Sharing – 5 New Books on the Science of Making and Keeping Friends

Sharing – 5 New Books on the Science of Making and Keeping Friends

Last week, I wrote about how important friendship is to our well-being and how terrible most of us are about making and keeping friends. Given that, I thought I would also share this list of recommended books. If you have other recommendations, feel free to leave them in the comments!

Shared Links (weekly) March 26, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) March 26, 2023

Sharing – Mental Health Over Matter: An Interview with Noah Chenevert

Sharing – Mental Health Over Matter: An Interview with Noah Chenevert

We spend so much time shouting from the rooftops when we find something that works, telling anyone and everyone that they NEED to do the same thing. That impulse is understandable. What we leave out, however, are all the things we tried that didn’t work or when the thing that worked for us 2-3 years ago has stopped working.

It would help if we did that more often to remind people that we are not alone but not all the same.

Reviews Elsewhere – Three Books For Managing Fear and Anxiety

Reviews Elsewhere – Three Books For Managing Fear and Anxiety

I saw this post earlier today, and let’s face it, we all could use some help occasionally with fear and anxiety. As the author says: Because there are many self-help books on the market, it can be difficult to decide which one to read. So I have recommended three: Brantley’s Calming Your Anxious Mind, Bourne’s…

Reviews Elsewhere – What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Reviews Elsewhere – What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“Here’s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. Maybe I had been a human—flawed and still growing but full of light nonetheless”

I want all of us to ponder that line for a little bit and think about it. Consider the possibility that you, as a survivor, are not broken. Maybe you are just human. Maybe everything you see as broken is just a natural reaction to abuse in the same way every human carries things forward into their lives from their past. That’s not to say the harm isn’t real. Indeed it is very much real. It might not, however, have changed the possibility of our light still being inside us.

You are still human and you still have value in this world.

Shared Links (weekly) March 5, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) March 5, 2023