I am reading Why Has No One Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith. I discovered Julie Smith on LinkedIn where she posts short videos about mental health and well-being and the videos are so clever and well done.
In an interview in the Guardian, she said: “Mental health is, for me, no different to physical health. No one is immune. If you take anyone and you start messing around with their core defences, things such as sleep, routine, social connection, nutrition and exercise, then that person will become vulnerable to both physical and mental health problems.”
I love that she can talk about complex topics in brief videos.
Check out her stress bucket video: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6800331989661581312/
Read more about Dr. Julie in The Guardian.
We are reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This is our nighttime read and it’s usually the book that I fall asleep to so it does take us a while to get through the selected book but we love the story and the writing. It’s a nice follow-up to Lessons in Chemistry.
My latest poetry book is How to Love the World, a collection edited by James Crews. The title makes me laugh at myself a little bit because I feel like I’m often disconnected from the world, even though I do, in my heart, love people.
Beth Kempton, after rejecting extrovert, introvert, and ambivert, settled on kindrovert, someone at home among kindred spirits. That resonates for me, too.
You can read more about this in her book Freedom Seeker. I love Beth Kempton and I have several of her books. This book is a primer on what it means to feel free, with exercises to define that for yourself.
You can also listen to the Freedom Seekers Chronicles podcast: https://bethkempton.com/fscpodcast/
Next up:
- Kokoro also by Beth Kempton
- The Perfection Trap by Thomas Curran
- Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra
What are you reading?
