20 Self-Help Books For 2023
We have books from business aspirations, spiritual / mind and body betterment, self-empowerment, and more.
Have you met all your 2023 goals and resolutions yet? With fall approaching, that means the year is over half way done. There's no reason to hold yourself back any longer. Let's knock out those goals whether you made them at the beginning of the year or realized right now you could use some extra help and motivation.
Enjoy This Best Self-Help Booklist that everyone could benefit from!
I Quit Everything: How One Woman's Addiction to Quitting Helped Her Confront Bad Habits and Embrace Midlife
by Freda Love Smith
An experimental account of one woman's quest to shed addictive substances and behaviors from her life--which dares to ask if we're really better off without them. More than a simple sobriety story, Smith's book is an exploration of passion, legacy, and what becomes of our identities once we've quit everything.
There Is No Right Way to Meditate: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Yumi Sakugawa
Take a moment and breathe. With Yumi's uplifting guidance, you will dig deeper into your soul to discover the tranquility already surrounding you. With new and revised content, each page offers a unique perspective on how to lead a more mindful life.
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
by Amy C Edmondson
A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.
We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we're often torn between two "failure cultures" one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. The trouble is that both approaches lack the crucial distinctions to help us separate good failure from bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well.
Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
by Rachel E Cargle
From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful testament to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building new ones that do.
There are breaking points in all our lives when we realize that the way things have been done before just don't work for us anymore, be it the way we approach our relationships, our belief systems, our work, our education, even our rest. A Renaissance of Our Own gives us the courage to look at the world and say "I want something different." It serves as a reminder of the power and possibility of reimagining a life that feels right, all the way down to the marrow of your bones.
Emotional Intelligence Game Changers: 101 Simple Ways to Win at Work and Life
by Harvey Deutschendorf
In Emotional Intelligence Game Changers, leading EI expert, TEDx speaker, and frequent Fast Company contributor Harvey Deutschendorf teaches readers how to leverage this skill to achieve success in every part of life.
I Cry in Corners: Embracing Your Feelings, Throat-Punching Anxiety, and Managing Your Emotions Well
by Chari Orozco
In this inspiring book, Pastor Chari Orozco explores how Jesus handled emotions during his time on earth and encourages readers to treat their feelings as a gift--an invitation from God to grow in spiritual maturity.
Our emotions drive so much of what we do, say, and think, even if we don't realize it. Our response to our feelings--denying they exist, letting them lead our actions unchecked, distracting ourselves to avoid feeling them--can greatly impact our lives and those around us.
Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever
by Eddie Ndopu
Apple's Best Books of August 2023 : A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful
Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn't live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. In Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw, we follow Ndopu, sporting his oversized, bejewelled sunglasses, as he scales the mountain of success, only to find exclusion, discrimination, and neglect waiting for him on the other side.
Spiritual Sugar: The Divine Ingredients to Heal Yourself With Love
by Lisa Manyon
This book is for YOU, the seeker, ready to tap into the inner sweetness of your soul and divine guidance to enhance all areas of your life. Lisa shares her personal awakening, spiritual tools, and the seven Spiritual Sugar principles to help you develop your own practice.
Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness Guide to Racial Healing
by Zee Clarke
A thoughtful, inclusive, and vividly illustrated guide to help Black people--and all people of color--heal from racial trauma using vital tools from an expert in mindfulness, meditation, and breathwork. It is your right to survive. It is your right to thrive. Mindfulness and breathwork will help you do just that.
In this powerful book, Clarke draws on her professional expertise and her lived experience as a Black woman to share mindfulness exercises, breathwork practices, and meditative tools centered on healing from and surviving racial trauma.
Everybody's Favorite: Tales from the World's Worst Perfectionist
by Lillian Stone
From one of the Internet's favorite self-deprecating commentators comes Everybody's Favorite, a laugh-out-loud essay collection that tackles the relentless pursuit of perfection while navigating growing up in the early 2000s.
Lillian Stone--childhood evangelical, AOL girlfriend, and professional nail biter is always living on the edge of anxiety. From the pitfalls of a girl plagued by religious trauma, the incomprehensible yet unforgiving need for perfection, and a poorly-behaved twenty-pound beagle, Everybody's Favorite is a refreshing story of what it means to pick yourself when the world is telling you otherwise.
Please, Sorry, Thanks: The Three Words That Change Everything
by Mark Batterson
ECPA BESTSELLER - Strengthen your spiritual, mental, and emotional health and reach your most audacious goals with three simple but power-packed words--from the New York Times bestselling author of Win the Day.
The best predictor of success in life, in love, and in leadership is your proficiency at please, sorry, and thanks. Those three words are the foundation of all healthy relationships and successful careers. Those three words are the only ceiling on achieving your dreams. Those three words will determine how happy you are.
Burnout Challenge: Managing People's Relationships with Their Jobs
by Christina Maslach - Michael P Leiter
Two pioneering researchers identify key causes of workplace burnout and reveal what managers can do to promote increased productivity and health.
Burnout is among the most significant on-the-job hazards facing workers today. It is also among the most misunderstood. In particular, we tend to characterize burnout as a personal issue--a problem employees should fix themselves by getting therapy, practicing relaxation techniques, or changing jobs. Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter show why this is not the case. Burnout also needs to be managed by the workplace.
Superaging: Getting Older Without Getting Old
by David Cravit
Get older without getting old!
Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything you've been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age sixty-five can be one of the most productive and fulfilling times of life.
Stfu: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
by Dan Lyons
New York Times bestselling author Dan Lyons is here to tell you - and don't take this the wrong way - that you really need to shut the f*ck up!
Our noisy world has trained us to think that those who get in the last word win, when in fact it's those who know how to stay silent who really hold the power. STFU is a book that unlocks this power and will change your life, freeing you to focus on what matters.
Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
by Bo Seo
Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion
Drawing insights from its strategies, structure, and history, Seo teaches readers the skills of competitive debate, and in doing so shows how they can improve their communication with friends, family, and colleagues alike. He takes readers on a thrilling intellectual adventure into the eccentric and brilliant subculture of competitive debate, touching on everything from the radical politics of Malcom X to Artificial Intelligence.
Am I Lying to Myself?: How to Overcome Denial and See the Truth
by Jane Greer Phd
Learn to talk back to denial and start telling yourself the truth - about yourself, others, and the world around you. Denial is everywhere, keeping us from seeing reality and causing unhappiness and frustration. It can make things disappear in the blink of an eye. It can also convince you that you are seeing what you want to see even when it isn't there, leading you to believe in nonsense along the way. People employ Denial because it makes their life easier in the moment.
What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
by Cole Kazdin
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women.
Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating, preoccupation with food, and body anxiety. Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman, and she set out to discover why her own full recovery from an eating disorder felt so impossible.
Created to Dream: The 6 Phases God Uses to Grow Your Faith
by Rick Warren
God has a dream for your life--and in this concise yet powerful volume, beloved pastor and trusted teacher Rick Warren explains the process God uses to fulfill the dream he gives you.
Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
by Simone Stolzoff
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches.
From the moment we ask children what they want to "be" when they grow up, we exalt the dream job as if it were life's ultimate objective. Many entangle their identities with their jobs, with predictable damage to happiness, wellbeing, and even professional success.
In The Good Enough Job, journalist Simone Stolzoff traces how work has come to dominate Americans' lives--and why we find it so difficult to let go. Based on groundbreaking reporting and interviews with Michelin star chefs, Wall Street bankers, overwhelmed teachers and other workers across the American economy, Stolzoff exposes what we lose when we expect work to be more than a job.
All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
by Rainesford Stauffer
Ambition--the want, the hunger, the need to achieve--is woven into America's fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the "right" college to hustle and grinding our lives, we celebrate our drive, even as we gatekeep who is permitted to strive--and how visibly. Even as we burn out. When we can't even. When we know: work won't love us back.