Self-Improvement audiobooks

You Can Be Happy No Matter What - Abridged

By: Richard Carlson

Narrated by: Richard Carlson

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this revised edition, #1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally known stress-management consultant Dr. Richard Carlson reveals a profound breakthrough in human psychology. Most of us believe that our happiness depends on outside circumstances, that by solving our problems, improving our relationships, or achieving success we will... Read more

Protect Your Achilles Heel - Abridged

By: Wess Roberts

Narrated by: Wess Roberts

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Protect Your Achilles Heel mirrors the immensely successful model created by Roberts in his two previous bestsellers Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun and Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun. In that series, Roberts applied Attila's cunning leadership secrets to the modern business world.

Now, he uses the story of Achilles to illustrate how... Read more

Confronting Your Demons

By: Theresa Sheppard Alexander

Narrated by: Jacqui Dunne

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Theresa Sheppard Alexander became a therapist after her own experiences undergoing Primal Therapy helped to liberate her from her scarred past.  Her experience from both sides of the fence, as patient and therapist, gives us a unique understanding of the entire healing process of Deep Feeling Therapy, an offshoot of Primal Therapy. Read more

Make Peace, Not War: Day Two

By: Dalai Lama, Michael Meade, Jack Kornfield & Sha...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

High-level inspiration and practical means for change catalyze each other in an incredible confluence of voices here in this second day of the conference. Read more

Peacemaking as a Way of Life

By: His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Jeff Wessman

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This is from the historic 1997 conference in San Francisco, "Peacemaking: The Power of Nonviolence," which brought together the voices of those at the forefront of peacemaking in our time, including Nobel Laureates the Dalai Lama of Tibet and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor. Read more

Make Peace, Not War: Day One

By: Dalai Lama, Alice Walker, Angeles Arrien, Edwar...

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this first day of the conference, we also hear H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Alice Walker, Angeles Arrien, Gay Luce and Edward James Olmos, speaking of the causes and deeper cures of violent behavior. "There’s no reason for hopelessness or despair," says Thurman. "We can solve these problems." Read more

Gardening the Soul

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s no secret that a rich and happy life has little to do with material wealth. So how can we make the best of what we do have? Alice Walker offers a fresh look at how to live well in a complex culture. Her unique depth of perception is a gift that shows us new angles on everything from cocaine to Aunt Jemima to painting murals on the White House. Read more

Death and Grieving

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Marianne Williamson

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Marianne Williamson uses music, meditation, and prayer to help ease the pain brought on by the death and grieving process. A sense of peace and acceptance will permeate one's being with each listening of this cassette, and the individual will find that he/she is able to deal more effectively with the profound emotions that he/she is experiencing. Read more

First Things First Every Day - Abridged

By: Stephen R. Covey

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?

Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, First Things First can help you understand why we so often prioritize things... Read more

Lunch With Krishnamurti

By: Michael Krohnen

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In his capacity as Krishnamurti's chef, Krohnen became witness to Krishnamurti's daily life, habits and mealtime conversations.  Krohnen shares with us a rare glimpse into the private life of Krishnamurti, revealing him as a man of rare integrity, the same person in private as in public.  Krohnen describes Krishnamurti's extraordinary ability to... Read more

Learning To Die In Order To Live

By: Stephen Levine

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We've heard how a close brush with death can make a person suddenly realize what is truly important in life. But do we have to wait until we die to gain the benefits we suspect lie in wait for us? Stephen Levine, who spent a year of his life as if it were his last, says no. It is through actually practicing our dying that we learn how to truly... Read more

Change Your Mind - Change The World

By: Nancy Napier

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you feel overwhelmed by the problems of the world?  Do you wish you could do something about some of them, but don't have the time?  Nancy Napier suggests that changing our thought patterns is a powerful way to begin changing the world.  "We're all taught to believe that it's reasonable for some people to have and others not to have," she... Read more

Transforming Grief

By: Alexandra Kennedy

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Along with grief, the death of a loved one often brings old resentments, regrets and unexpressed love, which can block our emotional growth and negatively impact our relationships. Alexandra Kennedy shows us how, by using imagination and imagery, we can re-create an inner relationship with our loved ones who have passed away. Read more

Morning and Evening

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Marianne Williamson

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Join internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher and New York Times bestselling author Marianne Williamson as she guides you through meditations and prayers for morning and evening. The first track will help you start your day with hope and optimism and the second will help you end your day with a feeling of peace, relaxation, and satisfaction. Read more

Finding the Champion Within - Abridged

By: Bruce Jenner

Narrated by: Bruce Jenner

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If anyone knows what it takes to marshal the power needed to become a champion, Bruce Jenner does. His dramatic decathlon victory earned him a gold medal, a new world record, and America's heart. In Finding The Champion Within, Jenner offers the formula that he developed and lived by to anyone who seeks to harness their maximum potential and to... Read more

Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip Capitalism - Abridged

By: Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield

Narrated by: Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

From Girl To Wise-Woman

By: Joan Borysenko

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychologist/biologist Joan Borysenko illuminates the gifts of being female and celebrates the power of the feminine life-cycle, a brand new field of study.  She shows us, through new research, the path to realizing our unique female gifts, and how to utilize them for a life of extraordinary power. Read more

Dancing With Life

By: Bill T. Jones

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Called today's most daring choreographer by Newsweek, dancer/artist Bill T. Jones is transforming the world of art as we know it.  He says "I believe an act of creation is a spiritual activity."   Here he discusses what led him into dance, the formation of his world-renowned dance company, dealing with the loss of his partner (in dance as well... Read more

Underlying Answers

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

We all know that life is a terminal condition and yet when we have a close brush with death, it often comes as a big surprise. Andrew Bard Schmookler notes that "a confrontation with death brings us back in touch with what it is that really matters." Read more

Death Is Not The Enemy

By: Christine Longaker

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Since suffering is an inescapable fact of life, Longaker says, "what we need to learn is how to go through suffering, how to bring the experiences of suffering into our spiritual path and purpose, because that is how we can transform it." Facing death--either our own or that of our loved ones--is a part of life; eventually, we are all touched. Read more

The Logic of Intuition

By: Laura Day

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Before you pick up the phone to dial that 900 number for the psychic hot-line, why not consider finding the answer within yourself? Whenever we make a decision, it includes a contribution from our intuitive depths. Whether we call it a hunch, our sixth sense or ESP--we all have it and Day tells us how to use it. Read more

Be Who You Are

By: Gangaji

Narrated by: Michael Toms & Justine Willis Toms

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

After decades of searching, Gangaji found her true self and now assists others in removing obstacles to their own realization of truth to discover "the fullness, the radiance, the boundlessness" of their being. Read more

It's All In Your Mind

By: Tulku Thondup Rinpoche

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Lama Thondup draws on his early childhood in Tibet traveling with his nomadic parents, followed by years of classical Buddhist education in a Tibetan monastery. He had to rely on the goodness of others when forced to leave his homeland after the Chinese invasion and relocate to India, learning a new language and new skills. Read more

Snakes Apes and Bees

By: Sandra Crowe

Narrated by: Sandra Crowe

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dealing with difficult people can often feel like a frustrating and lose-lose ordeal. The reason for this is that the strategies we have for dealing are typically old (from earlier in our life) and repeated over and over with similar results. The key to really shifting your relationships with difficult people is to understand the dynamic you are... Read more