Self-Improvement audiobooks

Communication and Healing With Animals

By: Linda Tellington-Jones

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Have a favorite animal in your life? Want to relate to animals in a different way? Linda Tellington-Jones opens our eyes to an innovative, effective method of improving our animals' health and temperament, and of experiencing the deep joy of communicating with another species. Read more

The Balance of Mind and Heart with Ram Dass

By: Ram Dass

Narrated by: Ram Dass

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ram Dass asks us to consider the ways in which our culture’s pervading myth of unbridled individualism has generated the destabilizing forces confronting us. "Injustice is rooted in a frightened heart." To remain open to the tremendous suffering we encounter requires an exquisite balance of the rational mind and intuitive heart. Ram Dass'... Read more

Global Mind Change

By: Juanita Brown, Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. & Willi...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the midst of apparent chaos, a new worldview is emerging, one that recognizes the interconnectedness of everyone and everything on the planet. Read more

Lightbeing

By: Max Highstein

Narrated by: Jill Andre

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

About This Guided Meditation

Lightbeing is a colorful journey to another world, where healing begins in a crystal structure full of light and sound. Your host, a gentle being from a beautiful planet, graciously guides you into a deeply relaxed, uplifted state of consciousness.

Max Highstein says, "Some time ago I wanted to incorporate sound and... Read more

Guided Meditations To Support Successful Relationships - Abridged

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audio set features four different, state-of-the-art exercises of guided meditation for relationships, all designed to strengthen and renew the bonds of love and maintain vitality and vibrancy in your feelings and interaction. Each hypnotic, immersive track of this powerful guided imagery for relationships offers a different mind-body... Read more

Guided Meditations to Promote Successful Surgery - Abridged

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Belleruth Naparstek's guided imagery surgery preparation audio program of soothing words is scored with calming music by Steven Mark Koh. The audio guides how to get ready for surgery by imagining a successful, safe and comfortable operation and recovery, complete with guided imagery suggestions and images of all the desired outcomes, including... Read more

A Meditation to Ease Grief - Abridged

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This guided imagery and affirmations for anyone dealing with grief provides a powerful way of coping with loss naturally and holistically, helping to release sorrow and gently move beyond the pain of bereavement to grief recovery, in whatever way and for however long it takes each listener. Guided imagery is a mind-body technique that consists... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help Relieve Asthma - Abridged

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This guided meditation for treating asthma naturally contains hypnotic suggestions, soothing guided imagery and powerful affirmations for a holistic approach to symptom relief from asthma, COPD, allergies or other breathing problems. Designed to encourage deeper calmer breathing, this hypnosis for asthma contains powerful suggestions to help... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You With Rheumatoid Arthritis or Lupus - Abridged

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This guided meditation for rheumatoid arthritis or lupus consists of guided imagery and affirmations designed to help reduce inflammation and fatigue, relieve pain and distress, relieve and lift the spirits of those suffering from these autoimmune conditions. This meditation for arthritis features hypnotic imagery of inflamed joints subsiding... Read more

Principle-Centered Leadership - Abridged

By: Stephen R. Covey

Narrated by: Stephen R. Covey

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a foundational guide to leadership.

How do individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change?

Why are efforts to improve organizations failing despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being... Read more

Anger

By: William G. DeFoore

Narrated by: William G. DeFoore

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Within this dynamic and powerful program, you will find a full description and overview of anger management, what it is and why it's needed. You'll hear an explanation of how anger release can become addictive, and can actually develop into extreme rage addiction. You'll learn the relationship between anger and depression and what it means to... Read more

The Meaning of Refuge

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Williams connects two catastrophic events: living downwind of atomic nuclear testing in the deserts of Utah and the record breaking flooding of the Great Salt Lake. These events have deeply affected her sense of the need for refuge. She poetically conveys to us her personal perspectives on grief, love, and the spirituality of nature, lake and... Read more

Awaken the Giant Within - Abridged

By: Tony Robbins

Narrated by: Tony Robbins

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength, Unlimited Power, and MONEY Master the Game, Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your... Read more

Warrior for Peace

By: Danaan Parry

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an extraordinary interview on conflict and peace. Parry tells deeply moving stories from his own life - from the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland to his own neighborhood laundromat. They are stories of anger, truth and healing. Read more

The Popcorn Report - Abridged

By: Faith Popcorn

Narrated by: Faith Popcorn

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Future Is In Your Hands

Faith Popcorn has seen it coming -- and now she tells you how to profit from the enormous transformation that will sweep mainstream America in the coming years. The founder of BrainReserve, the top-dollar trend-spotter for the nation's biggest blue-chip companies, Popcorn now shares her vision of the future for... Read more

The Secret Power of Writing With Gabriele Rico

By: Gabriele Rico

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriele Rico describes how she repressed the pain of her mother’s death when she was seven years old, and suffered from her own constricted feelings until she discovered the healing power of writing. Here she shares with us her discovery of how to acknowledge and release long-held feelings which prevent us from living fully and freely. Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally.... Read more

Obsessive Love - Abridged

By: Dr. Susan Forward & Craig Buck

Narrated by: Dr. Susan Forward

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Millions of otherwise rational and mature men and women are driven to self-defeating, out-of-control behavior by intense, unfulfilled desire. Millions of others— targets of such obsessions— find their lives turned upside down by unwanted attention, harassment, and attempts at coercion. Acclaimed therapist Dr. Susan... Read more

Treasures in the Shadow

By: Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What treasures and dangers lie in the depths of our psyches? The hidden and denied aspects of ourselves that make up our "shadow" include not only "evil" or shameful demons and desires but a wellspring of latent, undiscovered joy and creativity. Read more

A Grateful Heart

By: Brother David Steindl-Rast

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Gratefulness is the key, says Brother David, to fullness of life, true prayer and effective action in the world. "If you practice gratefulness it leads you into all the attitudes that all the great traditions have promoted." He tells of his own personal search, from a childhood in Nazi-occupied Austria to his explorations of Buddhism, modern... Read more

From Confusion to Clarity: Understanding Mind

By: Lama Sogyal Rinpoche

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Here Sogyal Rinpoche, an incarnate lama and meditation master, provides insights about the nature of mind and how we can bring more wisdom into our lives. His comments about death as a healing; enlightenment; family relationships and Buddhism in the West are especially provocative. Read more

You Just Don't Understand - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Tannen's #1 bestseller revolutionized the way men and women talk -- and listen -- to each other -- at home, at work, and wherever the communication gap between the sexes can lead to troublesome misunderstandings. The problem dates back to childhood, when boys and girls learn to use language in distinctly different ways; years later,... Read more

That's Not What I Meant - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You know the feeling: You thought you said exactly what you wanted to, but somehow a different message comes across. You end up feeling misunderstood...and the relationship that you're building -- at home, on the job, on a date, or in an interview -- slips a little further out of your control.
Talk is the key to any relationship and... Read more

Singer in the Real World

By: Holly Near

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"What has to take place for the light to come into your eye?" asks Holly Near. Not only a talented singer and songwriter, she demonstrates in this lively interview that she is also a passionate, humorous and articulate spokesperson for peace and sanity in the world. Read more