Hey!! I’ll be posting all my book takeaways here. I’m already reading these books, so I figured my thoughts might be useful for anyone interested in these topics or thinking about picking these books up. I hope you enjoy and get something out of them!

You can sort the books by category in the tabs above the gallery.

Lessons from reading

TBR

Books I want to read next!

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Mental Health

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→ Burnout, Stress & Emotional Resilience

• Burnout Immunity: How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You Build Resilience and Heal Your Relationship with Work
• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
• The Joy of Burnout - How the end of the world can be a new beginning
• Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
• Deadly Emotions: Understand the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection That Can Heal or Destroy You
• The Best Place to Work: The Art and Science of Creating an Extraordinary Workplace
• Flourish

→ Creativity, Artists & Mental Health

• Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
• Happy, Not Tortured: A Mental Health Guide For Artists And Creative People (The Part-Time Artist Guides)
• Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
• The Artist's Mind: The Creative Lives and Mental Health of Famous Artists
• Doom and Bloom: The Case for Creativity in a World Hooked on Panic
• Games (Arts for Health)
• Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us
• The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
• We Need Your Art
• The Heart To Start: Win the Inner War & Let Your Art Shine
• Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
• The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
• A Technique for Producing Ideas
• Do Make: The power of your own two hands.
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
• Craftfulness: Mend Yourself by Making Things
• The Creativity Cure: How to Build Happiness with Your Own Two Hands
• Creative Confidence
• Wired to Create
• Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
• Creativity and the Wandering Mind: Spontaneous and Controlled Cognition (Explorations in Creativity Research)

→ Self-Care, Well-Being & Daily Mental Health Practices

• The Extremely Busy Woman's Guide to Self-Care: Do Less, Achieve More, and Live the Life You Want
• Your Head is a Houseboat: A Chaotic Guide to Mental Clarity
• Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
• Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels
• Unplug Every Day: 365 Ways to Log Off and Live Better
• Activating Happiness: A Jump-Start Guide to Overcoming Low Motivation, Depression, or Just Feeling Stuck
• The Power Of Meaning

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Physical Health

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→ Nutrition & Gut Health

• Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well
• Spoon-Fed: Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong
• The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health
• The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health
• The Proof is in the Plants: How science shows a plant-based diet could save your life (and the planet)
• Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome
• Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food
• Do Nourish: How to eat for resilience

→ Sleep & Restorative Health

• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
• Sleep: Harness the Power of Sleep for Optimal Health and Wellbeing (A Little Book of Self Care)
• Good Night: Your Holistic Guide to the Best Sleep of Your Life

→ Movement, Mobility & Functional Fitness

• The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
• Move Your DNA 2nd ed: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement
• Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free
• The Align Method: A Modern Movement Guide for a Stronger Body, Sharper Mind, and Stress-Proof Life
• Become More Flexible and Less Stiff in Just 15 Minutes A Day
• ROAR, Revised Edition: Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong Body for Life
• Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run
• Do Walk: Navigate earth, mind and body. Step by step.
• Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World
• Born To Move: The Ultimate Guide To Living A Pain Free Active Lifestyle For The Rest Of Your Life
• Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy
• Convict Conditioning
• Science and Development of Muscle Hypertrophy
• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

→ Others

• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
• Do Breathe: Calm your mind. Find focus. Get stuff done.

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→ Habits & Behavior Design

• Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
• Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
• How to Do Things You Hate: Self-Discipline to Suffer Less, Embrace the Suck, and Achieve Anything
• What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting
• The Extended Mind

→ Focus, Time Management & Prioritization

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
• Managing Multiple Projects: How Project Managers Can Balance Priorities, Manage Expectations and Increase Productivity

→ Rest, Balance & Sustainable Productivity

• Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
• Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work
• Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential