Book Reviews & Recommendations
Dr. Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence attempts to dissect one of the defining struggles of modern life: our endless pursuit of pleasure in a world overflowing with temptation. From the instant gratification of social media to […]
James Nestor’s Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art aims to reclaim something so fundamental, so instinctive, that it almost feels absurd to question it: the way we breathe. The premise is bold and intriguing our health, vitality, and even longevity, […]
Brianna Wiest’s The Mountain Is You has become a modern favorite in the self-development space, championed across TikTok and Instagram as a life-changing manual for overcoming self-sabotage. The book promises to help readers recognize destructive patterns, understand why they repeat them, and […]
Rick Rubin has spent decades behind some of the most transformative music in modern history, helping artists from Adele to Johnny Cash rediscover their voice. In The Creative Act: A Way of Being, he steps out from the studio and into the […]
Joseph Nguyen’s slim manifesto tackles a giant problem: the way unexamined thinking fuels anxiety, self doubt, and the endless habit of sabotaging our own progress. In a little over a hundred pages, he argues that thoughts are not facts, mental chatter is […]
Mel Robbins wants to give you two words to lighten your mental load: let them. In her latest self help juggernaut, she argues that much of our stress comes from trying to control people and outcomes we simply cannot. The prescription is […]
Morgan Housel’s The Psychology of Money is a rare personal finance book that cares less about spreadsheets and more about the messy human brain using them. Instead of prescribing a single perfect plan, Housel offers 19 crisp stories that show how habits, […]
Kate Murphy’s You’re Not Listening is that rare piece of nonfiction that quietly changes your daily behavior. It is a cultural x-ray of why real listening has become scarce and a field guide to reclaiming it in conversations, teams, families, and communities. […]
Former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras turns a career of high stakes protection into a clear, practical handbook for everyday courage. Becoming Bulletproof blends memoir, behavioral psychology, and field-tested tactics to show how ordinary people can prepare for stress, read others more […]
In No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, Dr. Richard C. Schwartz invites readers to rethink what it means to be human. Instead of seeing ourselves as a single, unified identity, he argues that we […]