5 Self-Love Books Every Woman Needs To Read

The energy we inject in improving areas in our lives that we find lacking like a skills gap, financial literacy, work efficiency, productivity, among others through reading books, attending seminars and workshops, among others, is the same energy we need to invest in loving and caring for ourselves. Luckily, there are thousands of books available that can help fuel our life with love and help us build a positive relationship with ourselves, discover our self-worth, boost our confidence and trust ourselves.
Here are some of our best picks.

1. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
   An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.

   

2. Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary
   In “Beautiful You” author Rosie Molinary forcefully encourages women ? whatever their size, shape, or color ? to work toward feeling wonderful about themselves despite today’s media-saturated culture. Drawing on self-awareness, creativity, and mind-body connections, Molinary incorporates practical techniques into a 365-day action plan that empowers women to regain a healthy self-image, shore up self-confidence, reframe and break undermining habits of self-criticism, and champion their own emotional and physical well-being.

   

3. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
   milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

   

4. The Self-Love Experiment: Fifteen Principles for Becoming More Kind, Compassionate, and Accepting of Yourself by Shannon Kaiser
   Shannon walks you through her own personal experiment, a simple plan that compassionately guides you through the process of removing fear-based thoughts, so you can fall in love with life. If you want to change your outcome in life, you have to change your daily habits and perspective. Shannon takes you on this great journey into self-love and true self-acceptance.

   

5. Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield
   This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you how to create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. It shows the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself—and that includes your mind as well as your body.