Books We Recommend

Over the past few decades, the field of mental health has been slowly undergoing a paradigm shift. As a society, we are moving away from highly medicalized, pathologizing medical models of mental illness towards the more holistic way of seeing health and wellness. We are beginning to see illness not as a random thing that happens to a few, bur rather (as Gabor Mate puts it), an “expected and therefore normal consequence of abnormal, unnatural circumstances”. Therefore, those of us who are experiencing symptoms are “living alarms, directing to our attention to where our society has gone askew”.

Below are some books that we recommend on understanding the current landscape of health, wellness and relational mindfulness. We encourage discussion and look forward to having a book club in the future. Please feel free to send us your favourite books - we love recommendations!