Healing With Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma by Rochelle Calvert
This gem of a book includes written and audio meditations focused on rewiring your nervous system and releasing stored trauma through nature by tuning into breath, sensory, body and element awareness.
Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking by Caroline Leaf
Written by a cognitive neuroscientist with a Ph.D. in communication pathology, who has been researching the neuroplasticity of the brain since the ’80s, this book is like spring cleaning for your mental health. Leaf teaches the reader about the Neurocycle—a five-step plan to help find and eliminate the roots of anxiety, depression and intrusive thoughts, so you can experience improved physical and mental health.
For Kids: Missing Momma by Winsome Bingham
For Middle-Grade: The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
For YA: Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Casie Leigh Lukes is an Eagan-based writer, editor and owner of Cocoa&Champagne—creator of custom library curations. You can find her on Instagram @cocoaandchampagne.
