Book: Happiness – Your Route Map to Inner Joy – Cope, Whittaker and Bason-Wood
There are a lot of books out there on self development- happiness, resilience, finding purpose. There becomes a tendency to feel once you’ve read one, you’ve read the lot. The authors it seems recognise this: “Our hunch is that people who buy personal development...Book: A Statin Nation – Dr Malcolm Kendrick
A Statin Nation – Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post Heath World Confession – I like Dr Kendrick’s writing. I’ve reviewed Doctoring Data and The Great Cholesterol Con here. In many respects this latest book brings both of those...Book: Yoga Therapy for Arthritis – Dr Steffany Moonaz & Erin Byron
Subtitled “A Whole Person Approach to movement and Lifestyle”, this is a useful and comprehensive manual on the topic of arthritis, living with it, and how yoga can help, The authors divide the book into three logical sections – “Living with...Book: Lost and Found – Jules Montague
Lost and Found: Memory, identity and who we are when we’re no longer ourselves The concept of identity is something we perhaps don’t think about very often; yes, we think about what we identify with, but not how we actually identify as ourselves. Of...Book: 10% Human – Alanna Collen
Human Sciences move fast. The Microbiome – our community of bacteria – is one of the areas of more recent insight and ongoing discovery. The title of this book reflects that on a cellular basis bacterial cells in our body are much greater in number than...Book: The Breathing Book – Donna Farhi
The subtitle “Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breathwork” sums this book up very well. Anyone who has been to my classes over recent months will know breathwork – Breathing well, and using the breath to improve our wellbeing – is something which...Book: All That Remains – a Life in Death – Sue Black
“Professor Dame Sue Black is one of the worlds leading anatomists and forensic anthropologists” so goes the introduction – this book was a birthday gift from friends who know me well, and I think it was a dead cert (no pun intended) it would go down well. Partly...Book: You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay
Written in 1984, this book is something of a classic in mind body healing, even though for me it was one I hadn’t read – too many books, too little time! Louise Hay is, or was as she died a year or so ago, a prolific writer in this area, and indeed founder of an...Book: Lies My Doctor Told Me, Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health – Ken Berry
“The Internet has given your patients access to more meaningful medical research and knowledge than ever before. Patients now have more medical research at their fingertips than the best of doctors used to have.” Written by a doctor, the title pretty much sums up the...Book: The Great Cholesterol Con: Dr Malcolm Kendrick
‘The Great Cholesterol Con – The truth about what really causes Heart Disease and how to avoid it” Malcolm Kendrick is a Scottish GP, and a sceptic about the Cholesterol Hypothesis – the idea that raised “bad” Cholesterol causes heart disease, and by...Book: The Healing Power of the Breath – Richard Brown & Patricia Gerbarg
Many readers of my website or book reviews will know that I’m very drawn to breath work. To a degree I think breath practices are yogas hidden secret, and sadly not often given enough attention in class – my classes included. Whilst the classical pranayamas of...Book: Brainstorm – Detective Stories from the World of Neurology – Suzanne O’Sullivan
The author is a Consultant Neurologist in the UK – as an aside the UK aspect is welcome when so many of the books in this field stem from America – and in this book she uses a variety of anonymised case studies to review what happens when the brain...Book: The Disordered Mind – What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves- Eric R Kandel
Perhaps more than any other part of our body, the brain is the bit we don’t notice till it goes wrong. There is also the idea that it’s fixed and immutable, while we can learn and memorise, we can’t change structure – put simply the idea perpetuates that brain...Book: Why We Sleep – The New Science of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker
Sleep – most of us probably feel we don’t have enough of it, both a curse of modern life and something which is supported in statistics. But apart from the subtle guilt of knowing you need some more (me too), and the not so subtle ache of insomnia and...Book: Doctoring Data – Dr Malcolm Kendrick
Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense Today’s headline: Saturated Fat increases your risk of dying. Tomorrow’s headline: Saturated Fat protects you against cancer. Sometimes medical research reporting can be puzzling and down right...Book: Attached – Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
“The science of adult attachment and how it can help you find – and keep – love” Attachment Theory provides a theory of interpersonal relationships, primarily based on attachment bonds between an infant and their caregiver. The theory goes that childhood...Book: Sod 70 – The Guide To Living Well – Muir Gray
Although age is inevitable, ageing, or the effects of age, are less so. Sure we all slow, and even at the comparatively tender age of 51 – the author says the readership of this book will mostly be 70s – I feel a transition. However whilst we can adapt to...Book: Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong – Matt Brown
Well, unsurprisingly, in my case, it wasn’t. Probably just as well with the amount I’ve interested, both time and money, in training! This is a bit of a whimsical book, serious, but not overly so, on trivia and myths about the human body. We’ve all got one, and if you...Book: The Distracted Mind – Adam Gazzaley and Larry D Rosen
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World So most of us have experienced it; the day when you have to get a lot done, yet your nose is stuck in Instagram/Facebook/Twitter. The authors come from backgrounds in Psychology and Neuroscience, and have...Socials and Feeds
