through her inspiring collection of ancient wisdom, personal stories, and sage advice, entrepreneur, VIP coach, and motivational speaker Danette May offers guidance for finding your path through life's wilderness of self-doubt and hesitation. Her candid reflection delves into what it takes to have a truly fulfilling life. Danette's abundance actions need only small, manageable nuggets of time and attention in order for you to manifest more self-love, stronger spiritual connection, increased health, and better relationships. Open your mind, listen to your heart, and follow your soul's guideposts for reaching your dreams and desires.
Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life by Katherine Woodward Thomas
The classic guide to finding love and creating life-altering miracles of happiness and fulfillment, now revised and updated with new insights, stories, teaching points, and transformational exercises. Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? In this classic, updated guide to finding deep happiness in love, licensed marriage and family therapist Katherine Woodward Thomas bridges the gap between wanting to find true love and being truly available to create a fulfilling relationship. Based on the Law of Attraction, which is the concept that we attract what we’re ready to receive, the provocative yet simple forty-nine-day program includes a daily lesson, a corresponding practice, and instructions for putting that lession into action in your life. Manifesting meditations, powerful visualizations, and clarifying journal exercises will lead you to recognize and release your hidden inner obstacles to love and help you grow beyond them. At the end of the course, you will be in the ideal state of mind to go out into the world and find your "One." An inspirational approach that offers a life-affirming philosophy on relationships, Calling in “The One” is your guide to finding and keeping the love you seek.
Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World by Shelly Tygielski
Self-care is traditionally viewed as an inner journey - a way to achieve our own mind, body and emotional balance. Pandemic of Love founder, Shelly Tygielski, flips this script in Sit Down to Rise Up by making the case that self-care is a transformative action that not only can change your life - it can change the world.
Shelly’s journey is one that begins with “me” and boldly evolves to “we” - and eventually “us” - as she realizes that balance, inner peace and genuine happiness cannot be achieved solely by looking inward. Rather, they are rooted in the deep connections we forge with others. Shelly shows us how caring for ourselves is a springboard to reaching outward, making change, fighting for justice, and helping others.
Awaken To Tarot, Be Your Own Inner Guide with Astrology, Numbers and the Tree of Life by Karen LaPuma
Awaken To Tarot and its new, original, digitally created collage, companion deck, Awaken Tarot Cards, give a complete system to tap into one's own inner guidance. Tarot is an ancient visual system of divination and is a magical supernatural aid that can reflects what is going on inside and outside. It works through synchronicity and much like our dreams and meditations. Along with Karen La Puma's forty years experience, she blends multiple systems like astrology, numbers, the Tree of Life, I Ching, Hebrew Letters, the Hero's Journey, and the general path of evolution to create a comprehensive, yet easy guide book. Although encyclopedic in scope, it is clear, accessible and applicable. This book and cards are a part of a series called, A Toolkit for Awakening.
Comparisonitis: How to Stop Comparing Yourself To Others and Be Genuinely Happy by Melissa Ambrosini
Multiple bestselling author Melissa Ambrosini (Mastering Your Mean Girl, Open Wide, PurposeFULL) and host of the #1 podcast The Melissa Ambrosini Show puts the condition of Comparisonitis under the microscope, unpacking the symptoms, and offering practical tips you can start using immediately to break the cycle of comparison, free up mental bandwidth, and live life on your own terms. It creeps up on you without warning—perhaps while chatting with a friend, scrolling through social media, or even just while walking down the street. All it takes is the hint of someone doing or having something you perceive as "better" than you, and it hits. A feeling takes over—intense, blinding, gutting. Your brain starts spinning with toxic thoughts about yourself (or others), and you're left feeling ashamed, guilty, and even worthless. It's called comparisonitis. And if you've suffered from it, you're NOT alone. Melissa knows all too well how comparisonitis is infecting our minds and hurting our hearts, and in this book, she'll help you heal from this disease, liberate your headspace, and raise your self-worth so radically that you'll never let comparison rob you of your joy and happiness again.
Take Back Your Time: The Guilt-Free Guide to Life Balance by Christy Wright
It's not about doing more. It's about doing what matters. As a busy mom with three young kids and a career, number one national best-selling author Christy Wright knows what it’s like to try to do it all and be stretched too thin. After years of running on empty, she realized she had to do something different. It wasn’t just a matter of saying no to a few things. She had to figure out why she felt overwhelmed, overcommitted, and out of balance. Here’s what she discovered: Life balance isn't something you do. It's something you feel. The great news is you can feel balanced - even in your busy life. In Take Back Your Time, Christy redefines what balance is and reveals the clear path to actually achieve it.
You weren’t created to live busy and burnt out, unhappy and unfulfilled. You shouldn’t be haunted by some elusive idea of balancing it all. There’s more for you right now. Today. And it starts with taking back your time the guilt-free way.
Declutter Like a Mother: A Guilt-Free, No-Stress Way to Transform Your Home and Your Life by Allie Cassaza
Live lighter. Live freer. Live a bigger life with less. In Declutter Like a Mother, Allie Casazza comes alongside you to explore: *Why decluttering calms anxiety in your heart and lessens tension in your relationships. *How to ensure your house is working for you, not against you. *Why kids thrive when they’re not overwhelmed with options. *How to make time, when you feel you don’t have time, to declutter. Allie Casazza was tired of feeling it was her against the laundry in her home. She wondered if somewhere beneath her frantic days and the mountains of toys in the playroom she would ever find joy and peace in motherhood. Then she discovered the abundance . . . of less. As she purged her home of excess stuff, Allie discovered a lifestyle that strengthened her marriage, saved her motherhood, and helped her develop her gifts in a way that no amount of new kitchen appliances or new organizing system ever could.
You don’t need a home that’s perfect. You need a home that’s lighter. Discover less stress, more space. Less chaos, more peace. Less of what doesn’t matter, so you have room for what matters most of all.
Rituals of the Soul: Using the 8 Ancient Principles of Yoga to Create a Modern & Meaningful Life by Kori Hahn
Kori Hahn has always done life her way — living off the grid as a young woman in Alaska; studying with spiritual teachers and soul guides in Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Morocco; surfing around the world. Yet her primary, perennial quest has been an inner one. To that end, she evolved the practices she shares in this book, simple daily steps grounded in sacred yogic texts that will help you live your life your way, with maximum meaning and joy.
Timeless principles of awareness, intuition, self-knowledge, and manifestation become contemporary practices incorporating visualization, breath work, journaling affirmations, and meditation. These habits of being grow the soul, enable our bravest and best selves, and, as Hahn shows, can take you wherever you most want to be.
Let It Be Easy: Simple Ways to Stop Stressing & Start Living by Susie Moore
Let it Be Easy revolutionizes the concept of stress by empowering readers to recognize and eliminate self-generated pressure and worry from their daily lives. It's packed with practical advice for dissolving perfectionism and self-criticism, as it equips readers with the tools they need to allow more ease into even the challenging situations — from relationships to finances to grief and loss. Each brief chapter of the book delivers a poignant message encouraging readers to become more free and powerful by allowing more ease into all their activities. Susie’s stories about everyday interactions, such as troubles at work, failing at a task, or lunch with a friend, contain life lessons that don’t deny the reality of suffering but pivot toward alife-changing way of processing pain, grief, loss, and anxiety.
