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Books That Changed Me: The Ones I Still Think About
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items I love books that leave something behind.
Not necessarily the books with the prettiest writing or the ones everyone says you’re supposed to read. I mean the ones that put words around something you’ve felt your whole life, make you question somethin...
This one changed the why for me. It gave me another way to look at the things that happen in our lives—especially the things that feel unfair or impossible to understand.
The idea that our lives may have meaning and purpose beyond what we can see in...
The Book That Changed the “Why” for Me
Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential — Caroline Myss
This book made me look differently at synchronicity, intuition, energy, and those strange little coincidences that sometimes feel like more than coincidence.
It’s part story and part spiritual exploration, and I think you can take from it whatever r...
The Book That Made Me Pay Attention to Coincidence
The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield
There are layers upon layers of understanding about people, faith, judgment, community, and what it actually means to live what you believe.
What I love about this book is that it doesn’t require everyone to believe the same thing. It reminds you th...
The Book With Layers Upon Layers
Have a Little Faith — Mitch Albom
This is one of those books that can completely challenge the picture of God you’ve carried around in your head.
At its heart, it’s a story about unimaginable loss, anger, forgiveness, and what happens when the version of God we were taught doesn’t f...
The Book That Changed How I Think About God
The Shack — William P. Young
This is not an easy book, and it isn’t supposed to be.
It forces you to look at the world through someone else’s eyes and sit with what beauty standards, racism, poverty, trauma, and rejection can do to a person—especially a child.
Toni Morrison ma...
The Book That Makes You Walk in Someone Else’s Shoes
The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison
I’ve gotten something different from this book at different points in my life, which is probably why it has stayed with me.
It’s about searching for truth, trying different paths, questioning what you’ve been taught, and eventually realizing that wi...
The Book That Gives Me Something Different Every Time
Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
This was one of the first books that really made me understand something embarrassingly simple: most people are thinking about themselves way more than they are thinking about you.
We spend so much time analyzing what someone said, wondering how we ...
The Book That Made Me Stop Worrying So Much About What Everyone Thinks
The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz
This was one of the books that made me start thinking about the connection between our emotional lives and our physical bodies.
It talks about women’s health in a much bigger way than symptoms and diagnoses. It looks at stress, relationships, emotio...
The Book That Connected the Mind and the Body for Me
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom — Christiane Northrup
Maya Angelou’s life is such a beautiful reminder that a meaningful life does not have to follow some neat little straight line.
She lived. Really lived.
She tried things, changed directions, loved people, made mistakes, survived things, created thi...
The Book That Reminded Me Life Does Not Have to Be Linear
Mom & Me & Mom — Maya Angelou
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The Autoimmune Healing Journal
This book changed the way I think about grief, and I genuinely think it made me a better friend to people who are grieving.
We are so uncomfortable with pain that we immediately want to fix it. We say things because we desperately want someone to fe...
The Book That Completely Changed How I Understand Grief
It’s OK That You’re Not OK — Megan Devine
This book really makes you wonder about all the ways you have affected other people without ever knowing it.
The tiny interactions. The decisions that seemed insignificant. The person you helped and forgot about. The moment you changed something for...
The Book That Made Me Think About the Ripples We Leave Behind
The Five People You Meet in Heaven — Mitch Albom