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