Top 5 Books To Read For Self Healing

In this post, I’m going to share with you the top 5 books to read for self-healing.

When you sit down and enjoy a good book, you get to experience the mind of someone else. It’s a way that you can escape your mind and your thoughts, for just a moment and jump into someone else’s. Aside from reading for personal enjoyment and entertainment, you can also seek out writers who can educate you on topics that you are either wanting to learn more of, or just curious about.

If you’re reading this post right now, you probably want to learn more about how to heal. You’ve come to the right place because I’m going to share with you some books that have been extremely helpful in my understanding of healing.

Here are the 5 best books about healing.

Top 5 Books To Read For Self Healing

1. You Can Heal Your Life

In this book, the author, Louise Hay, does an incredible job of not only sharing amazing wisdom but provides you with actionable steps to actively work on healing your life. She shares her own story which is inspiring to see how she turned her life around in such a dramatic way. Louise explains how healing the body, comes down to one thing, loving yourself. This a 10/10 read for anyone ready to start the work of healing your life.

You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.

Louise Hay

2. Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace

In this book, Gabby gets real and honest about the realities of trauma. She talks about looking at all the parts of ourselves that we don’t want to face and provides us with many therapeutic techniques to take action on our healing. If you’re ready to face your shadow and heal, this is the book for you.

The feelings that make us most uncomfortable reveal to us what we need to heal.

Gabrielle Bernstein

3. How To Do The Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your Past & Create Your Self

Dr. Nicole LePera helps the reader understand the self and become aware of the unhealthy coping mechanisms trauma tends to create. Creating a holistic approach to mental health. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the self.

The real work has nothing to do with anything “out there.” It has everything to do with what’s in you.

Dr. Nicole LePera

4. It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How To End The Cycle

In this book, the author, Mark Wolynn combines his take on trauma and scientific studies. To showcase how trauma originates and how we can end the cycle. If you are ready to forgive and release those stories you’ve created in your mind, this is the book for you.

One thing is clear: life sends us forward with something unresolved from the past.

Mark Wolynn

5. What Happened To You: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

This book does an amazing job of helping the reader understand how experiences during childhood have an effect on you as an adult. The authors provide a great deal of insight into the psychology of childhood trauma. Along with providing the reader with positive regulation methods. 10/10 read for anyone wanting to gather a deeper understanding of the effects of childhood trauma.

Because what I know for sure is that everything that has happened to you was also happening for you. And all that time, in all those moments, you were building strength. Strength time strength time strength equals power. What happened to you can be your power.

Oprah

All 5 of these books about healing can be the start of an incredible journey for you. These books alone have the power to change your mind and understanding of yourself.

Happy reading and healing to you.