There are books featured here that have comforted my troubled mind, informed my ignorant mind and given me true 'aha' moments.
- The Biology of Belief is a classic. He focuses on Mind over Matter - which is very real. Epiginetics - is a relatively new science, that I'm enjoying learning about. It has huge potential effects on our lives. Fascinating.
- Love, Medicine and Miracles is a beautiful book, first released in 1986. The fact that it's still in print today says something. I love it's gentle message of unconditional love and miracles that happen every day.
- Gabor Maté was an amazing find for me, can't recommend his work enough...
Atomic Habits
James Clear
'Break your bad habits and stick to good ones. Avoid the common mistakes most people make when changing habits. Overcome a lack of motivation and will power. Develop a stronger identity and believe in yourself. Make time for new habits. Design your environment to make success easier. Make tiny, easy changes that deliver big results. Get back on track when you get off course. And most importantly, how to put these ideas into practice in real life.' Great book!
The Biology Of Belief
Bruce Lipton
Bruce is a former medical school professor and research scientist who explores his own experiments and those of other leading-edge scientists that have unraveled in ever greater detail how truly connected the mind, body, and spirit are.
The Blue Zones of Happiness
Dan Buettner
The secrets of the world’s happiest places and tools for setting up your life to be the happiest it can be. Use the Happiness Test to pinpoint areas in your life where change could bring more happiness—and find steps to make those changes. Learn the Top 10 ways to create happiness too.
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
Powerful best-selling book that has helped me hugely: 'Only making it safe for trauma victims to inhabit their bodies, and to tolerate feeling what they feel, and knowing what they know, can lead to lasting healing.'
Brain Wash
David Perlmutter
Exposes how our health, our relationships, and even our thinking have been damaged by modern culture, and offers a practical plan for healing.
Cured
Jeffrey Rediger
Dr. Rediger digs down to the root causes of illness, showing how to create an environment that sets the stage for healing. He reveals the patterns behind healing and lays out the physical and mental principles associated with recovery.
The Gifts Of Imperfection
Brené Brown
Brené has found a special place as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveller. She is a social scientist whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh and, on occasion, cry. It all started with this book, which has sold more than 2 million copies in 35 languages.
High Performance
Jake Humphrey/Prof Damian Hughes
Cutting-edge research to explain why anyone can learn the secrets of high performance. From taking responsibility for your situation to finding your 'trademark behaviours', thinking flexibly to crafting a high performance culture, the crucial steps to becoming the best 'you' possible.
The Highly Sensitive Person
Elaine N Aron
'Sensitivity is anything but a flaw' says Elaine. Many HSPs are creative and productive workers, attentive and thoughtful partners, and intellectually gifted individuals. According to Dr. Aron, HSPs could contribute much more to society if they received the right kind of attention.
It's OK That You're Not OK
Megan Devine
Through stories, research, life tips, and creative and mindfulness-based practices, Megan offers a guide through an experience we all must face. She debunks the cultural goal of returning to a normal, “happy” life, replacing it with a far healthier middle path, one that invites us to build a life alongside grief rather than seeking to overcome it.
Jesus Calling
Sarah Young
The #1 bestselling daily devotional Jesus Calling has impacted over 30 million lives with words of encouragement, comfort, and reassurance of Jesus’ unending peace and love.
Lifeshocks
Sophie Sabbage
A book about the unwanted and unexpected moments in our lives. They surprise us, they blindside us. They shock us. They command our attention. Some bounce off us, others strike deep into our being. These moments are collision points between how we see life and how life actually is.
Love, Medicine And Miracles
Bernie Siegel
'Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day–patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery.'
Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle
A book of Infidelity, betrayal and redemption. How our ideals of femininity and masculinity can make it impossible for a woman and a man to actually know each other. How to use crisis as a springboard to a truer identity and a better life. About parenting our kids through pain, friendships that hurt and heal, faith that shackles women and liberates them. How to finally find peace in your own skin. Shameless sex, God, food, drugs, porn and tenderness—and how the dirt and the divine are so often inseparable.
Mind Over Medicine
Lissa Rankin
Whilst restoring her own health, Dr Rankin discovered that the conventional health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body’s innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms by our own consciousness.
Reasons To Stay Alive
Matt Haig
Is a memoir based on Matt's life experiences of living with major depressive disorders and anxiety disorder. Reasons to Stay Alive intends for readers to never lose sight of faith and support.
Sacred Medicine
Lissa Rankin
"Sacred Medicine is a must-read for anyone who respects the importance of conventional medicine and also wants to dive in to the transformative possibilities of emotional and spiritual healing" Kelly A Turner PhD, Radical Remission
Solve for Happy
Matt Gawdat
Mo questions some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, shares the underlying reasons for suffering, and plots out a step-by-step process for achieving lifelong happiness and enduring contentment.
Unravel Dis-ease Naturally
Catherine Rolt
Catherine is a specialist in Integrated Chinese Medicine and Grief Recovery. She talks from experience, having had 35 surgeries, 3 cancer diagnoses, a stroke...
Whatever Happened To You?
Bruce D Perry
Oprah Winfrey
'Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry discuss the impact of our pasts and how healing must begin with a shift to asking “What happened to you?” rather than “What’s wrong with you?”
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When the Body Says No
Gabor Maté
Answers to important questions about the effect of the mind-body link on illness and health and the role that stress and individual emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases. Fascinating.
Why Woo-Woo Works
David R Hamilton
The science behind some of today's most popular alternative practices: energy healing, crystals, meditation, and more. How your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs have healing power. The benefits of nature and a holistic approach to healing. A link between consciousness and human connection. The relationship between suppressed emotions and disease. Fascinating.