Some titles on mental health

This book offers a completely new paradigm and understanding of where our human experience comes from, allowing us to end our own suffering and create how we want to feel at any moment. No matter what has happened to you, where you are from, or what you have done, you can still find total peace, unconditional love, complete fulfillment, and an abundance of joy in your life.

Let Matilda Heindow, illustrator behind the Instagram account @crazyheadcomics, take us from her first therapy visit when she was struggling, to the day she woke with joy in her heart again. Over 50 original illustrations detail personal stories and down-to-earth advice on how to turn that negative inner voice into a friend, recognise the habits that put you on a downward spiral, and what to do with difficult feelings, so that you invite better ones in.

The positive affirmations in this book on anxiety that take the form of hand-drawn anxious monsters, meet your anxiety where it's at and offer a helping hand for getting through it and attaining mental wellness and peace of mind. Author and illustrator Verity Crosswell crafts each cute little monster to be a soothing reassurance that helps you feel cared for and understood.

Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb finds herself in the unique position of needing therapy when a personal crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Yet the therapist she ends up with is not your average couch-side consultant. In this book, Gottlieb, as both clinician and patient, offers a personal tour of our hearts and minds, providing a revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

Through beautifully written narrative essays and prompts, Spiegel shares the "microjoys" that kept her going through tough times and shows us how we can learn to see them in our own lives. They are the hidden wisdom, subtle treasures, and ordinary delights that surround us: a polka-dot glass on a thrift-store shelf, a cat that you didn't know you needed to adopt, a dear friend's kind message at just the right time, and more.