Personal development audiobooks to listen to while staying at home

If you prefer audiobooks to hard covers, here are a few titles that I enjoyed recently, with my thoughts on each. All available on Audible.

I only do audiobooks if narration is really good, and try to go back and revisit my bookmarks to ensure the best ideas are not lost - as the experience is quite different than reading a print copy.

I hope you enjoy these!

🎧 Untamed by Glennon Doyle (narrated by the author)

Her memoir-style storytelling is just incredible and very refreshing for personal development space. I admire Glennon for being so open and vulnerable in speaking her truth and letting herself fall in love with a woman, leaving behind all the bullshit society expectations, judgments and her long-term unhappy marriage. Listening to her love story made me forever more accepting of other people’s choices. I bookmarked multiple insights, including advice on how to start trusting ourselves, on creating boundaries, and not avoiding our feelings. Honestly, this one is 5/5!

🎧 Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza

The power of manifestation in this book is backed up by science and quantum physics, unlike most spiritual practices. I’m now doing daily meditations from the book (guided version is available on YouTube). They take about an hour, which is a long time – but the promise is tempting! The main idea is to retrain your body and mind to feel like desired circumstances have already occurred, and be genuinely grateful for them. This makes the quantum field rearrange events and materialize what was visualized. It’s fascinating, and I do believe that it works..Let’s see!

*In my opinion this one might be better to read than listen to. Narration is good (not by the author) and It comes with a PDF that covers some of the concepts, but I will also be getting a print copy to read as some stuff in this book is quite profound and requires undivided attention.

🎧 Homecoming by John Bradshaw (narrated by the author)

Originally published 30 years ago, this one gave me breakthroughs (and tears) by further explaining the idea of a wounded inner child and the importance of healing it to live a shame-free life. It covers 3 stages of early development: co-dependency (0-6 months), counterdependency (6-18 months), and independency (up until 7 y.o.). During each stage we unconsciously develop defenses that we suffer from our whole life. The solution is to go back to each stage and relive experiences with our infant, toddler and preschooler-self. To do this, the author offers 3 deep meditations with elements from NLP that honestly just blew my mind. If you feel like you have some unfinished childhood business (don’t we all?) – I recommend that you listen to this one. And if you like Homecoming, there is another one called Creating Love that explores the subject of interpersonal relationships.

📚 On the hard cover front, I recently finished The 5 AM Club (it was just ok. Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod was a lighter and a more actionable read for me personally), and now half-way through Sapiens, which I think is a must-read for all humans.

Next up: The Book of Joy. I heard such good things!

Hope this overview gave you some ideas about what to explore next! Let me know if you liked any of these once you listen to them :)

Olena xo