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Best Books for Moms That Will Inspire & Motivate You
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items One topic I really enjoy reading about is motherhood, real honest motherhood. Moms talking about the good and the bad parts, or giving advice about how to manage motherhood better. These books are also great resources for moms.
The Magic of Motherhood is a collection of very honest stories about motherhood. Some topics include friendship, identity, and miscarriage.
The Magic of Motherhood: The Good & Hard Stuff
In Breathe Mama, Breathe, psychotherapist Shonda Moralis gives loads of five minute mindfulness breaks to sprinkle throughout your day.
Breathe, Mama, Breathe: Mindfulness for Moms
In Busy Toddler’s Guide to Actual Parenting, Susie Allison gives incredibly useful and effective advice for parenting one year olds and up. She shares real moments from raising her three kids which makes her very relatable.
Busy Toddler's Guide To Actual Parenting
In Wake Up to the Joy of You, Agapi Stassinopoulos, gives a year’s worth of meditation and mindfulness activities to help focus on self-care. This is the kind of book that you can pick up year after year when you need to reinforce your meditation pra...
Wake Up to the Joy of You: 52 Meditations
It is very easy to feel invisible as a mother. You are taking care of everyone and have the mental load of being CEO of the household on top of it. So much of what we do isn’t really seen. In The Invisible Woman, Nicole Johnson shows the importance o...
The Invisible Woman: When Only God Sees
In Tilt, Marci Fair shares her insights and tips to help overcome the challenges of being a working mom.
Tilt: 7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-Free Working Mom
In Stretched Too Thin, Jessica Turner teaches parents how to work and parent without guilt, and set work boundaries and realistic life goals.
Stretched Too Thin: Working Moms & Guilt
In Girl Wash Your Face, Rachel Hollis talks about the twenty lies we have told ourselves so many times that hold us back, and she gives strategies on how to move past them.
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing Lies
In Fair Play, Eve Rodsky describes the system that she developed to split up domestic responsibilities. All responsibilities involve conception, planning, and execution. Moms tend to do a lot of the conception and planning, even for the responsibilit...
Fair Play: Reese's Book Club Game-Changer
In The Empowered Mama, Lisa Druxman has put together a workbook full of various tools to help moms reconnect with themselves during the journey of motherhood.
The Empowered Mama: Reclaim Your Time
We all communicate and show love differently. In The 5 Love Languages, Gary Chapman shares his approach for showing and receiving love that will help us continue to stay in love with our partners.
The 5 Love Languages: Secret to Lasting Love
Best friends Catherine Belknap and Natalie Telfer share their real and honest stories about pregnancy, the toddler years, and beyond in Mom Truths. They share what you think you need versus what you actually did need in those exhausting days of being...
Cat and Nat's Mom Truths: Embarrassing Stories
Meg Meeker shares that the ten issues that mothers struggle with are friendship, simplicity, love, value, faith, solitude, money, fear, hope, and purpose.
10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Passion
Just like we communicate and show love differently than our partners, we also communicate and show love differently than our children. In The 5 Love Languages of Children, Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell give useful advice for discovering and speaking...
The 5 Love Languages of Children
In Hello Beautiful, Keryl Pesce shows us how to deal with our inner critic. We should not fight against it, and instead, she helps us develop a relationship with our inner critic and help it work for us.
Hello Beautiful: Break Free from Regret
Jill Savage lets us know that we are not alone. All moms struggle. We don’t meet our standards and then we feel insecure about not meeting them. In No More Perfect Moms, Jill helps us have more realistic expectations and give grace and love to oursel...
No More Perfect Moms: Learn to Love Your Real Life
In Girl, Stop Apologizing, Rachel Hollis challenges us to stop talking ourselves out of our dreams, urges us to let go of the many excuses we make for ourselves, and helps us grow, become more confident, and believe in ourselves.
Girl, Stop Apologizing: Embrace Yourself
Mary Katherine Backstrom gives those of us in the difficult, exhausting days of motherhood some hope, humor, and inspiration in Mom Babble. This book is a collection of very real, and honest essays.
Mom Babble: The Messy Truth about Motherhood
In Enough About the Baby, Becky Vieira gives extremely useful advice for mothers on what to expect after pregnancy and how to deal with the challenges of having a newborn.
Enough About the Baby: A Survival Guide
As moms, we put everyone else before ourselves. However, taking care of ourselves first makes us better moms. In Self-Care Self-Love For Overwhelmed Moms, Marissa Leinart shares the seventeen truths that will transform our mindset on self-care and se...
Self-Care for Overwhelmed Moms: 17 Truths
In More Than a Mom, Ashley Carbonatto shares her stories and honest reflection for how to survive motherhood. She is the sister who, with her honesty and humor, can guide us along on the hard path of being a mother.
More Than A Mom: Finding Purpose Everyday
This is a great book for new moms. In You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom, Leslie Anne Bruce offers lessons to new mothers on how to get through the early days when your head feels like it is spinning and you do not know which way is up, and emerge stronge...
You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: Bruce, Leslie Anne
In Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts, Karen Kleiman gives guidance and exercises to help new moms validate and share their feelings, and start to feel better. I had many intrusive thoughts after giving birth, which made me feel so alone. This book helps ...
Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide
It is hard to find time to pursue your creative dreams as a mom. There are so many other tasks that need to get done. In Create Anyway, Ashlee Gadd helps us see that it is essential to have creative hobbies as a mom. Creativity could be writing, draw...
Create Anyway — Ashlee Gadd
In More Than a Mom, Kari Kampakis teaches us that we need to take care of ourselves in order to help our families thrive. Kari gives us a practical framework for meeting our needs.
More Than a Mom: Prioritize Your Wellness
In Didn’t See That Coming, Rachel Hollis helps us take those really difficult experiences we have to go through, whether that is fear, grief, loss, or betrayal, and learn from them. She shows us that these moments help us grow.
Didn't See That Coming: Life Back Together
In The Fringe Hours, Jessica N. Turner urges moms to take blocks of time in the day to practice self-care.
The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You
Eve Rodsky calls the time where we focus on our creative interests our “unicorn space”. In Find Your Unicorn Space, she guides us to rediscover our creative interests and to reclaim the time that we need to share those interests.
Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Creativity
In Dying To Be A Good Mother, Heather Chauvin takes us through her journey of being a working mother of three to being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and teaches us how to put ourselves first and find the happiness that we need to survive.
Dying To Be A Good Mother: Dropped the Guilt
Carla Naumburg guides us on how to be a calmer and happier parent in How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t With Your Kids. I’ve had plenty of mommy meltdowns so I plan to read this book.
How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids
In Motherwhelmed, Beth Berry uses compassion and honesty to explore the difficulties of modern motherhood. We are told many motherhood myths and when we cannot keep up we think that we are bad mothers. We are not bad mothers, we are just mothering in...
Motherwhelmed: Challenging Norms & Truths
KJ Dell’Antonia helps us find happiness in our daily lives in How to Be a Happier Parent. She focuses on nine problems that tend to bring parents the most stress.
How to be a Happier Parent: Raising a Family
Mommy Burnout is a handbook for today’s moms. Dr. Sheryl G. Ziegler has many years of experience working with families. That experience helped her devise a program to help moms combat “mommy burnout”.
Mommy Burnout: Reclaim Your Life & Raise Kids
In Mama, You Are Enough, Dr. Claire Nicogossian teaches us about shadow emotions. Shadow emotions show up as sadness, anger, fear, embarrassment, disgust, or a combination. Dr. Nicogossian shares tips and strategies to help moms in all stages of moth...
Mama, You are Enough - Dr. Claire Nicogossian
Molly Millwood explores the complexities of new motherhood and how it affects partners in To Have and to Hold. She helps moms get back their identities, overcome guilt, and repair relationships.
To Have and to Hold: Motherhood & Marriage