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Self Care Reads & More
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items Self care is about unwinding, it's about taking care of your physical, mental, and emotional well being. These videos, podcasts, and audiobooks are a great place to find that self care!
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Audiobooks
On my to be purchased list for this month and am debating the audiobook or the physical book but the sample audio sounds great!
Heartless Hunter: The Crimson Moth Duology, Book 1
Can't go wrong with an Abby book!
Just for the Summer
I love the voice behind this audiobook version of Divine Rivals and think its sold me on getting the audiobook over the physical copy!
Divine Rivals: A Novel
This book is thought provoking and everyone I've seen talk about it were blown away by it. If you prefer to listen, the audiobook sounds great too!
The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick
I love the book and am putting the audiobook version on my wishlist!
Hurricane Season
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in more than 60 years - a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost...
The Book of Lost Names
Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother lea...
The Stillwater Girls
Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old t...
The Wishing Game: A Novel
Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected?...
Local Woman Missing
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striv...
Fourth Wing: Empyrean, Book 1
Fifteen-year-old Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenage golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And ...
Then She Was Gone: A Novel
Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who ...
The Perfect Marriage
Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she’s happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, howev...
South of the Buttonwood Tree
It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the...
Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe: A Novel
When Kelsey stumbles into a luminous nighttime garden party, larger than the vacant lot that holds it and filled with enigmatic guests, she suspects they hold the key to saving the bookshop, and perhaps even to her own mysterious origins.
Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
During the Great Depression, labor camps crop up in remote areas throughout the American South. Destitute workers live under terrible conditions. Trapped in these isolated locations, workers are entirely dependent on the often greedy, abusive camp ow...
The Saints of Swallow Hill
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce tal...
Demon Copperhead: A Novel
Under a Dark Summer Sky is set in Florida in 1935 in a small town struggling with the effects of the Depression and at the time of the great hurricane. The racially charged narrative swirls around Missy, with her courageous dedication to duty, who wo...
Under a Dark Summer Sky
In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's home. Mamie is the nearest thing to family Starla has. After being put on restriction yet again for her sassy mouth, Starla is caught sneaking out....
Whistling Past the Graveyard: Booktrack Edition
Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant t...
The Invention of Wings: A Novel
When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother", Rosaleen, insults three of the town's fiercest racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina - a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There, they are taken in by an ...
The Secret Life of Bees
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape bo...
Yellow Crocus: Yellow Crocus, Book 1
Ana Kaminski is pushed through the iron gates of Auschwitz beside her frightened young friend Ester Pasternak. As they reach the front of the line, Ana steps forward and quietly declares herself a midwife--and Ester her assistant. Their arms are tatt...
The Midwife of Auschwitz
YouTube
A super relaxing vlog about her self care day.
A SELF CARE DAY IN MY LIFE | Painting, Journaling, & Reading
Ah, yes, burnt out mama - how many of us can relate? Self care is so important when you're a momma!
🤍 MY NIGHT ROUTINE \\ SELF CARE + CLEANING + PAMPERING \\ ROUTINE FOR MOM BURN OUT
A slow and cozy nightime routine video.
MY NIGHT TIME ROUTINE: productive, cozy & *aesthetic*
A camping role play ASMR video by the queen herself! I love this video, like, seriously more than I thought possible and all her videos are the best!
Camping ASMR: 'Smores & Midnight Chat by the Fire
Jeannie is the sweetest and I adore her soft spoken ASMR videos to calm my body and brain and get me sleepy for bed.
PAGE-TURNING OF WATER-DAMAGED READER'S DIGEST! CRINKLES GALORE! #asmr
One of the best ASMR artists! I love her role play videos but her voice, no matter the theme, always gets me tired and tingly!
BookKeeping 📓 ASMR ✍🏼 PAPER / STAMP / WRITING / CRINKLES / Listen while Study
Listen to long stories for adults as you drift off to sleep!
Get Sleepy
I know this is a “grandma” reading books to little kids but I still watch and enjoy. Something soothing to my inner child about this!
Grandma Reading Books
Cozy and slow morning routine for a touch of self care in the mornings.
☕️ MORNING ROUTINE + life with a cat, plant tour 🌱, & burned pancakes
Self care tips and hacks for new mamas.
10 Self-Care Tips for NEW MOMS (postpartum health, wellbeing + what I wish I knew)
Knitting, crochet, embroidery and all the things are great for self care and this video talks all things knitting podcasts.
April 2023: 10 Knitting Podcasts I’m Loving Right Now
A great video to learn about building routines and staying consistent in your life.
HOW TO BUILD A ROUTINE & STAY CONSISTENT | staying productive while balancing a fun life!
One young lady's self care routine.
EXTREME 2024 GLOW UP (physical self) | self care habits + tips, beauty treatments, wellness rituals
Podcasts
A great podcast for the anxious girl!
Not Another Anxiety Show