Best self-care books for World Wellbeing Week
It’s World Wellbeing Week so let’s check out these amazing books on self-care.
Books for Mental Health Awareness Week
Mental health books can be a fantastic resource and entry way into understanding psychology and the way the brain impacts mood, behaviour, and thoughts. Picking up a book can be helpful no matter what your situation — whether you are working through your own mental health journey, brushing up on your self-care, or generally interested […]
Joyful: How we stop representation burnout – with The Good Immigrant editor Nikesh Shukla
Trigger Warning: This episode contains themes of racial trauma, police brutality, Islamophobia, suicide, and mental illness. Have you ever been in a situation where you have turned around wherever you are, and see no other faces that resemble you? Representation burnout refers to the stress, fatigue, and exhaustion of being the only person of a […]
How do we challenge the status quo? – with Good Indian Daughter author Sneha Lees
There are many discriminatory practices committed regularly over long periods of time that communities and societies begin to consider them acceptable. Whether this is within a system or culture, it’s important to look at what it is, and how we can change it for the better. So how do we challenge the status quo? Thanks […]
What can we learn from failing? – with Blank co-author Jim Daly
It’s true that you can learn much more from failure than from success, and it’s true that every successful person went through a series of failures before reaching the top, but still it’s very difficult to deal with. So what can we learn from failing? Thanks to the following guests for participating: Comedian, TV presenter, […]
How do we heal from adversity? – with Through The Flames author Allan Lokos
If you’ve ever been through a highly stressful event or series of events, you’ve been through a traumatic experience. A feeling of helplessness, horror, and in some cases, the challenges of a serious injury (or the threat of one) are common after these events. We spoke about this with “Through the Flames” author Allan Lokos. Healing […]
Why can’t we sit with sadness? – with How to Be Sad author Helen Russell
Freelance journalist Johanna Leggatt says: “Sadness is a reasonable response to the horrors of the world and the absurdities and disappointments of modern life”, and yet we tend to be averse to this notion, running in the opposite direction in a bid to pursue happiness. So why can’t we sit with sadness, and can it […]
How do we slow down? – with In Praise of Slowness author Carl Honore
If we could just slow down our lives, they would be a whole lot better, which is what we talked about with “In Praise of Slowness” author Carl Honore. Aspects of modern life like the instant gratification of online shopping and the hyper speed of social media have contributed to burnout, a diagnosable condition that […]
How do we utilise resources we already have? – with Figure It Out author Kate Meiner
Being resourceful is the ability to find and use available resources to solve problems and achieve goals. And this is no different in mental health. According to a 2002 British Medical Journal, people living with a mental health issue and clinicians were using new strategies and sources for acquiring health information, including the Internet. Patients […]
How do we stay hopeful? – with How to Be Hopeful author Bernadette Russell
When it comes to mental health, one thing I found that is incredibly powerful is the potential for hope. In a beautiful quote, American poet Emily Dickinson says: “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words — And never stops at all.” So when times […]