Societal expectations and external pressures can sometimes throw a wrench into life's trajectory and stop us from fulfilling our innermost potential. According to Peter Ash, outside distractions sap our energy and take our focus away from the things that matter most to us. With this...

How to Write a Book: Taking the Plunge into Non-Fiction and Conquering Your New Writer Fears and Doubts by Lauren Bingham is a guide for writers in which the author discusses how to write a non-fiction book. Lauren covers the topic using genres, like biographies...

Noah William Smith's book How to Motivate Yourself in 15 Minutes is part of The A to Z book series, which aims to help you improve your quality of life. The author draws inspiration from his experiences to present life-changing lessons that can motivate you...

When it’s right, love and your future can be totally different than you could ever imagine. The goal is to meet someone who allows you to shine, grow, and help you to become a better you. In How I Met My Other: True Engagements, Forever...

Her Honor: Stories of Challenge and Triumph from Women Judges by editor Lauren Stiller Rikleen is a collection of personal stories about respecting female judges. Justice Betty Roberts was the first woman to serve on an Oregon appellate court. Justice Roberts's early days on the...

How We Go On: Self-Compassion, Courage, and Gratitude on the Path Forward by Ken Druck, Ph.D. is an empowering, thoughtful guide to finding a way forward after heartbreaking loss. Druck leads us into a personal examination of each stage of our lives from childhood, including...

Highway to Healing by Shae Pratcher is a heartrending but beautifully victorious account of one woman’s journey coming to terms with sexual abuse perpetrated on her as an innocent child. An army brat, Shae and her family moved around a lot from camp to camp,...

I believe we all have emotional scars, but how many people know that those scars can be transformed into life-changing events? Diane M. Simard does. She shares her ten life principles in Heal Forward: Transform Emotional Scars into Impact. The first step to growth and...

How Did I Get Here? Traveling the Road to Resilience by Andrew Fitzgerald is part memoir, part guide to wisdom for life, and part call to action for self-advocacy. Fitzgerald offers heartfelt anecdotes from his extraordinarily varied and intriguing life, which has included life-threatening health...

Habits4Miracles by Rahul Karan Sharma is a motivational quick read that will help us develop and maintain habits useful for our inner growth, career progression, and well-being. The author offers us eight tools he calls “M.I.R.A.C.L.E.S.” They include the importance of mind talk, working on...