Dear Lover: A Woman’s Guide to Enjoying Love’s Deepest Bliss
by David Deida
This one’s kind of out-there, but if you want to get in touch with what it really means to be a woman in a romantic relationship, I highly recommend it.
Deida writes it as a woman writing a letter to her lover (I know, weird, and it kind of is), but it’s deeply sensual in an opening-your-heart kind of way and is a really interesting approach to explaining femininity. It took me a while to be able to deal with it but once I did, I loved it. Guys should read it too if they want to understand the ladies better.
Calling in the One: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life
by Katherine Woodward Thomas
This is by far the best book I've read on attracting love and is actually a great book for attracting pretty much everything you want in life. It's super easy to digest and is delivered in 49 short and to-the-point chapters, each with easy to implement and rather profound exercises at the end. The book helps you to bust yourself on your limiting beliefs around intimacy and relationships, walks you through releasing them, guides you through meditations, journaling, visualizing what you want, writing mantras, taking scary action - you know, all that little stuff that hugely changes your life.
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
by Byron Katie
READ THIS BOOK. I demand it. It is the Holy Grail of being happy in your relationships. Based on what Katie calls “The Work”—which is essentially just asking yourself four simple, yet profound, questions—this book spends about ten pages walking you through the steps of The Work and a couple hundred on case studies. It’s basically like watching Katie perform her magic on all sorts of people, from those who’ve been brutally raped to people who’ve lost their children to those who want happier marriages. She walks them through her process and they suddenly find peace and freedom. It’s so cool AND The Work is a piece of cake. When you read it, I recommend reading the case studies first and then doing The Work on yourself instead of the other way around. Seeing her do it over and over will make it much easier for you to get better results when you try it on yourself.
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
by David Deida
This book is made for a man, but the ladies must read it, too, if they really want to understand how men work. I thought it was brilliant and fascinating and explained SO much about the opposite sex that made me respect men even more. And the guys I’ve suggested it to said it was massively empowering. It speaks to, and explains, the highest version of masculinity, reminding us ladies why we love the fellas so much and reminding men how truly awesome they are/can be.