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Books That Changed My Life 📚💗
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items These books that have had a huge impact on my life, helping me slowly experience & embody a new, steadied, more joyful & vibrant energy ✨
This book met me at a point of deep inner healing and encouraged me to begin living my life more audaciously, vibrantly, and fully 💕
Women Living Deliciously by Florence Given
I learned my lifelong survival mode was to “fawn” (aka people please) and reading this book has helped me to slow down, assess my needs first, and act accordingly. Thank god.
Are You Mad at Me? by Meg Josephson
This book… every millennial woman (bad probably Gen X & Z, too!) needs to read this book, especially if you’ve ever thought about why the heck so many of them women you know and love are so hard on ourselves.
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned Women
Recommended by my therapist, this book helped me to more clearly see how hard on myself I was / the crazy high expectations I had and learn how to be gentler, kinder, and more understanding with myself.
Self-Compassion: The Power of Being Kind
This novel had me in tears and, much like the main character, getting more and more curious about the “life fully lived.”
The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
This was also recommended by my therapist and I did *not* want to read it… but, as a child of codependent parents, it turns out I really needed it!
Codependent No More by Melodie Beattie
Being a woman whose almost never liked her body, reading this book gently healed my relationship with her 🥹
The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary McBride
Recommended by my EMDR therapist, this workbook has been tremendously helpful as I’ve been working on identifying, having compassion toward, and ultimately healing the parts of me that were impacted by trauma.
Internal Family Systems Workbook: Heal Your Parts
I love a little magical realism, and this novel has it. Heavy themes, but such a beautiful story. (TW: suicide attempt)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
This book is both encouraging and BEAUTIFUL! 😍
My Friend Fear: Finding Magic by Meera Lee Patel
This was one of the first romance books I read as I’ve picked back up reading for fun and it kind of made me believe in love again… like that live could be for me, too 🥹
Funny Story by Emily Henry