Better Reading BE: Top Picks for April 2021

This month, we delved into some truly inspiring reads for Better Reading BE. These books unpack concepts including trauma and integrity, and how recognising patterns of behaviour can help us find greater purpose and joy in life.

A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself by Brigid Lowry

If you’re struggling to maintain grace and good humour amidst daily potholes and pitfalls, Brigid Lowry may be just the warm, wise and witty companion you need. Informed by contemporary psychology and Buddhist philosophy, Brigid’s essays offer reflections on everything from friendship to grief, and from gratitude to self-care. Give this book to a friend or gift it to yourself, A Year of Loving Kindness to Myself is all the encouragement you’ll need to nurture you and those around you.

Twelve Rules for Living a Better Life by Reverend Bill Crews with Roger Joyce

A straight-talking, uplifting and inspiring guide to living a better life and becoming a better human being – through compassion, tolerance, acceptance and love – from one of our very best, most authentic and genuine people, the Reverend Bill Crews. This book is for the secular and spiritual alike, providing insights on compassion and how to pay it forward, at a time when the world desperately needs it.

The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck 

The Way of Integrity is a guide to discovering your true self and the pure peace that is your birthright. Bestselling author, life coach and sociologist Martha Beck has penned a beautiful book on how finding inner integrity and purpose can help guide us through life’s ups and downs, and help us recognise how we stray into habits and relationships that do not serve us. Beck breaks down The Way of Integrity into simple manageable steps.

How To Do The Work by Dr Nicole LePera

Dr Nicole LePera is known as ‘The Holistic Psychologist’ to her 3.7 million Instagram followers, and her eagerly awaited book How To Do The Work is already a verified sensation. LePera presents an essential guide to creating a more vibrant, authentic, and joyful life. She helps us recognise how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood live with us, keeping us stuck engaging in patterns of co-dependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. This incredibly insightful book offers something for everyone, and is one to get your hands on.

You’re Not Broken by Dr Sarah Woodhouse

Dr Sarah Woodhouse is a Research Psychologist who specialises in trauma and is passionate about helping people face this word and their past. In You’re Not Broken, she teaches you what trauma is (it’s probably not what you think), and how to recognise when, why and how your past is holding you back. Then, sharing the latest research-based techniques and her own personal experience, she guides you towards breaking the trauma loop, reawakening your true self and reclaiming your future. Listen to Sarah in conversation with Cheryl in a recent podcast here, for some further fascinating insights.