We've found your literary support for six classic new year's resolutions we all make. These books will empower you to take 2025 by storm!
Though we tend to be more of the “seize the day” type when it comes to turning over a new leaf, we do absolutely recognize the allure of the turn of the calendar year to mark a new beginning. Less social media, more yoga, less sugar, more connection — our New Year’s resolutions of years past have been a mixed bag. And as is likely true for most, some are winners and some die slow, painful deaths while we sit by guiltily, sweeping our shame under the rug. (Though you can bet the next year we’ve cooked up a resolution to go easier on ourselves when we don’t succeed.)
Speaking of success, there’s one way we’ll heartily recommend when it comes to improving your chances: Resolutions are best set up for success when they’ve got a bit of a foundation in the form of knowledge. Going in blindly with nary a gameplan in sight is not what you all need right now. Take heed — and take a look at some of our reading recommendations below to help you find your way through 365 days of resolute satisfaction.
RESOLUTION #1: SUCCEED AT WORK
Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve
by Alison Fragale
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks, and strategies to help secure that elusive corner office.
Over decades of research, speaking engagements, and mentorship, psychologist and professor Alison Fragale encountered recurring questions from high powered and early career women alike: How do women thread the needle of kindness and competence in the workplace? How can women earn credit for their accomplishments, negotiate better, and navigate complex office politics without losing the goodwill of their peers?
Fragale investigated and determined that many women's workplace issues boil down to what psychologists call status: the perception of them by others. No amount of power – no degree, title, or paycheck – will raise a woman's workplace stature unless it also affects how others see her. Acknowledging this roadblock, Fragale pulls back the curtain on how we can change how others see us by developing our standing as a "likeable badass." By cultivating perceptions of warmth and assertiveness, women can achieve the kind of reputation that leads to a seat at the table and a fulfilling career path.
Likeable Badass is equal parts behavioral science and life hacks, weaving together rigorous research with actionable advice and impactful stories from a diverse array of women. This is a warm, heartening book written for women, their allies, and anyone who struggles to rise, and wants evidence-based, practical strategies for success, served with a side of inspiration and humor.
The Future-Proof Career: Strategies for Thriving at Every Stage
by Isabel Berwick
An accessible and approachable guide to work and careers from a trusted and authoritative source. The Future-Proof Career looks at the new way of working in a post-pandemic world and shows you how to make work work for you, no matter what stage of your career you're at.
Whether you're the boss, the deputy or on your way up, the way we're working in a post-pandemic world is forever changed and it's important to make your work work for you. This is a book about how to do work differently, written by the host of the award-winning Financial Times 'Working It' podcast. Packed with expert analysis and ahead-of-the-curve workplace trends, this book looks at the big ideas shaping the world of work today and the old habits we need to lose, examining these pressing topics in depth and bringing in expert opinion and personal experience, with key takeaways summarized at the end of each chapter.
This modern guide to the world of work can be used by everyone - both employed and self-employed, anyone working in new hybrid working practices, or to the many individuals who set up on their own after the pandemic and are navigating a new way of working. The book is split into two sections - Staff and Managers. This works for both groups, as most people are managed and/or aspire to be higher up and so can be dipped into for expert advice and guidance at any stage of your career.
Covering topics as wide-ranging as the four-day working week, bridging the workplace generation gap, making sure your company walks its diversity talk, quiet quitting and the great resignation, achieving workplace equality and even micro-dosing for creativity, The Future-Proof Career spreads the word about understanding modern workplaces so we can all have happier, more productive lives.
This book will help you to navigate the world of work now, tell you how it might change in future - and how you can prepare. Get ahead of uncertainty and take control of your career.
Directional Living: A Transformational Guide to Fulfillment in Work and Life
by Megan Hellerer
A guide for creating a life of maximum fulfillment and purpose, by the career coach whose approach has helped hundreds re-orient their careers and lives
The traditional approach to career is failing us. Determine what you want to do with your life, it says, and methodically make your way toward that destination. We're taught that once we get there, no matter how fraught and fatiguing the path is, we'll find fulfillment. This is the 5-year plan, it's setting the "right" goals, it's one of the first questions we ask kids: what do you want to be when you grow up?
The problem is this advice simply doesn't work. It's outdated and based on a world that doesn't exist anymore, if it ever did. And, it's created a generation of Underfulfilled Overachievers, who have leaned in, climbed the ladder of success, did everything they were supposed to do, and yet feel burned out and unfulfilled.
In the last decade, career coach Megan Hellerer, herself a recovering Underfulfilled Overachiever, has worked with hundreds of these women, from CEOs and bestselling authors to award-winning scientists and activists, helping them get unstuck and discover meaningful, purpose-driven work. Directional Living comes from Megan's innovative paradigm, one based on the premise that a fulfilling, purpose-filled career and life is built by following your inner sense of direction, not pursuing a fixed destination. Through this revolutionary new blueprint, we learn to find the work we are uniquely well-suited to do in the world, move from misery to meaning, and transform our careers on the way to transforming our lives. Directional Living is both a philosophy and a practical guide to creating not just a great life, but your great life--one full of genuine purpose, meaning, ease and authenticity.
RESOLUTION #2: GET SAVVY ABOUT MONEY
The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security
by Scott Galloway
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A must-have guide to optimizing your life for wealth and success, from bestselling author, NYU professor, and cohost of the Pivot podcast Scott Galloway.
Today's workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labor and housing shortages, and climate volatility. Even the notion of retirement is undergoing a profound rethink, as our lifespans extend and our relationship with work evolves. In this environment, the tried-and-true financial advice our parents followed is no longer enough. It's time for a new playbook.
In The Algebra of Wealth, Scott Galloway lays bare the rules of financial success in today's economy. In his characteristic unvarnished, no-BS style, he explains what you need to know in order to better your chances for economic security no matter what. You'll learn:
- How to find and follow your talent, not your passion, when making career decisions
- How to ride and optimize big economic waves (hard truth: market dynamics always trump individual achievement)
- What small steps you can take that pay big returns later, including diversification and tax planning
- How stoicism can help you minimize spending and develop better financial habits
Brimming with wise, game-changing advice from one of the world's most popular business school professors, The Algebra of Wealth offers a powerful framework for making the most of what opportunities come your way.
Kids Ain't Cheap: How to plan financially for parenthood and your family's future
by Ana Kresina
Navigate the costs of raising a family.
Kids Ain't Cheap is an easy-to-understand book that helps you prepare financially before you become a parent for the first (or second, or third) time. From pre-pregnancy financial planning to the expensive childcare years and beyond, it gives you the skills to run cost estimates, understand your loss of earning potential, get your finances in order, start investing for your family and set your children up for their own financial success.
More than anything, Kids Ain't Cheap gives you the freedom to focus on what is most important to you - your family.
The Wealth Money Can't Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life
by Robin Sharma
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A groundbreaking book redefining success to show readers how they can create truly abundant and fulfilling lives by following Sharma's 8 Forms of Wealth model – from the #1 international bestselling author, speaker, and leadership expert
"Robin Sharma has been an amazing mentor to me. He is a major influencer of our time." –DEEPAK CHOPRA, author of Abundance
Real wealth is so much more than cash in the bank, flashy cars in the driveway and luxury vacations on exotic islands. Too many financially prosperous people are surprisingly poor when it comes to the things that truly matter for a life of happiness, vitality, and serenity.
Society has sold us a version of success that has left too many people feeling empty, frustrated, and filled with regret. Fortunately, there is a much better way to live.
In The Wealth Money Can't Buy, you will discover a life-altering system that will help you lead your richest life before it's too late. You will learn a framework based on the eight hidden habits used by authentically rich people and gain a methodology to master your destiny. Open this book and allow a trusted mentor to offer you valuable insights, including:
- how to become a "perfect moment" creator
- why your choice of mate is 90% of your joy
- the power of "The 10,000 Dinners Question"
- hidden habits of authentically wealthy people
- the brilliance of "going ghost" for a year
Legendary personal growth expert Robin Sharma has mentored billionaires, superstar athletes, and heads of state, teaching them The 8 Forms of Wealth Model with transformational results. Now, you will learn it, too, and create the lifetime of your highest dreams.
Full of practical tools and transformational tactics, The Wealth Money Can't Buy offers a life-changing philosophy and methodology for enjoying a genuinely rich life – filled with personal power, unusual authenticity, exceptionally fulfilling work, and a lifestyle that will make you feel that fortune has finally smiled on you.
RESOLUTION #3: BE BETTER AT RELATIONSHIPS
I Didn't Know I Needed This: The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Yourself
by Eli Rallo
**A Publisher's Weekly Bestseller**
From TikTok star Eli Rallo, an irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly honest take on modern dating and romance with tips, tricks, and survival-guide style rules.
I Didn't Know I Needed This is the dose of confidence every girl needs to live their life on their own terms. Eli Rallo is a social media superstar, a Carrie Bradshaw for the TikTok age, a true romantic at heart, and the best friend every young woman wishes she had. As someone who prides herself in feeling fully and deeply, Eli is on the ride with you, kissing the frogs, sending (and deleting) the risky DMs, climbing down frat house gutters, making the friends you'll have for life, all while finding love and falling in love with yourself and learning that everything will be alright. In this earnest and vulnerable look at what it's really like to date as a young woman in the modern world of dating apps, rotating rosters, and social media snafus, Eli gives her rules for each stage of the game – tried and true tricks of the trade.
I Didn't Know I Needed This follows the natural lifecycle of dating, starting with being single, flirting, and navigating the apps to going on dates, having sex, falling in love, and managing relationships, to finally dealing with heartbreak, finding closure, prioritizing your friends, and honoring your life. Discover the rules that have worked for her, and garnered her more than a half million TikTok followers.
With touching stories of her own adventures and mishaps, Eli helps you navigate dating in a way that's frank, honest, funny, and relatable, giving the advice that you didn't even know you needed.
You Are Not Broken: Stop Should-Ing All Over Your Sex Life
by Kelly Casperson
Is your sex life amazing?
Probably not, if you're like most women. In fact, "amazing" isn't even close to how you've ever experienced sex-but it isn't your fault. You can thank Hollywood's portrayals and society's silence for your crappy sex life. Rarely do we learn what truly makes sex great for women, why understanding anatomy matters, or how our pleasure is not just important but vital.
In You Are Not Broken, Dr. Kelly Casperson offers a unique perspective as a urologist, coach, and fellow woman wondering, when it comes to sex, "Is this all there is?" Dr. Casperson explores how to adjust your mindset and provides an in-depth look at what makes women physiologically unique. Better sex creates a better relationship between you and your partner. With real-life stories, ideas for journaling, and tips to get the conversation going, this book is the sex empowerment secret weapon you really need to live the life you've always wanted.
Praise for You Are Not Broken:
"We don't talk about sexual struggles enough. It's very much a taboo topic still. Dr. Kelly Casperson is my go-to person, providing education and solutions with a healthy dose of humor and the best personality. This book should be on every woman's bookshelf!" – Amanda Thebe, author of Menopocalypse
"I was thrilled to find Dr. Kelly Casperson and her podcast, course, and now book You Are Not Broken as a resource for my patients – as an ob-gyn for twenty-two years, I often hear women anxiously whisper to me in hushed tones that they are certain 'something is wrong with them' when they report their 'decreased libido' despite being in long-term/happy relationships. Now Dr. Casperson continues to debunk the myths, bust the stigma, and help us all connect more with ourselves and our partners! Kudos!" –Shieva Ghofrany, MD, Co-Founder of Tribe Called V
"We are so excited for this book! Kelly joined us on our #MOMTRUTHS podcast to chat about all things sex, and she literally blew our minds with her insight and advice, so we can't wait to read more!" –Cat and Nat
"In a world where there is so much medical misinformation, a lack of research in women's sexual health, and very few doctors who specialize, Dr. Casperson is trying to tackle it all. She has made it her mission to help people better understand their minds and bodies and what gets them excited."
–Rachel Rubin, MD, urologist and sexual medicine specialist
"Kelly Casperson's approach to low sexual desire is relatable and no-nonsense, with a good dose of humor thrown in. She asks the questions we all want to know while giving the commentary we are all secretly thinking." –Jill Krapf, MD
"Dr. Casperson is a godsend to my patients and students. She is the first provider I have heard tackle the difficult and misunderstood subject of female sexual function that makes a woman feel empowered rather than shamed. My students are rabid fans of her podcast and thank me constantly for the referral. She is revolutionizing women's sexual health and I am here for it!" –Mary Claire Haver, MD, FACOG, Founder of the Galveston Diet
Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
by Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LEARN THE 5 SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COUPLES
Conflict is the top reason couples seek help – but it's also an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love according to this essential guide from the world's leading relationship scientists and authors of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and Eight Dates.
"An indispensable resource that couples will use over and over again." –Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
How we fight predicts the future of our relationships. Most of us blunder into conflict without knowing what we are really fighting about and then quickly become overwhelmed by physiological responses we can't control and emotions we don't anticipate. The truth is the happiest and most successful couples fight – all the time. Conflict is human, and necessary.
Through decades of research, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, founders of the world-famous Love Lab, have identified the five common mistakes we make when we are at odds. In Fight Right, we learn the five secrets that help us to get back on track and harness conflict to build stronger, healthier relationships. With kindness, clarity, and a deep understanding of the struggles couples are going through, the Gottmans show us that we each have a unique conflict culture, borne of how we were raised and how we experienced past relationships, and they take us through all the possible combinations, from Avoiders, to Validators, to Volatiles, and how they can best work together.
Fight Right is an essential resource that will help couples escape the win-or-lose mentality in favor of a collaborative approach: calming down, staying connected, and really understanding, so that our fights can bring us closer.
It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
by Ramani Durvasula
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From clinical psychologist and expert in narcissistic relationships Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a guide to protecting and healing yourself from the daily harms of narcissism
AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER
It's not always easy to tell when you're dealing with a narcissistic person. One day they draw you in with their charm and charisma, the next they gaslight you, wreck your self-esteem, and leave you wondering, What should I have done differently? As Dr. Ramani explains in It's Not You, the answer is: absolutely nothing.
Just as a tiger can't change its stripes, a narcissist will not stop manipulating and invalidating you, no matter how much you try to appease them. The first step toward healing from their toxic influence – and to protect yourself from future harm – is to accept that you are not to blame for their behavior.
Drawing on more than two decades of studying the landscape of narcissism and working with survivors, Dr. Ramani explores how narcissists hijack our well-being and offers a healing path forward. Unpacking the oft-misunderstood personality, she reveals the telltale behavioral patterns that indicate you may be dealing with a narcissist. Along the way, you'll learn how to become gaslight resistant, chip away at the trauma bonds that keep you stuck in the cycle, grieve the loss of these painful relationships, create and maintain realistic boundaries, discern unhelpful behaviors from narcissistic behaviors, and recover your sense of self after constant invalidation.
Thriving after, or even during, a narcissistic relationship can be challenging, but It's Not You shows you it is possible. Dr. Ramani invites you to stop blaming yourself and trying to change the narcissistic person, and to start giving yourself permission to let go of their hold on you and finally embrace your true self.
RESOLUTION #4: NURTURE A HEALTHY MIND
Badass Bonita: Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera
by Kim Guerra
From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a "powerful and necessary guide toward self-discovery and metamorphosis" (Dr. Mariel Buqué) that can help transform not only your life but the lives of everyone in your community.
Almost every Latina has heard the phrase calladita te ves más bonita – you look most beautiful when you are silent. It's a message rooted in machismo passed from generation to generation, and one that poet and Latine therapist, Kim Guerra, grew up on.
In Badass Bonita, Guerra tells a story of coming into her own power, and guides readers through the process of finding their own. Rejecting what she was taught as a girl, she learned to use her voice and the more she listened to that inner niña, the more she unearthed her inner guerrera. Vowing never to be calladita again, she now teaches Latine women to find their voices, healing the stories and emotional wounds that have kept them silent.
Tackling tough conversations around machismo, mental health, trauma, and intersectional identities, Badass Bonita is a guide that will help readers:
- Understand underlying sources of wounds and trauma,
- Shift from self-silencing and into revolutionary self-love,
- Build confidence and bring positive change to relationships, family and community.
Lyrical and accessible, written in Kim's signature poetic, Spanglish style, Badass Bonita is perfect for readers of My Grandmother's Hands and Este dolor no es mío, – for mothers, daughters, therapists, and mujeres poderosas everywhere ready find their wings.
Brave New You: A Road Map to Believing That More Is Possible
by Cory Allen
“Brave New You is full of insight and practical tools to help anyone create the life they want.”–Dr. Nicole LePera, #1 New York Times best-selling author of How to Do the Work and How to Be the Love You Seek
From a genre-defining podcaster and mindfulness expert, a bracingly fresh, intensively research-based tool kit for taking charge of your life.
Do you feel that you aren't living up to your full potential – or, even worse, know that you aren't? Do you sense you're drifting – and still believe your life could be bigger and better?
If the answer is yes, chances are you've already tried a lot of ways to create positive change in your life. And chances are you aren't any closer to what you want.
This book will give you the lift you need to make that leap.
Your guide on the journey is Cory Allen, author, influencer, and host of the podcast And Then It Hit Me. To write Brave New You, Cory tapped into insight from his massive community to discover what people most desire to know, where they most want support, and the best way to give them what they need. He's distilled what he's learned into a radically fresh, yet profoundly intuitive roadmap for taking charge of your life.
With Cory as your guide, you'll follow a highly intentional, vividly engaging path of proven teachings to make your goals into reality. Your toolbox will include:
- The importance and power of mindset
- How to release habits of negative thinking
- Ways to look at your life with fresh eyes
- Smart strategies to infuse your life with meaning and purpose
- A simple yet radical mindset shift that will change your definition of what's possible
Along the way, you'll develop a deep trust in your own intuition, find unshakable confidence to face whatever comes your way, and discover how extraordinary your life – and you – can be.
Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head – And How to Get It Out
by Kara Loewentheil
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY #1 NONFICTION BESTSELLER
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER
A manual for every woman who wants to stop endless negative self-talk, create unshakable confidence, and jump-start a life of joy and power. It all begins with your thoughts.
I never look good in tight skirts. I can't ask for a raise or my boss will think I'm greedy. I'm getting too old to find a partner. I'm a bad mom. I'm always behind. I'll never be good enough.
What if every time you had a self-critical thought, you heard it in a man's voice? The truth is not far off. Living in a patriarchy, women absorb a lifetime of messages that say your worth is defined by your looks, your accomplishments, and how well you take care of everyone around you. In fact, these messages are so pervasive that, even knowing they exist, they still manage to program themselves into our brains. The result is that women end up feeling anxious, guilty, and vaguely ashamed of themselves no matter how much they do for others or achieve for themselves.
So how do we deprogram our thoughts from patriarchy's corrosive influence? And once we do, how can we create new, self-empowering beliefs?
Master Certified Life Coach and host of the UnF*ck Your Brain podcast Kara Loewentheil knows how. Despite graduating from Harvard Law School and getting her dream job, Kara spent her twenties and thirties feeling insecure and anxious, until she learned how to change her thoughts – which led her to become a coach. In Take Back Your Brain, she draws on cognitive psychology, feminist theory, and years of experience as a neuroplasticity-focused coach to break down how the patriarchy hijacks women's brains, and how women can get free. To bridge the gap between your inner voice and your true potential, she says, you must begin with your thoughts. By using the skills in this book to literally rewire your brain, you can create new thought patterns that will directly transform outcomes in your life.
Ultimately, Take Back Your Brain invites you to replace the thoughts that no longer serve you and make room for a kind of confidence you never thought possible. Because when women unleash their true power, they awaken new possibilities for the world.
RESOLUTION #5: TAKE GOOD BODILY CARE
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health
by Casey Means - Calley Means
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future
What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause?
Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic function - the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create "good energy," the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing.
If you are battling minor signals of "bad energy" inside your body, it is often a warning sign that more life-threatening illness may emerge later in life. But here's the good news: for the first time ever, we can monitor our metabolic health in great detail and learn how to improve it ourselves.
Weaving together cutting-edge research and personal stories, as well as groundbreaking data from the health technology company Dr. Means founded, Good Energy offers an essential four-week plan and explains:
- The five biomarkers that determine your risk for a deadly disease.
- How to use inexpensive tools and technology to "see inside your body" and take action.
- Why dietary philosophies are designed to confuse us, and six lifelong food principles you can implement whether you're carnivore or vegan.
- The crucial links between sleep, circadian rhythm, and metabolism
- A new framework for exercise focused on building simple movement into everyday activities
- How cold and heat exposure helps build our body's resilience
- Steps to navigate the medical system to get what you need for optimal health
Good Energy offers a new, cutting-edge understanding of the true cause of illness that until now has remained hidden. It will help you optimize your ability to live well and stay well at every age.
Sleep Drink Breathe: Simple Daily Habits for Profound Long-Term Health
by Michael Breus Phd
"A manageable plan, offering profound long-term benefits for both mind and body – it's a must-read for anyone serious about wellness. –Daniel G. Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain Every Day
The Sleep Doctor shows you how to transform your health by balancing your basics – sleep, hydration, and breathing are the keys to renewed energy, weight loss, lower stress, and improved cognition.
Good health doesn't have to be complicated. Sleeping, hydrating, and breathing are fundamental to life, and making simple adjustments to the way we perform these basic functions can have an extraordinary impact on our health and wellbeing.
In Sleep Drink Breathe, bestselling author Dr. Michael Breus shares the most recent science on these biobehaviors and inspiring patient stories that are the basis for his innovative strategy for optimizing your sleep, hydration, and breathing habits.
Dr. Breus's revolutionary three-week Sleep-Drink-Breathe regimen is so straightforward, you won't be intimidated by it and you will stick with it. After just a few days, you'll feel better physically, mentally, and emotionally, and will be on the road to whole-body balance that lasts.
Generation M: Living Well in Perimenopause and Menopause
by Jessica Shepherd
Evidence-based. Lifestyle approved. The practical guide you need for the life you want.
Finally, here is a fresh plan for a new generation entering perimenopause and menopause. With clinical insights, actionable tips, and holistic guidance, Dr. Jessica Shepherd, a board-certified OB/GYN and women's health advocate, redefines how to sustain the marathon of this life stage so you can make the most of your health and vitality. In Generation M, she throws out the old playbook and provides you with an empowering approach to thriving through this change and beyond. Dr. Shepherd draws upon many conversations with leading experts in nutrition, meditation, and fitness, as well as with those living through perimenopause and menopause, who've shared what challenges them and what helps them live vibrantly. In this book you will find:
- Scientifically backed information and advice from a doctor and menopause expert
- Evidence-based recommendations, tips, tools, and personal building blocks for the best health practices
- A guided exploration of new medical research and data
- A deep dive on the safety and efficacy of HRT, including information on what medications to take and when to take them
- Holistic advice on how to ease your transition during this period, including recommendations for exercise, diet, sleep, mindfulness practices, and more
- An accessible yet powerful, and at times humorous, voice from a woman who understands what you are going through
Discover the steps you need now for the future you desire – and stay healthy, active, and fabulous along the way.
RESOLUTION #6: FEED YOUR SPIRITUAL SELF
By Your Side: How to Find Soulful Allies and Become One to Others
by David Richo
A fascinating exploration of the "assisting force" archetype, with powerful psychological tools and spiritual insights on how to find and work with these forces in your life – from the bestselling author of How To Be An Adult in Relationships.
Psychotherapist David Richo draws from history, Jungian psychology, Buddhism, nature, and other spiritual traditions to illuminate our connection to the "helpers" we call upon to navigate life. Some of the assisting forces in our lives are visible, and some are invisible. Some are with us for life; some come and go. Spiritual assisting forces could be bodhisattvas and saints – or partners in a relationship who are allies to one another.
Richo says that helpers are a necessary character on our human journey, and that in every heroic journey story the hero or heroine requires a trustworthy companion to fulfill his/her/their destiny. The assisting force can take many forms, but is often depicted as a sidekick, an aide, a wise advisor, or a spirit guide. In stories, an assisting force can also be an elixir, a magic form of help, an animal, or a wish-fulfilling gem.
In this fascinating inquiry, Richo posits that the archetype of the ally is necessary if we are ever to be fully who we are. He shows us how assisting forces are in and around us, and how we can be one to others. Richo offers a compelling and accessible view – and time-tested practices including meditation, self-inquiry, journaling, and affirmations – that help us recognize and access the allies in our lives.
Consciousness Is All There Is: How Understanding and Experiencing Consciousness Will Transform Your Life
by Tony Nader
NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
From a renowned Vedic scholar, leader of the Maharishi Foundations, and Harvard-trained neuroscientist: a radical new paradigm for understanding Consciousness and finding enlightenment, peace, and fulfillment
Dr. Tony Nader, a renowned Vedic scholar and neuroscientist, offers a direct path to peace for ourselves and our world that anyone can obtain – simply by delving into our own Consciousness. Dr. Nader provides the methods, tools, and guidance for connecting with our authentic inner nature and understanding how Consciousness is the essence of all existence, including addressing such fundamental questions as:
- What is the key to a well-lived, flourishing life in which we can all coexist in peace?
- Can freedom be compatible with law and order?
- How can we meet all our challenges as individuals and a society, including the environment, genetic engineering, and the rapid development of artificial intelligence?
True wellness is a state of profound clarity, peace, and contentment, resulting from connection with our pure Consciousness. By enlivening our coherence between our Consciousness and the external world, we can find our happiest and highest states of ourselves.
“Consciousness Is All There Is will open doors of perception for you to a new and profound understanding of life.” –Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul and Happy for No Reason
Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground
by Mirabai Starr
"This gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book is for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life." –Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow
Welcome to the temple of your regular life.
So begins beloved spiritual guide Mirabai Starr's stunning exploration of finding the extraordinary in the everyday. In Ordinary Mysticism, she helps readers discover their own inner mystic and let go of the limiting belief that spiritual life exists only in traditional places of worship. Mysticism, she explains, is a direct experience of the sacred – no church or clergy required. Our everyday life can be an encounter with the sacred if we pay attention. Starr explores the magic of mundane life, from weeding in our humble gardens to a slow evening walk with a friend to a full kitchen table surrounded by family. Embracing mysticism in our everyday is a way of being more alive in the world, an awakening to the interconnectedness between all things.
You can visit an ashram in the Himalayas or kneel in a church pew to connect to the spirit or examine life's big questions – but these aren't the only opportunities to discover the sacred. Life, Starr reminds us, is holy ground. Lyrical and tender, filled with profound wisdom and mind-opening insights, Ordinary Mysticism is about finding wonder in regular life, grounded in lessons from spiritual teachers across the centuries – from Julian of Norwich to Ram Dass. Starr combines their ancient wisdom with the story of her own personal and spiritual journey – from surviving the heartbreak of her fourteen-year-old daughter's death to growing up amid the 1960s counterculture that introduced her to mysticism to her self-made spiritual practice of today. Alongside storytelling and age-old teachings, Starr offers practices and writing prompts for help our souls seek holy ground.
When you decide to walk the path of the mystic, the mundane shows up as miraculous, the boring becomes fascinating, and your own shortcomings turn out to be your greatest gifts. May we all find meaning and wonder in our most ordinary moments.