If we had a dollar for every self-help book we wanted to pick up lately but were distracted by the exploding world, we would have enough Amazon credit to buy the entire Eckhart Tolle library. Instead, we encourage you to actually buy one (or all 20) of the ones listed below. Then make it your business to read it from beginning to end. With the best self-help books, a happier, healthier life is just a few sessions away.
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1. The Immune Type Breakthrough: Your Personalized Plan to Balance Your Immune System, Optimize Health, and Build Lifelong Resilience by Heather Moday, MD
Have you heard a lot about boosting your immune system lately? This current book, due out December 21, 2021, takes a look at cutting edge research and case studies to give you clear insights into optimizing your health with a customized plan. The plans are based on your immune type, which Moday identifies as smoldering, weak, hyperactive, and misguided. Follow the program and register for this half marathon.
($ 28; amazon.com)
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2. Inner Harmony: Living in Balance by Jon Kolkin
Sometimes you just want to look at photos. Okay, and some inspirational text too. Here the award-winning photographer and doctor Dr. Jon Kolkin has over a decade of visiting Buddhist communities across Asia and provides a firsthand look at monastic life. The captivating graphics and accompanying words will remind you to slow down, focus, and remind yourself that your problems are probably not as big as you portray them.
($ 48; amazon.com)
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3. When the Crisis Strikes: 5 Steps to Healing the Brain, Body, and Life from Chronic Stress by Jennifer Love, MD and Kjell Tove Hovik, PhD
Do you always feel nervous or what is the next code red coming up? Do yourself a favor and take this book - pronto. Written jointly by a psychiatrist and a neuropsychologist, you will be trained in what is happening in your mind and body on a biological level. In 247 pages, you'll also learn how to cope with life's tough times and become a more resilient guy. Chronic stress is terrible - it's time to take a proactive step to get out of it.
($ 8; amazon.com)
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4. Save Your Health: How New Advances in Science Can Help You Feel Better, Perform Better, and Live Longer by Marvin Singh, MD
Packed with cutting edge scientific research and information to help reduce your risk for heart and liver disease, cancer, and degenerative brain disease. You will be taking a lot of notes on the subject. With Singh skillfully telling how to live longer (and better) in easy-to-understand language, you'll only wish you got your hands on this sooner.
($ 9; amazon.com)
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5. Shift into higher gear: improve your best and live the life to the fullest, by Delatorro McNeal
A motorcycle enthusiast and honorary doctorate, McNeal uses bicycle metaphors to reveal his proven techniques for making your life better. The book contains exercises, journaling activities and exciting questions to get your bikes running too. With luck - and hard work - you will soon be changing your daily habits and feeling happier and more fulfilled than ever.
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6. The Body Holds the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD
It's no surprise that this 2014 Bible on healing trauma picked up the New York Times bestseller list during the pandemic. The book guides you through research into psychological trauma and helps you prepare for better days. For science enthusiasts, it also offers a fascinating look at how trauma changes your mind and body - rather than how you think.
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7. Ageless Intensity: High intensity workouts to slow down the aging process by Pete McCall
With 100 skiing and surfing? We also. In this book, McCall, a certified strength and conditioning specialist, gives the reader research-based insight into HIIT training and how you can apply the principles to get in incredible shape regardless of your age. Whether you're looking for a fitness tuning or hoping for a body transformation, everyone will leave this book with actionable advice to keep their joints healthy, muscles strong, and a positive mindset.
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8. This Is Your Brain While Eating: An Essential Guide to the Surprising Foods That Tackle Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, ADHD, and More by Uma Naidoo, MD
Allow us to say the obvious: you are what you eat. Your brain thinks that too. In fact, recent studies have shown that your diet can have a huge impact on your noggin, be it dementia, insomnia, or mental illness. In this book, a Certified Psychiatrist, Nutritionist, and Professionally Trained Chef will help you understand the science in layman's terms and provide you with 40 recipes to support brain health. Bon Appetit.
($ 13; amazon.com)
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9. Peace from Fear: Getting Grounded, Building Resilience, and Staying Connected in the midst of the chaos of Hala Khouri
Yoga teacher, how do you do it? The therapist and yoga teacher Hala Khouri will show us. Get ready to rethink your life with practical tools for managing stress and recovery from hardship and trauma. It might not be the same as your cozy little neighborhood yoga studio (thank you, pandemic), but it will certainly help you live a less anxious life.
($ 10.97; amazon.com)
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10. Mindfulness for People Who Shit About Being Mindful: 6 Practical Changes to Make Mindful Choices, Regain Your Strength, and Create a Fuller Life by Melissa Maxx
This helpful guide covers many aspects of mindful living with a no-frills approach that you are sure to appreciate. Enhance your personal growth, work on having more time for yourself, and learn how to cultivate your mind-body connection for calmer, healthier lives. If you've been feeling particularly exhausted lately, join us on this path to less madness, more bliss.
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11. Upward spiral: Using neuroscience to reverse the course of depression, one small change after another by Alex Korb
This helpful book gives you concrete suggestions on how you can improve your everyday life, whether you are depressed, anxious or just need a little spiritual SOS. Yes, some tips are a refresher on the obvious: see a therapist, exercise, sleep well, but Korb also contains lesser-known techniques that have a measurable impact on your wellbeing. (For example, if you panic, make a plan to activate a region in your brain so you can better control yourself.) FYI, the first part of the book examines the physiological basis of depression, which is especially helpful when You are trying to understand what is going on in your head or that of a loved one.
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12. Abundance of Soul, a 21-Day Do-It-Yourself Program of Spiritual Healing, Prophecy, Dream Study, Inner Guidance, and Total Mastery by Tosin King James
This 2022 book is an apt release for January 1st and will get you in shape in less than a month, whether you are dreaming of roaming the country or finding peace in a challenging relationship in your life. We cannot promise that the Guardian Angel depicted on the cover will manifest in your life. But we believe that you will put this book down like a better version of yourself.
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13. Advanced Chakra Healing: Four Paths to Energetic Wellbeing and Transformation by Cyndi Dale
Okay, it's a bit out there, but stranger things have happened in the past year than the assumption that spinning wheels of energy exist at various points along your body, from your crown chakra to your root chakra. Wherever you fall on the supernatural spectrum, you're in good hands with Dale. She is the author of 28 books on energy healing and spirituality. You are sure to close the book with a new insight or 50 from the practicals and their teachings. From making better use of your intuition to energy mapping, this 800-page book is jam-packed with advice on breaking free of energy blocks.
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14. Permission to Glow: A Spiritual Guide to Epic Leadership from Kristoffer Carter
Hoping to get more in touch with your spiritual side while building a business empire at the same time? Read this self-help book to get the most of your career. With lots of humor and pop culture references, this is a spiritual guide like we have never read before. PS Check out this Good Life Project podcast if you want to get a feel for what is in store before you buy.
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15. Mindful Wise Leadership: The Secret of Leadership Today by Keren Tsuk, PhD
If you are looking to increase your happiness and success in the workplace, consider this book your personal coach. It contains lessons on how to be a better boss, learn how to engage your people more meaningfully, and build your empire. Expect plenty of practical examples, practical tools, and theories, all presented in an easy-to-understand format.
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16. Aspire !: How to Create Your Own Reality and Change Your DNA by Frank McKinney
Do you need a full life reset? We feel you. Whether you're recovering from a tough breakup or looking to rearrange your diet, this book will show you how to reinvent all aspects of your life, broaden your mindset, and be healthier all around you, mentally and physically. It's half Tony Robbins, half Louise Hay.
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17. Living in Full Disaster: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Counter Stress, Pain, and Disease by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
This fan favorite was originally released in 1990 and is just as relevant today. This is where the father of MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) helps you reach your full potential, relieve your anxiety, manage chronic pain and improve the general quality in your head for a day. If you've already read and loved this book, take a look at Kabat-Zinn's Master Class on Mindfulness and Meditation.
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18. The Dry Challenge: How To Lose The Alcohol For Dry January, Sober October And Every Other Alcohol Free Month By Hilary Sheinbaum
In times of the pandemic, do you realize it's time to cut the bottle down or drain it entirely? Think of this book as a step-by-step guide to getting through your first dry January, sober October, or any other alcohol-free month. The book includes actionable advice on switching, DIY mocktail recipes, what to do if you fall off the course, and more. We hear it goes well with those non-alcoholic spirits that taste like the real thing.
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19. GAIN Without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals by Greg Hammer, MD
A professor and doctor from Stanford University Medical Center is here to tell you, life can be better. Much, much better. The findings were written prior to the pandemic to help address rising health care professional burnout rates and are applicable to anyone struggling to stay afloat in these unprecedented times. PS "GAIN" here is an acronym for gratitude, acceptance, intention and non-judgment.
($ 15; amazon.com)
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20. This monk wears heels: Be Who You Are by Kodo Nishimura
The highly anticipated book by Nishimura, recently added to TIME magazine's list of Next Generation Leaders, will be released on February 8, 2022. In it, the makeup artist and Buddhist monk shares wisdom and insights into self-esteem, the embrace of your true self and getting through this crazy world.
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