Did you know that by reading just 20 pages a day, you could read about 36 books on average by the end of the year?
If reading more is part of your 2022 goals, here are a few health and wellness *must-reads* to add to your reading list.
1. The Body Keeps Score
By Bessel van der Kolk
Although originally published in 2014, The Body Keeps Score should remain high up on the priority reading list for those that haven’t read it yet. The book offers an innovative approach to healing from trauma by author Bessel van der Kolk who is not only a pioneering researcher but also one of the world’s greatest experts on traumatic stress.
Whether directly or indirectly affected by trauma, it surrounds us and our relationships in some shape or form, whether we like it or not. These experiences can leave marks in our minds, emotions and even our biology having been passed onto partners and children. Drawing from his own three-decade long research, and research from other leading specialists, Bessel van der Kolk shows us how to understand traumatic stress, by knowing how it changes the brain’s wiring related to pleasure, control, trust and engagement. But most importantly, he shows us how these areas can be reactivated with holistic treatments as an alternative to drugs and talk therapy.
2. The 5am Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
By Robin Sharma
This one is for those feeling inspired enough to radically change and challenge their morning routine! Author and elite performance expert, Robin Sharma, has been helping his clients maximise productivity and elevate their health and wellness for over twenty years – all on the simple basis of creating a revolutionary morning routine.
Within the book, you will learn about how this early-rising habit is used by some of the world’s most successful business owners, a formula to help you wake up instantly with focus and drive, ways in which to protect your time for exercise and personal growth, and so much more.
3. How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
By Michael Greger MD and Gene Stone
How Not To Die is a scientifically-proven nutritional guide to living longer and overcoming some of the most common diseases humans face such as heart disease, breast cancer, prostate cancer, high blood pressure and diabetes.
Unfortunately, in most cases, surgery and drugs are the only way to cure these life-threatening diseases, but if simple nutritional decisions were made beforehand, these life-threatening diseases could have been prevented altogether.
Backed heavily by science, How Not To Die explores the benefits of better dietary choices, while examining the most common diseases, how certain foods affect us, as well as what to increase and what to decrease to help reduce the risk of developing one of these diseases.
4. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
By Dan Harris
It’s a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and we know why! 10% Happier was written by
news anchor Dan Harris. After having a nationally televised panic attack, he embarked on a journey towards self-help and spirituality and stumbled upon an achievable way to become happier, and ultimately, get rid of the voice inside his head.
Dan Harris shares his method to reining the voice in through meditation, taking readers on a journey full of neuroscience research on how this incredible tool can help heal just about anything by rewiring your brain.
This book will have you laughing, crying and everything in between – all whilst taking home a key message that could change your life.
5. The Mind-Gut Connection - How The Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, And Our Overall Health
By Dr Emeran Mayer
They don’t call it a “gut feeling” for nothing, and The Mind-Gut Connection explains just what that means. Whether it’s “butterflies in your stomach”, an intuitive decision that you were pulled towards, or an anxious stomach before a big event – there’s no denying the connection between our feelings and our stomach.
Dr Emeran Mayer, author and executive director of the UCLA Center for Neurobiology of Stress, explains the inextricable, biological link between mind and body, with pioneering neuroscience and discoveries on the human microbiome.
Discover the power of the mind-gut connection with revolutionary science and learn how to harness and take care of it in order to take control of your health.
6. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
By Dr. Nicole LePera
We’ve saved the best for last! How to Do the Work is another #1 New York Times bestseller to add to your reading list. Clinical psychologist and creator of The Holistic Psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera, brings her much-requested and revolutionary viewpoint to the table on how to approach self-healing to create a more joyful life for yourself.
Dr. Nicole LePera shares how our experiences and childhood trauma can stay with us and result in bodily dysfunction, activating stress responses which later result in patterns of self-sabotaging behaviours, immaturity, codependency and trauma bonds.
Equipping readers with the tools to change these patterns of destructive behaviour and create a new path for themselves, How to Do the Work is changing the way society views self-care and mental wellness, beyond traditional methods and medication.
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