Psychology, Mental Health
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Saving Lives Without Destroying Yours
Boundaries for the Modern Physician by Dr. Maryna Mammoliti and Adam Ly
Physicians help people heal, but how well do they take care of their own physical and mental well-being? How does a physician’s personal history, medical training, and medical culture predispose and perpetuate potential health issues,...
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Befriending Your Inner Monologue
by Chantal Seymour
Have you ever noticed that tiny voice in your mind bullying you, saying you aren’t good enough, and leaving you feeling anxious or hopeless? It’s possible to change this self-critical voice, but before starting, we first need to understand where...
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The Golden Crossroads
A Mysterious Journey by Jake McCrea
Jake McCrea walked many roads in both Europe and Canada during his time as a student and traveller. But the hardest road he walked was the crossroads in Golden, B.C., where he had a brush with the devil that changed his life and his spiritual...
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Not Good Enough
Understanding Your Core Belief and Anxiety: A Handbook by Sabrina Trobak
Do you suffer from anxiety and don’t know how to control it? Do you ever have angry outbursts and want to stop? In our society, most of us have learned to suppress our emotions. In fact, we often use coping strategies—like shopping, smoking,...
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Code Blues
A Surgeon's Journey With Depression by Mel Nutig
Ever since Mel Nutig was a young boy in Coney Island, he knew he was profoundly sad. But for a long time, he hadn’t known the word “depression”— and once he had learned it years later, he had no money with which to seek treatment, nor any...
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Extinguished
A Fire Chief's Memoir by Steve Serbic
What do you do when you lose more than you can afford, when the stable bridge you’ve been crossing suddenly gives way and you find yourself plummeting into a chasm of fear and self-doubt? After losing a dear friend and fellow firefighter to...
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The Addiction Recovery Handbook
Understanding Addiction and Culture and Creating a Prosperous Human Spirit by Richard W. Clark
What Richard Clark presents in The Addiction Recovery Handbook: Understanding Addiction and Culture is long overdue. Since 1939, Bill Wilson’s important and influential books, Alcoholics Anonymous and AA’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, have...
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Depression, Mania, and Psychosis as My Path to Wholeness and Well-Being
by Paul Rubin
Mental health issues are a large part of and embedded in our society, and yet it is continually stigmatized. Furthermore, this stigma can create and reinforce mental health issues in itself. In Depression, Mania, and Psychosis as My Path to...
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The Power of Connection
How to process emotion in turbulent times. by Bea Mackay
In life, there are many things we cannot control, leaving us feeling powerless and defeated. However, what you can control is how you deal with your emotions. In The Power of Connection, psychologist Dr. Bea Mackay explores mental health by...
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Fumes and Fine Dust
Working Under Chemical Assault: Neurological Effects by Vilma Vitanza
In a sense this book wrote itself. Excerpts from journals written over nineteen years of workplace exposure to chemicals depict the images and struggles within a gradually deteriorating brain that had once been completely functional. The author's...
