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for Self Awareness & Personal Growth

Listing of books, articles and movies that motivate and inspire self growth and provide tools to help us heal, regain our authentic power, self esteem and reconnect to our inner guidance. Learn how to create a life filled with peace, happiness and success.


Your Beliefs Create Your Reality

What we were raised to believe by our parents and society is all relative to some of our deepest unhealthy core issues. Changing those core beliefs can have phenomenal positive breakthroughs in moving beyond the expectations of others on how we "should" be and moving into discovering and honouring who we "are" and what we were born to do, and to find out what our purpose in life is, we need to reconnect to our own inner wisdom and guidance.

Learning how to change our belief systems and thoughts can and will produce a healthier positive outcome in every aspect of our lives, including and especially in the area of our self esteem. Change your beliefs and you change your reality.


Healing Physically and Emotionally

The books, movies and articles below have helped me along my journey of self growth and provided lasting guided awakenings.

One of the many ways I was able to heal was through the awakening of mindfulness and consciousness, as well as an understanding of how the woman's body functions as a whole unit, both physically and emotionally:
  • on a physical level, certain foods, chemicals, excercise or lack thereof, and allergies can play a huge part in our overall health. 
  • on a mental & emotional level, unresolved emotional issues over time can settle in related parts of our body, which causes physical dis-ease.  Author Carolyn Myss explains this connection in her book, "Why People Don't Heal & How They Can".  Louise Hay also provides a booklet which lists the various physical ailments and their emotional cause, called "You Can Heal Your Body".
A great book that provides an intimate understanding of our bodies, from age young to post menopausal, is "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom" by Dr Christiane Northrup


Recommended articles For Self-Empowerment
  • Domestic Violence & Abuse
    Melanie Tonia Evans

    The truth about physical, mental and emotional abuse to women. Intimate partner violence (IPV), is an enormous society issue. 

  • Narcissism Understood
    Melanie Tonia Evans

    Recognising the "Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde" personality disorder that destroys relationships, families and lives. Feeling confusied, unsafe, sucked dry emotionally, mentally, physically, financially? You are probably in relationship with a narcissist.

  • Overcoming Relationship Addiction
    Melanie Tonia Evans

    Identify & overcome obsessive love or relationship addiction. For those addicted to love, learn the steps to break away and heal the painful cycle.

  • The Boomerang Relationship
    Lynne Namka

    Recognising and dealing with passive agressive behaviour, irresponsibility and resulting partner anger.

  • 16-Steps for Discovery and Empowerment
    Dr. Charlotte Kasl
     
    A wholistic approach to overcoming addiction that views people in their wholeness - mind, body and spirit - alternatives to the 12 steps, by Charlotte Davis Kasl, Ph,D., author of "Many Roads One Journey (Moving beyond the 12 steps)" and "Women, Sex and Addiction". If you are curious about alternatives to the 12 steps.

  • Blaming The Victim
    Boston Women's Health Book Collective

    The most common emotional responses to sexual harassment, battering, and rape are guilt, fear, powerlessness, shame, betrayal, anger, and denial. Guilt is often the first and deepest response. Anger may arise only later, because as women we often have no sense of a right to be free from these kinds of violence.

  • Healing & Coping With Depression - A Holistic Approach
    Alison Siwek

    Depression can seem hopeless, but there is hope and healing is possible. This article offers hope, encouragement & understanding from a holistic view of mind, body & spirit.

  • The Awakening - A Poem
    Sonny Carroll

    There comes a time in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out "ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on." And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs begin to subside, you shudder once or twice, you blink back your tears and through a mantle of wet lashes you begin to look at the world from a new perspective.... This is your awakening...

 

books For Personal Growth

You Can Heal Your LifeYou Can Heal Your Life
Louise Hay

Louise explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness, and how you can change your thinking…and improve the quality of your life!

This bestseller has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Louise has assisted thousands of people in discovering and using the full potential of their own creative powers for personal growth and self-healing.

 

 

 

You Can Heal Your BodyYou Can Heal Your Body
Louise Hay

A fresh and easy step-by-step guide, set up in an A-Z format.

Just look up your specific health challenge and you will find the probable cause for this health issue, as well as the information you need to overcome it by creating a new thought pattern.

 

 

Why People Don't Heal, And How They CanWhy People Don't Heal, And How They Can
Carolyn Myss

This book takes readers to a hidden realm of the human body, beyond Western myths about healing. Many people challenged by illensses fail to respond to conventional treatment. As a medical intuitive, Dr. Myss looks beyond physical complaints and indentifies the true blocks to healing. She shows that when we stop using illness as a way to gain power and intimacy with others, we stop wasting our sacred energy. It then becomes available, not only for self-healing, but for spiritual fulfillment.

 

 

Sacred ContractsSacred Contracts : Awakening Your Divine Potential
Carolyn Myss

Dr. Myss identifies a 'tool box' of 12 major archetypal patterns, and explains their roles in the 'alchemy of spirituality'. She explores how we can identify our personal archetypes, uncover their higher purpose, and then work with them for personal evolution, self-understanding and spiritual development. Archetypes are symbols for unconscious energies and potentials held in common by all of humanity.

 

 

 

The Heart of the SoulThe Heart of the Soul : Emotional Awareness
Gary Zukav & Linda Francis

The need to feel safe, valuable, and loved has focussed our attention outwoard toward what is external. Society has always been "outwardly" fixated - obsessively accumulating more wealth, material objects, and power. Gary teaches that as long as there are parts of yourself that reach outward to make you feel safe, valuable, and loved, you need to identify them and heal them." The book includes exercises to help the reader feel and understand their emotions in order to "empower the soul" and live a more rewarding and joyful life. The words and intentions are indeed poignant and worthwhile.

 

 

Women Who Run With the WolvesWomen Who Run With the Wolves : Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A feminist and Jungian analyst, Clarissa believes a woman's wholeness depends on her returning to the sources of her repressed instinctual nature. She draws on a collection of myths, legends, and fairy tales, each story demonstrates a particular aspect of woman's experience--relationship, creativity, anger, spirituality, etc. She shows within these tales the necessity for women to reclaim their wildness and encourages women to return to their "feral" roots.

 

 

 

Women's Bodies, Women's WisdomWomen's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing by Christiane Northrup
This book is a groundbreaking and inspiring health care guide for women of all ages. Dr. Christiane Northrup, a holistic physician trained in obstetrics and gynecology, explains the workings of the female body and guides you through a comprehensive list of womens conditions and concerns. She powerfuly demonstates that when women listen to their body's own wisdom or change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they feal faster, more completely and with far fewer medical interventions.

 

 

The Power of NowThe Power of Now : A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Eckhart Tolle

"The Power of Now" takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality - the discovery of truth and light.

 

 

 

 

 

A New EarthA New Earth : Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle

We all have the power to make a difference - a new earth begins with a new "you". A follow-up to "The Power Of Now", Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live. Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that hangs over humanity, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow.  A cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement.

 

 

Eat, Pray, LoveEat, Pray, Love : One Woman's Search for Everything Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
A beautiful, heartfelt memoir that is rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali.

 

 

Breaking The Chains of Painful LoveBreaking The Chains of Painful Love
Melanie Tonia Evans

A self help book to help you heal from difficult or abusive relationships, reclaim yourself and turn your life into an empowering and loving reality.

Learn how to decide you deserve to attract and maintain a genuine loving relationship and discover how to powerfully create true love, success and happiness.


 

 

Take Back Your PowerTake Back Your Power
Melanie Tonia Evans

A practical workbook providing step-by-step processes to heal and re-create yourself as a woman who knows her deservedness in love.

Learn how to release pain of the past, get clear about the truth of your life, and live aligned with your highest expression of love, success and happiness.

 

 

 

Loving What IsLoving What Is : 4 Questions That Can Change Your Life
Byron Katie

Definitive sourcebook for "The Work", filled with detailed instructions, humorous anecdotes and numerous illustrative dialogues - perfect for learning to do The Work or helping yourself go deeper. The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the stressful thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world & understand what's hurting you, and end all your stress and suffering.

 

 

 

One Day My Soul Just Opened UpOne Day My Soul Just Opened Up : 40 Days and 40 Nights Toward Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth by Iyanla Vanzant
A program of inspiration and motivation to help you work through problems and improve your emotional and spiritual health. It will open your mind, heart, and soul to the truth of your identity as a creative and powerful being. This book is dedicated to Ego - that part of us that continues to worry, lives in doubt, is afraid, judges other people, is afraid to trust, needs proof, believes only when it is convenient, fails to follow up, refuses to practice what it preaches, needs to be rescued, wants to be a victim, beats up on "self", needs to be right all of the time, and continues to hold on to what does not work. You are now put on notice that "your days are numbered"!

 

Many Roads, One JourneyMany Roads, One Journey : Beyond the 12 steps
Charlotte Davis Kasl, Ph.D.

This book paves the way for a new and broader understanding of recovery that involves both personal and social awareness. It empowers individuals to find their own voice and their own sources of strength and spirituality to guide their healing. Combining careful analysis, moving stories, and Dr. Kasl's own flexible 16 step alternative.This book is a wholistic approach to overcoming addiction that views people in their wholeness - mind, body and spirit - alternatives to the 12 steps, by Charlotte Davis Kasl, Ph,D., author of "Many Roads One Journey (Moving beyond the 12 steps)" and "Women, Sex and Addiction". If your are curious about alternatives to the 12 steps.

 



The Yeast Connection and the WomanThe Yeast Connection and the Woman
William G Crook, M.D

Determine if your health problems are yeast-connected. Some indicators are if you feel sick all over, have taken a lot of antibiotic drugs, sought help from many different specialists, or taken birth control pills and/or steroids. This book discusses yeast-related problems  such as fatigue, muscle pain, ear problems, headache, psoriasis, adhd, depression, asthma, autism, pms, endometriosis, cystitis and more. It presents information about vitamins, antioxidants, supplements, diet, mind/body connection.

 



Mindful RecoveryMindful Recovery : A Spiritual Path to Healing from Addiction
Thomas Bien, Ph.D & Beverly Bien, M.Ed

This book shows you how to use the simple Buddhist practice of mindfulness to be aware of and enjoy life in the present moment without the need to enhance or avoid experience with addictive behaviors. Step by step through 10 powerful doorways to mindful recovery, with speific strategies to help cultive calm awareness and life balance. Filled with personal stories of recovery, practical exercises, instructions for meditation and more, this is a journey of exploration and healing that will help you find the strength and tools to change, leading you to a fresh new experience of everyday living.



Children of TraumaChildren of Trauma : Rediscovering Your Discarded Self
Jane Middelton-Moz

Imagine what it would be like to become the healthiest person you could be. This is the inherent right of each individual but when lingering emotional trauma from childhood blocks the normal developmental process, we get stuck. As each of us strives to become the healthiest person we possibly can, we come face-to-face with emotional fears that may be the result of traumatic childhoods. Although that journey may be paved with unresolved grief and unrecognized loss, this book will serve as the map to guide and help you rediscover your discarded self - the best self you were always meant to be.



The Serenity PrincipleThe Serenity Principle : Finding Inner Peace In Recovery
Joseph V. Bailey

This book shows recovering people how to tap their own source of positive energy in a new approach in the search for serenity - a quest recognised as the recovery from addiction. This paradigm for understanding the common denominator for all addictions springs from recent breakthroughs in psychology. The author argues that this psychology empowers those in recovery to find the source of that recovery within rather than rely on external rituals, powers and beliefs. He shows that by understanding how the mind works, the addict can satisfy the desire for serenity and realize full recovery rather than coping with the disease.



Women's RealityWomen's Reality : An Emerging Female System in White Male Society
Anne Wilson Schaef

A book about how women see themselves, how they see men, and how they see the society in which they live, and is supportive of women's changing roles without putting men down. It allows men and women to see each other as friends rather than enemies. This book provides the understanding women need to enhance self-awareness and clarifies what it means to be a woman living in a male-dominated society, which is often at odds with the way women feel. The runaway bestseller that enables women and men to understand and support women's roles and achieve a healthier view of ourselves and the world.



 HaliJo's Poetry & CD Pack


Comprises HaliJo's Poetry Volume I, plus
a copy of her cd single Black and Blue.

A portion of proceeds from the cd go to
local women's organisations.

Read more Poetry by HaliJo Webster
Chap Book by HaliJo Webster

 

Movies And Videos to Inspire and Enlighten
  • You Can Heal Your Life - The Movie
    Louise Hay teaches us that every cell within our body responds to every single thought we think and every word we speak. When we look within, we can learn how heal ourselves and take control of our lives through becoming aware of the mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. Watch movie trailer.


  • The Secret
    This DVD shares The Secret (based on The Law Of Attraction) to how to manifest what you want in your life, including unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth.


  • What The Bleep? Down The Rabbit Hole
    5-Disc Collector’s Edition - What The Bleep – Down The Rabbit Hole is an extended and enhanced Director’s Cut of What the Bleep Do We Know!? with new scientific findings that supplement the original movie. It is a deeper exploration of the links between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality. Including in-depth interviews with 16 of the world’s top physicists, engineers, physicians, biologists, researchers, journalists and mystics, who talk about consciousness, psi research, physics, biology, emotion and addictions. The film’s power and magic lies in the fact that it really makes us understand how human beings are connected to each other – to the whole universe – and how we all affect reality. This outrageous film plunges you into a world where quantum uncertainty is demonstrated – where neurological processes, and perceptual shifts are engaged and lived by its protagonist - where everything is alive, and reality is changed by every thought.




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