Spiritual Self-Help

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

Nonfiction Recommended

Transformative Power of the Enneagram, the Spiritual Map to the Soul

When psychologist and spiritual teacher Joseph Benton Howell lost his son in 2008, the bottom fell out of his world. Years later, his daughter died in her sleep following a relapse after a hard-won period of sobriety. These seismic losses shattered the coping mechanisms that had previously held Howell together.…

BookTribApril 2, 2025

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“Good Grief” Guides the Bereavement Journey, and There’s No Right or Wrong Way

“If you love you will grieve, and that’s just a given,” wrote psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, one of the several insightful quotes that pepper the gentle bereavement guidebook, Good Grief: A Journey From Lost to Love (Soft Touch Publishing) by Valerie D. Swinton and Fred J. Kirby Jr. Grief may…

Cynthia ConradSeptember 28, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

A Therapist’s Guide to Tackling Addiction and Compulsions

What are you addicted to? Most people would instinctively answer “Nothing!” But if you really think about it, is that the truth? According to psychologist Dr. Carder Stout, we’re all addicts, even if we don’t realize it. Beyond alcohol, drugs and sex — which are most commonly thought of as…

BookTribFebruary 17, 2023

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Learning How to Manage Your Emotions Through the Conceptual Framework of Chakras

“Emotions trigger actions. Actions trigger reactions. Reactions trigger emotions. This is a never-ending cycle. As human beings we emote; this is in our nature. Whether we like it or not, we must face our and others’ emotions constantly. How we face them makes all the difference.” In Preethi Saravanakumar’s latest…

Cynthia ConradMay 31, 2022

Better Self Nonfiction

“The Little Book of Big Knowing” Offers a Lighting-Round of Wisdom

That’s what author Michele Sammons asks readers at the outset of The Little Book of Big Knowing. It’s a fair question to anyone engaged in or considering a journey under the general heading of self-help. In order to help yourself, Sammons suggests, you need to do a little reaching beyond…

Jim AlkonMay 12, 2021

Better Self Book Club Network Nonfiction

Donna Bond’s “Original Wisdom” Helps Readers Unlock the Insight Within

Inspired, intelligent and life-changing, Original Wisdom (Halo Publishing International) is not one of those preachy self-help books with “a cure for anything that ails ya.” It’s the real deal. Author Donna Bond has generously offered herself as a spiritual guide and her book as a gift. And if you can…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitApril 19, 2021

Better Self Business Nonfiction

Live interview with Alka Dhillon, who presents today’s women with The OM Factor, a unique program to fulfillment

How can successful women flourish when they’re caught in a never-ending battle of seemingly conflicting interests: ambitions to pursue demanding careers, dedication to home and family, desire for intellectual self-improvement, and yearning for fulfillment of emotional and spiritual needs? Alka Dhillon presents today’s women with a unique program to integrate the disparate aspects…

BookTribMay 2, 2015