Audiobooks to Start 2023 Strong

Decolonizing Wellness

A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation

By: Dalia Kinsey
Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

The lack of BIPOC and LGBTQ representation in the fields of health and nutrition has led to repeated racist and unscientific biases that negatively impact the very people they purport to help. Many representatives of the increasingly popular body-positivity movement actually add to the body-image concerns of queer people of color by emphasizing... Read more

Get It Done

Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation

By: Ayelet Fishbach
Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Discover a "compelling" and revelatory framework for setting and achieving your goals (Carol Dweck, author of Mindset), from a psychologist on the cutting edge of motivational science.

A great deal of ink has been spilled on the subject of motivating and influencing others, but what happens when the person you most want to influence is you?... Read more

Rest Is Resistance

A Manifesto

Rest Is Resistance: Book #1

By: Tricia Hersey
Narrated by: Tricia Hersey
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.

What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too... Read more

This One Wild Life

A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir

By: Angie Abdou
Narrated by: Jenny Young
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

From the author of Canada Reads finalist The Bone Cage. Includes research on the shy child, parent-child bonding, social media issues, and the benefits of outdoor activity and nature immersion. Disillusioned with overly competitive organized sports and concerned about her lively daughter’s growing shyness, author Angie Abdou sets herself... Read more

Hello, Habits

A Minimalist’s Guide to a Better Life

By: Fumio Sasaki
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

The internationally bestselling author of Goodbye, Things shares insights and practices to help us embrace habits and become the best versions of ourselves.Fumio Sasaki changed his life when he became a minimalist. But before minimalism could really stick, he had to make it a habit. All of us live our lives based on the habits we’ve formed, from... Read more

Super Mind

How to Boost Performance and Live a Richer and Happier Life through Transcendental Meditation

By: Norman E. Rosenthal MD
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

The noted research psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author explores how Transcendental Meditation permanently alters your daily consciousness, resulting in greater productivity, emotional resilience, and aptitude for success.Most of us believe that we live in only three states of consciousness: wakefulness, sleep, and dreaming. But... Read more

What I Know For Sure

By: Oprah Winfrey
Narrated by: Oprah Winfrey
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

“This book has some wonderful advice of self-acceptance, knowing you are worth and how to share your kindness to others. Very inspirational Read more

Thoughts Are Things

Turning Your Ideas Into Realities

Think and Grow Rich: Book #0

By: Bob Proctor & Greg S. Reid
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

You've learned the principles in Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich-now give them STICKABILITY! The path to personal and professional success is not a one-way street. Most people encounter setbacks and obstacles that threaten to derail them from their chosen route. The most successful people, however, adhere to their principles and... Read more

Thinking 101

How to Reason Better to Live Better

By: Woo-kyoung Ahn
Narrated by: Lessa Lamb
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

"Every day of our lives, we make judgments—and we don’t always do a very good job of it. Thinking 101 is an invaluable resource to anyone who wants to think better. In remarkably clear language, and with engaging and often funny examples, Woo-kyoung Ahn uses cutting-edge research to explain the mistakes we often make—and how to avoid... Read more

Seeking Wisdom

A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection (A Six-Week Artist's Way Program)

By: Julia Cameron
Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Julia Cameron
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

"Foss is a clear-voiced guide for this ecumenical exploration of how supplication can help ground a working creative."- AudioFile Magazine

Julia Cameron returns to the spiritual roots of the Artist’s Way in this 6-week Program

Author Julia Cameron changed the way the world thinks about creativity when she first published The Artist’s Way: A... Read more

How to Navigate Life

The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond

By: Belle Liang, PhD & Timothy Klein, LCSW
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose.

Today’s college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They’re performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they’re... Read more

The Sunshine Mind

100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want

By: Tanya Rad & Raquelle Stevens
Narrated by: Tanya Rad & Raquelle Stevens
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Read by the authors.The Sunshine Mind is your guide to finding hope and joy in every day and embracing the beautiful person God made you to be.
"I hope that the unshaken hope, the courage, the sunshine-y job of these two friends of mine rub off on you as you read these words that they have shared." —from the foreword by Selena GomezAs modern... Read more

Radical Radiance

12 Weeks of Self-Love Rituals to Manifest Abundance, Beauty, and Joy

By: Angela Jia Kim
Narrated by: Angela Jia Kim
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

This program is read by the author.

A magical 12-week self-love program that helps readers to radiate inner and outer glow to manifest beauty, abundance and joy, from the founder and CEO of Savor Beauty + Spa.

We can all think of someone who radiates beauty, vibrancy, and confidence that emanates from a lit-from-within quality. But what exactly... Read more

Illogical

Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits

By: Emmanuel Acho
Narrated by: Emmanuel Acho
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

This program is read by the author.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man comes a call to break through our limits and say yes to a life of infinite possibility.

You may know Emmanuel Acho as the host of groundbreaking video series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.” Or as a New York... Read more

Killing Comparison

Reject the Lie You Aren't Good Enough and Live Confident in Who God Made You to Be

By: Nona Jones
Narrated by: Piper Jones
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Read by the author.It's time to leave behind the discontent of comparative thinking and discover a free and joyful life in the security of God’s love.If you find yourself filled with feelings of insecurity, sure that others are better off or more worthy than you are…then you’re in good company! In today’s image-driven world, nearly all of us... Read more

Every Family Has a Story

How We Inherit Love and Loss

By: Julia Samuel
Narrated by: Julia Samuel
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Why do some families thrive in adversity while others fragment? How can families weather difficult transitions together? Why do our families so often exasperate us? And how can even small changes greatly improve our relationships?

In Every Family Has a Story, bestselling psychotherapist Julia Samuel turns from her acclaimed work with individuals... Read more

Who Is Wellness For?

An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

By: Fariha Roisin
Narrated by: Fariha Roisin
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a... Read more

How We Heal

Uncover Your Power and Set Yourself Free

By: Alexandra Elle
Narrated by: Alexandra Elle
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Beloved wellness author and teacher Alexandra Elle shares this practical and empowering guide to self-healing.

In How We Heal, bestselling author Alexandra Elle offers a life-changing invitation to heal yourself and reclaim your peace. In these pages, readers will discover essential techniques for self-healing, including journaling rituals to... Read more

The Light We Give

How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life

By: Simran Jeet Singh
Narrated by: Simran Jeet Singh
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

A National Bestseller

“I love this book… It is rich in wisdom, religious and personal, and it is absolutely charming.” —Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow

An inspiring approach to a happier, more fulfilling life through Sikh teachings on love and service.

As a boy growing up in South Texas, Simran Jeet Singh and his... Read more

The Tech Solution

Creating Healthy Habits for Kids Growing Up in a Digital World

By: Shimi Kang
Narrated by: Nicole Oliver
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

A Harvard-trained psychiatrist and mom of 3 gives parents and educators the tech habits children need to achieve their full potential--and a 6-step plan to put them into action.

You may have picked up on some warning signs: The more your 9-year-old son plays video games, the more distracted and irritable he becomes. Or maybe comparing her life to... Read more