Resource Guide: Brenda’s 2025 Featured Books That Changed Everything!
There are a zillion books out there! You could read for years and still feel stuck. But these are ones that actually shifted something in me, the ones that cracked open old beliefs, challenged my patterns, softened my defenses, and expanded my understanding of what healing and transformation actually look like. I share them with you in the hope that one of them becomes a light on your own path to freedom.
All the Way to the River- Elizabeth Gilbert A raw exploration of love, loss, addiction, recovery, and spiritual liberation. Her story captures the exact essence of breaking free.
Untamed - Glennon Doyle. A fierce, soul-shaking memoir about shedding conditioning, addiction and recovery, breaking out of societal roles, being a mother, and becoming the truest version of yourself. Others include: Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior.
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself- Dr. Joe Dispenza. If you want to understand how beliefs, emotions, and identity wire your brain, and how to rewire it toward freedom, this is your guide.
12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson. Grounded principles for living with integrity, courage, order, and deep personal responsibility. An ideal companion for your Breaking Free journey.
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. A classic text of understanding addiction, surrender and spiritual growth, while providing a design for living that lasts the test of time. For me, 40 years and counting.
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life - Wayne Dyer. Teaches how to stop forcing life, stop fighting yourself, and start aligning with the deeper wisdom already alive inside you.
Another favorite is Wishes Fulfilled.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - by James Clear: On rewiring habit loops, belief-patterns, and how small changes compound into major freedom.
The War of Art: - Steven Pressfield. Focuses more on internal resistance, the internal battles we have when we try to shift, grow, change.