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.
Sacred Success®: A Course in Financial Miracles
by Barbara Stanny
Sacred Success®: A Course in Financial Miracles shows women there is a better way to achieve wealth and power: on your own terms—as a woman. Best described as “A Course in Miracles meets the Wall Street Journal,” Sacred Success gives you a proven process that uniquely blends the practical, psychological, and spiritual work of wealth.
Barbara Stanny, the leading expert on women and money, has helped women take control of their finances for two decades—and she knows there is much more to success than how much you earn. In her work with powerful, successful women over the last 20 years, bestselling author and financial educator Stanny has found that most women’s problems with money have little to do with money itself, but rather with their fear of, or ambivalence toward, power. Instead of pushing women to pursue financial success in the traditional fashion, Sacred Success seeks to redefine power from a feminine perspective.
You can be financially successful without sacrificing your soul or compromising your values. You can create wealth and exercise power by staying true to your authentic self and personal mission. Start now.
Cosmic Messengers: The Universal Secrets to Unlocking Your Purpose and Becoming Your Own Life Guide by Elizabeth Peru
Cosmic Messengers is a roadmap home to understanding soul, your place in the universe and the role of cosmic energy in accelerating your life purpose. There are thirteen ‘universal secrets’ which, when applied, will accelerate your life purpose. You’ll learn about energy, dimensions, planetary bodies, the human soul and personality, our spiritual reality, cosmic awareness, our spirit and angelic guides, momentum, resistance, the power of secrecy and using our imagination and intuition to walk our unique path. You’ll be actively engaged throughout Cosmic Messengers via self-enquiry practices and guided meditations, which reinforce your understanding of who you are and your role in the cosmos.
You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get Your Sh*t Together comes more straight talk about how to stand up for who you are and what you really want, need, and deserve–showing when it’s okay to be selfish, why it’s pointless to be perfect, and how to be “difficult.”
Being yourself should be easy, yet too many of us struggle to live on other people’s terms instead of our own. Rather than feeling large and in charge, we feel little and belittled.
How to Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything by Erin Falconer
Erin Falconer shows overscheduled, overwhelmed women how to do less so that they can achieve more. Women live in a state of constant guilt: that we’re not doing enough, that we’re not good enough, that we can’t keep up. .Finally, in the first productivity book by a woman in a decade, Erin Falconer will show you how to do less—a lot less. In fact, How to Get Sh*t Done will teach you how to zero in on the three areas of your life where you want to excel, and then it will show you how to off-load, outsource, or just stop giving a damn about the rest. As the founder of two technology start-ups and one of Refinery29’s Top 10 Women Changing the Digital Landscape for Good, Erin has seen what happens when women chase an outdated, patriarchal model of productivity, and in How to Get Sh*t Done she shows how even the most perfectionistic among us can tap into our inner free spirit and learn to feel like badasses, rather than drudges.
The Marriage Junkie: Kicking Your Obsession by Sherry Gaba
After Rihanna and Alanis Morissette and Amber Smith and Rachel Uchitel, we’ve all heard about love addiction―people who feel they can only be happy when they are deep in an all-consuming love. There are a handful of books about it (including Facing Love Addiction by Pia Melody, Women Who Love too Much by Robin Norwood, Love Addict by Ethlie Ann Vare, and others), and many rehab and recovery centers are now advertising that they help clients with love addictions. But no one has approached the subject of its equally damaging cousin―marriage and relationship addiction. Marriage addicts are so in love with love that they continually move from one relationship to another, always on the rebound, never giving themselves time to heal and learn how to be independent. They marry again and again, just to avoid feeling lonely―or worse, to avoid feeling “abnormal.” The Marriage Junkie will address all of these issues, looking at early childhood trauma and how that affects our subsequent choices in partners, and how we approach love and marriage. It will discuss the lessons we learn from our upbringing and social and cultural background―lessons that sometimes teach us what healthy relationships look like, but sometimes teach us something else: that we don’t deserve any better; that a typical relationship looks turbulent and difficult; that if we ask for better for ourselves, people won’t like us or want to be with us.
Modern Guide to Energy Clearing by Barbara Moore
This book is a complete guide to transforming your life by working with energy. Discover
how to clear inappropriate energy and how to maintain healthy energy in yourself, your home, your workplace, and other shared or public spaces. Explore techniques for personal clearing, chording, shielding, supporting the spirit of a place, clearing clutter, setting intentions, and addressing the elements.
Like any kind of hygiene, spiritual wellbeing depends on consistent attention and good habits. Modern Guide to Energy Clearing provides the basic techniques you need to create a life of peace and abundance.
Money, Manifestation & Miracles: A Guide to Transforming Women’s Relationships with Money by Meriflor Toneatto
When women are empowered with money, they become “difference makers.” They transform not only their own lives but also those of their children, their families, and their communities at large. Author Meriflor Toneatto, an award-winning leadership and coaching executive, shows you how to extend your limits and create the life of your dreams, one that is rich and fulfilling in every way — financially, spiritually, and emotionally. This powerful book explains how money is “emotional currency” and prescribes eight Holistic Principles that help you overcome deep-seated blocks, “pay forward” your own successes, and live the life of your dreams.
Being Boss: Take Control of Your Work and Live Life on Your Own Terms by Emily Thompson and Kathleen Shannon
From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on “being boss” in both business and life.Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed “business besties” and hosts of the top-ranked podcast Being Boss, where they talk shop and share their combined expertise with other creative entrepreneurs. Now they take the best of their from-the- trenches advice, giving you targeted guidance.
Getting Married at Last: My Journey from Hopelessness to Happiness by Lori Peters
An inspirational story for women who are struggling to find their ultimate love partnership. Also for those who need a little more hope and light in their lives and want to feel their best. I struggled with love for most of my life, and had no idea what my problem was until many years later. Then one day, I had the epiphany of my life! From that day forward, I never looked back. I felt compelled to not only share my challenging love journey with you, but provide deeper opportunities for you to explore yourself. Although it took decades for me to become my true self, I explain how I got through it and came out on the other side. I hope my transformation encourages you towards a beautiful relationship with yourself and others, no matter where you are on your journey.
Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts by Marilyn McEntyre
Lists serve a variety of purposes. Not just reminders of things to do or buy, they can also become short exercises in reflection on what more there may be to see about our desires, fears, hopes, uncertainties, or unexplored possibilities. This book offers a variety of reflections on the uses of lists, prompts and exercises in list-making, and sample lists from the author’s own long list of lists.
