I often get asked for more information on a piece of wisdom I have referenced from someone’s work whenever I am teaching or coaching. As an avid consumer of personal growth content, I also appreciate vetted recommendations – who wants to waste energy on a book that doesn’t resonate with you?

To that end, I have decided to share some of my pivotal influences. This was a difficult list to prepare, as there have been many authors and teachers whose work I have grown from and enjoyed, but these are the inspired beings, whose brave work has both resonated with and formed me, and continues to heavily influence my work.

Here they are, in no particular order…

Dr. Christiane Northrup Revolutionizing women’s health, I have learned so much about how to listen to what my body has to tell me, and how to communicate back.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer I have consumed a lot of WD material but my favorite book of his is I Can See Clearly Now

Jon & Missy Butcher This is the couple who designed the 12 Aspect Living Model: Lifebook, that balances your life and guides your decision making

MindValley.com /Vishen Lakhiani A Global School That Delivers Transformational Education For All Ages

Christine Kane Christine helps people break through their fears and obstacles to truly connect with their own meaningful work and bring it into the world.

Ashley Stahl Ashley Stahl is a career coach, empowering people around the world to discover keys to their own authentic selves in order to make the best career choices for them. Great podcasts, asking the exact questions you have in your head.

Craig Hamilton In his own words, Craig is helping to articulate an authentic evolutionary spirituality — an “integral enlightenment” which illuminates the vital relationship between individual transformation and collective evolution. Recommended for those ready to take a bigger step into what meditation can do for your own growth and humanity as a whole.

Gabby Bernstein Best Selling Author, International Speaker, and Spirit Junkie. Love her energy, authenticity, and courage to put her work out there in the most honest way possible.

Emily Fletcher Emily Fletcher is the founder of Ziva, the creator of The Ziva Technique and regarded as the leading expert in meditation for high performance.

Louise Hay Through Louise’s healing techniques and positive philosophy, she empowers you with the knowledge of how to create wellness in your body, mind, and spirit. I especially love her index of how unchecked emotions translate into physical ailments, shedding light on what your body might be trying to tell you.

Brene Brown Researcher/story-teller specializing in vulnerability and shame. She is also a fantastically resonating and super funny speaker. I love her honesty, her sense of humor and her humility. I usually listen to her content first, and then purchase her books as a reference for later, because I love the way she story-tells, but I also want a record of her wisdom to reference later.  She has a great new podcast perfectly timed for what the world needs in 2020, Unlocking Us.

Dr. Kim D’Eramo Dr. Kim founded The American Institute of Mind Body Medicine to train other doctors and health practitioners how to activate the body’s ability to heal itself. I worked with Kim to transmute some energy I had been carrying for far too long and definitely was no longer serving me. It was a major “re-birthing” in my life. I continue to tune into her content and work to re-ground and find my way back to center.

Glennon Doyle I was introduced to Glennon’s book, Love Warrior, through Brene Brown’s work. I listened to it on audiobook and was mesmerized by her style of writing, so honest, authentic, and true, complimented by her 20/20 hindsight into what was really happening in each pivotal moment of her memoir. I quickly moved on to her next book, Untamed, and was launched into a whole new level of permission to BE.  Inspiring work she is doing not just with her writing and her organization, Together Rising, but in the very example of how she lives her life. Her books tap on every self-doubt a woman has ever had, and shines a light on the path she took to grow through them, empowering all women to courageously name and grow through their own self-doubts.

Gary Chapman This is the author of The 5 Love Languages, and it’s various spin offs. It is simplistic in its categorization of the 5 ways we show and receive love, but so powerful in its application. So many “a-ha moments” from this work both in understanding those you care about, and your own triggers.

Abraham – Hicks Law of Attraction I’m going to list this channel of content as the original path I took into learning about the Law of Attraction but it has spread into many other sources since then. Law of Attraction refers to how your vibration and thoughts direct the energy coming back to you. There are many sources from which to learn the Universal Laws, but this knowledge became pivotal in the way I guided my own life as well as coaching others. Law of Attraction is an energy exchange: you attract more or less of what you want, by how you choose to interact with it, as well as what you believe about yourself. In short, what you focus on expands. In Alicia Keys book, More Myself, she describes it this way: “If you live with an open palm, rather than a closed fist, you leave room for immeasurable blessings to flow through your hands.”

Donn Smith I was first introduced to Donn’s work through my husband who had attended one of Donn’s retreats for work. His book was eye-opening for me in how a belief can be formed from a single life experience that can haunt you your whole life, below the surface without your conscious awareness. After the sudden death of his father, my husband’s siblings, spouses and mom all attended a weekend retreat together with Donn to work through it all. Donn’s work is transformative, pivotal, and astonishingly efficient – such profound change in short work, for those that are ready. In more recent years his work has even proven to reverse physical conditions and diseases, re-introducing people to the freedom to live their lives more in tune with themselves.

Anita Moorjani I have read several books in the pursuit of reconciling religion with spirituality for myself, and while many have been helpful in moving me along, none have had the breakthrough effect that Anita Moorjani’s memoir had for me, Dying to be Me. Her account of her battle with cancer, near-death experience, visit to “the other side” and subsequent return to this life, is a powerfully persuasive reflection on just how much influence we have on ourselves and our well-being, also giving greater clarity to what our purpose is here on this earth. I also really enjoyed her follow-up book, What if This is Heaven, which provides rare insights  into how to reconcile alignment with our higher-self, with the day-to-day challenges we encounter that tempt us to forget why we are here.

Michael Singer Another case where I listened to the audiobooks first, then bought the hard copies. I first read The Surrender Experiment, which is Singer’s memoir about his incredible life example of how to let go and surrender to the divine help that is being offered to you. Then I savored every word in The Untethered Soul, in which he outlines how to do the same in your own life.

If you have any life-changing, soul-growing content that you would also like to share with the 924 community, I whole-hardheartedly invite you include it in the comments section!