Winter is a season for reflection, renewal, and personal growth. As the world slows down and snow blankets the earth, it’s the perfect time to cozy up with a great book and focus on self-improvement and transformation. There is no better moment than now to delve into these five inspiring reads! Discover these motivational books that can help you succeed in any endeavor, warming your soul and sparking your ambitions even on the chilliest of days.
The Ageless Revolution - 10 Hallmarks of Aging That Hold the Secret To Defeating Disease, Reversing Age, Looking Younger, and Living Longer by Dr. Michael Aziz
Described as a “tour de force in anti-aging,” bestselling author Dr. Michael Aziz unlocks the secrets to longevity and disease prevention with a straightforward, doable plan focusing on the ten hallmarks of aging to target your cells and turn back the clock.
The passage of time is inevitable, but getting sick as you get older is not. There was a major breakthrough in the world of antiaging in 2013 with the release of a landmark paper conceptualizing nine hallmarks of aging and their underlying mechanisms. Gut health was recently added as the tenth point. Now we know why get old and why the cells start to deteriorate and eventually die.
The Ageless Revolution zeroes in on these ten hallmarks of aging to turn back time with a variety of weapons that target the malfunctions in our cells, mitochondria, and DNA. Here, you will discover the secrets to prevention by losing weight, reversing disease, slowing the aging process, and extending your lifespan. Renowned internist and anti-aging and regenerative physician Dr. Michael Aziz offers professional insight into lifestyle changes, hormone replacement, weight loss tips, supplements, medications, peptides, treatments, and procedures that can fight aging. His approachable but informed guidance is nothing short of revolutionary—the first book on the market to bring this bombshell information to the public. You’ll discover an innovative yet practical and easy-to-follow plan for how to look younger, live longer, and feel your best!
I (Think) I Want Out - What to Do When One of You Wants to End Your Marriage by Becky Whetstone
I (Think) I Want Out is an essential couples guide that provides comprehensive information, answers, and guidance on how to navigate a marriage crisis.
Among the 600,000 annual divorces that transpire within the United States, almost all of them begin with a marriage crisis. Whether your partner told you they want to leave the marriage, or you are wondering how to break the news that you want out, this breaking point can be filled with overwhelming emotions, worry about children becoming collateral damage, and ill-advised counseling that make navigating this process more frightening and confusing than it has to be. These heartbreaking times can propel couples into a state of fear, panic, and uncertainty about what steps they should take, sometimes leading them to divorce when reconciliation might have been possible. Known as the “Marriage Crisis Manager,” marriage and family therapist Becky Whetstone fills in these gaps by speaking to both partners on how to manage themselves and their relationship in the healthiest of ways, regardless of the eventual outcome.
In I (Think) I Want Out, Whetstone’s coaching offers clear understanding on why everyone feels crazy and overwhelmed during one of life’s most difficult experiences. By promoting peacefulness and self-care, she emphasizes the importance of both partners slowing down throughout the process. With engaging exercises and worksheets, Whetstone organizes an intelligent plan so all parties can successfully manage the crisis in a way where smart, rational decision-making can take place, and mistakes are minimized. Some of the many useful strategies and insight Whetstone provides help couples understand:
How the marriage crisis happened in the first place
The stages of marital deterioration and how to diagnose the severity of the marriage crisis
How our nervous system impacts the way we feel and influences our actions
What factors to consider: mental and physical health, abuse, and addiction
When it’s time to separate and how to do it peacefully in a way that avoids separation limbo and moves the couple forward toward the end goal of a definitive decision
How to manage the crisis and possible divorce amicably, ensuring the best outcome for the children
With the inclusion of useful templates that show couples how to separate in a way that encourages reconciliation and offer a plan for families whose intended divorce is done in a respectful way that encourages a good co-parenting relationship moving forward, this useful guide helps is an invaluable tool for any dissolution of a marriage.
Love the Foods That Love the Planet - Recipes that Cool the Climate and Excite the Senses By Cathy Katin-Grazzini
Love the Foods That Love the Planet features tantalizing low carbon dishes to help meet the urgent climate challenge.
What we eat and how we produce it matters. We know our world is careening toward warming tipping points beyond which recovery may not be possible. Shifting the food supply away from animals to plants as much as possible can drastically lower greenhouse gases and buy us the time we need to prevent irreversible harm and devastating outcomes. A plant-based diet also prolongs life, vitality, strengthens immunity, and gains protection from chronic illness and infectious disease. A healthy body and a healthy planet are linked.
We all have more agency than we think when it comes to climate change. Our food choices influence our social and family circles, which in turn collectively drive consumer demand and market response. For those who are concerned with the pressing climate crisis and who want to mitigate the growing threats of extreme weather, wildfires, loss of biodiversity, and food insecurity, Cathy Katin-Grazzini has carefully created and compiled a delicious medley of powerful plant-based recipes that help revitalize the health of our environment and our bodies.
Love the Foods That Love the Planet is loaded with recipes that are packed with climate challenge insights, featuring both creative and traditional cuisine from around the world, and accompanied by eye popping photography by Giordano Katin-Grazzini. These recipes range from simple and quick for weekday suppers to special and celebratory for weekends and entertaining and all of them help save the planet.
Dear Drew - Creating a Life Bigger Than Grief By Melissa Hull
A guided healing journey with lessons and tools for self-discovery, transformation, and limitless growth.
Western culture has long struggled with the treatment of trauma, loss, and grief, often wishing to sweep the “ugliness” under the rug. More recently, the phrase “it’s okay to not be okay” has come into vogue, opening up the possibility of showing grief and sadness to the world. While this sentiment is absolutely true and useful in the initial stages of loss, grief, and healing, many people don’t realize that it’s also okay to want to be more than okay. They take on their trauma as their identity—the grieving parent, the injured divorcé, the abused child—and thus limit themselves and their capacity for joy and happiness.
In Dear Drew: A Letter to Those Who Yearn to Heal from Grief and Find Joy Again, Melissa Hull offers readers a provocative alternate view: We have a choice in how we heal. We can choose to make grief or trauma a point of personal discovery and allow it to open us up to beautiful learnings and a happy, meaningful life. By recognizing the moment of agency—and acting on it—we are empowered to heal, transform, and thrive. This is some of the most difficult emotional work one can ever do but also some of the most rewarding.
Drawing on her experience of losing a child to drowning, Melissa speaks from a place of deep healing from both the loss and her related feelings of guilt. The book’s title references not only Melissa’s son and the letters she wrote him after his death but also a letter from a stranger, Theresa, that saved Melissa’s life and became a touchstone. This book is Melissa’s letter to those who have experienced trauma so severe that they can only trust the voice of someone who has survived similar pain. Readers who pick up Dear Drew know they need a deep healing process so they can begin to believe a better future is possible and then choose to keep moving toward that future every day. Having rebuilt her life using traditional Western therapies as well as alternative approaches, Melissa acts as readers’ witness and guide.ho are environmentally conscious and want to bring a mindful approach to their diet but don’t want to skimp on taste, Love the Foods That Love the Planet provides an active solution for home cooks—from the newbie to the most experienced chef. Help is here, in this climate friendly cookbook.
Moonshot Moments - Ushering in the Next Human Renaissance Through AI, Transhumanism, and Psychedelics
While humanity faces unprecedented ecological and social challenges, advances in technology and our understanding of the mind are creating the conditions for a global renaissance. Weaving together personal transformation through transhumanism with a call for global collaboration, author Milan Kordestani presents an inspiring roadmap to a brighter future.
Humanity stands at a crossroads. Technological development outpaces our confidence, with each innovation bringing both wonder and unease. We grapple with the fear of the unknown and the anxieties of a rapidly changing world. We wonder if new technologies will decimate our job market, increase inequality, or endanger our species. But what if the key to unlocking our full potential lies not in clinging to the familiar, but in embracing humanity’s potential for radical thinking?
Moonshot Moments is a marriage of science, philosophy, history, and futurism. Bestselling author Milan Kordestani chronicles his journey to thrilling and unforeseen frontiers in our understanding of consciousness, the self, and humanity’s cosmic destiny. His exploration moves beyond the growing anxiety over rapid AI development to offer a unifying, transhumanist vision for the future of humankind. He delves into the biohacking of human consciousness, exploring how, amid a world offering both suffering and joy, we can cultivate presence and discover meaning in our lives. Readers will discover how to organize their own mindsets and work toward a collaborative community that is fueled by innovation, building a society that will spark solutions to tomorrow’s challenges. Moonshot Moments is not just a glimpse into a brighter future, it's a blueprint for actively creating it.
As the chill of winter settles in, it’s the perfect time to embrace opportunities for growth, learning, and transformation. These five books offer a wealth of inspiration and practical tools to help you succeed in every aspect of your life—from health and relationships to global challenges and personal resilience.
Whether you're seeking to unlock the secrets of longevity, navigate a marriage crisis, adopt a planet-friendly lifestyle, heal from grief, or envision a brighter future with cutting-edge ideas, each title provides a unique perspective to guide you on your journey.
This winter, let the stories and insights within these books spark warmth in your heart and light a path toward the best version of yourself. Take the first step toward a transformative season, one page at a time. Stay inspired, stay motivated, and let these incredible reads be your companions in creating a life you love.
Love,
Elizabeth
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