"Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams" by Matthew Walker
This book delves into the importance of sleep for mental and physical health, exploring how sleep can reduce anxiety and improve emotional management.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
This book explores the science behind burnout, offering strategies to help complete the stress cycle and foster resilience.
The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience by Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
Dr. Nerurkar illuminates why our everyday attempts at being ‘resilient’ – like multitasking, sleeping less, and undergoing huge lifestyle overhauls – aren’t beneficial to our stressed brains.
Embrace Your Emotions: A Self-Care Journal to Discover the Wisdom of Your Feelings by Rebecca King Lindley
With this journal as your guide, two authors, Lindley and Smith, help you to develop a deeper understanding of your emotions and nurture relationships.
And Breathe: The complete guide to conscious breathing – the key to health, wellbeing and happiness by Rebecca Dennis
Breathe teaches readers how to harness the power of conscious breathing, a technique which helps alleviate stress, fatigue and negative emotions such as anger, frustration and depression, leaving readers feel calm yet energised, focused yet relaxed.
Art for Self-Care: Create Powerful, Healing Art by Listening to Your Inner Voice by Jessica Swift
In Art for Self-Care, artist, designer, and online instructor Jessica Swift outlines a path to healing through artmaking for both artists and non-artists alike.
Mind & Body: Mental Exercises for Physical Wellbeing by The School of Life
This is a book, both theoretical and practical, that will improve our relationship between our physical and mental selves and allow us a route to a life of greater self-assurance, wisdom and freedom to be ourselves.
The Four Ways to Wellbeing: Better Sleep. Less Stress. More Energy. Mood Boost. by Nicola Elliott
In this beautifully illustrated guide, she combines her own no-nonsense advice with insights from experts on sleep, stress, energy and mood, so that you can find the solutions that work for you.
How to Be a Well Being: Unofficial Rules to Live Every Day by Andy Cope, Sanjeev Sandhu, James Pouliopoulos
It's time to raise your personal bar from mental health to mental WEALTH. 'Memento mori' – remember death. No more messing around. No more wasting time. A new world calls for new rules. It's time to re-focus on what's most important and to take massive strides towards your true potential.
How To Calm It by Grace Victory
This is not your typical book about mindfulness. This book is an insight into how we can learn to process what's going on inside our heads, heal our bodies for the better, and learn to love ourselves.
How To Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit For Creativity and Radical Self-Care by Marlee Grace
Grace addresses complex issues such as what to do if your work (what people do out of sense of purpose) and your job (what people do to make money) are connected, provides insights to help you figure out how much is too much, and offers suggestions for making the best use of your time.
Rest + Calm: Gentle yoga and mindful practices to nurture and restore yourself by Paula Hines
Think of this book as your 'rest toolkit', to dip into whenever you need it. Rest + Calm is designed to be the comforting friend - and the supportive hug - we all need.
Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
This book centres around the systemic issues that cause us to overwork, and ultimately burn out, and offers liberation through rest. In its simplest form, rest becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it disrupts and pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy.