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.
You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth by Jen Sincero
You Are a Badass at Making Money will launch you past the fears and stumbling blocks that have kept financial success beyond your reach. Drawing on her own transformation—over just a few years—from a woman living in a converted garage with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account to a woman who travels the world in style, Jen Sincero channels the inimitable sass and practicality that made You Are a Badass an indomitable bestseller. She combines hilarious personal essays with bite-size, aha concepts that unlock earning potential and get real results.
Stop Saying You’re Fine: The No-BS Guide to Getting What You Want by Mel Robbins
Right now, over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives.
Mel Robbins has spent her career teaching people how to push past their self-imposed limits to get what they truly desire. She has an in-depth understanding of the psychological and social factors that repeatedly hold you back, and more important, a unique set of tools for getting you where you want to be. In Stop Saying You’re Fine, she draws on the latest neuroscientific research, interviews with countless everyday people, and ideas she’s tested in her own life to show what works and what doesn’t. The key, she explains, is understanding how your own brain works against you. Because evolution has biased your mental gears against taking action, what you need are techniques to outsmart yourself.
Seize Your Life: How to Carpe Diem Every Day by Jasmine Brett Stringer
When people hear the words ”seize your life” or ”seize the day,” they often think they have to do something grand, adventurous, or exotic or something that has a monetary cost associated with it. We all have the ability to Carpe Diem every day through awareness, action, and appreciation. Seize Your Life is a collection of practical and actionable guidance intended to inspire and empower you to Carpe Diem Every Day.
You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds by Jenny Lawson
When Jenny Lawson is anxious, one of the things she does is to draw. Elaborate doodles, beautiful illustrations, often with captions that she posts online. At her signings, fans show up with printouts of these drawings for Jenny to autograph. And inevitably they ask her when will she publish a whole book of them. That moment has arrived.
You Are Here is something only Jenny could create. A combination of inspiration, therapy, coloring, humor, and advice, this book is filled with Jenny’s amazingly intricate illustrations, all on perforated pages that can be easily torn out, hung up, and shared. Drawing on the tenets of art therapy―which you can do while hiding in the pillow fort under your bed―You Are Here is ready to be made entirely your own.
Crystals for Energy Healing: A Practical Sourcebook of 100 Crystals by Ashley Leavy
This comprehensive sourcebook of 100 essential crystals for spiritual healing and all-round protection is packed with practical advice and fascinating information. Not only will you find out about the crystal’s attributes, legendary power, and holistic benefits, but also about each crystal’s specific energy to enhance, heal, or protect you. Crystals are the most natural, empowering force we can work with to promote spiritual balance and protect us from exposure to physical or psychic negativity. For thousands of years, crystals have been used for their powerful healing energy and to protect the wearer from negative forces.
Love-Based Money & Mindset: Make the Money You Desire Without Selling Your Soul by Michele PW (Pariza Wacek)
Are you ready to step into a life of peaceful prosperity? For many of us, money is a source of angst. Maybe there’s never enough and it’s a constant source of stress. Maybe no matter how hard you work, you’re never able to get ahead. Or maybe you’re in so much debt, all you feel is shame and despair. If any of this sounds familiar, then you’re in for a treat. “Love-Based Money and Mindset” is designed to help you heal your relationship with money so you not only feel peaceful about it, but you’re also able to attract all the abundance you want. While this book is designed to help everyone who struggles with money issues, it’s particularly helpful for those who have (or want to have) a business. The bottom line: The more you can cultivate a love-based mindset, the more easily and effortlessly you’ll attract money into your life.
You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life: Simple 4-Minute Meditations for Inspiration, Transformation, and True Bliss by Rebekah Borucki
“I don’t have time to meditate!” Rebekah “Bex” Borucki has heard this a lot. A certified yoga and meditation teacher, she’s taught hundreds of thousands of people how to create simple yet powerful meditation practices. In fact, as she’ll show you in this book, in as little as 4 minutes, you can change your life.
After years of suffering from anxiety and depression, both as a child and as an adult, Bex took control of her mental and physical health by establishing a rigorous fitness and yoga routine that quickly evolved into her own regular, homegrown 4-minute daily meditation practice. Bex’s 4-minute meditations combine mantras, affirmations, breathing and bodywork techniques, and they’re designed so that even the busiest people can fit them into their lives.
52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS-Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve by Andrea Owen
How would it feel to have a manual for a kick-ass life? To have a helpful book that’s less “self-helpy” and more like your new BFF that tells you the truth about what’s probably going on in your life right now?
In 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life I take you through step-by-step how to stop relying on behaviors that aren’t serving you anymore as well as how to adopt new behaviors that will help you create the life you deserve.
The Creative Sandbox Way: Your Path to a Full-Color Life by Melissa Dinwiddie
Want to live a full-color life? Need a boost in your momentum and confidence? Life is too short to not express the innate creativity inside of you and The Creative Sandbox Way is your path to living a more creative life than you ever thought possible.
Filled with paradigm-shifting lessons and stories, journal questions, thought-provoking creative prompts and coloring pages, The Creative Sandbox Way will help you take the fear out of creating and bring back the joy.
Grace Trail: Find Your Footing and Move Toward The Life You Were Meant To Live by Anne Barry Jolles
You can walk the trail anywhere, anytime, with anyone by just showing up and asking the questions shared in this book. Created by acclaimed life coach Anne Barry Jolles in 2012 to help her cope with the worry of having a son in combat in Afghanistan, Grace Trail has guided thousands of people to begin a simple conversation around joy, hope and resiliency.
Plymouth, MA is the site of the original, beloved path, but it is not the only one. Grace Trail can be walked anywhere, from the comfort of the reader’s kitchen to the office or any outdoor spot. Filled with easy to implement ideas, inspirational anecdotes, humor, compassion and realistic optimism, this book offers readers practical, immediate tools to take “5 Steps Toward Your Best Life.®”
