World Mental Health Day (October) and Mental Health Week (May) serve as vital reminders of the importance of mental well-being in our community. Health promotion commemorations such as these help to break down the stigma surrounding mental health issues and promote open conversations about mental health care.
This list was curated to offer insight into mental health advocacy and research. This collection aims to enlighten, educate, and empower individuals to foster a more understanding and supportive environment for all.
Suggestions for additional resources can be added using the feedback form.
Please note that this list does not replace seeking medical advice. For support, please speak with Health & Wellness UTSC.
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Headcase : LGBTQ writers & artists on mental health and wellness Available in print Edited by Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano 2019
Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity. |
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The trans guide to mental health and well-being By Katy Lees 2022 This empowering self-help guide provides advice and strategies for trans and/or non-binary people on a range of common mental health issues including anxiety, depression, body image, trauma, suicidal thoughts and dissociation. It provides advice on neutralizing negative thoughts, coping with transphobia, coming out, dealing with imposter syndrome, and implementing achievable self-care strategies and mindfulness techniques. |
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By Suzanne Methot 2019 With passionate argumentation and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Methot uses her own and others' stories to trace the roots of colonial trauma and the mechanisms by which trauma has become intergenerational, and she explores the Indigenous ways of knowing that can lead us toward change. |
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By Zee Clarke 2023 This practical guide features thirty-three mindfulness exercises centered on healing for the Black community, each focusing on the systemic challenges that people of color face and designed to deal with the emotions these experiences create. |
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Edited by Stephanie Evans, Kanika Bell and Nsenga Burton 2017 This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women's struggle for inner peace and mental wellness. |
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What Happened To You? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing (available at TPL) By Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph. D. and Oprah Winfrey 2021 Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road. Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking shift from asking "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?" |
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By Pooja Lakshmin 2023 From women's mental health specialist and New York Times contributor Pooja Lakshmin, MD, comes a long-overdue reckoning with the contradictions of the wellness industry and a paradigm-shifting program for practicing real self-care that will empower, uplift, and maybe even start a revolution. |
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By Robert Rosenberg 2016 Author Robert Rosenberg is a leading expert on sleep disorders and is board certified in sleep medicine. In this book, he offers targeted solutions to help you identify the stressors that deter sleep and reduce stress and anxiety. |
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By Brock Bastian 2018 The Other Side of Happiness encourages us to take a more fearless approach to living, by showing that, without some pain, we have no real way to achieve and appreciate the kind of happiness that is true and transcendent. |
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By Sheri Bauman and Ian Rivers 2015 This book examines the intersection of mental health and digital technology to make informed decisions about the new options provided by the internet and technology. It highlights the rise in online therapy, self-help sites and social media as well as examining the ethical dilemmas involved in online research to suggest that the benefits created far outweigh the possible risks. |
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By Christina Feldman and Willem Kuyken 2019 The authors explore mindfulness from its roots in Buddhist psychology to its role in contemporary psychological science. In-depth case examples illustrate how and why mindfulness training can help people move from distress and suffering to resilience and flourishing. |
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By S.J. Scott and Barrie Davenport 2016 This book is for anyone who recognizes how their untamed thoughts are interfering with their focus, productivity, happiness, and peace of mind. |
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By Julie Smith 2022 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times. Dr Julie Smith's expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient, whether you want to manage anxiety, deal with criticism, cope with depression, build self-confidence, find motivation, or learn to forgive yourself. |
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By Tim Bono 2018 A guide for young adults looking for science-based, real-world ways to feel happier each day offers creative, counterintuitive strategies, practical exercises, and honest advice from other young adults. |
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By Anna Lembke 2021 Lembke explores new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain-- and what to do about it. She illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery. |
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By Daniel Kahneman 2011 In this path-breaking book, Kahneman shows how the mind works, and offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and personal lives--and how we can guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.
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By Priya Parker 2018 This book is both journey and guide, full of exciting ideas with real-world applications. The Art of Gathering will forever alter the way you look at your next meeting, industry conference, dinner party, and backyard barbecue--and how you host and attend them. |
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By Todd Pressman 2019 This book offers a unique, integrative approach to healing and growth, based on an understanding of how the psyche organizes itself around anxiety. |
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By Phakchok Rinpoche & Shambhala Boulder 2018 In Radically Happy, a meditating Silicon Valley entrepreneur teams up with a young, insightful, and traditionally educated Tibetan Rinpoche. Together they present a path to radical happiness—a sense of well-being that you can access anytime but especially when life is challenging. |
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By David Mair 2019 This book provides grounded guidance on how mindfulness can be used to cope with the main sources of anxiety while you are completing your studies, so you can find balance and make the most of student life. Combined with practical and recorded mindfulness exercises, learn how to master techniques and tools to reconnect with the present and yourself, and approach life at university in a stress-free way. |
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By Amitava Dasgupta & MD Lanham 2018 While many books promise tips on managing stress, this book takes it one step further to consider the science behind stress and how it affects our minds and bodies, offering evidence-based approaches to managing stress for optimum results. |
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By Andrés R Edwards 2019 Renewal explores the science behind why being in nature makes us feel alive and helps us thrive. Backed by cutting-edge research in cognitive science, Edwards weaves stories that reveal nature's genius, its effect on our lives, and how cultivating an emotional bond with nature benefits us and the natural world. |
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By Florence Williams 2017 An investigation into the restorative benefits of nature draws on cutting-edge research and the author's explorations with international nature therapy programs to examine the relationship between nature and human cognition, mood, and creativity |
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Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale — the most popular class in the university’s 300-year history — The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness. |
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We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries; and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. This podcast drops the fake and talk honestly about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies, anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it. |