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The options are endless when it comes to books, so we recognize that this category in particular is incredibly open-ended — especially since we all resonate differently with any given book. That said, we’ve compiled a list of titles that can be used as a starting place to kick off your journey, and as usual, we ask that you send us your must-add favorites!

Anatomy of the Spirit

Anatomy of the Spirit

Metaphysical Healing

Caroline Myss

Mystical map of how the story of your life can show up in your body — and how changing your energy can support real healing.

A New Earth

Eckhart Tolle

Humanity's unconscious ego creates collective pain, but collective awakening through presence dissolves it — creating a new conscious planet.

Archetypal Universe

Archetypal Universe

Renn Butler

The archetypal planetary energies that map your psyche & connect you to the wider cosmos — informed by non-ordinary states of consciousness like Holotropic Breathwork, psychedelic-assisted therapy, & intense dreams.

Astrology for the Soul

Astrology for the Soul

Authentic Alignment

Jan Spiller

Look to the North and South Nodes of the Moon to reveal your karmic lessons and life purpose.

Astrology: Using the Wisdom of the Stars in Your Everyday Life

Astrology: Using the Wisdom of the Stars in Your Everyday Life

Beginner-friendly

Personal Blueprint

Caroline Taylor

A beautifully illustrated introduction to astrology, and how to use it in your everyday life.

Atlas of the Heart

Atlas of the Heart

Nervous System Regulation

Brené Brown

Learn to identify, process, and articulate 87 distinct emotions in order to courageously build deeper, more authentic relationships.

Ayurveda

Holistic Medicine

Personal Blueprint

Beginner-friendly

Sahara Ketabi

Discover your Ayurvedic mind-body type (Dosha) and bring ancient healing into your everyday life.

Becoming Supernatural

Becoming Supernatural

Neuroplasticity

Dr. Joe Dispenza

Journey beyond the familiar to unlock your innate ability to heal and transform your reality through meditation, elevated emotions, heart–brain coherence, and connection to the infinite possibilities of the quantum field.

Before: Children's Memories of Previous Lives

Before: Children's Memories of Previous Lives

Jim Tucker

Scientifically explored stories of children who remember past lives, challenging what we know about consciousness, memory, and the nature of existence.

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

Dive into the consciousness of creativity — where messiness is natural, fear is welcomed, and curiosity becomes your guide.

Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass

Interconnectedness

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Indigenous wisdom, the science of plants, and the deep reciprocity that binds us to the earth.

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

Neuroplasticity

Dr. Joe Dispenza

A groundbreaking guide to rewiring your mind and breaking free from old patterns to create a new reality.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

Nervous System Regulation

James Nestor

Unlock breath's quiet alchemy—your innate gateway to nervous system coherence, laser focus, and the deep ease your body craves.

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, & Creativity

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, & Creativity

Creator / Source

David Lynch

A dive into the deep waters of consciousness: using Transcendental Meditation (TM) to catch the 'big fish' of creative inspiration — David Lynch’s lived experience.

Don't Believe Everything You Think

Don't Believe Everything You Think

Neuroplasticity

Joseph Nguyen

Why your thinking is the beginning and end of suffering.

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

Holistic Medicine

Andrew Chevallier

Your hands-on portal to 560 herbs' healing secrets — blending folk wisdom, lab science, and kitchen remedies for everyday vitality.

Energy Work: Secrets of Healing & Spiritual Growth

Energy Work: Secrets of Healing & Spiritual Growth

Robert Bruce

Use the sense of touch (feeling) rather than visualization to stimulate the flow of vital energy throughout the body — a practice anyone can do.

Getting Past Your Past

Getting Past Your Past

Alternative Therapy

Francine Shapiro

Learn EMDR self-help techniques like eye movements & bilateral tapping to process buried traumas and free yourself from the past.

Good Morning Monster

Good Morning Monster

Catherine Gildiner

Five extraordinary survivors, five heroic journeys through trauma — the intimate, unsparing therapist’s view of emotional recovery.

Hands of Light

Metaphysical Healing

Barbara Brennan

See & work with the human energy field — understanding auras, chakras, and subtle patterns of imbalance — via hands-on energy techniques that support physical healing, emotional release, and spiritual growth.

Heal Your Body

Metaphysical Healing

Louise Hay

Unlock your mind-body code, where every ache whispers a limiting belief and can be rewritten to spark healing from within.

How to Be the Love You Seek

How to Be the Love You Seek

Dr. Nicole LePera

Break the chains of past trauma to become the love & safety you crave.

How to Do the Work

How to Do the Work

Nervous System Regulation

Dr. Nicole LePera

A beginner's roadmap to self-healing — rewiring trauma patterns via somatic practices, establishing boundary rituals, facing ego, and reparenting your inner child.

Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be

Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be

Personal Blueprint

Chetan Parkyn

A deep, structured map of human design — rich with system roots, mechanics, and life-path detail to discover the person you were born to be.

Human Design: The Revolutionary System...

Human Design: The Revolutionary System...

Personal Blueprint

Jenna Zoe

Your permission slip to be who you came here to be — discover the revolutionary system of human design in a way that feels like a chart reading from a friend (who's globally renowned).

I Don't Believe in Astrology

I Don't Believe in Astrology

Beginner-friendly

Personal Blueprint

Debra Silverman

How the 4 elements (fire, earth, air, water) & your natal chart can turn self‑judgment into self‑acceptance — a therapist’s love letter to astrology as soul-level psychology.

Ikigai

Authentic Alignment

Héctor García & Francesc Miralles

A gentle, practical doorway into your “reason for being" — the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for — from Okinawan longevity & Japanese wisdom.

It Didn't Start with You

It Didn't Start with You

Mark Wolynn

A deep dive into the traumas your body & psyche inherited — plus a language-based map for finally ending patterns that never felt like yours.

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender

Nervous System Regulation

David R. Hawkins

A step-by-step surrender practice teaching you how to release stuck emotions & rise into peace — no matter what your mind is doing.

Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

Michael Singer

Dive into the nitty‑gritty of untangling your “human predicament” moment by moment, using every trigger as fuel for liberation. (Book 2 of 2)

Many Masters, Many Lives

Many Masters, Many Lives

Brian Weiss M.D.

A psychiatrist’s true story of how one patient’s past lives — brought on via hypnotic regression — shattered his belief in reincarnation & reality, and opened a doorway to healing.

Mating in Captivity

Mating in Captivity

Esther Perel

A bold, unflinching look at why long-term love so often kills desire — and how to rekindle erotic aliveness without blowing up your life.

Metaphysical Anatomy

Metaphysical Anatomy

Metaphysical Healing

Evette Rose

Decode over 800 specific medical conditions as emotional messages — from migraines signaling suppressed rage to IBS tied to control issues — with step-by-step tools to heal the root.

Mindset: the New Psychology of Success

Mindset: the New Psychology of Success

Neuroplasticity

Carol Dweck

Discover the prison of a fixed mindset — and the liberating thrill of growth, where every stumble fuels your comeback story.

Mind to Matter

Neuroplasticity

Dawson Church

Over 400 peer-reviewed studies prove your mind reshapes matter — EFT tapping, meditation, and brainwave practices to heal DNA, boost immunity, and extend life.

Money and the Law of Attraction

Money and the Law of Attraction

Esther and Jerry Hicks

Practical money mastery through Law of Attraction: scripts, processes, and vibrational alignment to magnetize abundance without grinding harder.

No Bad Parts

Internal Family System (IFS)

Alternative Therapy

Dr. Richard Schwartz

Meet your "parts of self" — the inner critic, addict, people-pleaser, and wounded child — not as problems to fix, but as parts longing for your care with the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model.

Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall Rosenberg

Find common ground with anyone using a simple 4-step language that hears feelings & needs beneath blame — unlocking empathy in the toughest conversations.

Reality Transurfing

Reality Transurfing

Vadim Zeland

Surf infinite realities by mastering pendulums (collective energy structures that feed on our attention), reducing importance, and tuning outer intention.

Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

Beginner-friendly

Nervous System Regulation

Thich Nhat Hanh

A tender Buddhist invitation to embrace your wounded inner child through mindful recognition breaths, hugging meditation, and compassionate self-dialogue — turning old pain into present peace.

Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil

Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil

Authentic Alignment

Liz Green

Saturn as both our inner critic & our greatest teacher — explore how the “hard stuff” in our chart becomes the doorway to real maturity & freedom.

Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to...IFS

Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to...IFS

Internal Family System (IFS)

Alternative Therapy

Jay Earley

Step-by-step workbook to lead your personal IFS sessions — meeting every inner part with compassion to heal trauma & restore wholeness.

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

Laura Lynne Jackson

Discover the universe's secret language of signs — from feathers & coins to synchronicities & dreams — that loved ones & guides use to comfort, guide, and validate our path.

Spirit Babies

Walter Makichen

Connect with your spirit baby before conception through telepathy, visions, emotions, and intuition — discover soul contracts, timing, and how to create the perfect welcoming energy.

The Alchemist

Authentic Alignment

Paulo Coelho

A fable that follows a shepherd's mythic quest for his Personal Legend, revealing that the universe conspires to help those who dare to follow their heart's deepest calling.

The Artist's Way

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

A 12-week spiritual path to recover your creative self through morning pages, artist dates, and gentle exercises that dissolve blocks & rediscover joy in creating.

The Biology of Belief

The Biology of Belief

Neuroplasticity

Bruce Lipton

Your beliefs aren't just thoughts, they reprogram genes & biology through epigenetics — simple mindset shifts can heal your body, boost vitality, and transform your life.

The Body Keeps the Score

The Body Keeps the Score

Neuroplasticity

Bessel van der Kolk

Trauma rewires your brain & body — unlock brain scans, yoga flows, and EMDR rhythms to rewrite survival wiring into embodied safety.

The Book of Destinies

The Book of Destinies

Authentic Alignment

Personal Blueprint

Chetan Parkyn

Discover your unique "Life Theme" from 192 Human Design incarnation crosses — personal destiny blueprints revealing your soul's storyline.

The Book of Pluto

The Book of Pluto

Steven Forrest

Refine your understanding of Pluto — the planet of catastrophe & evil, but also the potentials to evolve your consciousness. Rather pertinent as we enter the age of Aquarius & a new paradigm.

The Book of the Moon

The Book of the Moon

Steven Forrest

Your lunar world — phases, voids, progressions, and out-of-bounds magic — shapes your soul and guides you home.

The Dream, The Journey, Eternity, and God

The Dream, The Journey, Eternity, and God

Interconnectedness

Sara Landon & Mike Dooley

Life is a divine dream you scripted — awaken to its playful illusion, your creator power, and your innate divinity beyond time's veil.

The Four Agreements

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz

Four simple agreements based on Toltec wisdom — watch your words, don’t take things personally, don’t make assumptions, and always do your best — to reduce suffering & reclaim your inner freedom.

The Gene Keys

Personal Blueprint

Richard Rudd

Unlock your contemplative path from shadows to gifts to Siddhi — 64 DNA codes drawn from I Ching, astrology, Human Design, Kabbalah, tarot, and genetics.

The Inner Sky

Personal Blueprint

Beginner-friendly

Steven Forrest

Beginner's guide to evolutionary astrology — where celestial influence meets free will.

The Light Between Us

The Light Between Us

Interconnectedness

Laura Lynne Jackson

A certified psychic medium's memoir that demystifies the afterlife and our transcendent connection to passed loved ones.

The Map of Consciousness Explained

The Map of Consciousness Explained

David R. Hawkins

Map your inner world on Hawkins' 0-1000 consciousness scale — from shame (force) to enlightenment (power) — understanding levels, calibration, and why surrender works.

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Beginner-friendly

Robin Sharma

A fable about a burned-out lawyer who sells his Ferrari for Himalayan wisdom — 7 quirky symbols for the timeless virtues that help us unlock joy, purpose, and presence.

The Power of Kabbalah

The Power of Kabbalah

Creator / Source

Rav Berg

A modern guide to Kabbalah as soul technology — shift from reactive chaos to proactive power, connect to infinite Light, and Share to correct your Tikkun.

The Power of Now

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

The ego uses the past & future to distract you from the now — the only moment that truly exists; bring your awareness to the present to embody your true essence.

The Seat of the Soul

The Seat of the Soul

Creator / Source

Authentic Alignment

Gary Zukav

Our souls are evolving throughout lifetimes, moving away from five-sensory humans who pursue power, to multi-sensory beings who embody authentic power.

The Secret

Rhonda Byrne

Like attracts like — it's The Law of Attraction — learn to intentionally craft your thoughts to focus on what you want, feel it as real, and receive it.

The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity

The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity

William Paul Young

A grief-filled novel about a father, shattered by his young daughter’s murder, who returns to the shack where she was killed and spends a mystical weekend encountering God, wrestling with suffering, and relearning love & forgiveness.

The Success Principles

The Success Principles

Jack Canfield

67 principles to taking radical responsibility & building unstoppable belief to achieve anything — this is your comprehensive starter kit.

The Surrender Experiment

The Surrender Experiment

Michael Singer

A wild memoir of what happens when you surrender in the midst of chaos and say “yes” to Life — from spiritual awakening, to solitary meditation, to building a billion‑dollar company, to facing federal charges.

The Untethered Soul

The Untethered Soul

Michael Singer

An invitation to sit in the seat of your awareness, watch your mind unravel, and taste what freedom feels like inside your own chest. (Book 1 of 2)

The Vortex

Beginner-friendly

Esther and Jerry Hicks

Unlock the power of your emotional Vortex: cultivate love, joy, and alignment to effortlessly attract harmonious relationships and life experiences.

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence...

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence...

Alternative Therapy

Nervous System Regulation

Judith L. Herman

Foundational roadmap for healing trauma — including CPTSD — from domestic abuse (rape, incest, domestic captivity) to political terror (war, torture, genocide).

Waking the Tiger

Waking the Tiger

Nervous System Regulation

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.

Release trauma-trapped survival energy from the body via instinctual shakes & sensations — written by the creator of Somatic Experiencing.

What I Know for Sure

What I Know for Sure

Authentic Alignment

Oprah Winfrey

A warm, easy-to-digest dose of soul clarity, this book turns Oprah’s hardest earned life lessons into bite-sized reminders of how to live a fuller, truer, more joyful life right now.

What My Bones Know

What My Bones Know

Neuroplasticity

Stephanie Foo

A raw, investigative memoir that exposes how childhood trauma echoes through adulthood — and what it takes to finally break the cycle.

You Can Heal Your Life

You Can Heal Your Life

Metaphysical Healing

Louise Hay

Your core beliefs & repetitive thoughts shape your health, relationships, and life circumstances — learn metaphysical principles & simple affirmations to transform your experience.

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