By Chris Wark

Just as the subtitle describes, this is a book of inspiration, encouragement, and action steps! There are 365 pages of tips and I try to read a page each morning just to help me stay focused on my healing, and to give me new ideas for work to be done. I'm not a religious person, and there are some days that are focused on bible excerpts, but I try to focus on what the message is he's trying to convey through the bible. 

By Anita Moorjani

Overview: Anita had an advanced level of cancer with lemon sized tumors all over her body in her lymph nodes. She found some alternative healing methods that worked for a while, but struggled with navigating different healing strategiest as she moved between different countries. She ended up on her death bed in a hospital and went into a coma. While in the coma, she had a near death experience where she was able to make amends with her father who had passed away many years before, and could see all the times that he was supporting her even though he wasn't physically with her. She realized that after death, we are all just one universal divine being, and wondered if our time on earth is when we get to actually experience heaven; a chance to experience love, joy, and even hardships. She recognized that she still had love to share with the world and was able to choose to come back to her life. Her cancer was completely cleared within days. This was a mind blowing read for me which talked a lot about the meaning of life and cancer.   

By Matthew Ferry

Overview: I was in the middle of reading this as I was diagnosed. It got me through the darkest days as it's all about quieting that inner survival brain that's running all the time (the "drunk monkey"), always worrying about the future. It helped me to shut up that monkey brain so that I could just stay focused on the present moment where everything was actually quite lovely! He shares many ideas about ways that our thoughts just create resistance and suffering for ourselves, and gives strategies to aide in recognizing when this is happening so that you can start living the epic life that you were destined to have. At the end of the book, he gives a tip a day for 23 days. I have been reading a tip each morning to help keep this mindset on a regular basis (I'm on my third time through!). 

By Kelly Turner 

I think I owe my life to the author of this book! Immediately after I was diagnosed, three people recommended it to me in a couple of days so I ordered a copy immediately. Dr. Turner has interviewed thousands of people who have healed cancer after their doctors told them their was no hope, or they couldn't do anything to treat their disease. In her research she found there are nine key factors that all of the survivors did to help themselves heal. There's a chapter devoted to each of the nine factors with personal, inspiring stories woven in. 

This book gave me so much practical advice, like diet changes and having goals for the future and filtered water, but also gave me so much hope. It helped create a mindset for me from day one that I could heal because so many others had done it before me. All my family members read this one as well, so we were all on the same page which was extremely helpful. I hate to think how different my journey would have been without the hope I garnered from this book. 

By Laura Lynne Jackson

Signs was recommended to me by my beautiful friend Carin who recently lost her father. I had mentioned to her that I felt like I was getting signs from the universe giving me ideas for this website and she told me I had to read this book! It is written by a medium who can connect with people who have passed to the "other side." This book was so relevant for Carin as she realized that she can still have a connection with her father through signs from him, and now knows that he is supporting her every step of the way in her life. It was a surprisingly relevant read for me to consider that we have a "team of light" on the other side, constantly guiding us in helping to make the world a better place. I asked for several specific signs (like mushrooms, french fries, and pickles) and they were all shown to me in interesting ways within hours! I also had a specific song pop up in three different places within an hour (an old Beatles song) that really caught my attention the day after reading about how spirits often communicate through music. I haven't been able to get any real clarity around what the other side is encouraging me to do, but it's nice to feel like I have a constant support team. And it completely aligned with how Anita Moorjani described life after death in Dying to Be Me (see above). It confirmed that we have no need to worry as on the other side, there is just universal, interconnected love. And the chapter that tugged on my heart strings the most was reading about how our pets are often waiting for us on the other side, happy and healthy. My eyes welled up in tears of joy picturing my little man Bungee joyfully waiting for me and supporting me in my everyday endeavors!  

By Michael Singer

I read this one early on and it actually provided me with the background thinking needed to understand some of Dr. Joe Dispenza's work. It was all about how you are not the voice that's running in your head, you (your soul) are the one listening to those thoughts. He helped me understand how that inner voice in the head can often tell you really harmful things about yourself, and will change opinions in an instant; it cannot be relied upon. Singer suggests that old traumas that we store in the body are like thorns stuck in you, that cause constant nagging pains. He provides guidance on how to sit behind your thorns in an effort to push them out from the inside, instead of just putting on topical creams or bandaids on top to cover them up. There's also a fantastic chapter I was intrigued by on death where he talks about how death is the great equalizer...we all think we're special or important but yet we all die just the same. He has the reader consider how they might treat their life differently if they knew they were to die within a week. We all could die at any moment, so why would be not start living as if we will die next week? This perspective has helped change how I treat each day!