The Cure For Burnout: How To Build Better Habits, Find Balance, and Reclaim Your Life
by Emily Ballesteros

Feeling the weight of constant stress and the creeping return of burnout? In The Cure for Burnout, Emily Ballesteros, a burnout management coach, offers a practical five-step framework covering mindset, personal care, time management, boundaries, and stress management. Discover actionable tools to break burnout habits and create a sustainable work-life balance.
Really Good, Actually: A Novel
by Monica Heisey

Determined to embrace her new life as a“Surprisingly Young Divorcée,” 29-year-old Maggie, with the help of her tough-loving academic advisor, her newly divorced friend and her group chat, barrels through her first year of singledom, searching for what truly makes her happy.
Get Out Of Your Head: Stopping The Spiral of Toxic Thoughts
by Jennie Allen

Stop letting toxic thoughts hold you captive. In Get Out of Your Head, IF:Gathering founder Jennie Allen reveals how to break free from destructive spirals of insecurity and helplessness. By taking control of your mind and aligning your thoughts with Christ, you can transform your emotions, outlook, and circumstances to reclaim your God-given power.
The Anxious Generation
by Jonathan Haidt

In the early 2010s, adolescent depression, anxiety, and suicide rates skyrocketed. In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explains how the loss of a "play-based childhood" and the sudden rise of a "phone-based childhood" rewired tech-addicted teens' brains.
Backed by extensive data, Haidt reveals how smartphones fuel sleep deprivation, social comparison, and loneliness—damaging girls and boys in distinct, disastrous ways. Most importantly, he issues a clear call to action, offering four simple rules for parents, schools, and governments to end this epidemic and restore a healthier, freer childhood.
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing In A Toxic Culture
by Gabor Matâe

Why are chronic disease and mental illness skyrocketing in the modern world? Dr. Gabor Maté argues that our current medical system treats symptoms while ignoring how societal stress and suppressed trauma ravage our bodies. The Myth of Normal exposes how modern living makes us sick, while offering a compassionate, deeply necessary pathway to holistic healing and reconnecting with our true selves.
The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig

Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change. The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?
Anxious For Nothing: Finding Calm In A Chaotic World
by Max Lucado

With anxiety and stress-related illnesses at an all-time high, Max Lucado offers a much-needed roadmap to healing. In Anxious for Nothing, Lucado dives into Philippians 4:6–7 to help readers break free from the grip of irrational worry. Packed with biblical wisdom and practical guidance, this book shows you how to take back control of your mind, trade chaos for calm, and experience the overwhelming peace of God.
Building A Resilient Life: How Adversity Awakens Strength, Hope, and Meaning
by Rebekah Lyons

In a world that feels increasingly uncertain, how do we handle adversity without crumbling? In Building a Resilient Life, Rebekah Lyons shares five practical rules to help you trade stress and discouragement for an unshakeable, God-given strength. Blending vulnerable storytelling with psychology and scripture, this book is a compassionate guide to facing life's hardships, reclaiming your peace, and building a resilience that lasts.
We Are All So Good At Smiling
by Amber McBride

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before. They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane. The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years.
A Little Life: A Novel
by Hanya Yanagihara

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.
What Happened To You?: Conversations On Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
by Bruce D Perry

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road. In What Happened to You?, Oprah Winfrey and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry invite us to shift our perspective from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” Combining powerful scientific insights with vulnerable personal storytelling, this book explains the behavioral patterns we struggle to understand, offering a profound roadmap for breaking free from self-blame and building lasting resilience.
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
by Maria Dong

Katrina Kim’s obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just a coping mechanism for her anxiety and compulsive rituals—until she witnesses him jump from the Cayatoga Bridge, blaming her for his death. Desperate to clear her name, Katrina untangles the clues she’s collected about him over the last three years, only to discover a terrifying truth: for every moment she was watching Kurt, he was watching her. Liar, Dreamer, Thief is a gripping psychological thriller and a sensitive, intimate exploration of mental health.
The Kindness Method
by Shahroo Izadi

The Kindness Method is the key to breaking unwanted habits—for good! Combining her own therapeutic style, personal experiences, and techniques learned from working in the field of substance abuse, Shahroo Izadi shares simple steps that strengthen your willpower like a muscle, allowing you to sustain your motivation and make lasting change in your life.Shahroo’s completely non-judgmental process for mapping and channeling your habits is based on the principle of treating yourself with the compassion and understanding that it is often only reserved for other people. From procrastination to issues of body image, this method works by creating a custom plan—mapped by you, for you, and driven by self-motivation.
Ten Times Calmer: Beat Anxiety and Change Your Life
by Kirren Schnack

Anxiety doesn't have to be permanent. In Ten Times Calmer, Oxford-trained clinical psychologist Dr. Kirren Schnack delivers an accessible psychological first-aid kit for anyone seeking more peace of mind. Over ten practical chapters, Dr. Kirren shares well-researched, clinically proven tips and short, high-impact exercises to help you manage anxious thoughts, handle uncertainty, and safely navigate trauma—one day at a time.
The Wedding People: A Novel
by Alison Espach

When Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand Newport inn alone and at rock bottom, she is instantly mistaken for a guest at a massive wedding on-site. As the only person at the hotel not there for the event, Phoebe's presence threatens to disrupt the hyper-organized bride's perfect weekend. Yet, against all odds, the two women can't stop confiding in each other. Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is an absurdly funny, devastatingly tender novel about the unexpected human connections that can completely reroute our lives.