Book Recommendations

Easy Reading

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy - A beautifully illustrated book full of self acceptance and compassion

  • Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure by Robert de Board - Wind in the Willows Toad of Toad Hall is depressed and his friends try to help him

  • Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom - extraordinary insight of renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom into the lives of 10 of his patients

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Reading for Emotional and Sexual Abuse

  • Narcissistic Partner Abuse: Change Yourself to Stop Being a Victim (Narcissistic Abuse Recovery) by Caroline Foster

  • Narcissistic Mothers and Covert Emotional Abuse: For Adult Children of Narcissistic Parents by Diana Macey

  • Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What we can do about it by Kate Harding

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Reading around Body Image

  • The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

Guided Help & Support

  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by Jeffrey Brantley, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Matthew McKay - Practical DBT Exercises for learning mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

by Charlie Mackesy

Reading for Anxiety

  • The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

  • Cards Against Anxiety: A Guidebook and Cards to Help You Stress Less by Dr. Pooky Knightsmith

Reading for Depression

  • Depressive Illness: The Curse Of The Strong by Tim Cantopher - An informative and accessible book

I have no affiliation with any of these authors and the recommendations are based on what I and others have found helpful or informative