Audible Review: My Shi*t Therapist

When Michelle Thomas suffered her first major depressive episode six years ago, she read and watched and listened to everything about mental health she could get her hands on in an effort to fix herself. God, it was tedious. And, quite frankly, depressing. Which is the last thing she needed. What she did need was a therapist …

Book Review: Into the Magic Shop

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But …

Book Review: The Happiness Project

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin focuses on Rubin's year long challenge/resolution to herself - to be more happy.  To do this Rubin breaks up the months into different sections she is going to focus solely on, with the previous months lessons joining in to make the happiness flow easier.  There are many facts and tidbits …

Book Review: Wreck this Journal

I know what you are thinking, why am I doing a review on this book? And it's a good thing to think about, why do a book review on this book when it's all about art work and wrecking the journal, ripping pieces of paper out and doing as the instructions say? Because who says you have to …

Book Review: Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life is a self-help book of sorts that describes the art of Ikigai - being happy while always being busy - and focusing on the part of the world with the oldest living group of people in the world. Ikigai is a reason for living, and …

Book Review: Get Some Headspace

Get Some Headspace is by Andy Puddicombe the mastermind behind the app Breathing Space.  This book - written in 2012 - is bringing the concept of meditation to the masses, and freeing it from the confines of all things religious, hippy and alternative. In this book we get an insight to Puddicombe, his reasoning of …

Book Review: Body Positive Power

Body Positive Power: How to Stop Dieting, Make Peace with Your Body and Live is, oddly enough, a book about body positive movement and how Megan stumbled upon it. This isn't a normal self-help book, in fact I would actually say it's not that at all, it's similar in ways to Jes Bakers book Things …

Book Review: Dietland

Dietland by Sarai Walker has become a TV series that is getting a fair amount of hype on the interwebs - at least from what my Twitter feed tells me, but that could also be due to the people that I follow on there. Dietland follows a woman Plum, a fat woman who is insecure …

Self Care: Off the Leash book

Off the Leash isn't a book that you can sit down and read from cover to cover.  In fact you could say it's more like a humorous comic - the cover alone gives you an idea as to what the book will be like. This book is actually the 2nd in the Off the Leash …

Self Care: The Tattoo Colouring Book

Deciding to do something a little bit different, considering how colouring books have been gaining popularity among adults over the past few years I thought I would try one out myself. Colouring books have been used by many adults - before people noticed the trend and decided that maybe they should be marketing towards adults …