Personal Transformation

Transformative Memoir of Loss and Psychedelic Healing

In Pain Is a Portal to Beauty, Alexis Leigh embarks on a deeply personal and transformational journey, weaving together grief, self-discovery and spiritual awakening. Through raw and poetic storytelling, Leigh shares how immense loss, psychedelic experiences and the process of feeling everything led her to profound realizations about life, love…

BookTribMay 20, 2025

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Abuse Survivor’s Story of Hope, Faith and Spiritual Healing

Butterfly Stitches is an inspiring and extremely raw Christian memoir by Michele Evette Vrabel, in which she recounts her harrowing yet inspiring journey from an abusive childhood to healing through her faith in her King Jesus Christ. This book bares the author’s heart and soul, taking readers through some of…

Natalia KavaleNovember 18, 2024

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Immerse Yourself in the Emotions Brought on by the Pandemic in “Wish You Were Here” by Jodi Picoult

After waiting a bit to recover from the stress, I was finally ready to dive in to a novel set during the Covid outbreak. Surprisingly, I really enjoyed where Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult took me! Diana is almost 30 years old and is hoping to get engaged when she…

Jennifer BlankfeinJuly 15, 2022

Nonfiction

Video: Missed It? Interview with Lisa Garr, Author of Becoming Aware: How to Repattern Your Brain and Revitalize Your Life

Lisa Garr wants you to stop going through the motions in life. She wants you to become aware. Her mission on her internationally syndicated radio program, The Aware Show—and now in her first book—is to inspire positive growth in all areas of life and bring conscious conversations into everyone’s living room.…

BookTribJune 7, 2015

Better Self Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

“Purpose and Possibilities: How to Transform Your Life” Gets to the Heart of Healing

The subtitle of this book, Purpose and Possibilities (BG Publishing), is “How to Transform Your Life.” And who doesn’t want to transform their life, especially after the year that we’ve had? This is the perfect book at the perfect time — if you’re willing to do the work. This is…

Barbara WilkovJuly 21, 2021

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured

Mental Health Professionals Henry and Elaine Brzycki on the Road to Real Well-Being

Henry and Elaine Brzycki deeply know both the science and humanity necessary to truly make a difference in mental health and well-being. The couple are veterans of the industry (40 years working for others’ happiness is quite an admirable timeline indeed!) and also are already accomplished authors, having written three…

Judy MorenoAugust 2, 2021

Author Spotlight Book Club Network Fiction

Interview with Dianna Rostad, the Debut Author of “You Belong Here Now”

Ever since I read Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train I was struck by the stories of the orphans sent from New York to the wild Midwest. Now Dianna Rostad, my former critique partner and dearest friend with whom I celebrated with lemon cake, cried at seafood dinner, and hiked over the…

Weina Dai RandelAugust 3, 2021

Author Spotlight Book Club Network Nonfiction

Amy Herrig Talks Transformations in “No More Dodging Bullets”

“When we feel like all is lost, if we dig deep and look for a better way, we can find a greater strength and better version of ourselves than we ever knew before.” That’s what Amy Herrig did. After overcoming a heroin addiction as a teenager, she faced an entirely…

Judy MorenoFebruary 22, 2021