This year, we're offering some picks for you to help you be at your best. Loving others is all well and fine, but self-love is also crucial. May we suggest...
The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription by Aric Prather
Penguin Books Ltd
9780241600344
Penguin Books Ltd
9780241600344
Sleep is essential. Yet, according to renowned sleep scientist Dr Aric Prather, we're all unintentionally sabotaging our own sleep – though some of us seem to do that on purpose. In this book, he shares his most powerful solutions for achieving restorative, good-quality sleep in just seven days. Some of his transformative antidotes for sleep help stabilise your sleep cycle, let you live your days so you can turn off at night, neutralise nighttime worries, and more.
Humble by Daryl Van Tongeren
The Experiment
9781615198573
The Experiment
9781615198573
In a world where the bold (and often shameless) hog the limelight on social media and getting noticed is the key to getting ahead, humility appears to be in danger. To the rescue is Daryl Van Tongeren, a leading researcher on the science of humility. He convinces us that, rather than being a liability, humbleness grants one an accurate view of reality, making the humble more resilient, secure in their sense of self, and more likeable, among other things.
Stressilient by Sam Akbar
4th Estate
9780008448042
4th Estate
9780008448042
So many of us lack the ability to respond to life's challenges effectively, and there have been many more such challenges than one would expect in the past several years. For Dr Sam Akbar, the answer is to be "stressilient". This clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience draws from her own professional expertise to provide sensitive and realistic guidance to feel calmer and be more ready for whatever life throws your way.
It Shouldn't Be This Way by Janina Scarlet
Little, Brown
9781472145987
Little, Brown
9781472145987
Every life-changing experience – an illness, the loss of a job, or the death of a loved one – can be excruciating. What make it worse is when we can't process such experiences in a way that helps us move on. With this book, learn to understand and be able to accept those difficult circumstances and make room for how you feel about them. Hopefully, with this kind of acceptance, healing begins.
Love for Imperfect Things (US Edition) by Haemin Sunim
Penguin US
9780143132295
Penguin US
9780143132295
The pressures of life can force us to turn inwards and ignore problems, or dive deeper into work, school or chores at home. But just as in preflight briefings where we are advised to take our oxygen first before helping others, we must first be at peace with ourselves before we can be at peace with the world. Hence, Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim espouses self-care in his follow-up to the bestselling The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, arguing that only by accepting yourself, flaws and all, can you have compassionate and fulfilling relationships with the people around you.
Of course, these are but a drop in the big bucket that is our health and self-help collections. Our other collections are also open for you to indulge in a little self-love while you think of what to get for your valentine. Treat yourself, you deserve it.
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