HEALTHY MIND - BOOKS

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.

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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.

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.

Unravel Dis-ease Naturally

Catherine Rolt

Catherine Rolt is a specialist in Integrated Chinese Medicine and Grief Recovery.  She talks from experience, having had 35 surgeries, 3 cancer diagnoses, a stroke...

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.

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