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Life in five senses : how exploring the senses got me out of my head and into the world / Gretchen Rubin.

Gretchen Rubin has studied happiness and human nature for more than a decade, but as she became increasingly busy and stuck in her head, she didn't notice the sensations of life quietly fading. In this journey of self-experimentation, she lifts herself from a state of foggy preoccupation into a rediscovered world by exploring the mysteries and joys of the five senses. Drawing on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature and her own efforts to practice what she learns, Rubin investigates the profound power of tuning in to the physical world. From the simple pleasures of appreciating ketchup and curating a playlist of her favourite songs, to more adventurous daily rituals, excursions and a trip to Flavour University. In the rush of daily life, she finds that our five senses offer us a path to a happier, more mindful life. Life in Five Senses is an absorbing, layered story of discovery filled with profound insights and practical suggestions on how to heighten our senses and use our powers of perception to live fuller, richer lives - and, ultimately, how to move through the world with more vitality and love.
Author: Rubin, Gretchen
Published: London : Two Roads, 2023.
Published: ©2023
xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Health and Wellbeing - 152.1 RUB - Onloan - Due: 20 Apr 2024 - 010817918

Hello, stranger : stories of connection in a divided world / Will Buckingham.

A powerful antidote to our atomised lives, Hello, Stranger delves into humanity's rich history of welcoming (and worrying about) strangers, to show us how being more open might end the loneliness epidemic, solve the migrant crisis and change the world. When Will Buckingham's partner of many years passed away, he opened up his house to strangers and found a path through his grief. By welcoming the unfamiliar, and caring for the needs of those he did not know, Will found himself immersed in a long and rich tradition of hosting and helping strangers. As the loneliness epidemic spirals out of control, and as the migration crisis continues, might we be able to draw on this tradition of welcoming strangers to solve the problems of our time? Charting the history of the stranger from ancient societies to modern borders, anthropologist and philosopher Will Buckingham considers the value that strangers might bring to our lives. Journeying from gifts to feasts, guests to hostages, departures, ghosts, animals and the complications of money, Hello, Stranger, invites us to open up the door, and let the world in.
Author: Buckingham, Will
Published: London : Granta Books, 2022.
Published: ©2021
326 pages ; 20 cm

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs - 302 BUC - Available - 010848943

Sunbathing [Paperback] / Isobel Beech.

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each other, learning about cherry worms. Strange how badly I could punish myself for abandoning you once, then go and do it again. After weeks of grieving, a woman books a plane ticket bound for an old villa in the mountains of Abruzzo. Invited to stay with her friends Giulia and Fab - in the weeks before they marry in a village orchard - she lives for a summer in the house's Birthing Room, where generations of women once had their babies. More often, though, she lives in her head: in the past, trying to make sense of her grief and wondering how to go on, or if she can. As her inner and outer worlds spar and converge, she passes the time helping with the household chores, walking in the sunshine and plucking fruit from the nearby orchards, all while dwelling on the moments with her father that might have warned her something was wrong.
Author: Beech, Isobel
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
Published: ©2022
295 pages ; 24 cm.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BEEC - Onloan - Due: 21 May 2024 - 010606871
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BEEC - Onloan - Due: 01 Jun 2024 - 010606864
Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Fiction - General - BEEC - Available - 010606857

Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity [eFilm]

Research shows we thrive when we embrace problems, confident that we're resilient enough to work through them. In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," you'll learn how to create greater resilience. Whether you're a trauma survivor or someone who is simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life, your life will be enriched when you proactively increase your resilience.
Published: [United States] : The Great Courses, 2021.
Published: Made available through hoopla
1 online resource (24 video files (approximately 773 min.)) : sd., col.
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When it is darkest : why people die by suicide and what we can do to prevent it / Rory O'Connor.

Bringing together decades of work on suicide prevention research, Professor O'Connor's own experience and other people's stories, 'When it is darkest' gets to the heart of the most tragic of human outcomes. Shedding light on why suicide happens - and what we can do to prevent it - it will support you to listen to someone vulnerable without judgement. For those struggling to get through the tragedy of suicide it will help you find strength in the darkest of places.
Author: O'Connor, Rory C., 1973-
Published: London : Vermilion, 2021.
Published: ©2021
vi, 346 pages ; 22 cm.

Hampton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Health and Wellbeing - 362.28 OCO - Available - 010370000

The Wellness Series. [eFilm]

THE WELLNESS SERIES An outstanding series on dealing with depression, coping with loss and acceptance of self. You'll benefit from the encouraging messages, beautiful imagery, soothing narratives and comforting music.
Published: TMW Media, 2020.
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020.
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The naked farmer / Ben Brooksby.

Ben Brooksby is a fifth-generation farmer from St Helens Plains in western Victoria. When he was younger, he struggled with anxiety and other mental health issues, as do so many others in rural communities. A simple social media post helped him to turn things around. After he shared a photo on Instagram showing himself naked in a truck full of lentils, he received a huge response, with other farmers wanting to share their own photos - and their stories. As the Naked Farmer movement grew, Ben met people from all around the country who wanted to get naked for mental health. As they got their kits off, they also opened up about their struggles.This is a heartwarming, moving and candid collection of stories of the challenges our farmers are facing, and the way these communities are banding together in response. -- Publisher's website.
Author: Brooksby, Ben
Published: Surry Hills, NSW : Pan Macmillan Australia / RHYW, 2020.
Published: Sydney, NSW : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2020.
Published: ©2020.
xi, 195 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs - 362.20425 BRO - Available - 010246510

Outer order inner calm : declutter & organize to make more room for happiness / Gretchen Rubin.

Ask yourself - Do I need it? Do I love it? Do I use it? Bestselling author and happiness expert Gretchen Rubin explores one of her key secrets to happiness: that, for most of us, outer order leads to inner calm. A messy desk or a cluttered cupboard might seem like a trivial matter, yet Rubin has found that by simply organising our stuff, we free up space for what we truly value (in our lives and in our homes).
Author: Rubin, Gretchen
Published: London : Two Roads, 2019.
xxi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden - 648 RUB - Onloan - Due: 07 Jun 2024 - 009878753
Beaumaris Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden - 648 RUB - Available - 010055303

Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed / Lori Gottlieb.

As a therapist, Lori knows a lot about pain, about the ways in which pain is tied to loss, and how change and loss travel together. She knows how affirming it feels to blame the outside world for her frustrations, to deny ownership of whatever role she might have in the existential play called My Incredibly Important Life. When a devastating event takes place in Lori's life, she realises that, before being able to help her patients, she must first learn how to help herself. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is the story of an incredible relationship - between Lori, a therapist at a critical life juncture, and her own therapist, Wendell, a veteran therapist with an unconventional style. Through their sessions, Wendell teaches Lori how to become a better person and a better therapist, as she goes about the business of helping her own patients - the couple who are struggling after having a baby, the narcissist TV producer, the older woman who feels she has nothing to live for, the self-destructive alcoholic young woman, the terminally ill 35-year-old newlywed. Taking place over one year, beginning with the devastating event that lands her in Wendell's office, this is a rare and candid insight into a profession conventionally bound with rules and secrecy, told with charm and compassion, vulnerability and humour.
Author: Gottlieb, Lori
Published: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2019.
415 pages ; 24 cm.
2 reserves

Sandringham Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Biography - 616.8914 GOT - On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 06 May 2024) - 010015093

The resilience project : finding happiness through gratitude, empathy and mindfulness [ebook] / Hugh van Cuylenburg.

Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation: despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were remarkably positive. By contrast, back in Australia Hugh knew that all too many people found it hard to be happy, or suffered from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. His own little sister had been ravaged by anorexia nervosa. How was it that young people he knew at home, who had food, shelter, friends and a loving family, struggled with their mental health, while these kids seemed so contented and resilient He set about finding the answer and in time came to recognise the key traits and behaviours these children possessed were gratitude, empathy and mindfulness. In the ensuing years Hugh threw himself into studying and sharing this revelation with the world through The Resilience Project, with his playful and unorthodox presentations which both entertain and inform. Now, with the same blend of humour, poignancy and clear-eyed insight that The Resilience Project has become renowned for, Hugh explains how we can all get the tools we need to live a happier and more fulfilling life.
Author: Cuylenburg, Hugh van
Published: [North Sydney] : Random House Australia, 2020.
Available online: Click here to view book

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The happiness project : or, why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun / Gretchen Rubin.

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. In this lively and compelling account --- now updated with new material by the author --- Rubin chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Among other things, she found that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that money can help buy happiness, when spent wisely; that outer order contributes to inner calm; and that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference.
Author: Rubin, Gretchen
Tenth anniversary edition. Updated with new material.
Published: New York : Harper, 2018
xviii, 345 pages ; 21 cm.

Brighton Library - (Bayside Library Service) - Adult Non Fiction - Health and Wellbeing - 158 RUB - Onloan - Due: 05 Jun 2024 - 010356431

The Mindfulness Movie

A fun and educational journey showcasing the worldwide brain research proving the benefits of mindfulness and the public’s increasing awareness and acceptance of the practice. The movie celebrates those who have reshaped mindfulness into everyday, practical skills...Neuroscientists now tell us that the practice of mindfulness literally changes the brain in positive ways. And it’s as simple as paying attention! Throughout the film, we encounter inspiring people and ideas on how changing the way we see can change our lives...First, the movie explores answers to the two basic questions: what is mindlessness? And what is mindfulness?..Then, the viewer is guided through the neuroscience of why the brain defaults to a mindless mode 90% of the time. Leading world experts discuss eight essential aspects of mindfulness, including easy to understand studies showing why we function at a more highly effective level when we change our default mindless mode to a mindful mode...Finally, The Mindfulness Movie tells the heartfelt stories of military personnel and teenagers using mindfulness to overcome stress, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. These real life examples of personal initiative and success truly inspire the viewer to engage the world in a new way.
Published: Where's My Mind Media, 2014.
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017.
1 online resource (streaming video file) (70 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The Antidote : Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking [eBook]

In an approach that turns decades of self-help advice on its head, Oliver Burkeman explains why positive thinking serves only to make us more miserable, and why A??getting motivatedA?? can exacerbate procrastination. And itA??s our constant efforts to eliminate the negative that cause us to feel so anxious, insecure and unhappy.
Author: Burkeman, Oliver
EBL Edition ed.
Published: United States Ebooks Corporation Limited 2012.
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Manage Your Time to Reduce Your Stress [eBook] : A Handbook for the Overworked, Overscheduled, and Overwhelmed / Rita Emmett

How often do you think to yourself "So much to do and so little time"? Rita Emmett can not give you more minutes in an hour or more hours in a day, but she does offer help with the "so much to do" part. The key is not time management but "stuff" management—all those things to do, people to see, commitments and obligations to fulfill. And mismanaging all that to-do stuff is what leads to stress.We often have little control over the demands made upon us, yet we can control our reaction or response. That's where the management of stress must start. Stress is neither good nor bad: your response to it is what can be harmful. In Rita Emmett's signature style that combines quick, easy-to-digest tips and infectious good humor, Manage Your Time to Reduce Your Stress gives readers positive ways to handle stress; examines how stress impacts our physical, mental, and emotional health; how to clarify your values and prioritize activities based on what is important. Spending time doing things that are incongruent with your values makes you feel frustrated and stressed out. Striving for perfection, being overly competitive, and job insecurity are some of the other reasons you feel overburdened and overwhelmed. Rita Emmett draws on the stories of many people who have e-mailed or written her or spoken to her after her seminars; readers will identify not only with their problems but can find common ground in Rita's strategies that have worked for them.
Author: Emmett, Rita
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2009
1 online resource (1 text file)
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