Self-Improvement audiobooks

Writing From the Belly

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel Allende talks about her passion for writing. She speaks with great depth of feeling about the death of her daughter Paula. She says, "Every book is triggered by a very strong emotion that has been with me for a long time, and usually that emotion is painful. However, the process of writing is so joyful." Read more

Taming Your Inner Critic

By: Hal Stone, Ph.D. & Sidra Stone

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Inner Critic is one of the inner selves that Hal and Sidra Stone have identified through decades of Voice Dialogue therapy; and it can be a very destructive voice unless we learn how to identify and deal with it. Here they tell us the differences between men and women in this regard; how to recognize and understand the Inner Critic; and most... Read more

Creativity, Chaos and the Madwoman

By: Linda Leonard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Madwoman is a paradoxical archetype whose manifestations range from insanity and fury to passion, ecstasy and creative chaos. In some form or other, she is part of the inner chorus in every personality, in both men and women. Linda Leonard has a personal acquaintance with the Madwoman both through her professional therapy practice and her... Read more

Creating Affluence

By: Deepak Chopra

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The precursor to The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, this audio explores the full meaning of "wealth consciousness" with clear and simple wisdom. According to author Deepak Chopra, "Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Help You Relieve Depression

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This guided imagery audio program for depression can be used as a stand-alone therapy or an adjunctive treatment alongside more traditional approaches of psychotherapy and/or medication. It has even been found helpful to people dealing with bipolar illness. Here's the track list:1. Guided Imagery (23:45)2. Affirmations (2:22)Guided imagery is a... Read more

A Guided Meditation To Promote General Wellness

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio is a general wellness and holistic healing meditation that promotes peace, relaxation, uplift and resilience of mind, body and spirit. By combining guided imagery and affirmations with soothing, immersive music, this guided meditation for wellness maintains and supports physical and emotional health seamlessly and naturally.... Read more

It's Not What You're Eating, It's What's Eating You - Abridged

By: Janet Greeson

Narrated by: Janet Greeson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Overcome Hidden Food Addictions, Take Charge of Your Body, Your Emotions, Your Life

Here's hope and help for food addicts. Developed by Janet Greeson, a nationally renowned pioneer in the development of addiction treatment programs, this day-by-day self-help program treats the physical, emotional and spiritual causes of food addiction.
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The Wisdom of the Dance

By: Kaylynn Sullivan Two-Trees

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Of African, Lakota and European descent, Two-Trees teaches the combined wisdom of her ancestral traditions. Here she tells the story of how she found her way from traumatic past events into the calling of a dancer, artist and teacher who uses rituals to discover the creative process of living. Read more

Natural Gifts

By: Wendell Berry

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Join us for an hour of stirring and straightforward wisdom from one of the most highly respected of modern American writers and poets. Using words like “affection” and “satisfaction,” “care” and “joy,” Berry calls for a re-evaluation of the basic values and practices of our lives. He illustrates his ideas with glimpses of his own life and those... Read more

The Sound of Your Voice - Abridged

By: Carol Fleming

Narrated by: Carol Fleming

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a speech communication consultant and speech pathologist, Dr. Carol Fleming has helped people work on their voice images for many years. In this remarkable audio program, Dr. Fleming helps you identify your "voice image" and provides techniques for correcting any communication problem.

The Sound of Your Voice takes you step-by-step through... Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 55 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

Becoming An Elder

By: Mark Gerzon

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerzon describes the midlife process as a quest, as discovering the deep questions that are arising within. He encourages older people to share their stories with the young, as we all learn to dispel the negative and false belief that growing older means not growing. He’s the author of Listening to Midlife: Turning Your Crisis Into a Quest. Read more

Living Up to Death

By: Lama Sogyal Rinpoche

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the heart essence of all the teachings of my masters, says Lama Sogyal Rinpoche about his book, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Here he expresses the essence of those teachings--how to live in a way that allows us to conquer the fear of death, and in the process to develop a more meaningful way of living. Read more

Through Time Into Healing - Abridged

By: Brian L. Weiss

Narrated by: Brian L. Weiss

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The book that sheds new light on reincarnation and the extraordinary healing potential of past life and hypnotic regression therapy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Many Lives, Many Masters.

Brian Weiss made headlines with his groundbreaking research on past life therapy in Many Lives, Many Masters. Now, based on his extensive... Read more

Honoring the Wisdom Traditions

By: Huston Smith

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This interview is a snapshot of the lively ongoing thought processes of a renowned scholar of world religions. It clearly illustrates how his own spiritual vision has expanded--and likewise his classic reference treatise on world religions. He describes his discovery of Tibetan Buddhism, and his personal meeting with the Dalai Lama. Read more

Don'T Get Even--Get Odd

By: Steve Bhaerman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Buckle up and put your karma in gear, but beware of too much fasting or you may get stopped by the Higher State Patrol. When Swami Beyondananda was younger, he was struck by enlightening, and it opened his clown chakra. Since then he has been unable to stop the flow of puns and irreverent wisdom poking fun at overly serious seekers of... Read more

The Gift of the Feminine

By: Brenda Peterson

Narrated by: Joan Marler

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Our deepest lessons are found in the truths of our apparent enemies, by "looking at the person who harms you, and seeing how they are like you." This is the message of Brenda Peterson, speaking from her own family and daily life experiences, on topics from leaky roofs to the abortion issue. Read more

Revisioning Psychotherapy

By: James Hillman & Michael Ventura

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Two creative minds have joined to issue a broadside challenge to a century-old tradition focused on individual psychological health. By its narrow focus on personal history and relationships, they charge, psychotherapy ignores the political and economic contexts in which the individual exists. Read more

The Art of Soulful Living

By: Thomas Moore

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Moore describes soul as the part of us that wants a rich, full experience of everyday life. That concept may not seem very radical in itself, but startling ideas follow from his wide classical scholarship and experience as a psychotherapist. Read more

The Sound of Healing

By: Sharry Edwards

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable discussion with a woman who hears "signature sounds" emitted from other people's bodies--it's "the sound missing from their voice," she says. These sounds, when sung back to them, seem to have miraculous, documented healing powers in a multitude of "hopeless" medical situations. Read more

Saving America-Saving the World

By: Helen Caldicott, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An articulate firebrand and one of the world's leading advocates of nuclear disarmament, environmentalism and citizen action delivers a scathing wake-up call about abuses of power in American government, media and industry, and the urgent need to truly care for the planet and each other. Read more

The Body Possible

By: Michael Murphy

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Murphy is a cartographer for the unexplored territory of the body. In the same vein as William James and Abraham Maslow, Murphy extends the mapping to movement abilities, extraordinary vitality, changes in body structure, and miraculous healings, to name a few. 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

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