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Best Self-Help Books 2025
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items I have personally read all of these titles, and they
have changed my life, realtionships, and self-love! Check them out!
Sections
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Self-Help
Wellness
Workbooks
Art Therapy
Mindfullness
Truama Recovery
Self-Help
These books aid with personal growth, practical strategies, and understanding yourself and your own emotions
Brene is one of the most prolific authors of our time! These books changed my life! This is a 3 book series on empathy, compassion, self-love, battling shame and rising again. A must read!
Brene Brown: Books
If you're working to deal with old traumas, or if you just want to have a more measured and chill response to situations you face all the time, this book can help you put the pieces of the puzzle together and get your life and brain back.
Unfuck Your Brain: 5-Minute Therapy
Letting go is one of the hardest things to do isn't it? This book can help! One of the best reads.
The Art of Letting Go: Find Emotional Freedom
Ever wondered why some people effortlessly navigate social situations, while others struggle? EQ is something we aren't born knowing, it's taught, OR NOT!
Emotional Intelligence Unlocked: EQ Strategies
A journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. This is also a Netflix Special!
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Connection
Wellness
Each of these books highlights the essence of wellness books, emphasizing the interconnectedness of physical, mental, and emotional health to inspire readers to embark on their own journeys of self-care and holistic living.
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? I very inte...
Good Energy: Metabolism and Health Connection
We have all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut—the decision we made because it “felt right”; the butterflies in our stomach before a big meeting; the anxious stomach rumbling when we’re stressed out.The Mind-Gut Connection shows ...
The Mind-Gut Connection: Impact on Health
I have wanted to try Somatic Yoga forever! This helped me get started
Somatic Yoga: 25 Exercises & 5 Breathing Techniques
Workbooks
These workbook's are of a interactive nature, focusing on self-discovery and practical applications, helping you to dive into your personal development journey.
Looking for a self-esteem workbook that is tailored to the specific challenges faced by women in the modern world? Look no further!
Self-Love Workbook for Women: Embrace You
Does your body feel like a battlefield, tense, restless, and exhausted 😩 before the day even begins? You’re NOT broken; your body just needs a different approach to healing.
The Somatic Therapy Workbook: Tools for Self-Discovery
To be queer is to feel different - a felt sense that you don't fit in. This can be alienating and difficult and lead to mental health challenges. This is a great book to help overcome feeling of not being good enough
The Queer Mental Health Workbook: A Self-Help Guide
One year can change everything. Learn to love yourself better with this guided journal.
A Year of Self Love Journal
There’s nothing wrong with being shy. But if shyness or social anxiety keeps you from building meaningful relationships with others, advancing in your education or career, or simply living your best life, you need this workbook!
The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook
Developing and maintaining healthy self-esteem is key for living a happy life. A great workbook that is super effective!
The Self-Esteem Workbook (Self-Help)
Art Therapy
Each book emphasizes the therapeutic benefits of art therapy, inviting you to explore your creativity as a means of self-discovery and healing.
The purposeful act of making art can be more than a creative outlet. It can also help individuals gain self-awareness, process difficult thoughts, and even ease the effects of past traumas.
Essential Art Therapy Exercises for Mental Health
This book is filled with art prompts to help you explore your creative side as well as coloring pages to promote mindfulness.
Art Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
Designed for both teens and adults, this journal with prompts is your companion in exploring the depths of your grief in a way that words alone may not capture.
Art Therapy Workbook for Grief & Loss
Mindfullness
Each one of these books helps you to explore the benefits of mindfulness in your life and encourages you to develop a deeper sense of awareness and peace.
This life-changing international bestseller reveals a set of simple yet powerful mindfulness practices that you can incorporate into daily life to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and exhaustion.
Mindfulness: An 8-Week Plan for Peace
Inspirational meditations, mantras, and mindfulness tips are sprinkled throughout this treasure.
Mindfulness, Mantras & Meditations Book
Overcome negative thought patterns, reduce stress, and live a worry-free life.
Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques for Calm
Truama Recovery
These books provide insights into the nature of trauma, its effects on the mind and body, and the various ways it can manifest in daily life. They help to normalize your experiences and feelings associated with trauma.
Do fears of rejection and abandonment, rooted in your childhood, hold you back? Are you trapped in a cycle of repeating toxic patterns from your past, unsure how to break free and forge a healthier, happier future? This book and workbook are for you!
Healing Your Childhood Wounds Workbook
You know what helplessness feels like. The paralysis of panic, the loss of control. Well it's time for you to learn that these feelings aren't forever.
Recovery from Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse
If you find yourself justifying an unhealthy relationship with thoughts like "everyone has their bad days" or "every relationship has its ups and downs," it may be time to reassess. While some sacrifice is necessary in relationships, compromising you...
Emotional Abuse Recovery: Your Escape Plan
Couples
These books provide a mix of research-based insights, practical advice, and relatable narratives, making them valuable resources for couples looking to strengthen their bond and enhance their communication.
John Gottman is one of the Best authors out there for couples! He has several titles, but this one is a great find! How we fight predicts the future of our relationships.
Fight Right: Couples Turn Conflict to Connection
Fun date night & adventure ideas to spice up your relationship!
Couples Edition – 50 Scratch-Off Date Ideas
Discover how an understanding of adult attachment—the most advanced relationship science in existence today—can help us find and sustain love
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment
When deeply understood and applied, these five simple concepts - what Richo calls the five A's - form the basis of mature love. By giving and receiving these five A's, relationships become deeper and more meaningful, and they become a ground for pers...
How to Be an Adult in Relationships
Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?
The 5 Love Languages: Secret to Lasting Love
Are you tired of feeling like roommates instead of soulmates? Do the same old arguments keep circling back, leaving you feeling stuck in a loop? Feeling like the passion has faded into a comfortable routine? YOU'RE NOT ALONE, and there's a lot you ca...
8-Week Couples Therapy Workbook: EFT Guide
Parenting
These parenting books cover a range of topics, from emotional intelligence to discipline strategies, providing parents with effective tools and insights to support their child's development and nurture healthy family dynamics.
Gottman teaches couples the skills needed to maintain healthy marriages, so partners can avoid the pitfalls of parenthood
And Baby Makes Three: Six-Step Plan for Intimacy
Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s struggles.
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Strategies
Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears—without causing ...
No-Drama Discipline: Whole-Brain Parenting
A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids.
Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Parenting Guide
Respectful approach makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Talk
Do parenting misadventures have you frustrated, dazed, and ready to explode? Learn to turn bad behavior at any age into chances for growth and connection.
Your Journey to Successful Parenting: Ages 2-11