Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Health and Wellbeing

"This updated edition of Cheryl's best-selling handbook The Art of Extreme Self-Care brings her message home to readers in a fresh and compelling way. Her practical, action-oriented program outlines 12 strategies to transform your life one month at a time, each one challenging you to alter one be...

The book is a gentle self-help guide filled with practical self-care practices and rituals which engage the griever into embracing and expressing their grief. Through the gentle practices, the griever can eventually find inner peace and begin to heal his/her grieving heart. After a loss, grievers...

John Marsden has spent his adult life engaging with young minds - through both his award-winning, internationally bestselling young adult fiction and his work as one of Australia's most esteemed and experienced educators. As the founder and principal of two schools, John is at the coalface of edu...

How should we live? In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and the world.

Whether you view living alone as the ultimate compromise or the ultimate luxury, it presents daily challenges, such as cooking for one, organising holidays, juggling finances, and avoiding the siren call of wine, Ugg boots and Netflix. And there are the less tangible tests, like nailing the octop...

There is often a disconnect between the raw spirit of our younger selves - when energy and enthusiasm were inexhaustible and our bodies rarely let us down - and the limitations and demands we increasingly face over time. Our vitality can fade as we stress over career, family, financial security a...

Accessible, inspiring, informed and useful, this book features 131 surprising and innovative exercises, including: Look really, really slowly Take a colour walk Discover the big within the small Drift Listen selflessly Hunt for a sound Get there the hard way Change scale.

Learning to mind read isn't as out there as it may sound. In every interaction we have, we give away a range of non-verbal signals, often more powerful than the words we say. This book teaches you how to influence others, bringing them round to your way of thinking. Rooted in cognitive psychology...

Ross Edgley famously ran a marathon pulling a 1.4-tonne car and climbed a rope the height of Everest (8,848m), after living with Yamabushi warrior monks in Japan and partaking in Shamanic pain rituals with fire ants in the Amazon jungle. On his epic 1,780-mile journey around Great Britain, which ...

Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond colla...