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Grow Through It: My Honest Self-Help Reading List
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items A collection of books that have helped me grow, challenged the way I think, or found me during exactly the right season. I’m sharing the ones I’ve read and loved, the books on my future growth list, and a few I didn’t finish, with honest context so y...
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Books I Own, Love, & Return to
My Future Growth: Books on My TBR
The Ones I Didn't Finish & Why
Books I Own, Love, & Return to
One of my favorite reminders that falling apart, failing, or getting hurt is not the end of the story. Brené Brown explores how to get honest about what happened, question the story you’re telling yourself, and rise with more courage and self-awarene...
Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
This book helped me understand how perfectionism, people-pleasing, and constantly trying to prove yourself can keep you from feeling worthy as you are. Brené Brown offers a warmer, more honest version of growth that makes room for vulnerability, rest...
The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition: Features a new foreword and brand-new tools
A powerful read for anyone questioning whether the life they built reflects what they truly want or what they were taught to want. Glennon Doyle challenges you to trust your own voice, stop abandoning yourself to meet other people's expectations, and...
Untamed: Reese's Book Club
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A raw memoir about betrayal, marriage, identity, and what it means to stop disappearing inside your relationships. Glennon Doyle does not offer a polished transformation story. She shows the painful, complicated process of confronting the truth and l...
Love Warrior: A Memoir
This is the motivational reality check I return to whenever I'm doubting myself or making my goals feel impossible. Jen Sincero is funny, direct, and encouraging in a way that helps me stop overthinking, believe something different is possible, and a...
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
A short, beautifully illustrated book about recognizing the difference between the life you feel expected to live and the one you feel called to create. I return to this book whenever I feel I need permission to take my ideas seriously, follow my cur...
The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion
The approachable financial education I wish more of us received before adulthood. Tori Dunlap breaks down saving, debt, investing, negotiating, and the emotions surrounding money, all without making you feel ashamed for what you don't already know. I...
Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love―A Personal Finance Handbook for Women, Mindful Spending, and Financial Literacy
My Future Growth: Books on My TBR
Books I'm curious about, books I've started and want to revisit, and books I hope will challenge or expand the way I think. They aren't recommendations yet, but they may eventually earn a place in the section above.
I already love Mel's podcast conversations around the “Let Them” theory and my therapist read this book because I wouldn't stop talking about them. I'm hoping it will help me spend less energy trying to manage other people's choices and put that ener...
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
I’ve gotten much better at recognizing when I need a boundary, but setting one without overexplaining, feeling guilty, or taking responsibility for someone else’s reaction is still a practice. I’m hoping this gives me practical language and tools for...
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
I’m very good at continuing to function when I’m overwhelmed, but I know that isn't the same thing as being okay. I'm hoping this book will help me better understand how stress gets stuck in the body and healthier ways to complete the stress cycle in...
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
I’m hoping this book will help me explore what could come next in my life without believing I have to identify one perfect plan before I begin.
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
This is on my list because I want to better understand how childhood relationship patterns can follow us into adulthood and shape what we expect from ourselves and others.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
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I’m often more patient and understanding with other people than I am with myself. I’m hoping this book will teach me how to practice self-compassion without letting go of accountability.
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
As someone who believes deeply in therapy, I’m intrigued by a book that explores it from both sides of the room. I’m hoping it gives me a deeper understanding of the relationship between therapists and their clients.
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The Ones I Didn't Finish & Why
Not every meaningful book is the right book for every reader or every season. These didn't work for me from beginning to end, but I'm sharing why so you can decide if they might still be right for you.
I completely understand why this book is so highly regarded, and its core ideas about how trauma affects the mind and body were incredibly valuable to me. The writing is extremely clinical and research-heavy, though, and I wasn't in the right place t...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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My therapist recommended this during a relationship when I genuinely needed it, and what I read helped me understand the dynamics I was experiencing. Once that season ended, I no longer felt the same urgency to finish it because it had already served...
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder
I picked this up expecting motivational relatable advice, but the tone felt more judgmental than encouraging to me. I know some readers genuinely respond to blunt, no-excuses advice; this book simply confirmed that I need honesty delivered with more ...
Girl Wash Your Face
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I only made it through the first few chapters, so this is not a review of the complete book. Radical Acceptance approaches self-acceptance through Buddhist teachings and meditation practices. That framework didn’t match what I was seeking during that...
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha