book reviews
Book reviews by and for those seeking to understand the human mind for all its strengths, quirks and shortcomings.
Shattered Poems About Mental Health
Mental Illness is like being locked inside darkness; a darkness you feel like will last forever without a tunnel to your bright spot. As a person who has many kinds of mental illnesses, I find it is easy to get into a place of loneliness and hopelessness, and with the winter months and Christmas season as well as being single can really mess with your head and emotions when you see happy couples and families with so much holiday joy. I am the person who you find in the bathroom crying over the fact that I am 33 years old and single around the holidays. That’s why I always carry my copy of Shattered in my purse to help remind me I am not alone. Just when I start drowning in my darkness of anxiety, depression, and my SAD disorder. It is easy to get into that mental space very quicky when you feel alone, the facts you know that you aren't alone don’t even come into your mind. At that moment you just want someone to understand you and your feelings and your thoughts without judgment. Shattered it the friend who doesn’t judge , your mental illnesses, it is your friend who holds your hand through the sadness and pain.
By Danielle Gray5 years ago in Psyche
Emotional Intelligence
Referring to the book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ- By Daniel Goleman. Find it here on Amazon https://amzn.to/2vf2bJh (Available for Kindle, Audiobook, and Hardcover). Also...if you use Amazon Smile, rather than Amazon, a percentage of what you pay for your product, goes to a charity of your choice, at no cost to you. Just saying.
By Katherine Estelle5 years ago in Psyche
Natural Relief For Anxiety And Stress
Natural Relief For Anxiety And Stress by Gustavo Kinrys and Alexandra Gold is an informational book about natural ways to manage stress and anxiety. The authors take a natural approach to maintaining mental and emotional health. It is a short and fairly easy read for anyone to enjoy and receive some well-researched information on how to relax and take it easy.
By Tangerinehippiestudios5 years ago in Psyche
Dorothy and the Glass Key
'Dorothy and the Glass Key' is a young adult novel written by Christopher J. Finn in 2019 by Austin Macauley Publishers, LLC. This is a story of wander and wondering. This is the story of a girl named Dorothy who has many adventures through time and space. Dorothy is a child from a sad home where the mother was overworked and her father was an alcoholic. The story begins when Dorothy is in a vegetative state as an adult and a resident of a rehabilation center due to her adventures through various times and places and being with various kinds of people through time, but are linked through various keys that must match to hopefully make it home again somehow.
By Mark Graham6 years ago in Psyche
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
This book was written by the same author who wrote Behave and A Primate's Memoir. Robert Sapolsky has a unique way of turning scientific jargon, into a masterful education tool that breaks down even the most complex bodily functions into understandable material.
By Angela Love6 years ago in Psyche
Many Good Reasons to Read One Good Reason
Séan McCann, a founding member of Great Big Sea, bravely opened up about the clerical sexual abuse he encountered in his youth and the addictions he employed in attempting to drown the pain and trauma it caused. In 2013, he broke away from the band and pursued a course of truth, using music as his therapy. His new purpose landed on sharing his stories and songs of hope and recovery with those who needed it most.
By Heather Down6 years ago in Psyche
Exile
People refer to exile as something unexplored, something that would never happen in their lives, but it can happen in a matter of a second and ruin the entire life of a human. Exile is something that, if it finds you, you won't be able to escape or hide from it, it is the confronting reality of accepting that there is nothing left but melancholic memories of what people used to know and consider their identity. Historically speaking there are thousands of cases where people are obligated to abandon what they love the most, leaving them with a single idea of what their life would be like; uncertainty, a feeling that traps people with their fears, their worries and frustration, blinding themselves with a darker perspective of what hope used to be. Exile, defined as nothing more than a personal prison, an idea that is substantially reflected through literature. The essay “Reflexions on exile” of the author Edward Said, explores the concept of what exile means today and its clear relationship with such destructive emotions, undoubtedly “The Refugee”, book written by Bernard Malamud, a supposed fictional story, has more connections with the real world and with Said's essay than with a fictional world filled with fallacies. Both texts portrait a single idea bonded with a theme, exile being a self molded prison that will chase and consume an individual’s entire life, leaving nothing more than a void that can’t be filled with a temporary and fake new place that can be considered a new home, but filled with frustration, anxiety, and fear.
By Daiana RME6 years ago in Psyche
The One Book Every First Responder Shouldn’t Be Without
Whether deployed or not, being in the military has its challenges and inherent hazards. The same can be said of first responders such as firefighters, police officers and paramedics. They run to danger when the rest of us flee. They often witness the worst of humanity and the most heinous of circumstances.
By Heather Down6 years ago in Psyche
