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Books That Are Helping Me Heal and Find Myself Again
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items I started keeping track of the books I’ve been turning to while trying to reconnect with myself.
Not because I have everything figured out, but because these are the ones that have actually helped me shift something real.
Some of them are gentle. S...
I started reading this when I realised how disconnected I felt from myself and my creativity.
I’m still moving through it, but even just beginning has shifted something. It’s slower, more reflective, and brings up things I didn’t expect in a way tha...
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron | Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
This book has found me at a time where I feel like I’ve lost parts of myself without really knowing how or why.
It’s not something I am moving through quickly. It’s the kind of book I need to sit with, come back to, and understand differently each t...
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Healing & Self Discovery
To me this feels like the perfect book for realising how much of my day is spent overthinking, taking things personally, and trying to manage how other people see me.
It’s uncomfortable to notice, but also kind of relieving to see how much of that p...
The Four Agreements: Simple Rules to Live
This book is showing me how much I rely on motivation and then feel frustrated when I can’t stay consistent.
I tend to swing between doing everything at once or nothing at all, and this is making me see how unsustainable that is.
It breaks things d...
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
A beautiful book that is exposing to me how disconnected I’ve been from nature and from any real sense of slowness in my life.
It’s making me notice how much I rush, take, and move through things without really paying attention.
This book feels dif...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Healing Through Nature
I spend a lot of time replaying things, overthinking, or worrying about what’s coming next, and it’s exhausting.
This book is making me realise I don’t have to follow every thought or believe everything my mind is telling me.
I’m not fully there wi...
The Power of Now: Stop Overthinking & Find Peace
If your mind never seems to stop, this book will change how you relate to your thoughts.
So often it feels like my mind is constantly commenting on everything, and I don’t always realise how much I’m letting it control how I feel.
This book is help...
The Untethered Soul: Free Yourself from Overthinking
This is the book that helps you understand why your body reacts the way it does, even when your mind cannot explain it.
The Body Keeps the Score explores how trauma is stored in the body and how it shapes your nervous system, behaviours, and emotion...
The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma & Healing
If you are constantly hard on yourself or feel like you are never quite enough, this book meets you with compassion instead of pressure.
Radical Acceptance teaches you how to stop the cycle of self judgement and begin relating to yourself with under...
Radical Acceptance: Stop Fighting Yourself
If you constantly feel like you are not doing enough, not being enough, or not getting it right, this book softens that pressure.
The Gifts of Imperfection explores how shame, perfectionism, and comparison quietly shape the way you live and see your...
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Are
This is the kind of book that quietly shifts how you see life.
The Wisdom of Insecurity explores the idea that trying to control everything is what actually creates anxiety.
It gently challenges the need for certainty, future planning, and constant...
The Wisdom of Insecurity: Finding Peace
If you are starting to recognise patterns in yourself but do not know how to actually change them, this book gives you a place to begin.
How to Do the Work connects childhood experiences, trauma, and daily behaviours in a way that makes your reactio...
How to Do the Work: Recognize Patterns & Heal
This book feels like permission to stop pushing.
Wintering is about the seasons in life where everything feels heavy, slow, or uncertain, and instead of trying to fix or rush through them, learning how to be in them.
It reframes burnout, grief, and...
Wintering: How to Rest, Slow Down & Heal
This is a book about choosing love over fear in the smallest, most everyday ways.
Return to Love explores how fear quietly shapes your thoughts, reactions, and relationships, and what it looks like to soften instead of protect.
It is spiritual, but...
Return to Love: Healing Fear & Softening
If you struggle to say no, feel responsible for other people’s emotions, or constantly overextend yourself, this book will shift things.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace breaks down what healthy boundaries actually look like and how to communicate them wi...
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide