Self-Help
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Rooted
How I Stay Small Town Strong When Life Gets Hard and How You Can Too: A Guide to Finding Joy, Learning from Struggle, and Coming Together One Season at a Time by Lewellyn Melnyk
Small towns are places where everyone knows each other’s names—and each other’s business, despite it being none of their own. Yet, folks in small towns never seem to want to talk about mental health. Rural living can be isolating with hours spent on ...
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Life Really Isn’t All That Complicated
But You Do Have To Think by James R. Schmalenberg
Are you struggling to accomplish your goals, even day-to-day ones? Does your head spin when someone starts talking about finances? Are you having difficulty managing your time? Your health? Did you know that if you break down life’s challenges ...
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For the Caregiver
Providing Yourself Emotional Support on Your Caregiving Journey by Tricia Perrier
A loved one’s terminal illness diagnosis can be terrifying. If we hold onto that fear and carry it into a caregiving role, we will be left exhausted, ill-equipped to cope, and feeling powerless. What’s more, we will find it extremely difficult to be ...
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A Place for T
Giving Voice to the Tortoise in Our Hare-Brained World by Robert H. Lengel
Dr. Lengel offers a thought provoking twist on Aesop’s Hare-Tortoise fable reframing it as a Human Race pitting our Hare-brained heads against our Tortoise-inspired hearts. As we run faster and faster in our Hare-like pursuits of wealth, power and ...
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FIX
An Untold Story of Obsession, Seduction, Addiction & Despair by Kevin Luke
As a college dropout and part-time restaurant worker in downtown Toronto, Kevin is stuck in a rut. He wanders the city aimlessly and lives a solitary life while his mental health steadily declines. After reconnecting with an old college crush, he ...
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This Is Not A Drill
A Collection of Survival Tips That May or May Not Actually Work by Erin N White
Depression, anxiety, burnout. These are the clouds that cast shadows on our sunny dispositions. “Sometimes everything is crap, and that’s OK,” writes author Erin N. White in her debut book, This Is Not a Drill: A Collection of Survival Tips That May ...
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Unlocking the Blue Door
Opening Up to Grief by Margaret Schweitzer
Grief is the best known conversation killer in polite society. The subject of death, whenever it arises, is either joked about or quickly discontinued in embarrassed silence. As we so often hear (and say), life is for the living. But what do you do ...
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Recovering From Sexual Abuse
How I Survived Deep Suicidal Thoughts And Found A Connection to PTSD by Douglas Law
This is a true story about my mental struggles after years of sexual abuse as a child. How I became suicidal and how I survived deep depression and became the strong person I am today. The most important mental hurdle to get over was a phobia of my ...
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Grief and the Spirit World
A Search for Comfort by Diane Kirby
What if, as we navigate loss and grief, our loved ones are walking beside us on the other side of the veil? What if we could learn to not only connect with our ancestors but also to Spirit? In this personal memoir of grief and healing, Diane Kirby ...
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Real Women...Real Talk
by Paulette Walker Johnson
Real Women... Real Talk is an enlightening and inspiring book that explores complex issues with a generous dose of humor. The topics are real, relevant and aimed at empowering women to seek their own truths and soar. The pages are packed with ...
