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This week on The Portal, we feature a conversation between Oprah and world renowned influential teacher and speaker Caroline Myss discuss life purpose, grace and intuition.

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LIFE PURPOSE AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • THE WAY OF INTEGRITY

    Feeling confused about your life purpose
    Feeling lost or stuck and loss of any identity
    Experience lack of intuition and joy
    Feeling like you’ve lived to someone else’s expectations
    Confused as to who you are and what you want
    Have success but feeling a lack of happiness
    Feeling misaligned or off track
    Great read for people pleasers

  • BREAKING THE HABIT OF BEING YOURSELF

    Feeling sick of being yourself
    Find you’re repeating patterns
    Experience difficulty in breaking habits
    Realizing you have limiting beliefs
    Feeling stagnant or stuck in life
    Wishing for different outcomes
    Comparing yourself to higher achievers
    Great read into neuroscience and reprogramming neural pathways

  • SACRED CONTRACTS

    Wondering about life purpose
    Asking yourself “what am I here to do?”
    Going through an existential crisis
    Feeling like your life is meaningless
    Making sense of difficult situations and the “why”
    Curious about patterns and archetypes
    At a crossroads in life and confused about which direction is yours
    Wondering what this life is trying to teach you

  • 101 ESSAYS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK

    Going through a life transition
    Overthinking your whole life
    Feeling open to different perspectives
    Feeling stuck with same repetitive patterns of thinking
    Feeling like you’re outgrowing your old life
    Have lived a life focused on what you “should” be doing
    Feeling pressured and lost
    Great for expanding your mind and the way your seeing things

  • CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS CHANGE YOUR LIFE

    In search for intention and inspiration
    Have been stuck in a loop of negative thought patterns
    Feel like you’re forcing life rather than letting it unfold
    Curious about principles in abundance and gratitude
    In need of a shift to how you’re approaching life
    Feeling pessimistic or in a rut
    Looking for a more meaningful way of living your life
    Great introductory self help reading

  • THE POWER OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND

    Realising your life is at the mercy of deeply engrained beliefs
    Have trouble manifesting or attracting positive outcomes
    Feeling a lot of fear and self doubt
    Feeling like what you want and what you’re attracting is not aligning
    Willing to deep dive into your thoughts, emotions and behaviors
    In desperate need of change
    Want a better understanding into exactly how your beliefs are influencing the rest of your life

  • THE TOP FIVE REGRETS OF THE DYING

    Feeling scared to live out the life you truly desire
    Caring too much of what others think of you
    Repressing any feelings, intimacy, and truths
    Living small, safe and afraid of risk
    Living a life and working to other peoples expectations at the expense of your own desires and needs
    Ready for a great wake up call
    Great for workaholics or people pleasers

  • LIVING BEAUTIFULLY

    Finding yourself in a period of uncertainty and change
    Always feeling anxious about the future
    Experiencing issues with control and difficulty in letting go
    Finding that your life is not going according to plan
    Moving through a break up, career change or life pivot
    Trouble navigating uncertainty and anxiety
    Experience difficulty staying present
    Great introductory book into buddhist philosophy

TRAUMA, THE BODY AND HEALING

  • CODEPENDENT NO MORE

    Feeling like you have to look after everyone else at the expense of yourself
    Feeling guilt when saying no or setting boundaries
    Hyper fixated on other peoples needs
    Always in the role of rescuer or fixer
    Feel an immense amount of pressure to save people
    Constant worry and anxiety about other peoples feelings, moods or experiences
    Extremely hyper vigilant to others and put your needs last
    Feeling like you’ve lost yourself, who you are and your needs

  • ADULT CHILDREN OF IMMATURE PARENTS

    Have difficulty separating yourself from another
    Constantly feeling responsible for other peoples emotions
    Feeling a lot of guilt when enforcing boundaries
    Constantly attracted to emotionally unavailable partners
    Experience deep triggers and reactive around family and caregivers
    Fulfilling care taker roles and struggle with people pleasing
    Understanding relational trauma and where it started
    You were a parentified child with adult responsibilities
    Always felt unsafe or hypervigilant with family dynamics

  • HEALING THE SHAME THAT BINDS YOU

    Constantly feeling like something is wrong with you
    Feeling ashamed and hateful towards yourself
    Lacking in boundaries
    Feeling like you have to be performative to be accepted and loved
    Constantly struggling with low self worth and confidence
    Hiding parts of yourself or living in denial of a self
    Never feeling good enough
    Great for people pleasers and perfectionists

  • THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE

    Curious about the lasting impacts of trauma or how difficult experiences are stored in the physical body
    Often feel triggered and reactive and seek a deeper understanding of the “why”
    You struggle to feel safe and regulated in your nervous system
    Frustrated with repeating certain patterns of emotions, triggers and behaviors
    Have the inability to let go or get over certain situations
    Curious to delve into the study of PTSD and its effects on the body
    The bible book for all trauma, mind and body connection work

  • WAKING THE TIGER

    Curious about the connection of trauma, past experiences to the body and the nervous system
    Alway feel alert, hyper vigilant and reactive
    Often feel disconnected to your body and emotions
    Constantly stuck in fight, flight or freeze
    Feel like your body is carrying something your mind can’t rationalize
    Emotional overwhelm or feeling triggered is a regular state of being for you
    Often experience constant bouts of restlessness and unease
    Great if you have an interest in somatic healing

  • WHEN THINGS FALL APART

    Feeling like your whole world is unraveling
    Great for navigating grief, loss, heartbreak or major life transitions
    Trying to find meaning in difficult situations
    Feeling called to start over
    In need of grounding or feelings of safety during uncertain times
    Seeking a spiritual perspective on life
    Feeling disappointed towards self and how life turned out
    Feeling vulnerable and raw
    Finding it difficult to accept your current situation
    Feeling anxious about not having any answers

  • LOVING WHAT IS

    Struggling to accept a certain reality such as a break up, change or rejection
    Always caught in repetitive stressful thinking
    Constantly dwelling or obsessing over the same situations
    Suffering at the hand of believing your own thoughts
    Feeling like the world is against you
    Constantly wishing things were different than they are
    Seeking separation and relief from thought patterns
    Feeling exhausted and caged by the voices in your mind
    Ready to examine thoughts and acquire helpful practices

  • EASTERN BODY WESTERN MIND

    Interested in exploring childhood experiences and its connection to emotional patterns and adult behaviors
    Feeling blocked in certain areas of your life
    Curious to learn about the mind, body and emotional energetics
    Curious to learn where emotions such as anger, grief and fear are stored in the body and why
    Ready to learn about parts of yourself the mind couldn’t rationalize
    Great introduction into chakra systems and energetics through spirituality and an Eastern lens

  • WHEN THE BODY SAYS NO

    Constantly feeling stressed and overwhelmed
    Feel disconnected from your body or numb
    Curious to learn about childhood experiences and its connection to adult patterns and behaviors
    Tend to suppress emotions such as anger or sadness
    Difficulty setting boundaries or saying no
    Lost the ability to listen to yourself or your body
    Hard time expressing yourself or communicating

LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS

  • ALL ABOUT LOVE

    Questioning what healthy love feels and looks like
    Constantly confusing love with attachment and sacrifice
    Recovering from difficult relationship or heartbreak
    Feelings of loneliness even with company
    Struggle with both giving and accepting healthy love
    Want to understand love beyond romance and desire
    Have always struggled in knowing what is a safe healthy relationship
    Great for people questioning the state of their current relationships

  • GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT

    Keep finding yourself in the same type of relationship
    Experiencing same patterns with different partners
    Feel misunderstood in most relationships
    Constantly navigating old wounds and insecurities in partnerships
    Want to understand how childhood experiences show up in relationships
    Looking for tools to navigate difficulty in relationships
    Feeling triggered by partner and want to understand why

  • ATTACHED

    Constantly feel anxious in relationships
    Overthinks and overanalyzes everything
    Pattern of attracting distant or anxious partners
    Feeling like you constantly have to bid for connection or affection
    Also for people who distance themselves from closeness and intimacy
    Feel repulsed when people get too close and attracted when people withdraw
    Great if you are in an inconsistent and confusing relationship dynamic

  • NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION

    Struggling to express your needs without getting reactive
    Always feel misunderstood and unheard
    Navigating a safe way to set boundaries
    Looking for practical tools for difficult conversations
    Always feel defensive and reactive
    Experiencing recurring arguments with no resolve
    Want to adopt healthy communication with family and friends
    Difficulty expressing your truth without hurting another

  • TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS

    Feeling lonely, disconnected or misunderstood
    Looking for new perspectives on love and stories of difficult love
    Sick of love stories and happy endings
    Feeling lost, regretful or uncertain of love and life
    In need of courage and compassion
    You’re heartbroken and feeling alone
    Dealing with grief or loss
    Great if you feel your life is messy and you seek perspective

  • CODEPENDENT NO MORE

    Feeling like you have to look after your partner at the expense of yourself
    Feel guilt when saying no
    Hyperfixated on your partners needs and moods causing anxiety
    Always in the role of rescuer or fixer
    Feel an immense amount of pressure to save people
    Difficulty setting boundaries guilt free
    Lost touch with yourself and your own needs

MANIFESTING AND MONEY

  • THE GAME OF LIFE AND HOW TO PLAY IT

    Great entry level book into the art of manifesting
    Feeling like your always fighting the flow instead of letting go
    Interested in the power of words and thoughts and how that mirrors into circumstance and experience
    Want to explore intuition and faith
    Lived with a pattern of scarcity mindset, negativity and fear
    Exploring how your current state of mind is attracting and mirroring things in your life
    Great for people with an open mind and curiosity towards the power of belief

  • ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

    Feeling stuck and in need of a shift
    Interested in manifestation and law of attraction
    Want to attract different circumstances in life
    Curious to learn the principles of visualization, affirmation and intentional thinking
    Need help getting clarity with what you actually desire and want to call in
    Want to learn about alignment and living in alignment
    You like to be in control or live in anxiety
    Great for people who struggle with negative thinking

  • THINK AND GROW RICH

    Interested in money and energetics of money
    Curious about wealth building and energetics
    Needs motivation or encouragement to live out goals
    Great for people who tend to easily feel defeated in ambitions
    Interested in Law of Attraction with money principles
    Feeling exhausted and looking for faith
    Riddled with self doubt and lack of confidence
    Perfect for people venturing out on their own
    Looking to build a different belief system around money
    Help in building confidence and endurance to reach goals

  • HOW TO MANIFEST

    Great entry level read into manifestation
    Looking for actionable step by step guide
    Want a better understanding of how subconscious beliefs attract and mirror everything into your life
    Interested in doing the work and rewiring programmed beliefs
    Feeling frustrated that nothing you want is called into you life
    Discovering and bringing light to limiting belief systems and habits
    Always living out of scarcity rather than abundance
    Experiencing low self worth and never feeling truly deserving of what you desire

  • THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

    Interested in spirituality and energetic alignment
    Finding yourself focusing on lack, scarcity and fear
    Looking to shift subconscious and conscious thinking towards possibility and abundance
    Interested in the principles of universal and spiritual law
    Feeling stuck in a negative or limiting mindset
    Want to cultivate a different mindset aligned with possibility and positivity
    Looking to understand connections between thought and outcome

ADDICTION AND RECOVERY

  • WOMEN FOOD AND GOD

    Experience complicated relationship with food and disordered eating
    Use food as comfort or punishment
    Feel disconnected from the body
    Struggle with body image and self love and acceptance
    Interested in discovering the connections between food and emotion
    Experience fixation on eating, food and dieting
    Interested in mindfulness and the body
    Feeling like your relationship with food connects and reflects o something deeper in your life
    Food has become a source of comfort or guilt in your life

  • LETTING GO

    Tendency to repress your emotions than feeling them
    Exhausted from fighting your own feelings
    Often find it difficult to surrender control
    Want to understand the emotional patterns under compulsive behaviors
    Carry a lot of guilt and shame
    Looking to discover how to self regulate
    Seeking more self awareness towards patterns of behavior
    Want to let go of old identities and patterns
    Curious about spirituality and recovery
    Want to learn how to move through uncomfortable feelings

  • IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS

    Struggling with addiction or substance abuse
    Looking to understand certain patterns of behavior on a deeper somatic level
    Interested in discovering connections trauma with addiction
    Feeling shameful about addiction and in need of a compassionate perspective
    Curious to uncover emotional and psychological roots with addiction and abuse
    Exploring addiction through the lens of trauma and experience
    Great for family members, friends and partners of the addicted

YOGA AND SPIRITUALITY

  • TAO TE CHING

    Poetic take on spiritual lessons and Eastern Philosophy
    Interested in exploring ideas around humility and acceptance
    Wanting to move through life with more peace and intention
    Opening the mind to another world of spiritual wisdom and perspective
    Great for those in need of humbling or sick of constantly striving

  • STILL THE MIND

    Beautiful intro to meditation and Alan Watts
    Curious about Eastern philosophy and mindfulness
    Feeling disconnected to the present
    Great for overthinkers and people with trouble letting go
    Interested in the practice of detachment

  • FREEDOM FROM THE KNOWN

    Questioning your beliefs and thoughts
    Living on autopilot or to societal expectations and conditions
    Exploring self awareness as freedom
    Wondering why you think the way you do?
    Interested in consciousness and philosophy

  • THE YAMAS AND NIYAMAS

    Interested in the philosophy of yoga and its founding principles beyond the physical practice
    Want to live a more conscious. ethical, peaceful life
    Looking to explore habits, behaviors and relationships more deeply
    A guidebook on ethics for the yogi

  • THE UNTETHERED SOUL

    Curious in exploring your consciousness
    Seeking inner clarity and surrendering to life unfolding
    Difficulty getting out of your own head or feeling ruled by the voices in your mind
    Great for overthinkers or anxious people

  • ONE SIMPLE THING

    Great introductory book to yoga and its philosophy beyond asana
    Interested in exploring how yoga affects the mind and body and its connection with science and neuroscience
    Curious about why and how yoga transforms our emotional states as well as the physical body

  • LIGHT ON YOGA

    Interested in deepening your yoga practice
    Curious to learn alignment, adjustment and techniques of postures
    Great resource for students and yoga teachers
    Interested to learn the actual benefits and cause and effects of each asana posture

  • THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI

    Great for anyone looking to do deeper into yogic philosophy
    Seeking a framework to living more consciously
    Looking to go beyond the physical practice of yoga and understand its roots and traditions
    Great for yoga teachers or serious practitioners

  • YOGA THERAPY

    Want to understand yoga as therapy
    Interested in learning more about mind, body, breath and movement connection
    Seeking a more inward approach to yoga
    Curious about connection between physical practice and emotional wellbeing