Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness by Olivia Telford

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 

How is your mental health? Struggling with depression, anxiety, phobias, procrastination, or sleeplessness? Maybe there are other ways that your mind is sabotaging your health.

Telford offers some practical but research-based ways that a therapist would guide you through the process of healing. It's not self-help exactly (unless you can read it and do the steps yourself.) 

It's more of a guide and explanations that you can work through with a therapist when you have trouble changing your own thinking. Highly recommended as helpful as we muddle through the pandemic.

Soul Anatomy: Finding Peace, Hope, and Joy in the Psalms by George Robertson

 ★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 

If you're wondering what scripture has to say to your emotions and your mental health during this pandemic and beyond, here's a series of "talks to the soul" that will lift you up. Whether you are happy or sad, angry or calm, afraid or confident, the Psalms address every aspect of our response to God and those around us. 

Robertson explores the psalms - and encourages us to deeply reflect in reading and response on what God is doing. Is your life going smoothly? Choose a chapter about that. Are you suffering because of others' decisions? There's a psalm for that.

At the end of each chapter, you can personally record how you are engaging with scripture and bringing God's reassuring presence into your life. Recommended to all.

Get Outside - a journal for getting into nature

★★★★ ☐ The publisher has provided a copy for review. 

You have been considering taking walks, going camping, or exploring other ways of getting out of the house or office. During the pandemic, you've found that time in nature is transforming and life-giving, right?

But where to go in the USA? What to do when you stand outside your door or get out of the car? This Ink&Willow book has multiple to-go lists, from hikes to parks, to ideas of how you can restore your soul by getting OUTSIDE.

It's new, it's fun to browse, and you'll find a bucket-list to suit you. While this is specific to North America, it will give you a blueprint to follow around the world. Have fun!

Recommended for the sedentary who need inspiration as well as the active who just need new places to go.