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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise June 2023
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| Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart RobbinsWhat it is: a reflective and engrossing memoir about addiction, withdrawal, recovery, and rebuilding.
Read it for: the frank and evocative descriptions of the highs and many, many lows of the author's relationship with her drug of choice, Ambien.
About the author: Stash is the first book by Laura Cathcart Robbins, a freelance writer and host of the podcast The Only One in the Room. |
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| So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns by Dina GachmanWhat it's about: what it means to grieve, the many different forms it takes, and how we can work towards healing.
Why you might like it: Author Dina Gachman includes relatable stories of her own experiences with bereavement and doesn't shy away from the complexities of grieving, exploring its devastation but also its occasional absurdities.
Try this next: Crossing the River by Carol Smith. |
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| Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy RossWhat it is: an accessible, thought-provoking exploration of how engaging in artistic and cultural activities are fundamental to both our physical and mental health.
Topics include: postpartum depression recovery, chronic pain, and practical tips for engaging with art and creativity in your daily life.
About the authors: Susan Magsamen is the founder of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Ivy Ross is the vice president of hardware design at Google. |
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| Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by Gretchen RubinWhat it's about: how consciously reconnecting with your senses can enrich your life and help you appreciate important moments.
About the author: Gretchen Rubin is a bestselling writer and speaker best known for her books The Happiness Project and Better Than Before.
Reviewers say: "For active seekers, Rubin again provides simple insights for becoming more aware of place, self, and others" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-LinzWhat it is: a well-researched and thought-provoking guide to defining what "the good life" means to you and how to create it for yourself.
Based on: the authors' titular and highly sought-after undergraduate course at Yale.
The first line: "Before he became the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama's life was going quite well by the usual standards." |
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Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile, editors
What's inside: candid and incisive essays from the archives of literary magazine Catapult about our bodies and how they inform our experiences of the world around us, related to topics like disability, size, and gender.
Essays include: "Smother Me" by Natalie Lima; "Attack of the Six-Foot Woman" by Hannah Walhout; "What I Did for the Chance to Have a Baby Someday" by Karissa Chen.
For fans of: The Pretty One by Keah Brown; Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams; The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor.
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