WE Mind Lending Library

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)
By Bessel van der Kolk, M.D

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. 

The Gifts of Imperfection (2010)

By Brené Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W

In this groundbreaking New York Times best seller, Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor and thought leader on vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.

The Adrenal Stress Connection (2010)

By Dr. Karen Jensen, ND and Dr. Marita Schauch, BSc, ND

Adrenal fatigue is a very common and quickly growing problem of modern life. The stressors we are faced with on a daily basis contribute to more stress on the stress adaptive organs, the adrenal glands. People suffering from adrenal fatigue are much more likely to develop other health issues such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease. By identifying the adrenal stress connection, you will be able to create a superior, healthier you.

The Journey: A Practical Guide to Healing Your Life and Setting Yourself Free (1999)

By Brandon Bays

The Mayo Clinic Handbook for Happiness: A Four-Step Plan for Resilient Living (2010)
By Amit Sood, M.D.

This book combines wisdom from neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality to help you choose contentment. Each of the book’s four sections is filled with practical insights and easy-to-implement exercises. You’ll understand why your brain struggles with finding happiness and real-world practices that can help you to better manage stress and choose peace and contentment instead.

How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable (1999)

By Albert Ellis, Ph.D.

Through anecdotes and a systematic approach, this book shows how to counter and conquer the pain of anxiety, depression, anger, or self-pity. Using Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to create more positive patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting, listeners find joy and freedom of action.

Be the Change: How Meditation Can Transform You and the World (2009)

By Ed and Deb Shapiro

Be the Change examines meditation through the wisdom of spiritual leaders from all disciplines, interwoven with text from award-winning authors Ed and Deb Shapiro. This book will surprise, enlighten, and inspire readers to begin their own meditation practice.

New Optimum Nutrition for the Mind (2009)

By Patrick Holford

How we think and feel is directly affected by what we take into our bodies. Eating the right food has been proven to boost IQ, improve mood and emotional stability, sharpen the memory, and keep the mind young. This book covers a wide range of important topics and should be of interest to anyone who wants to think and feel great.

Golden Rules For Everyday Life (1994)

By Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Get into the habit of seeing the whole of your daily life, with all the things that you are obliged to do, the events that occur, and the beings with whom you have to live or whom you meet in your work, as a matter that you have to transform. Don’t be passive. Don’t be content to accept whatever comes and submit to events.  This is what the spiritual life really is: the ability to introduce something into every activity to catapult it onto a higher plane. In this book, it is by meditation and prayer that you pick up that subtler, purer element that enables you to give a new dimension to all your acts.

The Joy of Friendship: A celebration of life, laughter and lasting memories (2014)

By Lois Blyth

The Joy of Friendship is a tribute to those who enrich our lives with their support, strength, and laughter. Filled with inspiring stories of friendship, and uplifting quotations, it celebrates the joys of being a friend, the changing nature of friendship, the power of sustained friendships, and the vital part that friends play throughout every stage of our lives.

The Daily Flame: 365 Love Letters from Your Inner Pilot Light (2019)

By Lissa Rankin MD

If your deepest, most divine self had a message for you, what would it be? Receive daily messages of love, wisdom, and encouragement with a 365-day reader from New York Times bestselling author, physician, and mystic Dr. Lissa Rankin.  Each new message will bring you inspiration and encouragement for the day ahead. The letters cover a wide range of themes, from abundance and health, to following your dreams, to finding your tribe, and persevering through challenges. Some letters offer practices and reflection questions, while others offer deep wisdom and spiritual insights.

The Personal Feng Shui Manual: How to Develop a Healthy and Harmonious Lifestyle (1998)

By Master Lam Kam Chuen

This guide details how to apply Feng Shui with one’s own individual characteristics and lifestyle in mind. Master Lam reveals how the Chinese zodiac, yin and yang, and the five energies come into play when you employ Feng Shui at home, work, and the places you travel in between.

Yoga and The Art of Breathing Meditation: Healing the body with the best Yoga Breathing Techniques (2022)

By Erin Locklear

By changing the way you breathe, you can make yourself feel different ways. How you feel changes when you slow down your breathing. Most people don’t think much about how they breathe, but they should if they want to have more energy, be more alert, and do better in sports and exercise. This book will show you how to do many different exercises to control your breathing on your own.

Yoga Girl (2014)

By Rachel Brathen

A New York Times bestseller from the yoga instructor who inspires more than one million followers on Instagram every day.  Yoga Gir features spectacular photos of Brathen practising yoga with breathtaking tropical backdrops, along with step-by-step yoga sequences and simple recipes for a healthy, happy, and fearless lifestyle.  

Teach Yourself Tai Chi (2004)

By Robert Parry

This inspirational introduction explores the background and philosophy of Tai Chi, provides step-by-step instructions for learning the “short yang form,” and offers helpful advice on health and stress-management. Readers learn how integrating just 10 minutes a day of Tai Chi promotes relaxation, well-being, and increased concentration.

Beginning Tai Chi (1994)

By Tri Thong Dang

Master Tri’s descriptions highlight the spiritual essence of the form and display its graceful simplicity. Clear illustrations accompany the instructions.