Several new books explore the nexus between introspection and spirituality, urging readers to form a relationship with the self rather than with a higher power. With a focus on self-love, self-care, self-acceptance, self-knowledge, and more, authors are laying out new ways to find peace, purpose, and healing.

The Path to Self Love: Heal Your Heart, Set Healthy Boundaries & Unlock Your Inner Strength (Harmony, June) features hardships in author Ruby Dhal’s life: she was born in India to Sikh parents who had been forced to leave their homes in Afghanistan during a conflict between the Taliban and the government. At age three, Dhal and her family emigrated from India to the U.K. as refugees. Dhal’s life was also deeply impacted by the death of her mother as well as her father’s alcoholism.

Donna Loffredo, executive editor at Rodale and Harmony, was drawn to Dhal’s story as well as the author’s understanding of empathy. “Her childhood was marked by instability and loss, and so she had to cultivate self-love very intentionally as a young adult,” Loffredo says. “The Path to Self-Love is spiritual in the sense that it is focused on nourishing your heart and soul. It doesn’t touch on mysticism or any belief systems; it’s a book about healing your wounds and developing a healthy relationship with yourself.”

Manifest Anything You Want: Six Magical Steps to Create an Extraordinary Life by Shantini Rajah (Llewellyn, May) focuses both on attracting external desires and gaining confidence, peace, and courage internally. PW called it “approachable” and “grounded” in a review.

Below are more new and forthcoming books with a focus on looking inward.

■ Access Super Consciousness: Raise Your Frequency to Overcome Your Biggest Obstacles by RJ Spina (Llewellyn, Aug.) features meditation-based teachings aimed at leaving behind the conditioned mind.

■ The Light Work: Reclaim Your Feminine Power, Live Your Cosmic Truth, and Illuminate the World by Jessica Zweig (St. Martins, Aug.) advises readers on how to search for self-empowerment by addressing shame.

■ Living in Wisdom: A Guide to Awakening Your Authentic Self and Developing Self-Mastery by Devi Brown (Hachette, Apr. 2025) offers tools for self-improvement based on spirituality, psychology, ancient wisdom traditions, and more.

■ Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration by Michelle Wadleigh (St. Martin’s, Sept.) explores “inner darkness,” according to the publisher, including wounds left behind by childhood trauma, and addresses what can be learned with healing.

■ Shadow Work for the Soul: Seeing Beauty in the Dark by Mary Mueller Shutan (Findhorn, out now) encourages readers to accept what the publisher calls their “dark side” with compassion.

As well, Sounds True is releasing a set of divinatory cards created by Amy B. Scher, author of How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can and How to Heal Yourself from Anxiety When No One Else Can. On sale in June, the How to Heal Yourself Oracle Deck features illustrations and encouraging messages drawn from Scher’s books that, the publisher says, are intended to help readers “process and release emotions” that “can get stuck in the energetic body.”