Inspiring Reads
Move by Caroline Williams
Dopamine Nation by Dr Anna Lembke
A New Scientist best book of 2021 & Shortlisted for the 'Sports Performance Book of the Year' Award for 2022.
We love this life affirming book, which has the power to change lives and indeed already has!
Caroline Williams explores the emerging science of how movement impacts our brain function & cognitive performance. She reveals why moving your body is being shown to prevent diseases including dementia, how strengthening our core muscles reduces anxiety, & how light stretching alone can combat a whole host of mental and bodily ailments, from stress to inflammation. While we all know that exercise changes the way you think and feel, Caroline dives into the new scientific explanations of why & how this happens.
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The New York Times bestseller.
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We're living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting.... The increased numbers, variety and potency are staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such, we've all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption.
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Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain...and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check.
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The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
The Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller.
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Using a combination of academic research and examples from daily life, Daniel Levitin explains how to take back control of your life, from healthcare to online dating to raising kids, showing that the secret to success is always organization. You'll discover life-changing facts about:
- How to make the most of your brain's daily processing limit
- Why pressing Send or clicking Like are addictive
- Why daydreaming is your brain at its most productive
- What the most successful people keep in their drawer
- Why multitasking is a bad way to do nearly everything
In a world where information is power, The Organized Mind holds the key to harnessing that information and making it work for you.
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The New York Times Bestseller.
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Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
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Never Finished by David Goggins
Three Simple Steps by Trevor Blake
Over One Million Copies Sold
The follow up to New York Times bestseller, Can’t Hurt Me' in which David Goggins’ demonstrated how much untapped ability we all have and the true power and capacity of the mind. In 'Never Finished', Goggins takes you inside his Mental Lab, where he developed the philosophy, psychology, and strategies that enabled him to learn that what he thought was his limit was only his beginning and that the quest for greatness is unending.
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The stories and lessons in this raw, revealing, unflinching memoir offer the reader a blueprint they can use to climb from the bottom of the barrel into a whole new stratosphere that once seemed unattainable.
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An inspiring story of succeeding over and above the expectations of others. Trevor Blake takes the reader on a journey through his life, providing the proof that self-belief is paramount to personal actualisation and that intuition should not be underestimated.
Three Simple Steps shows you how to take back control of your destiny and reshape your mind for increased creativity, serenity and achievement. While building on the wisdom of great thinkers and accomplished individuals from East and West, Three Simple Steps isn't a new age text or guide to esoteric fulfillment. Rather, it's a practical guide to real-life achievement by a pragmatic businessman who attributes his incredible successes to these very simple ideas. Three Simple Steps is a must-read guide for everyone who wants to achieve more, live better and be happier.
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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before by Dr Julie Smith
Stressilient Dr Sam Akbar
The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller 2022
Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way.
Written in short, bite-sized entries, you can turn straight to the section you need depending on the challenge you're facing - and immediately find the appropriate tools to help with . . . managing anxiety, dealing with criticism, battling low mood, building self-confidence & finding motivation.
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So many of us feel stressed in our daily lives but lack the ability to respond to life’s hurdles effectively and overcome these challenges. We can build resilience to stress by taking action to live our lives in a more meaningful way.
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Dr Sam Akbar, clinical psychologist draws from her own professional expertise to provide sensitive and realistic guidance to feel calmer, less stressed, and more resilient to life’s challenges.
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From understanding how your brain works, managing your emotions and challenging your thought-processes, to opening up your perspective and having more self-compassion, Stressilient offers an indispensable, easy and effective go-to guide to help you get from surviving to thriving.
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The Body Keeps The Score
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory by Dr Stephen Porges
International Bestseller - Over Three Million Copies Sold
'Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of the scholar, and the passion of the truth teller' Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
'Fascinating, hard to put down, and filled with powerful case histories. . . . the most important series of breakthroughs in mental health in the last thirty years' Norman Doidge, author of The Brain that Changes Itself
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An accessible guide to the original 2011 publication of Polyvagal Theory which took the therapeutic world by storm, bringing Stephen Porges’ insights about the autonomic nervous system to a clinical audience interested in understanding trauma, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. The book made accessible to clinicians and other professionals a polyvagal perspective that provided new concepts and insights for understanding human behavior. The perspective placed an emphasis on the important link between psychological experiences and physical manifestations in the body. That book was brilliant but also a difficult read for some due to it's challenge of long accepted norms.
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The Wedge by Scott Carney
Mindset by Dr Carol Dweck
From the New York Times Bestselling author of "What Doesn't Kill Us"
"Crazy good writing" - Wim Hof, "The Iceman", Dutch extreme athlete
In his New York Times bestseller, What Doesn't Kill Us, Carney submerged himself in ice water and learned breathing techniques from daredevil fitness guru Wim Hof. It gave him superhuman levels of endurance and quieted a persistent autoimmune illness. At the core of those methods is a technique called The Wedge that can give a person an edge in just about any situation.
In this explosive investigation into the limits of endurance, journalist Scott Carney discovers how humans can wedge control over automatic physiological responses into the breaking point between stress and biology. We can reclaim our evolutionary destiny.
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The Million Copy Seller.
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World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success reveals the secrets behind the power of our mindset.
Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey
Crucial Conversations
by Patterson et al
New York Times bestseller—over 40 million copies sold
The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century
One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents—millions of people of all ages and occupations.
This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
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