"Time to Come Home: Sowing the Seeds of Self-Love for Lasting Happiness" by Damini Grover

"Self-love is the source of all our other loves." – Pierre Corneille

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Struggling to love yourself is common. After reading her first book few months back -“The Intentional Being” which explains how intention is not enough but we got to put up action, I was excited to explore Damini Grover’s latest book, “Time to Come Home”, about self-love.

Damini Grover, a Counselling Psychologist, brings over ten years of experience in this book, thus focusing on understanding and integrating self-love in our daily lives for lasting happiness.

While many books address self-love, I would say her work is clear and accessible. She provides research-backed insights, and felt very good reading them and acquiring knowledge that emphasizing how childhood experiences shape self-worth and encouraging self-awareness to foster healthier relationships.

I have so many lines in this book to felt meaningful and resonated to contemplating.

There are 10 chapters across 280 pages, each divided into a couple of sub-chapters, that point out how to cultivate self-love and that it starts with self-respect and acceptance, which can be learned. The chapters step by step explains that self-criticism often comes from early beliefs. 

Her insights reminded me of Dr. Gabor Maté’s work on authenticity. I follow his interviews and currently reading one of his works too. This is why I really liked this book as well as I was able to correlate.

It highlights sleep, nutrition, and exercise as essential for mental well-being. Her journaling prompts also foster mindfulness and clarity, guiding readers like us toward self-care and mental wellness.

Altogether, this is such an impactful book though everything is kept to the point and easy to understand and apply. Moreover the chapters are not overloaded with too many scientist notions that may come as arduous for new readers. The writing is clear and concise. 

I highly recommend it for anyone seeking self-love. Available on Amazon and bookstores. My rating is 4.5/5 🌻

A Price to Love by Smita Das Jain

A Price to Love is written by (Instagram @smitadjain)  taking inspirations from her real life experiences through different situations. That is what I liked while reading the book. It felt relatable. Often times we come across such cases in our reality. 

As she is a passout from IIM Indore and has worked in corporate world for 14 years; she has used her knowledge of these fields in moulding this story. So we do get a glimpse of the corporate world and it's happenings as the story proceeds.

It is a drama family fiction where love and it's intricacies have been highlighted.

" Emotions matter more than logic when it comes to personal relationships."

It starts with crumbling relationship of Sonia, a 27 year old career inclined lady, with her husband who expects her to spare some more time for their 4 year old marriage.

While their love felt perfect once, now it has started loosing its strength.

Slowly we get to know the different characters involved. After Sameep and Sonia we get to know about two more characters who add a lot of depth to the story with their issues - Rishabh and Mehul.

Rishabh, the manager of Sonia, not only is aware of her amazing professional skills but somewhere in the corner of his heart, Sonia resides even when his own marriage is on the stack.

Smita Das Jain has described each character's personality nicely so we get the opportunity to relate to them. We will find such people often in our personal as well as professional lives. 

This story also highlights the different facets and stages of love. During courtship period, couples focus more on love but after marriage, life happens. Hard realty hits. Relationships require us to work upon them where we also need to figure out work-personal life balance. 

Why is Sonia so workaholic? Is it due to her difficult past? Is it really love between Sonia and Sameep? Will Sameep stay or leave? What happens to Mehul and Rishabh finally? 

As the story unfolds slowly we witness different twists and turns.

The story becomes a bit slow paced at few times but concludes into a meaningful read.

Do pick this book up from Amazon! It's a good read.

The Tenth Riddle by Sapan Saxena

Book:The Tenth Riddle 

Author:Sapan Saxena 

Book Length: 270 pages 

Publisher: Locksley Hall Publishing LLP 

Price: 350/- 

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This story comes under thriller genre and it's  pivoted around a princess who once dies mysteriously after she has been crowned the queen.  Now question arises what was the reason behind her death back then?  Did she die of any disease or was she simply murdered? Now a situation comes to light where an array of secrets hidden by her family can be cleared out finally. 

To solve this enigmatic conspiracy behind this case three different people come together. They all have different professions, background and contrasting personalities. 

One is the local politician, the second one is an investigating officier and the third one is a bestselling author. Together they rode the roller coaster ride into solving this historical case where many ancient secrets are hidding under the  darkness of mystery surrounding around them.

There is a prophecy that also comes to light made of ten enigmatic riddles. It is winded up with a mind-boggling secret of the murder linked to hindu mythology and feminism. How will they solve it? It's a thrilling journey of them in the dark to bring the truth to the light. 

Read to enjoy the journey. 

 

Gita & Vedic Wisdom Greatest Spiritual Wisdom By Pranay

Gita & Vedic Wisdom Greatest Spiritual Wisdom 

By Pranay 

Published by Fingerprint Publishers 

I am really happy to have found yet another book by the eminent author in the spiritual genre Mr.Pranay. 

Last time I read - 'Vedas and Upanishads' and 'Krishna' and till date I go back to them when ever my inner conflicts fog up my vision towards life.

Now this book comprises of the wisdoms and life lessons that has been shared in our religious book- Gita and it's contemporaries the different Vedas- Raja, Karma, Gyaana , Bhakti. 

I think such books shall be published more for they are translated in lucid words helping us inculcate such teachings that if we try to understand from the real texts may come across as arduous. They were written in ancient times but their teachings remain eternal in their applicability. 

Vedas teach us basic essence of our lives. Similarly Gita teaches us what should be our action on Earth.  

They clarify our doubts and thoughts. Here we get to understand the concept of soul, insights into Hinduism, that everything is one or the other form of energy, how Bhagavad Gita helps us find eternal joy in a mortal world, what Krishna and Arjuna's conversation signifies, understanding existence from the atomic level, controlling emotions and get clarity in our consciousness, find higher truth through Purnata prapti and live a spiritually inclined live full of positivity. Such books change our perspective and broadens our vision. 

I have always liked the writing style that has been kept brief, lucid, effective and comprehendable through out the book. 

I really appreciate the author to have shared his immense knowledge in his books.  

Highly recommend it to philosophy and spiritual book enthusiasts.