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Readings for Healing, Growth, and Inner Alignment
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items “I hardly recognize myself anymore!”; “This doesn't feel like me.” “How did I get here?” If you've ever found yourself in realization that, perhaps you haven't been living in the fullness of you authentic self, these books are for you. Discover books...
Sections
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Tending the Inner Child
Identity & Self-Discovery
Spiritual Awakening & Soul Alignment
Emotional Healing & Energetic Boundaries
Tending the Inner Child
These titles support the gentle yet powerful work of healing your inner child—helping you reconnect with core needs, reframe old wounds, and reclaim your innocence, playfulness, and emotional safety.
A practical and compassionate guide to identifying and healing your "shadow child" while empowering your "sun child" to lead with confidence and love.
The Child in You: Breakthrough Method
A classic on inner child work, offering deep insight into how early wounds shape adult life—and how to reclaim wholeness through reparenting.
Homecoming: Championing Your Inner Child
Artistic expression is a form of healing and this book offers the tools and space to do just that. This book uses art and journaling guidance to help you access your inner child and promote emotional healing through expressive techniques.
Recovery of Your Inner Child: Acclaimed Method
A mindful, Buddhist approach to healing emotional wounds, especially those formed in childhood and family relationships.
Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child - Books
This gem explores inherited family trauma and gives tools to uncover and heal patterns passed down through generations.
It Didn't Start with You: Inherited Trauma
Peter Levine introduces somatic practices to help release trauma held in the body, especially from early life experiences.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Identity & Self-Discovery
Uncover your essence beneath the conditioning, fear, and expectations.
This book blends neuroscience and philosophy with exploring consciousness and identity, and what makes you feel real.
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Empowers readers to release perfectionism and live wholeheartedly by embracing vulnerability, courage, and authenticity.
The Gifts of Imperfection - Brené Brown
A raw, bold invitation to break free from external expectations and live fully as your wild, intuitive self.
Untamed: Reese's Book Club
A modern take on self-sabotage and transformation, helping you dig into your patterns and rise into your true potential.
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage
Uses narrative and spiritual tools to show how telling the whole truth to yourself unlocks freedom and deep personal power.
The Way of Integrity: Finding Your True Self
Spiritual Awakening & Soul Alignment
Align your daily life with your soul’s wisdom, truth, and divine design.
Explores consciousness and cosmology, inviting you to understand your role as a co-creator in the unfolding of life.
You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Self
A practical and spiritual guide for creating internal balance and awakening your inner intelligence through yogic wisdom.
Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy: Sadhguru
Reimagines Maslow’s hierarchy with a spiritual, self-actualizing lens, offering a science-backed roadmap to soul-led fulfillment.
Transcend - Scott Barry Kaufman
Find clarity on how to free yourself from inner limitations and live in alignment with the energy of the present moment with this book.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
A timeless work on living intentionally, guided by spiritual power rather than external control or fear.
The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniv. Ed. w/ Study Guide
Emotional Healing & Energetic Boundaries
These reads help you process deep emotions, release trauma, and build healthy, empowered boundaries that support your truth.
A no-nonsense, compassionate guide to understanding your limits and communicating them clearly to protect your peace and power.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace - Nedra Tawwab
This book is a must-read for energy sensitives and empaths, offering tools to create, cleanse, and strengthen energetic boundaries across all levels of your being.
Energetic Boundaries: Stay Protected at Work
Tara Branch does an amazing job weaving mindfulness and self-compassion into a healing balm for emotional wounds, helping you release shame and come home to your heart.
Radical Acceptance
This book is a must-read for the generational curse breakers out there. Drama Free focuses on healing family patterns and recognizing when emotional enmeshment, guilt, or dysfunction is crossing energetic lines.
Drama Free
Dr. LePera integrates psychology and holistic wellness to guide you through self-healing, emotional regulation, and boundary-setting as tools for empowerment.
How to Do the Work: Heal Your Past
I am deeply passionate about Polyvagal theory. Especially as integrated in energy and spiritual work; and after you read this book i think you will begin to understand why. Anchored introduces polyvagal theory in an accessible way to help regulate yo...
Anchored: Befriend Your Nervous System
Emotions are messengers of the soul. Karla McLaren teaches you how to listen to emotions as intuitive messengers rather than resist them—offering strategies to transform overwhelm into wisdom.
The Language of Emotions (Book and E-book)