Recommended Reading
One of the ways I stay mentally healthy is through Bibliotherapy…otherwise known as reading, pondering, discussing, back to reading… Whether it’s a self-help book, or a psychology related non-fiction, memoirs, or a good well constructed novel, books help me to see the world from a new perspective and always serve to improve my mental health. Here are some of my favorites:
- Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
- Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
- When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
- Rising Strong by Brene Brown
- Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Jumping: A Novel by Jane Peranteau
- To Bless this Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
- A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
