BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

(Last Updated - Feb 2021)

Please be advised that the below books are not in any specific order and reading these books should not be used as a Therapy replacement.

All books listed are recommended by professional Counsellor's, Psychologists and Psychiatrists who work within Mental Health & Mental Illness.

Please note the book recommendations are linked to purchase via the cheapest option online but this is not in anyway endorsed.

Anxiety -

1) Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D.Burns

2) Healing Anxiety and Depression by Daniel G. Amen

3) Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger

4) The Anxiety & Worry Workbook by David A. Clark & Aaron T. Beck

5) Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic & Worry by Catherine M. Pittman & Elizabeth M. Karle

6) Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen

7) 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge and Found Self - Help That Actually Works by Dan Harris

8) No Worries: A Guide to Releasing Anxiety and Worry Using CBT by Sarah Edelman

9) Living With It: A Survivor's Guide to Overcoming Panic & Anxiety by Bev Aisbett

10) Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT - based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive or Disturbing Thoughts by Sally M. Winston & Martin N. Seif

Stress & Depression -

1) The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT by Russ Harris & Steven C. Hayes

2) Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D.Burns

3) Lost Connections by Johann Hari

4) The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

5) Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes onely World by Vivek H. Murthy

6) Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky

7) Feel Better Fast and Make It Last by Daniel G. Amen

8) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner & William J. Winslade

9) The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness by J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale & Zindel V. Segal

10) The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

Addiction -

1) Healing The Addicted Brain: The Revolutionary Science - Based Alcoholism & Addiction Recovery Program by Harold Urschel

2) Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand

3) Just For Today: Daily Meditations for Recovering Addicts by Narcotics Anonymous

4) The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch

5) Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

6) Unchain Your Brain by Daniel G. Amen and David E. Smith

7) Chasing A Flawed Sun by Daniel McGhee

8) Chasing the High: An Entrepreneur's Mindset Through Addiction, Lawsuits and His Journey to the Edge by Michael G. Dash

9) Comfortably Insane: A Journey From the Hell of Alcoholism to a Healthy Productive Life by Neal Linares

10) The Heart of Recovery: How Compassion and Community Offer Hope in the Wake of Addiction by Deborah Beddoe & David Beddoe

Relationships -

1) Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine & Rachel S.F. Heller

2) Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray

3) The Man's Guide to Women by John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman & Douglas Abrams

4) Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel

5) The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman

6) Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships by Stan Tatkin

7) The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain by Louis Cozolino

8) The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

9) The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship Wisdom Book by Miguel Ruiz

10) Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist by Ramani Durvasula

Body & Eating Disorders -

1) Hormonal: A Conversation About Women's Bodies, Mental Health and Why We Need to be Heard by Eleanor Morgan

2) Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted by Daniel G. Amen

3) Body of Truth: Change Your Life by Changing the Way You Think about Weight and Health by Harriet Brown

4) Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight by Linda Bacon & Lucy Aphramor

5) Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder by James Lock & Daniel Le Grange

6) The Disappearing Sister: The Story of a Child's View on Dealing with Anorexia Nervosa by Elizabeth Cummings

7) Permission To Eat by Libby Parker

8) Ending the Diet Mindset by Becca Clegg

9) What Goes Down: The End of an Eating Disorder by Callie Bowld

10) Befriending Your Body: A Self Compassionate Approach to Freein Yourself from Disordered Eating by Ann Saffi Biasetti

Mindfulness -

1) The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

2) 10% Happier by Dan Harris

3) The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by The Dalai Lama

4) Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday

5) The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of your dreams by Deepak Chopra

6) A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

7) Declutter your Mind: How to stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety and Eliminate Negatie Thinking by S.J. Scott, Barrie Davenport

8) The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness by Andy Puddicombe

9) The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh

10) Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh