There are books featured here that have comforted my troubled mind, informed my ignorant mind and given me true 'aha' moments.
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 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 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.
Healing is the New High
Vex King
A social media content creator and a mind coach Vex is a major voice in the world of personal development. He shares deep spiritual knowledge in a way that's easy to understand, with stories from his own life, great inspirational quotes and practical solutions. Encouraging.
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.
How To Do The Work
Dr Nicole LePera
Dr. LePera helps us recognise how trauma in childhood lives with us, resulting in whole body dysfunction—activating harmful stress responses that keep us stuck engaging in patterns of codependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. She shows us how to address and redress them.
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.
The Pain Paradox
Catherine Rolt
Natural ways of creating shifts in your life that can fundamentally change how you live with, and experience, chronic pain. The cost of chronic pain is high. It saps your strength, depletes your energy, wears you out and runs you down. It can be depressing and demoralising. But you still have a life to live...
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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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.
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