Spiritual Hygiene: A Practical Path for Clean Living, Inner Authority, and Divine Freedom

by Iyanla Vanzant

#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- Release toxic emotional patterns and outdated mental narratives.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.

Genres: Self Help, Spirituality

368 pages, Hardcover

Published December 30, 2025

About the author

In Peace From Broken Pieces New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant she recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learnedfrom the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughters 15 months of illness and death on Christmas day. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Iyanla shares why everything we need to learn is reflected in our relationships and the strength and wisdom she has gained by supporting others in their journeys to make sense out of the puzzle pieces of their lives.
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Reviews

[Andre(Read-A-Lot) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not just a book, it’s a life-work exercise in improving your hygiene. Your spiritual hygiene!
“I think of Spiritual Hygiene as the daily, sacred devotion of clearing your inner space. It is the loving commitment to honoring your thoughts, emotions, energy, and soul with the same reverence you give to your sacred belongings.”

Although Iyanla Vanzant is one who is lovingly and frequently described as “deep.” She is exceptionally accessible in her writing; it’s simple, not in a plain sense, but in an easy-to-understand way. And since this text is going to put readers to work, the easy button is much appreciated. I’m not saying the work of clearing and cleaning your inner altar is easy, but the how-to writing is understandable and not bogged down with spiritualese.

Before beginning each chapter Iyanla offers an opening prayer that relates to that particular part of the book and those words of solemnity are always inspirational. As she guides readers through the necessary steps to achieve a high level of spiritual hygiene, she sprinkles pieces of her biography making the spiritual practice more relevant and relatable. Some of the struggles she is urging us through, she has faced and survived to write about them.

Over 17 chapters she is delivering the skills one needs to maintain a high level of hygiene. Just, as one maintains their physical hygiene by certain practices and rituals, you must also embrace, employ, and emphasize your inner altar for optimal Spiritual Hygiene. And in a final and definitive flourish she includes a glossary of spiritual principles and sacred concepts. This inclusion alone is worth the price of the book! And one, readers will cherish for use again and again, not for this book solely but for any book where spiritual principles are being discussed. A big thanks to Atria books and Edelweiss for an advanced DRC. Book drops 12/30/25! Right in time for the new year signaling new beginnings!

[Tina Sharane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Queen Muva Iyanla has done the Lord's work with this book right here! Asé. Asé. Asé. 🦋✨

And the audiobook read by her is nothing short of amazing, but I highly suggest getting a physical copy because this is a spiritual guidebook that needs to be slowly digest and thoroughly engaged with, which is exactly what I plan to do myself.

If spiritual elevation and holistic wellness is your goal in 2026, please do your soul a favor and read this divine / vulnerable / healing book!!!

[Shay Leszinske · Rating 4 out of 5]

Raw, emotional, heart opening. This book makes you feel. Great stepping stone for your spiritual journey. I received this book through Goodreads.

[M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is more than just a book you can breeze through leisurely. This is a life manual that you will need to sit with and maybe read over a few times, practice, and take notes. The long time wisdom Iyanla Vanzant possesses is exactly like her title says : Spiritual Hygiene: A Path for Clean Living, Inner Authority, and Divine Freedom. You don't have to share the same God as she, but it does help to be spiritual, or have some belief in something greater than yourself.

Thank you to Goodreads and Atria for my gifted copy

[Veraleka Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was very personal for Iyanla Vanzant. She shared the story of her healing from both her daughter's that passed and making peace with her grandson. I do believe throughout your life you must do spiritual hygiene, which means just a good cleaning of all the things that lie deep within us. Pass trauma, hurt, pain, etc. I think of it as true Soul Searching!! I enjoyed her story and sometimes hard things must be done throughout this process. I respected that she didn't attend her youngest daughter's funeral to keep peace.

[Rae Bradshaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spiritual Hygiene by Iyanla Vanzant is a luminous guide to inner clarity and soulful empowerment, blending practical wisdom with spiritual insight in a way that feels both grounding and transcendent. Vanzant’s voice is compassionate yet commanding, urging readers to cleanse not just their physical spaces but their emotional and energetic landscapes. Through relatable anecdotes and actionable practices, she invites us to reclaim our divine authority and live with intentional freedom. This book is more than a read—it’s a ritual, a recalibration, and a radiant call to live clean, live true, and live free.

[Julius Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Received this on its official release date, which was Tuesday, December 30, 2026

I am currently on Chapter Two; it is a page-turner.
Iyanla is a spiritual goddess.

[Greyson · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75⭐️ This book beat my ass and turned me every whichaway but loose. I did not have a good time but damn it; it was time used well. Adding this to my bookshelf.

[Michelle Pulignani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Iyanla always delivers. Great book.

[Tomasina Cook · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was transformational and inspiring.

[Wendy]

LOVE LOVE LOVE