Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
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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.
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After the Storm
Emma Jane Unsworth
A raw, relatable call-to-arms account of motherhood, breaking the silence on postnatal depression
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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
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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…
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When the World Feels Like a Scary Place
Abigail Gewirtz
A timely guide to talking to our kids about the things that worry them
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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
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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Breaking & Mending
Joanna Cannon
The unforgettable memoir from the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things About Elsie
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Tao: The Watercourse Way
Alan Watts
The last work by Alan Watts, Tao is the culmination of a lifetime's study and thought
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Chasing the Sun
Linda Geddes
The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood
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The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
Daily doses of practical, uplifting philosophy from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way.
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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…