• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • What’s New
  • A.K. Smiley Public Library
  • My Account / Search our Catalog

A.K. Smiley Public Library Blog

Serving the City of Redlands, California since 1894

The theme of Mental Health Awareness Month for May 2023 is
“Look Around, Look Within,” according to Mental Health America.
Mental health professionals' aim is to emphasize the ways that our surroundings — like safe and stable housing, healthy home lives, neighborhoods and cities, and nature — affect our mental health.

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't." ~ John Green, 2019

Taking care of our mental health: a reading list of New Book selections

May 9, 2021 By Nancy McGee

May is Mental Health Month. Now, more than ever, seems a good time to raise awareness about mental health. The A.K. Smiley Public Library’s new book section has many selections from different perspectives on mental health issues, with a few examples mentioned here.

“Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind,” by Judson Brewer, MD, PhD; “Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery,” by Catherine Gildiner; “Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times,” by Lise Van Susteren, MD and Stacey Colino; “Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life,” by Christie Tate; “Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don’t Want to Talk About,” by Ryan Casey Waller; “The Long Night: Readings and Stories to Help You Through Depression,” by Jessica Kantrowitz; “Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life,” by Craig Groeschel; “The Upside of Being Down,” by Jen Gotch with Rachel Bertsche; “Hilarious World of Depression,” by John Moe; “Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish Your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks,” by Drew Ramsey, MD; “When the World Feels Like a Scary Place: Essential Conversations for Anxious Parents and Worried Kids,” by Abigail Gewirtz, PhD.

The Young Adult section located downstairs in the Library also has a few new books to check out, as well. “Beneath the Surface: A Teen’s Guide to Reaching Out When You or a Friend is in Crisis,” by Kristi Hugstad; “Anxiety…I’m So Done With You: A Teen’s Guide to Ditching Toxic Stress and Hardwiring Your Brain for Happiness,” by Jodi Aman; “Rewire Your Anxious Brain for Teens:  Using CBT, Neuroscience & Mindfulness to Help You End Anxiety, Panic & Worry,” by Debra Kissen, PhD, Ashley D. Kendall, PhD, Michelle Lozano, LMFT, and Micah Ioffe, PhD.

A.K. Smiley Library is open for in-person visits. Refer to the website at www.akspl.org for hours and also for information on our e-books and databases which are available 24/7. Knowledge is power!

Filed Under: What's New

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Hey, teens, 13-19! Register now for fun, summer activities designed for you!
  • Expeditions, excavations, an ex-con, and Edgar
  • Hot off the press–fiction by new authors!

Categories

  • News + Events
  • What's New

Archives

  • May 2023 (5)
  • April 2023 (5)
  • March 2023 (4)
  • February 2023 (5)
  • January 2023 (5)
  • December 2022 (4)
  • November 2022 (5)
  • October 2022 (5)
  • September 2022 (5)
  • August 2022 (5)
  • July 2022 (5)
  • June 2022 (4)
  • May 2022 (6)
  • April 2022 (5)
  • March 2022 (4)
  • February 2022 (6)
  • January 2022 (6)
  • December 2021 (4)
  • November 2021 (5)
  • October 2021 (5)
  • September 2021 (5)
  • August 2021 (5)
  • July 2021 (5)
  • June 2021 (6)
  • May 2021 (5)
  • April 2021 (4)
  • March 2021 (4)
  • February 2021 (5)
  • January 2021 (5)
  • December 2020 (4)
  • November 2020 (3)
  • October 2020 (5)
  • September 2020 (5)
  • August 2020 (7)
  • July 2020 (4)
  • June 2020 (5)
  • May 2020 (5)
  • April 2020 (4)
  • March 2020 (3)
  • February 2020 (4)
  • December 2019 (1)

Copyright © 2023 · A.K. Smiley Public Library, All Rights Reserved · Log in