✨ Inner Clarity & Spiritual Realignment

The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz
A guide from Toltec wisdom showing four agreements (be impeccable with your word; don’t take things personally; don’t assume; always do your best) to break free from self-limiting beliefs and live more peacefully. Bookshop

A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
Explores how your ego creates false identity and suffering, and how awakening to the present moment can realign purpose, reduce inner conflict, and reveal a deeper sense of connectedness.

Living Untethered — Michael A. Singer
Offers practices to loosen the grip of inner tension and mental “chatter,” guiding toward finding inner freedom and peace.

The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
A mythic story about following your heart, interpreting omens, and discovering that the journey toward your dreams is itself transformative.

✨ Self-Leadership & Emotional Resilience

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success — Carol S. Dweck
Distinguishes between “fixed” vs “growth” mindsets; shows how believing abilities can be developed (through effort, strategies, feedback) changes how people accept challenges, persist, and grow. PenguinRandomhouse.com

Build the Life You Want — Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey
Combines happiness science and spiritual insight to help you determine what you truly value and make choices that align with purpose, joy, and impact.

Sacred Contracts — Caroline Myss
Explores archetypes and spiritual contracts—patterns we inherit or agree to—and how understanding them reveals purpose, responsibility, and deeper alignment.

Amplified — Frank Fitzpatrick
Looks at sound, vibration, and music as tools for soulful retrieval, healing, and spiritual expression.

The Mastery of Love — Don Miguel Ruiz
Focuses on healing fear-based beliefs in relationships; invites reclaiming love, joy, and authentic connection in self and others.

Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman
Explains why EQ (self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, social skills) can matter more than IQ for success, well-being, relationships.

EQ Applied — Justin Bariso
Practical tips & real-life stories for understanding and managing emotions, improving communication & leadership, and handling emotional challenges.

✨ Sacred Feminine & Embodied Spirituality

Awakening Shakti — Sally Kempton
Explores the feminine energies (Shakti) in spiritual practice: how to awaken inner power, embrace receptivity, intuition, cycles, and balance with strength.

Call of the Wild — Kimberly Ann Johnson
Somatic boundary work + reclaiming feminine wildness; reconnects women with their bodies, nature, and authentic voice.

Motherbody — Marion Woodman Institute
Depth psychological work exploring the female body, dream imagery, and how historical, societal, and ancestral patterns are carried in the body; reclaiming wholeness.

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma — Peter A. Levine & Ann Frederick
Shows how trauma is stored in the body and provides somatic experiencing methods for healing—not by reliving trauma, but by allowing release through bodily awareness.

Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing — Cheryl Pallant
Connects embodiment with ecological awareness: healing in the body as part of healing the earth, with practices that bridge inner and outer harmony.

Becoming the Body: Embodiment Through Somatic Therapy — Ken Michaels
Practical somatic tools & exercises for reclaiming body sense, safety, and healing from disconnection, trauma, or body-shame.

✨ Body Intelligence, Rest & Renewal

The Wisdom of Your Body — Hillary L. McBride
Teaches how to rebuild trust in your body after disconnection, trauma, or chronic stress; includes stories, practices, integration of psychology & embodiment.

Burnout — Emily & Amelia Nagoski
Dissects what burnout really is, especially for sensitive and caring people; shows what restores energy, promotes safety, and supports sustainable well-being.

Rest is Resistance — Tricia Hersey
Argues rest is not indulgence but essential resistance to a culture that prizes productivity above all else. Explores rest, dream, pausing, reclaiming time & body sovereignty.

The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
A deep exploration of how trauma affects body and brain, and how healing must engage the body (movement, touch, awareness) to release and restore wholeness.

✨ Ritual, Creativity & Daily Practice

Atomic Habits — James Clear
How small, consistent habits make large change over time; strategies for forming good habits, breaking bad ones; designing environments to support desired change.

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work — Mason Currey
Snapshots of creatives’ routines across time: what hours they work, how they rest or ritualize, insights into how daily structure supports creative expression.

The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin
A soft discipline for artists & “creators of life”-beings; emphasizes intuition, listening, presence, the invisible process behind creation.

Embody: Feel, Heal, and Transform Your Life Through Movement — Toni Bergins
Uses movement, dance, body awareness practices to heal, express beyond words, reclaim joy, and deepen connection with self.

✨ Slow Living & Soulful Presence

Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous wisdom, science, and story combine to teach reciprocity with land; observing rhythms, plants, relationships; finding beauty in humility and the everyday.

Wintering — Katherine May
Seasons of rest, grief, waiting—how the “winter” times (of life or nature) are essential for growth, reflection, rebirth; learning to move through internal dark / slow seasons with grace.

Slow Down: 50 Mindful Moments in Nature — Rachel Williams & Freya Hartas
Simple prompts & meditative reflections; invites pausing, observing small natural details—air, light, leaves, sounds—to ground and restore.

✨ Imperfection, Healing & Wholeness

The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown
Encourages letting go of what we think we “should” be to embrace who we are; cultivating courage, compassion, and connection in authentic living.

The Language of Emotions — Karla McLaren
Teaches how to understand, honor, and work with emotions: what they’re communicating, how to listen, how to co-create safety with them instead of ignoring or suppressing.