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BOOKS ON SALE - 20% off Mental Health Awareness Month - Nonfiction Recommendations 4 items Surprise! I'm mentally ill. I grew up in a family and a community that didn't acknowledge that mental health is real, and I've tried to be transparent about my brain chemistry to normalize conversations about it with my friends, my colleagues, and now my online communities. Here are some of the nonfiction that has helped me feel seen or understood in some way. with code MHAM25
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items In May 2025, use code MHAM25 to receive 20% off of select mental health and wellness book titles on Bookshop.org. Excludes e-books. Every purchase from one of my Bookshop links drives revenue to an independent bookstore. Please mind trigger warnings and content warnings. Take care of yourself and the people around you. <3
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20% OFF (MHAM25) - Books I've Read
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20% OFF (MHAM25) - Books I've Read
I've read a handful of the books currently included in Bookshop's Mental Health Awareness Month sale. Each of these books is available for 20% off if you use the code MHAM25 in May 2025.
I didn't have the language to describe setting and respecting boundaries until my twenties. This is one of the books I wish somebody had given to me when I was a burnt out teenager.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Beautifully written memoir by a writer working through the aftermath of her closest friend's death by su-cide. Quietly devastating, and it's stuck with me.
Grief Is for People
“With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and...
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
I've gifted hard copies of this to multiple women in my workplace. There are a handful of passages that give me pause, but overall, this is a fantastic and intersectional examination of how burnout impacts women.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
I know that this one is a modern-ish classic (2014) and that the booktok girlies highly recommended it, but I wasn't ready to be called out. I still don't know if I'm ready, tbh--but ordering it on sale whilst supporting an independent bookstore seem...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
20% OFF (MHAM25) - Books I'm Adding to My TBR
I'm expanding my TBR with titles included in Bookshop's Mental Health Awareness Month sale. Each of these books is available for 20% off if you use the code MHAM25 in May 2025.
Reading Tricia Hersey's REST IS RESISTANCE while burning out from my corporate job felt like a minuscule act of resistance in itself. I keep a tabbed and highlighted copy of it on my bookshelf, and I'm looking forward to reading Hersey's latest title...
We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape
I adore a set of beautiful and insightful cards. I used to pass around a set of lighthearted affirmation cards around the office when stress levels were high. It might be time to bring that tradition back.
Cosmic Comfort: 50 Tender Affirmations and Grounding Meditations from the Universe: Meditation Cards
I will NOT be commenting on Sleater-Kinney's PATH OF WELLNESS album, but there's a line on track 10 that I've been thinking about for the past 4 years: “it's not the body that we wanted / it's the body made to weather this world.” Anyway, I'm not rea...
This Is Body Grief: Making Peace with the Loss That Comes with Living in a Body
idk who needs to hear this, but if you ate up Glennon Doyle's UNTAMED (@-ing myself rn), you'll probably love this new anthology that she wrote with her wife Abby Wambach and her sister Amanda Doyle.
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
I've heard mixed reviews on this one, so I immediately grabbed a copy of it from my local bookstore and added it to my bookshelf a few months ago. It's still staring at me. I'll read it soon.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
This one seems especially timely, relevant, and important in daddy trump's collapsing version of america. Intersectionality matters, especially now.
The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex Ptsd for People of Color