Mental Health Book Recommendations

    When mental health awareness is portrayed in any form of media, that is a step towards educating the public on these issues. Reliable books about mental health are always great to read, especially if they give advice on how to overcome a problem you are dealing with or provide some comfort through a difficult time in your life. In today’s post, I am going to be listing five different books about mental health that may help with your issues. I will also include the price of the book, and a link to where you can purchase it. I hope you enjoy some of my choices!

#1 “The Body Keeps The Score : Brain, Mind, And Body In The Healing Of Trauma” - Bessel Van Der Kolk

Paperback Price : $11.40 not including shipping

https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748/ref=zg_bs_4682_sccl_1/144-3414386-2582164?pd_rd_i=0143127748&psc=1

#2 “The Myth Of Normal” - Gabor Matè

Paperback Price : $24.99 not including shipping

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1785042726/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

#3 “Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm)” - Nick Trenton

Paperback Price : 14.79 not including shipping

https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Overthinking-Techniques-Declutter-Emotional/dp/B08XLLF3PG/ref=zg_bs_4682_sccl_17/144-3414386-2582164?pd_rd_i=B08XLLF3PG&psc=1

#4 “Never Binge Again(tm): How Thousands of People Have Stopped Overeating and Binge Eating - and Stuck to the Diet of Their Choice! (By Reprogramming Themselves to Think Differently About Food.)” - Glenn Livingston

Paperback Price : $14.95 not including shipping

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Binge-Again-Permanently-Overeating-ebook/dp/B014V1Q6SI/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?crid=85S9A2BYA6OJ&keywords=eating+disorder+novel&qid=1666481566&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjA3IiwicXNhIjoiMi4yMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=eating+disorder+nov%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

#5 “ Healing Is a Gift: Poems for Those Who Need to Grow” - Alexandra Vasiliu

Paperback Price : $14.89 not including shipping

https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Gift-Poems-Those-Need/dp/B09K1XG82J/ref=mp_s_a_1_2_sspa?crid=36FFQXU6DAECB&keywords=anxiety+novel&qid=1666481689&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjkwIiwicXNhIjoiMS40NiIsInFzcCI6IjAuOTIifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=anxiety+nivel%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1

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Kylee Roberts, Mental Health Virtual Assistant

Co-Written by Amber Madden, LPCC-S

Intuitive Eating Review (Video)

The Bloom Book Club kicked off it's first pick for the Winter edition of 2018 with the ever popular and infamous Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. Below you will find a video of my take on the book as I answer some of the thought provoking questions shared in our exclusive, private Facebook Group for the Bloom Book Club members. 

The Bloom Book Club offers an additional level of support for those wanting to learn more about incorporating Intuitive Eating, those recovering from disordered eating and those wanting to embrace a non-diet lifestyle. The Bloom Book Club includes a private Facebook Group to inspire discussion related to the current selection, as well as a quarterly review video or written discussion. By joining as a Bloom Subscriber, you also receive live group attendance in the quarterly discussion and a homework assignment or action challenge emailed. Join today for FREE! 

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Bloom Book Club: Body Respect

It's that time! The Bloom Book Club members have voted and our next quarter's read has been selected!

We'll be reading Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain to Fail to Understand about Weight by Linda Bacon, Ph. D. and Lucy Aphramor, Ph. D.

Begins April 15th! (but feel free to join in anytime)

The excerpt about the book from Amazon:

Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence.

You’ve heard it before: there’s a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, we’re in trouble. That much is true—but the epidemic is NOT obesity. The real crisis lies in the toxic stigma placed on certain bodies and the impact of living with inequality—not the numbers on a scale. In a mad dash to shrink our bodies, many of us get so caught up in searching for the perfect diet, exercise program, or surgical technique that we lose sight of our original goal: improved health and well-being. Popular methods for weight loss don’t get us there and lead many people to feel like failures when they can’t match unattainable body standards. It’s time for a cease-fire in the war against obesity.

Dr. Linda Bacon and Dr. Lucy Aphramor’s Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. They also help make sense of how poverty and oppression—such as racism, homophobia, and classism—affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism.

Body insecurity is rampant, and it doesn’t have to be. It’s time to overcome our culture’s shame and distress about weight, to get real about inequalities and health, and to show every body respect.

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Interested in becoming a Bloom Book Club member? We read a book every quarter with themes advocating Intuitive Eating, HAES, positive body image and more. Check out some of the benefits:

The Book Club includes:

• Tiered membership levels, including a FREE membership!
• Quarterly LIVE discussions of the current selection participants can attend as a group.
• Action challenges and homework assignments emailed directly to you to help you implement the material of the reading.
• The ability to vote and recommend upcoming selections.
• A written review of the quarterly selection.
• A separate, private Facebook group with weekly discussions, live videos and lively debate about the current selection.
• A way to improve your learning, continue your recovery and promote positive change without attending sessions or webinars.

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