Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
This Mental Health Awareness Week, take the time to recentre yourself and prioritise your emotional wellbeing with this selection of inspiring books. From After the Storm – Emma Jane Unsworth’s raw and powerful account of motherhood and postnatal depression – to How to Be You – Jeffrey Marsh’s uplifting guide to celebrating yourself – we can all benefit from taking a few quiet moments to reconnect with ourselves and take care of our mental health.
After the Storm
Emma Jane Unsworth
A raw, relatable call-to-arms account of motherhood, breaking the silence on postnatal depression
Move!
Caroline F Williams
Exercise changes the brain. But which exercises have what effect? Time to get up to speed with the cutting-edge science of the mind-body connection an…
How to Be You
Jeffrey Marsh
A warm-hearted guide to accepting and celebrating yourself as you are – from Jeffrey Marsh, the kindest person on the internet
Solo
Rebecca Seal
A self-help guide for freelancers, business owners and company employees working from home – addressing the emotional and mental challenges of working…
When the World Feels Like a Scary Place
Abigail Gewirtz
A timely guide to talking to our kids about the things that worry them
Everything Isn’t Terrible
Kathleen Smith
A helpful and humorous guide to shedding our anxious habits and building a more solid sense of self in our increasingly anxiety-inducing world
The Listening Path
Julia Cameron
A groundbreaking new book about listening to ourselves, to others and to the world from the internationally bestselling 'queen of change' Ju…
Together
Vivek H Murthy
'Essential reading' (Atul Gawande) from Obama's Surgeon General on the global loneliness epidemic – and how we can overcome it
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
'I love it. A practical, spiritual, nurturing book.' – Russell BrandSince its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius…
Happiness, a Mystery
Sophie Hannah
Bestselling crime writer, poet and confessed self-help addict Sophie Hannah sets out to solve the age-old mystery of happiness
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Elif Shafak
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better
Breaking & Mending
Joanna Cannon
The unforgettable memoir from the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie
Tao: The Watercourse Way
Alan Watts
The last work by Alan Watts, Tao is the culmination of a lifetime's study and thought
Chasing the Sun
Linda Geddes
The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
Daily doses of practical, uplifting philosophy from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.
Born to Run
Christopher McDougall
'A fascinating and inspiring true adventure story … destined to become a classic.' Ranulph FiennesA New York Times bestseller and word of…