Burnout
The Joy of Burnout: How The End of the World Can be a New Beginning by Dina Glouberman is THE book to read if you approaching or have reached burnout.
The Burnout Workbook: Advice and Exercises to help you Unlock the Stress Cycle by Amelia & Emily Nagoski is a comprehensive guide, complete with journal prompts. A must read!
Mindfulness
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach might just change your life. Brach promotes an acceptance of all that life brings to us using mindfulness.
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman is an authoritative text on the practice of mindfulness- it also comes with a CD to help you practice.
Wintering by Katherine May explores a variety of traditions to ‘make ready’ for the challenging seasons of our lives, known as ‘wintering’, drawing on what we can learn from surviving nature’s winters.
The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us by Emma Mitchell is a gentle but powerful read, complete with beautiful sketches and paintings by the author, charting Mitchell’s journey with nature through a period of devastating depression.
Raising Hare is A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.
Self Care & Racial Justice
Big Picture Thinking
Nature Connection
Eco- Distress & Anxiety
Wellbeing
Death & Grief
Active Hope by Joanna Macey and Chris Johnstone is an authoritative text on working with our eco-anxiety and transforming it into action.
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety- How to Keep your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jacquette Ray is a ‘how to’ guide for mental health and environmental, aimed particularly at Gen Z.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor will forever change how you understand your breath. Essential reading for anyone wanting to find a way to build resilience simply by doing something we already do a little differently.
How to Live in a Chaotic Climate unpacks the social, political, and spiritual nuances of the climate emergency, step by step. Written by Good Grief Network founder, LaUra Schmidt and others.
Thanks! by Robert Emmons is the best book I have come across on how a regular gratitude practice can make an enormous difference to our lives.
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig is an easy-to-read introduction to looking after our mental health amidst the pressures of 21st Century Living.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller is a beautiful book about how to approach our encounters with grief, including ecological grief. A seminal grief book- essential reading!
With the End in Mind- How to Live and Die Well is an extraordinary book by palliative care specialist, Katharine Mannix, charting a variety of end-of-life experiences and what we can learn from them.
Languages of Loss by Sasha Bates is a psychotherapist’s personal and professional take on the process of grieving after the sudden death of her husband. It is an excellent guide to working with grief in a more general sense.
This brilliant book, Rest is Resistance, by Nap Ministry Founder, Tricia Hersey, argues that rest is a form of resistance because it disrupts and pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy.
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami offers an approach to engaging with global and personal challenges centered on the black, feminist experience.
Humankind by Rutger Bregman will forever change your perception of how humans respond to serious threat. Packed with fascinating insights and evidence, and brilliantly written. I think you’ll feel more hopeful after reading it.
From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Movement, makes a passionate and well-evidenced case for the role of the imagination in tackling climate change.
