Inner Work 097: 7 Books to Read on Your Spiritual or Healing Path
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
For Inner Work's first episode of 2021, I'm sharing a list of 7 powerful books that can awaken and transform you. These are unique, truthful, and healing books that I've returned to over and over again as I've walked my own spiritual path. I hope you'll find a title that resonates with you and that can help you kick 2021 off with renewed hope, clarity, and inspiration.
I run through each of these books and describe their main purpose, who they're meant for, what makes them unique, and why they're important for those of us on the spiritual path.
Here's the list of books included in this episode:
Ram Dass - Grist for the Mill
Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With the Wolves
Penney Peirce - The Intuitive Way
Lama Tsultrim Allione - Feeding Your Demons
Jean Shinoda Bolen - Goddesses in Everywoman
Benebell Wen - Holistic Tarot
Seth Godin - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Please note: this is NOT an affiliate episode, so I don't receive financial compensation if you purchase any of these books. I'm recommending them because I can personally vouch for their transformative powers.
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Editing & music by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. |
| 0:21.4 | To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehartman.com. |
| 0:26.8 | If you feel called to support the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:32.7 | I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little |
| 0:39.6 | while. Now, on to the episode. Welcome to Inner Work episode 97, the first episode of the year |
| 0:49.1 | 2021. Please know, as always, that I'm so grateful for your presence here, so happy to be sharing this time together, |
| 0:57.0 | that you've made time for this in your busy day and your busy life, and I'm wishing you a prosperous, bright, joyful, peaceful 2021. |
| 1:08.0 | Certainly, I hope that this new year will be a better year for all of us collectively than |
| 1:13.7 | 2020, and I hope that we will both contribute to making it so in our own ways. I figured it would |
| 1:21.3 | be a good idea to start the year with some solid book recommendations for you as you navigate |
| 1:27.0 | your spiritual path of healing and awakening. |
| 1:31.1 | All of these are books that have transformed my life for the better. They have given me a deeper |
| 1:36.8 | sense of meaning and purpose and they have helped me overcome dysfunctional patterns and self-sabotage and inner conflict. |
| 1:47.1 | So I hope that these books will help you too, whether you read one or all of these. |
| 1:52.5 | I'm going to run through each book, give a brief description of the book's purpose, who it's |
| 1:58.2 | for, and I will also read some excerpts from the books so you can get |
| 2:03.3 | a clear sense of each one. And there will be a list of all of these books in the show notes as well |
| 2:10.3 | in case you want to look at that later and have it as a reference. So let's start with the first book on our list, which is grist for the mill, |
| 2:22.3 | Awakening to Oneness. And this was written by Ram Dass, originally in 1976. So this is probably |
| 2:31.8 | the book with the broadest ideas and appeal that really speaks to many different people on the spiritual path, |
| 2:39.9 | whether you've just had a spiritual awakening and you're starting to learn about all of these spiritual things, |
| 2:47.3 | or whether you've been on the path for a while. |
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