Unshaken: The Roar of the Soul and the Path to Empowerment by therapist and educator Carolyn Bell, LMHC, opened at #1 across multiple Amazon charts following its Tuesday, November 4, 2025 launch, achieving international best-seller status in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The title appeared on at least 15 bestseller lists across the three stores, posting multiple #1, top-3, top-10, and top-50 placements in competitive Self-Help and Psychology categories.
The early performance placed Unshaken alongside—and in several cases ahead of—evergreen bestsellers including Atomic Habits (James Clear), The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), The 5 Second Rule and The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins), Influence (Robert Cialdini), Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill), Can’t Hurt Me (David Goggins), Die With Zero (Bill Perkins), How to Talk to Anyone (Leil Lowndes), How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie), Noise and Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman), and Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss). A limited-time launch-day discount and strong reader response contributed to the surge.
In remarks acknowledging the community behind the launch, Bell thanked readers and professional peers for amplifying the book’s message.
“I want to thank every reader, clinician, colleague, and friend who supported the launch of Unshaken,” Bell said. “Your early reviews, shares, and word of mouth carried this book farther than I imagined. I’m grateful that its message—healing that honors both science and soul—has been so warmly received. This is an important conversation about trauma, resilience, and hope, and I’m honored to be part of it with you.”
Part memoir, part clinical guide, and part spiritual roadmap, Unshaken argues that trauma need not define a person’s future; with the right tools it can refine it. The book opens by mapping trauma’s imprint on the brain, body, emotions, and identity, reframing hypervigilance, shame, and dissociation as adaptive responses that can be identified, understood, and integrated. Subsequent chapters pair evidence-based therapies—EMDR, DBT, somatic work, Mindfulness-CBT, and hypnotherapy—with holistic practices such as breathwork, meditation, and yoga to help readers rebuild agency, rewire limiting beliefs, and cultivate new pathways of safety and trust.
A throughline of spiritual exploration distinguishes the work. Bell devotes significant attention to “spiritual emergence,” the destabilizing yet clarifying awakening that can follow trauma, and uses accessible metaphors—surrender “like letting the current carry you”—to connect clinical insight with meaning-making and purpose. The closing section widens the lens from individual recovery to collective transformation, proposing a trauma-informed spirituality that can shape leadership, families, and communities.
Bell’s background anchors the book’s authority. A Holistic Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Senior Instructor for the School of Psychological Studies with Cambridge College at Bay Path University, she specializes in trauma and addictions and integrates modalities including DBT, Mindfulness-CBT, EMDR, and hypnotherapy. She is the founder of Carolyn Bell Psychotherapy, LLC, and leads Roar of the Soul Retreats focused on holistic healing and personal transformation. Earlier in her career, Bell held leadership roles in specialty healthcare and strategic consulting and worked as a managing partner in historical restoration. She holds an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology and a B.S. in Psychology, carries diplomas in Clinical, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy, is a member of the American Counseling Association, and is recognized in Marquis Who’s Who for professional achievement.
Availability
Unshaken: The Roar of the Soul and the Path to Empowerment is available globally via Amazon. Launch-day promotional pricing was offered on November 4, 2025; standard retail pricing now applies.
Media & Speaking Inquiries
For review copies, interviews, or event requests with Carolyn Bell, please contact:
Carolyn@carolynbellroarofthesoul.com
With a cross-market debut at #1 and sustained placement across key categories, Unshaken consolidates its early momentum and underscores growing demand for trauma-informed, spiritually literate resources aimed at turning pain into durable personal and collective power.
