Rochester Hills Public Library: Healthy Mind and Body: December 2025

The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It
by Aimie Apigian

If we want to truly heal, we need to understand trauma as something happening inside of the body-not as a singular external event. Gaining clarity on how our bodies hold onto experiences, impacting both our physical health and our ability to maintain healthy behaviors and relationships, is crucial.

The 5 Habits of Hope: Stories and Strategies to Help You Find Your Way
by Julia Garcia

The 5 Habits of Hope from behavioral scientist Dr. Julia Garcia gives you the practical tools you need to become the lighter, freer, and more hopeful person you want to be.

Train Your Brain to Beat Chronic Pain: How to Harness the Power of the Mind-Body Connection
by Carly Hunt

Is chronic pain like a blaring siren that prevents you from living your life? State-of-the-art neuroscientific research reveals surprising new insights into pain as the brain's alarm system, designed to warn us of danger. When that alarm gets stuck in a high-alert mode, this concise, practical guide presents a range of proven interventions that can help you not only cope with pain, but actively reduce it.

What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters
by Marion Nestle

An updated classic on nutrition and food, Marion Nestle's What to Eat Now is a straightforward and comprehensive guide to cutting through the marketing and half-truths in order to make healthy, delicious, and sustainable food choices at the grocery store.

Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening
by Haru Yamada

Inspired by the Japanese concept of kiku--a more engaged, empathetic style of listening--a sociolinguistics researcher and writer offers a ground-breaking guide to more intentional and meaningful communication. Kiku will allow you to harness the vital energy of listening to connect, sustain, and enhance the relationships you have with your friends, families, and professional teams.

On Loneliness: How to Overcome Isolation and Enjoy Solitude
by The School of Life

It's easy to feel that we are alone in feeling alone. Not only do we suffer, but we also destroy our self-confidence with repeated convictions that we are the only ones who are so confused and at sea, the only ones without a partner and who will be alone (again) on Saturday night.Through fifty touching interviews and captivating portraits by the talented photographer Julia Hawkins, this transformative book uncovers the ways that loneliness touches so many of us.

Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success
by Ruchika T. Malhotra

A timely and transformative new framework for success from a sought-after strategist, speaker, and author.

All in This Together: Stories and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World
by Jack Kornfield

Beloved meditation teacher Jack Kornfield shares teachings and stories that help us remember our basic goodness, free ourselves from fear, and pave a path to belonging. These marvelous tales remind us that the pain and beauty of our experience is what connects us together.

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