Best Selling Books by Iyanla Vanzant

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved host of Iyanla: Fix My Life comes a transformational guide to love, healing, and personal growth. Are you stuck in a relationship rut? Longing for love but unsure how to find it—or hold onto it? You may be living in the meantime—that confusing, painful space between heartbreak and healing, desire and fulfillment. In this powerful and compassionate guide, Iyanla Vanzant shows how the chaos of our lives and relationships often stems from unhealed wounds, outdated beliefs, and emotional clutter. Using the metaphor of a house in need of deep cleaning, she helps you uncover and release the fears, patterns, and past hurts that block the light of love from shining in. With spiritual wisdom, practical tools, and straight-talking honesty, In the Meantime will help you: Understand why love isn’t working—and what to do about it Break free from old emotional habits Rediscover your self-worth and purpose Prepare your heart, mind, and life for the love you deserve Whether you’re single, struggling in a relationship, or simply seeking peace, this timeless book will guide you out of confusion and into clarity, where authentic love can finally take root.

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey In this companion volume to her bestselling book Acts of Faith, bestselling author and star of Iyanla: Fix My Life discusses the “valleys” that cause stress and imbalance for women and explains how women can cleanse their minds and promote a healthy foundation for living in the modern world. A Note from Iyanla Vanzant: Beloved friend, When this little book was first published many years ago, it became a beacon of light for many people who found themselves time and time again in one valley or another. Valleys are nothing new for any of us. Some of you may be in a valley right now, or, since you never know what’s around the corner, you may be on the brink of tottering into yet another valley. Or maybe you’ve just survived a valley that you swear you’ll never revisit—but guess what? That’s precisely the valley you’ll probably see again. And again. Being in a valley can be a lonely and bewildering experience. This book was written to help you feel less lonely by reminding you that you really aren’t ever alone since God is always by your side, but more important, you are always by your own side. No matter how dire the situation may seem, no matter how dark and bleak the valley may be, you have all you need within you to survive the valley—any valley. Even though you may not know how you got into the valley in the first place, you do know, deep inside yourself, how to get through and out and free. You just need a little faith in yourself and a little guidance to find that faith within yourself. When you are at your wit’s end, take this little book and let it guide you toward the ever-present but often elusive light at the end of the tunnel. Faith in the Valley is designed to help you find the light when you need it most—when you’re in that damn tunnel. When you’re most confused and in the dark and clueless as to how you got there (again!) and when you’re trying to figure out not just how to get out, but stay out. For good. Faith in the Valley has helped so many through so much that we felt it only fitting to issue this lovely gift edition to acknowledge the special place it holds in many hearts. Please share it with a friend who has served as your beacon in the past, or offer it to yourself as a reminder of the strength and wisdom you possess and can offer to others. Iyanla

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey Is it the job you hate but need in order to pay the rent? Is it that relationship that you gave your all to only to end up with a broken heart...again? Perhaps it''s your children, a family member, or a life-long friend doing you in, dragging you down, pushing you to the brink. If you are an honorary member of the Black Woman''s Suffering Society, you have probably been told that it''s all your fault. Or that struggling and suffering is your lot in life. Iyanla Vanzant says, No! Life is an Act of Faith and suffering is optional! Those everyday challenges, obstacles, and dilemmas are what Iyanla calls "valleys." As bad as they may seem, there is a purpose or, as Iyanla says, "There is so much value in the valley." If you''ve ever been disappointed, betrayed, rejected, abandoned, or just plain old scared to let go, then you''ve been or may still be in a valley. Iyanla knows—she''s been there and on a bad day she''s still there, but now she shares the way out with you.

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey From the host of Iyanla: Fix My Life and #1 New York Times bestselling author of In the Meantime comes a powerful companion workbook to help you move from heartbreak and confusion to healing and love. Are you feeling stuck, anxious, or emotionally drained? Are your relationships falling apart—or simply falling short? You may be living in the meantime—that challenging space between where you are now and where you want to be. Living Through the Meantime is your guided path forward. Designed as the hands-on companion to Iyanla Vanzant’s #1 New York Times bestseller, this interactive workbook offers a structured, step-by-step journey of healing and self-discovery. Through reflective exercises, meditations, and daily practices, Iyanla empowers you to: Understand the emotional patterns holding you back Release anger, fear, and self-doubt Practice radical self-care and personal accountability Create the mental and spiritual clarity needed to welcome love Whether you’re recovering from a breakup, navigating personal change, or simply craving deeper self-awareness, Living Through the Meantime gives you the tools to rebuild from the inside out—and reclaim the love you truly deserve.

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey What if your deepest pain held the key to your greatest healing? In Yesterday, I Cried, New York Times bestselling author and spiritual teacher Iyanla Vanzant shares her powerful personal story—a journey marked by abuse, neglect, heartbreak, and loss. With unflinching honesty and raw emotion, she invites us to witness how life’s most painful moments can transform into profound lessons of resilience, self-love, and spiritual growth. Through deeply personal reflections, Iyanla shows how crying—once seen as a sign of weakness—became her pathway to strength, clarity, and healing. Her story is not just her own, but one many will recognize: the struggle to rise above past wounds and reclaim inner peace. This soul-stirring work is for anyone who’s ever felt broken by life, yet still hopes to find wholeness. If you’ve ever asked, “Why me?” or “How do I move forward?”—this book offers an honest, compassionate answer.

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey Shift your attitude and live your best life with this inspiring collection of 365 daily devotionals from New York Times bestselling author and star of the OWN Network’s hit show Iyanla: Fix My Life. If there are situations, circumstances, or perhaps relationships in your life that you have been struggling to overcome, trying to work through, or doing your best to work around, throw your head back and declare to the universe, “Until Today!” Whatever has been going on in your mind, your life, or your heart can stop—right now, if that is truly what you desire. However, you must be willing to “do a new thing.” You must spend a little time, each day, in devotion to the truth about yourself and your life. You must make a conscious approach to what you think, what you feel, and what you do. Devotion will clear up misconceptions that may have obscured your vision until today! Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant presents a new book of devotions for anyone on the path to spiritual empowerment. These daily devotions will create powerful changes in the circumstances of your life that have held you back and will place you on the road to personal strength and peace of mind.

The 20th anniversary edition of Vanzant''s first published work offers a powerful path to self-empowerment based on the revitalization of one''s spiritual and ancestral roots.

A message of spiritual empowerment for African American men combines parables, meditation, prayer, and ritual to guide them.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant returns with an exciting new book introducing the transformational practice of spiritual hygiene! Spiritual Hygiene is a spiritually based guidebook born of lived experience, personal loss, and divine assignment. With clarity and compassion, Iyanla Vanzant brings readers onto a transformational path of remembering, restoring, and realigning their inner temple. Inspired by the life and passing of Iyanla’s daughter, Nisa, and Iyanla’s own personal healing journey, this book teaches that just as we tend to our physical hygiene, our mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness also require conscious daily care and sacred maintenance. In a world overwhelmed by emotional clutter, mental chaos, physical depletion, and spiritual confusion, Spiritual Hygiene offers a life-affirming framework to cleanse the mind, heart, body, and soul, facilitating a return to sacred alignment. Spiritual Hygiene guides readers to: - Release toxic emotional patterns and outdated mental narratives. - Develop sacred boundaries that lead to energetic clarity. - Recognize the voice of trauma so it can be silenced. - Reconnect with our Divine purpose with intentionality, personal healing ritual, silence, and inner alignment. - Embrace sorrow, grief, and loss as teachers and portals to deeper wisdom.

How do you find your way through the broken pieces and the pain to peace? In this honest and searching book, New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recounts the last decade of her profoundly human journey and shares her own hard lessons to inspire you to put your personal puzzle back together. Part metaphorical teaching story, part wrenching personal chronicle, this phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes tale is about men and money, love and work, mothers and daughters, life and death, and the patterns and pathologies that families pass down through the generations—until someone gets clear enough to break the pattern and pave the way to healing. Discover why everything you need to learn is reflected in your relationships; gain a new perspective on personal power, spiritual purpose, and karma; and recognize that it is possible to make your broken pieces whole.

Too many of us feel trapped in stagnant romantic, family, or workplace relationships. Weighed down by toxic thoughts and emotions, we might be quick to judge and slow to pardon, and self-righteous about our feelings as we dwell on memories of what we or others did (or failed to do). In this tradepaper edition, Iyanla Vanzant challenges us to liberate ourselves from the wounds of the past and to embrace the new power of forgiveness. With Iyanla’s 21-Day Forgiveness Plan, you’ll explore relationship dynamics with your parents, children, friends, partners, co-workers, bosses, yourself, and even God. With journaling work and Emotional Freedom Techniques (also known as "tapping"), you’ll learn to live with more love; gain new clarity on your life, lessons, and blessings; and discover a new level of personal freedom, peace, and well-being. Forgiveness doesn’t mean agreeing with, condoning, or even liking what has happened. Forgiveness means letting go and knowing that—regardless of how challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem—everything is just as it needs to be in order for you to grow and learn. When you focus on how things "should" be, you deny the presence and power of love. Accept the events of the past, while being willing to change your perspective on them. As Iyanla says, "Only forgiveness can liberate minds and hearts once held captive by anger, bitterness, resentment, and fear. Forgiveness is a true path to freedom that can renew faith, build trust, and nourish the soul."

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey In One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, bestselling author and spiritual mentor Iyanla Vanzant invites you on a transformative 40-day journey toward spiritual strength and emotional renewal. Drawing from her own life experience and powerful work as host of OWN’s Iyanla: Fix My Life, Vanzant offers daily reflections, journal prompts, affirmations, and meditations designed to guide you through challenges and deepen your connection with your divine self. Each morning and evening entry encourages you to explore core themes like self-love, forgiveness, trust, and personal integrity. With heartfelt guidance and practical exercises, this book empowers you to uncover your hidden resilience, align with your true purpose, and embrace the essential truth that you are a creative, powerful being. By the end of the program, your heart, mind, and spirit are open to a fuller expression of your unique identity—and equipped to make lasting change.

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey From the bestselling author of Until Today! and One Day My Soul Just Opened Up comes a unique invitation to prayer—and her most deeply personal book yet. Over the years, bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has received many letters from readers who want to know how to pray. Some are afraid they are praying wrong. Some want a formula. Some think their prayers are unworthy. Here, Iyanla shares the realizations that changed her experience with prayer once and for all: Every thought, every word, every action is a prayer; focus on God''s presence in everything—and everyone—and prayer becomes as natural as breathing. The prayers in Everyday I Pray culled from Iyanla''s own prayer journal, address a variety of topics and situations. It is Iyanla''s hope that they will spark a light in the hearts of readers, and that others will come to know the peace of God''s grace. With this intimate collection, she invites readers everywhere to join her in making the thoughts, words, and deeds of everyday life more reverent, honorable, and loving.

“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey In the 25th anniversary edition, Acts of Faith—affectionately known as the “purple book”—returns enriched and expanded, offering daily sustenance tailored especially for people of color. This timeless devotional blends potent encouragement, solace, and enlightenment for every step on your path. Spanning 365 entries—one for each day—this volume combines a powerful quote or message with a reflective essay designed to nourish your spirit. Drawing from a rich tapestry of spiritual traditions, it meets you where you are, regardless of your faith or background. Celebrating more than a quarter-century of touching lives, Acts of Faith stands as an essential daily companion for anyone navigating the unique joys and pressures of being a person of color. It’s a steadfast source of resilience, wisdom, and spiritual nourishment on your journey.

Today—as repeated attempts to "fix ourselves and our lives" fail—many of us face unprecedented fears about the future, struggle with unspeakable life tragedies, and sink under the belief that certain lives do not matter in our society. Others confront our epidemic of anxiety with fierce resistance, or "the fight to be right," criticizing anyone and everyone just to end up stuck. In the face of such pervasive human suffering, New York Times best-selling author and legendary life coach Iyanla Vanzant challenges us: What if it’s not them—what if it’s you? What if you need to "get over it"—and get over yourself? Because no matter how much we would like to blame people and circumstances beyond our control, the truth is staggeringly simple: anything and everything we experience is a function of what and how we think. In Get Over It! Iyanla offers a unique spiritual technology called "thought therapy," a process that harnesses proven spiritual tools with the science of neuroplasticity. The 42 prayers and affirmations, and complementary energy-clearing tools at the heart of the thought therapy process are designed to neutralize and eliminate the unconscious, unproductive, soul-destroying dominant negative thought patterns (DNTPs) and discordant emotional energies, allowing you to get to the root cause of your personal suffering, and make life-affirming choices. If you’re ready to break free of your ego’s resistance and willing to face yourself, willing to change, and willing to heal and grow—then now’s the time to Get Over It!

"Trust in self, trust in God, trust in others, trust in life"-- Jacket.

For men — and the women who love them — a guide to transformation and true power The world needs your light. The world needs your life. Every woman and child needs you also. Few men are taught the true spiritual essence of masculinity. In Up from Here Iyanla Vanzant empowers men with the insight and skills they need to identify, name, and understand their feelings, as well as to overcome the old patterns of behavior that result from misusing or not tapping into their emotional strength. In clear terms Vanzant shows men how to use the energy of emotions to move beyond painful, negative feelings such as rage, shame, fear, and anger to authenticity and strength. Like the phoenix, you can rise up from here, out of the ashes of the crash and burn of the past, to claim your true identity and power. By using Vanzant''s "power tools" men can transform their frustrations and failures in love, life, and work into opportunities to claim their true potential and purpose.

Iyanla Vanzant''s classic book on forgiveness gets a modern update.Take back your power, heal toxic relationships, and harness the energy of your thoughts. Too many of us feel stuck, trapped in relationships, and weighed down by past trauma. We might be quick to judge and slow to pardon, and self-righteous about our feelings as we dwell on memories of what we or others did (or failed to do). With this book, New York Times best-selling author and spiritual leader Iyanla Vanzant challenges us to embrace the new power of forgiveness. With Iyanla’s 21-Day Forgiveness Plan, you’ll explore relationship dynamics with your parents, children, friends, partners, yourself, and even God. Through journaling work and Emotional Freedom Techniques (also known as “tapping”), you’ll learn to see yourself, your life, your every experience, and every person in your life from a different perspective. The free audio download that accompanies this book contains personal guidance from Iyanla on the Forgiveness Process, supportive meditations, and 18 daily prayers. Whatever challenges you face, forgiveness is the key to change. Forgiveness doesn’t mean agreeing with, condoning, or even liking what has happened. It means letting go and knowing that everything is just as it needs to be in order for you to grow and learn. Releasing the past restores you to the full energy of the present moment so that you can live with more love, gain clarity on your life’s lessons and blessings, and discover a new level of personal freedom, peace, and well-being. If you are ready to stop feeling bad, stop being wounded, and stop giving yourself reasons and excuses to be, do, and have less than you desire . . . It''s time to forgive everyone for everything! Forgive Everyone for Everything is a revised edition of Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything (9781401952044).