REBEL SOUL READING LIST
Curated Recommendations for Becoming Better Selves, Creating Better Lives and Contributing to a Better World
LOOKING TO RESOURCE YOURSELF?
Some books entertain us. Some books inform us.
And some books quietly change the way we see ourselves, other people, society, and what it means to live consciously.
Over the years, I have spent countless hours reading books on trauma, healing, spirituality, consciousness, relationships, human flourishing, organizations, business, community, contribution, systems, and social justice.
I’ve created the REBEL SOUL Reading List because I wanted one place where people could find books that genuinely help us:
- heal deeply,
- think critically,
- relate consciously,
- participate meaningfully,
- and contribute to a better world.
This is not simply a random collection of popular “self-help” books.
It is a carefully organized reading list built around the 12 REBEL SOUL Pathways.
I’ve personally read about 80% of the books, with the remaining titles on my “to read” list.
And because the complete list is extensive, you can choose what works best for you:
- download the full REBEL SOUL Reading List,
- or download only the section(s) most relevant to where you currently are.
Whether you are focused on healing, relationships, purpose, community, systems, contribution, or social consciousness — there is a pathway for you.
What Are the 12 REBEL SOUL Pathways
There are many different ways we are called to grow so that we can relate and create consciously with ourselves, others, in our lives, and in the world. We’re not called to everything at once. It’s a whole journey and we’re all at different places on it.
So, the reading list is organized into 12 pathways across three larger areas.
Becoming BETTER SELVES
- Resolving Victimization & Survival
Healing trauma, ending patterns of victimization, building self-protection, developing healthy expectations, and moving beyond survival patterns.
- Breaking Away from Toxic Ego & External Expectations
Releasing fear-based identity, entitlement, domination patterns, and external conditioning and conforming so that a more conscious self can emerge.
- Ensuring Core Needs & Cultivating Core Developments
Building physical, emotional and social, health, integrity, resilience, maturity, and the internal foundations to function well for ourselves and others.
- Soul Centering
Developing inner alignment, authenticity, presence, meaning, spirituality, intuition, and connection to the deepest essence of who we are.
Creating BETTER LIVES
- Developing Conscious Relationships
Creating healthier partnerships, family relationships, parenting dynamics, friendships, communication patterns, and relational systems.
- Meaningful Work, Livelihood & Leisure
Exploring purpose, contribution, creativity, restorative leisure, meaningful work, and life-giving forms of engagement.
- Stewarding Physical Resources
Learning responsible stewardship of money, possessions, resources, consumption, sustainability, and long-term thinking.
- Engaging in Community
Building belonging, participation, local connection, mutual support, hospitality, and healthy community life that supports and sustains.
Contributing to a BETTER WORLD
- Conscious Leadership in Organizations & Systems
Bringing humanity, ethics, consciousness, and relational intelligence into business, organizations, and systems.
- Developing a Global Lens
Understanding systems, inequality, power, culture, media, economics, oppression, and the complexity of the larger world.
- Offering Self and Service
Participating in the common good through generosity, contribution, reciprocity, and meaningful service.
- Rising Up for Social Action & Impact
Engaging issues of inequality, inequity, exploitation, oppression, and injustice with greater awareness, courage, and consciousness.
WONDERING WHAT YOU GET?
What You’ll Receive:
When you sign up, you can:
Download the Entire Reading List
(comprehensive master list covering all 12 pathways)
OR
Download Individual Section(s)
(choose what is most aligned with your current season of growth)
Explore without overwhelm.
WONDERING IF THIS IS FOR YOU?
This Is For You If:
- You crave depth in a shallow culture.
- You want healing that goes beyond surface-level advice.
- You are trying to understand yourself and the world more consciously.
- You care about relationships, community, systems, and humanity.
- You want to contribute meaningfully rather than simply consume.
- You are drawn toward conscious relating and creating.
- You feel the tension between the world as it is and the world as it could become.
If you’ve got questions that aren’t answered here, then please reach out.
WONDERING ABOUT GROWTH?
A Different Kind of Personal Growth
Most personal growth content focuses almost entirely on the individual.
A REBEL SOUL recognizes that we exist inside relationships, communities, systems, cultures, economies, and larger social realities.
Real growth isn’t about becoming more successful, although it’s great when that happens in the process.
It is about becoming more conscious.
More connected. More in wonderment. More empowered.
More cooperative. More responsive.
More knowledgeable. More whole.
More capable of creating lives and systems that support collective flourishing.
The books inside this reading list were selected to support this larger journey.
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WANT A CLOSER LOOK?
The REBEL SOUL Reading List includes:
Resolving Victimization and Survival (8 pgs)
Breaking Away Toxic Culture and Personal Ego (8 pgs)
Meeting Needs & Cultivating Developments (8 pgs)
Soul Centred (8 pgs)
Conscious Relationship (Partnering & Parenting) (6 pgs)
Work, Livelihood & Leisure (3 pgs)
Stewarding Physical Resources & Money (2 pgs)
Engaging in Community (2 pgs)
Leadership Organizations, Business, Systems (3 pgs)
Global Lens on Systems and Societies (4 pgs)
Offering Self and Service (2 pgs)
Rising Up for Social Action & Impact (3 pgs)
NOTE: The listed books inspire reflection and will support increases in conscious relating and creating. It’s important that we do not simply take everything that they present as ultimate truth. We must use discernment to see what resonates for us with our rebellions.
Sample pages.
WONDERING WHO PUT TOGETHER THE LIST?
About Carole:
I use my varied background to help people become better selves, create better lives and contribute to a better world. Find out more about me here and those I’ve been most influenced by.
Books are and have been an important part of my journey.
I would be considered “book-wrapt”, a term coined by Mr. Reid Byers and discussed in a NY Times article published in December 2021 (others might call it a kind of “nerd”). I read, learn from and gather non-fiction in categories of business, coaching, counselling, community development, creativity, health promotion, leadership, mindfulness, neuroscience, parenting, psychology, relationships, self-help, social issues, social justice, spirituality, and trauma.
My experience is that some books can be powerful in helping us see things differently, simplify the complex and shift things within ourselves. At their best, they also provide strategies that we can play around with as we grow and move forward differently.
This REBEL SOUL Reading List is meant to support this along different pathways of growth and rebellion.
I hope some of these books can support your journey as well.
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