Self Help & Mental Health Awareness

Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
By Rose Hackman (155.333 Hack, eBook)
A deeply researched look into the history and current state of "emotional labor"--the invisible, uncompensated work women and minorities are expected to perform every day.
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By Susan Magsamen (111.85 Mags, eBook, eAudiobook)
Combining breakthrough research, insights from multidisciplinary pioneers, and real-life stories, this authoritative guide to the new science of neuroaesthetics shows how the arts, from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture and more, are essential for improving physical and mental health.
The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough
By Thomas Curran (155.232 Curr, CD 155.232 Curr, eBook, eAudiobook)
This book by an acclaimed professor at the London School of Economics explores how the pursuit of perfection can become a dangerous obsession that leads to burnout and depression. Learn to avoid these pitfalls to achieve your goals.
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
By Mariel Buqué (616.8521 Buqu, eBook, eAudiobook)
From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this definitive guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance.
The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
By Lisa Damour (152.47 Damo, eBook, eAudiobook)
A guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives—and how to support them through this critical developmental stage.
The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love
By Vienna Pharaon (362.829 Phar, eBook, eAudiobook)
From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your Family of Origin.
What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By Cole Kazdin (616.8526 Kazd, eBook, eAudiobook)
Journalist Cole Kazdin takes us to the doorstep of the diet industry and research community, exposing the flawed systems that claim to be helping us, and revealing disordered eating for the crisis that it is: a mental illness with the second highest mortality rate (after opioid-related deaths) that no one wants to talk about.
On Thriving: Harnessing Joy Through Life's Great Labors
By Brandi Sellerz-Jackson (610.19 Sell)
A renound doula helps us wade through what she calls the four great labors of our lives, inviting a deep, soul-stirring investigation of our past and present to gather all that we need to thrive right where we are, right now.
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
By Pooja Lakshmin (613 Laks, eBook, eAudiobook)
From board-certified psychiatrist and women's mental health specialist Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes an overdue reckoning with the contradictions of the wellness industry and strategies for practicing practical and lasting self-care.
The Busy Brain Cure: The Eight-Week Plan to Find Focus, Tame Anxiety, and Sleep Again
By Romie Mushtaq (612.661 Natt)
A guidebook for professionals looking to overcome their chronic stress and burnou using a simple plan by Dr. Romie Mushtaq.
Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media
By Donna Jackson Nakazawa (155.9042 Mush, eBook, eAudiobook)
Based on cutting-edge neuroscience, an award-winning journalist presents 15 strategies for raising emotionally healthy girls in an increasingly difficult environment and how to nurture the parent-child connection through the turmoil of adolescence.
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
By Susan Cain (155.2 Cain, Q 155.2 Cain, CD 155.2 Cain, eBook, eAudiobook)
The author of the best-selling Quiet discusses how a bittersweet state of mind can actually be a kind of silent energy that aids us in overcoming our personal and societal suffering.
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It.
By Ethan Kross (158.1 Kros, eBook, eAudiobook)
An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live healthier, more satisfying, and productive lives.
Your Pocket Therapist: Break Free From Old Patterns and Transform Your Life
By Annie Zimmerman (158.1 Zimm)
From psychotherapist Dr. Annie Zimmerman comes a toolkit to transform yourself and your relationships. Heal past trauma, build sustainable connections, and take ownership of your mental health.
Hello Sleep: The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications
By Jade Wu, PhD (616.8498 Wu, eBook, eAudiobook)
From Dr. Jade Wu, an internationally recognized behavioral sleep medicine specialist, a practical and compassionate guide to repairing your relationship with sleep.
Making Meaning of Difficult Experiences: A Self-Guided Program
By Sheila A. M. Rauch (616.8521 Rauc)
A self-guided mental health resource for people who have had potentially traumatic experiences and who wish to work through them independently, outside of a formal therapeutic setting.