44 Books to Enhance Your Healing and Growth [2024 Update]
We want to take a moment to share our favorite nonfiction and fiction books! These books range from advice from top performers in the world, to guidance on how to transform your life, all the way to stories which warm and inspire the soul.
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✨Inspires
💪🏽Motivation & Productivity)
🌳Healing
⚗️Science & knowledge
🙏🏼Meditation and Mindfulness
💧Will make you cry
Non-Fiction Books
Time Off, by John Fitch & Max Frenzel challenges the hustle culture, showing how embracing leisure and building a "rest ethic" can boost productivity, creativity, and fulfillment. Drawing on personal stories, historical insights, and scientific research, this guide offers practical strategies to reclaim balance, unlock your creative potential, and thrive in work and life.✨ ⚗️ 🌳
The Way Out, by Alan Gordon introduces Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), a revolutionary mind-body approach rooted in neuroscience that rewires the brain to eliminate chronic pain. Backed by groundbreaking research, this method offers a step-by-step guide to help sufferers break free from the cycle of pain and reclaim their lives. ✨⚗️ 🌳
The End of Your World, by Adyashanti explores the transformative yet challenging process of spiritual awakening, offering insights on navigating pitfalls like ego traps, meaninglessness, and the "I got it/I lost it" phenomenon. With direct teachings and practical guidance, it invites readers to embrace their true nature beyond identity and live authentically in the flow of life. ✨💪🏽 🌳
Die With Zero, by Bill Perkins offers a bold philosophy and practical guide to living a life rich with experiences rather than just accumulating wealth for retirement. Through strategies like "time-bucketing" and the "fulfillment curve," Perkins shows how to optimize your money and time to create lifelong memorable moments and avoid the trap of over-saving and under-living. ✨💪🏽
The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi is a transformative guide based on Alfred Adler's psychology, offering practical principles of self-forgiveness, self-care, and breaking free from past traumas and societal expectations. ✨💪🏽 🌳
Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman is based upon the fact that we roughly start with 4,000 weeks to live. It was also the Financial Times Books of the Year in 2021! How will you spend your one precious life? ✨💪🏽
Awareness, by Anthony De Mello
The heart of Anthony de Mello's bestselling spiritual message is awareness. Mixing Christian spirituality, Buddhist parables, Hindu breathing exercises, and psychological insight, de Mello's words of hope come together in Awareness in a grand synthesis. ✨🙏🏻
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, By Stephen R. Covey
NY Times Bestseller and classic read on the personal mindsets and habits of becoming the best version of yourself. I’ve read this multiple times, and learn something new every time! ✨💪🏻
The Wisdom of Your Cells, By Bruce Lipton, PhD
Gain insights about how cells interact with each and are affected by our emotions. Bonus Teaser: You’ll learn where Dr. Lipton believes the real brain of the cell resides! ⚗️✨
The Lion Tracker’s Guide To Life, By Boyd Varty
Learn from a lion tracker and life coach who reveals how the wisdom from the ancient art of tracking can teach you how to recognize the essential ingredients of a meaningful life. 💪🏽✨ 🙏🏻
The Creative Act, By Rick Rubin is like a series of creative koans that you can meditate upon, yet simple to understand & profound. Take it slowly with each chapter. 💪🏽✨
Excellent Advice For Living, By Kevin Kelly is very short book filled with distilled wisdom and insights. Listen to this one on repeat to really download the lessons! I’ve listened to this one at least 5 times and still learn something new each time! 💪🏽✨⚗️
Tools of Titans, by Tim Ferriss
Learn the tools from top performers that Tim Ferriss obtained from interviews on his podcast. 💪🏽✨
Tribe of Mentors, by Tim Ferriss
Similar to Tools of Titans, but with top performers not interviewed on his podcast. Gain insights on how the greatest think and focus their mind. 💪🏽✨
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
Chronicling his experience in Auschwitz concentration camp, Dr. Frankl shares his method of identifying a purpose in life and the shares the greatest power we have in every moment. Prepared to be moved and inspired. ✨🌳
Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Han
Filled with stories and simple exercises, learn how to incorporate mindfulness into your daily life. Washing dishes will never be the same again! ✨🌳🙏🏼
You Are You Are Here, by Thich Nhat Han
Through simple practices, continue to cultivate mindfulness in your life and into the present moment. ✨🌳🙏🏼
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
by Johann Hari
Learn about the causes of depression modern medicine fails to address, and their unique solutions through the stories Johann Hari encounters as he travels the world. ✨🌳
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, by Peter A. Levine
Learn about somatic experiencing (SE) and explore how we can heal trauma directly through deeper connections with our body. 🌳
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown
Learn how to weed out the unnecessary and focus on what is essential to create the life you want. 💪🏽
The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel Parenting, by Alice Miller
Discover how experiences in childhood can result in illness in adulthood through the stories of patients and famous historical authors. 🌳
Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Life's Tough Questions, by Dan Millman
Through 24 life principles, Dan answers tough questions regarding life. He builds a solid foundation between idealism and realism by applying timeless principles to pressing questions from all over the world ✨💪🏽
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics, by Michael Pollan
Explore the history and science of psychedelics along with journalist Michael Pollan, and see how its transforming treatment of mental health and consciousness. ✨🌳⚗
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It, by Kamal Ravikant
A collection of thoughts and highlights the importance of self-love and finding contentment. ✨🌳💪🏽
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz
Through these four agreements, learn how to achieve happiness, love, and freedom from self-limiting beliefs. ✨🌳💪🏽
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, by Michael A. Singer
Explore the relationship with yourself through meditation and mindfulness, and watch how the world around you changes. ✨🙏🏼
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, by Jocko Willink
Learn how mental and physical discipline creates freedom from this inspirational no-nonsense former Navy SEAL. 💪🏽
Get lost in the secret life of trees, as you discover how they are more like us than we realize. ✨⚗
Wherever You Go, There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Simple exercises and stories illustrating how to integrate mindfulness in your life. Great for the beginning meditator or those new to mindfulness. 🙏🏼
Power of TED*: *The Empowerment Dynamic: 10th Anniversary Edition
This book offers a powerful alternative to the Drama Triangle with its roles of victim, persecutor, and rescuer. The Empowerment Dynamic (TED) provides the antidote roles of creator, challenger, and coach - and a more positive approach to life's challenges.. ✨
Fiction Books
The Life Impossible, by Matt Haig
Matt Haig's novel shares a story about a retired math teacher, Grace Winters, as she inherits a mysterious house on Ibiza and uncovers an astonishing truth about her late friend’s life. Through adventure and self-discovery, Grace learns to embrace her past and the transformative power of new beginnings. ✨💧
The Mermaid from Jeju, by Sumi Hahn
The Mermaid from Jeju follows Goh Junja, a young haenyeo diver in post-World War II Korea, as she navigates the grief of her mother’s death, family separation, and the dangers of political unrest. Amid personal and national upheaval, Junja must find her strength in a rapidly changing world. ✨💧
Ordinary Grace, by William Krueger
This book is a poignant coming-of-age story set in 1961, where thirteen-year-old Frank Drum navigates a summer marked by tragedy, secrets, and loss in a small Minnesota town. Told from Frank’s perspective decades later, this Edgar Award-winning novel explores the profound themes of family, faith, and the enduring power of grace. ✨💧
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
This is the story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules, people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they'll be right there with Jonathan Seagull, flying higher and faster than they ever dreamed.✨
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
This is a mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined.✨💧
If you could learn exactly how long you would live, would you want to know? This book explores various individuals as they face this challenge in their lives. ✨💧
The Midnight Library, By Matt Haig
The main character must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. ✨💧
A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
A bitter old man tries to kill himself to join his dead wife, but repeatedly gets interrupted by his neighbors who later learns he actually has a BIG heart. ✨💧
Life's Golden Ticket, by Brendon Burchard
Be inspired by this parable, as Burchard takes you from a past of tragedy to creating a life of triumph. ✨
The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness, by Joel Izzy
A storyteller loses his voice, but discovers the secret to happiness. Some of the best stories you may have never heard before until now. ✨
Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
Based on his personal story, join Dan Millman as he transforms from college athlete into a peaceful warrior. ✨
Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield
Become one of the 300 Spartans who stood against Xeres. Experience strength, courage, and honor. And learn the real reason how the 300 were chosen to represent Sparta. ✨💧
The Celestine Prophecy: An Adventure, by James Redfield
In this synchronistic book you’ll learn 9 life truths in this adventure through the jungles of Peru. ✨
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Editor’s Note: This blog was originally published on August 9, 2018 under the title “23 Books to Enhance Your Healing and Growth” and has been updated on November 25, 2023 and November 24, 2024 to include additional items. We’ve now expanded the list from 23 to 44 to provide a more comprehensive guide for our readers.
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We want to take a moment to share our favorite nonfiction and fiction books! These books range from advice from top performers in the world, to guidance on how to transform your life, all the way to stories which warm and inspire the soul.