Loving What Is solidified this notion where we literally “love what is” through practices. Throughout this book, she gives examples of people who are literally paralyzed in their lives due to anxiety, fear, pain, resentment etc. She presents a framework of working through the painful emotion so that it can better serve us. At this point, my mind has really been open and I am expanding my mindset. In some ways (not all), I have gotten a taste of the abundance mindset. I am not yet fully immersed in the culture but I am at least open to hearing of it. I have to admit though, I am still pretty stuck in scarcity. Do not despair if you are as well, the more you read these books and take brave, inspired action, the outcome will always motivate you to continue. I will also have to add in here that every person and situation is so different, that the outcome may not at all inspire you, or it may not even happen - this may just mean you're not ready to make a jump to the other side. You may also need a therapist to move you forward.Tony Robbins explains in his book that you must take massive action to get change. Most of us don't take massive action. We think we do. The example he always gives is that people come to him and say “I have tried everything.” To which he will answer - “oh really, what have you tried, name them.” They then name 1 or 2 things. “Ok, so you have tried the same thing over and over again and expected the same results. This is actually the definition of insanity. So - there you have it- this took me a really long time to implement - but I did take massive action by quitting my job. As I just heard in a parenting class by Sima Spetner, “If we handle our children's fights properly, we actually teach them proper social skills and the process in it of itself if therapeutic.” Everything in life is a learning experience.

I definitely felt discouraged at this point. I geared up with so many aspirations and bravery from quitting my job and only getting 1-2 clients made me feel less than inspired. Still, I looked to see if there was anything out there to inspire me and learn how to make this passion into a business. I heard of the book “Book Yourself Solid.” I didn't read this entire book but the most important thing I took from this is the importance of working with your ideal client. Why is this so important? Because, when we work with our ideal client, we are fired up and we therefore do our best work. When we work with clients less than ideal, we feel tired and drained, thus producing less than perfect work and unhappy customers. Happy clients create referrals. Unhappy clients create a bad reputation and no referral. It behooves us to work with our ideal clients to produce our best work and continue to get our ideal clients. This is both financially sound but more importantly, fulfillment sound. It is a win-win. If we work with our best clients, we enjoy ourselves, we are fueled by the energy, the clients are happy, and we make money doing it!

If you are ready to understand the medical and mental health aspects of an eating disorder, this will be your resource. Dietitians learn very little about eating disorders. Doctors learn very little about nutrition let alone eating disorders. There is barely an interface. This is an incredible resource for all healthcare providers looking to learn the depths of an eating disorder or for someone struggling with an eating disorder or if a loved one is.

I realized that for much of my life, I was indulging in fear based living. I loved victimizing myself and this 100% paralyzed my growth. Until I came across this book from @jewishlatinprincess podcast - “Feel the Fear, and Do it Anyways,” I love how the author gives so many examples of ways you can experience the emotion of fear, and yet still take massive action. Actually the emotion of fear, can espouse motion. ​This book opened my eyes to how there is really no such thing as a bad or wrong decision. We are all trying to do our best with the information we get. Life has so much to offer if we allow it. One example that stuck out to me (and I therefore wrote it on my wall in my bedroom) is to understand how paralyzing decision making can be. We agonize over the decision, and when we do decide, we wonder what would have happened had we chosen the other choice. Now, I want you to imagine that either decision you made was correct because life is full of wonderful things that can come our way if we allow it. Either way, what did you learn - about the world, about yourself, about others? Think about it this way, if you did something and you realized you don’t like that thing as a job,or a hobby, or whatever, you now know you don’t enjoy that thing. Isn't that valuable information. Failure = data.

The world wants to give us so much good, so much opportunity and meaning. When we state what we want and do the work, we find answers. This also overlaps with the surrendered wife and Laura Doyle’s “Things will get as good as you can stand”. As women we say “ no, I don’t need that” or “if you're not cold I’m not cold”. We shy away from our wants and needs and in return, we reject the generous giver. Let’s open our eyes to possibilities and accept the gifts that come our way!

I absolutely fell in love with this book because I love how Humble Dave Ramsey is. With many of these books, the author noticed a pattern in their lives or the lives of their clients. A pattern in behavior, thoughts or feelings that were perhaps creating less than ideal living situations. This book is a comprehensive way to make a choice to take control of your money.

Elizabeth Gilbert elaborates on this idea. She explains how the stories just come to her and how you have to grab that magic. Working with the people or the things that inspire you the most, allow for the best work to be produced.

This book also pokes at noticing your biggest fears and challenging them with a whopping dose of grit and resilience. You know you can, you know in your heart, in every fiber of your being, you need to do this. Through her excellent writing styles and entertaining story telling, she brings you on her journey of depression and powering through.

The Highly Sensitive Person is a book explaining this trait of sensitivity. I never knew that this was a studied trait until I heard of this book. 15-20% of the population have this trait. A good friend of mine told me she has a child with this trait and a therapist explained this to her, “All children are like flowers, but HSP are like orchids. Children need special attention but then you are blessed with the delicacy of an orchid.” If you are a HSP, this book will give you insight into your personality. You will learn on a whole new level how to parent yourself.

This book speaks of a therapist who goes to therapy. It is a deeply captivating book that gives you much insight into the human experience. Whether you are a therapist or not, we all struggle and feel deep pain. G-d gives us this roadmap through our emotions. Our emotions should lead to motion. No one wants to feel painful emotions, so we stifle them with addiction, food, money, other people's approval. Through self help and awareness, you can use these painful emotions for incredible guidance and growth.

In this book, the author, a psychologist who went through the Holocaust - explains how we all have choices. I want to make a point here. I have included books in this list explaining different people’s personality types, love languages, and traits. One thing to glean from this book is that we deal with deep, painful emotions. They can paralyze us or they can be used for tremendous growth. We get to choose.

Written by Linda Bacon, this book is a great paring to Intuitive Eating. She was also perplexed by the pursuit of weight loss for much of her adult life. As a result, she conducted this research to explain that one can in fact have health at every size.