Books for Tough Times: Identity

A life-changing guide to reclaiming your relationship with your body and yourself.

If you feel an intense pressure to be perfect, this evidence-based workbook offers real strategies based in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you develop a more balanced and healthy perspective.

The journey to self-esteem is set in motion by an encounter with something we all have: a good flaw. And acceptance, just saying yes to the presence of a good flaw, is the way to cross into a world where wholeness, realness, and self-expression can put an end to bullying and combat negativity with positivity.

From Strength to Strength offers a roadmap for finding purpose and success in aging, drawing on wisdom from various disciplines and interviews with everyday individuals. Arthur Brooks shares insights on prioritizing meaningful connections, service to others, and spiritual growth to enhance happiness in later years. Through practical advice and philosophical reflection, readers can learn to navigate the challenges of aging and embrace a fulfilling life journey.

A guide to help readers embrace imperfection and vulnerability so they can live authentically; presents ten guideposts for wholehearted living.

Jenna Kutcher teaches how to harness your power to take control of your life. You deserve more – and deep down, you know it. If, when you get really honest with yourself, you discover that you want more out of your life: more joy, more passion, more fulfillment, and more peace? This book is for you.

The million-copy internationally bestselling illustrated life guide about how to stop comparing yourself to others—especially on social media—and how to find the strength to be yourself.

Just Tell Me What I Want is for anyone who has ever been told to "follow their bliss" and then immediately wanted to punch that person in the face.

Renowned psychotherapist and aging expert Andrea Brandt, PhD, MFT, helps you throw out the old stereotypes about getting older and move toward the welcoming new evidence that you future is alive with possibility, providing steps to thrive today and into your golden years. This book is full of exercises and tools to help you embrace a new mindset and blaze a new trail in your life fueled by passion, purpose, and creativity.

A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value—and what to do when your goals conflict. Blending personal stories, philosophy, and psychology, this insightful and entertaining book offers invaluable advice about living well by understanding your values and resolving the conflicts that frustrate their fulfillment.

A much-needed guide to dating—from apps to hooking up, sex, long-term relationships and more—from disabled essayist and author Jessica Slice and bioethicist Caroline Cupp.

A deeply personal memoir by John Hendrickson, inspired by his viral article about Joe Biden's journey with stuttering. With candor and insight, Hendrickson explores his own struggles with stuttering, including bullying, depression, and self-discovery. Through interviews and reflections, he delves into the complexities of living with a speech impediment, offering a poignant narrative of perseverance and self-acceptance.

This book's overall goal is to educate readers about the college disability services system and to help students prepare for success at college.

A learning differences expert shares stories, strategies, and information about what students with disabilities need to be successful in college.

Expertly written by a medical doctor, a sex educator and a disability activist, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability provides readers with encouragement, support and all the information they could ever need to create an enjoyable and successful sex life.

Being diagnosed with autism as an adult can be disorienting and isolating; however, if you can understand the condition and how it affects perceptions, relationships, and your relationship with the world in general, a happy and successful life is attainable. Through an introduction to the autism spectrum, and how the Level 1 diagnosis is characterized, the author draws on personal experiences to provide positive advice on dealing with life, health, and relationships following an adult diagnosis.

Autistic influencer Daniel M. Jones is an expert on living well on the spectrum. No matter what you're going through as someone with autism, Dan gets it--he's been there. He's here to explain everything he learned, and then some, in this instruction manual and memoir about life as an autistic person.

Written by an autistic mother who experienced a mental health crisis following a poorly supported pregnancy and childbirth, she gives voice to the experiences of many autistic parents in order to address the issues they collectively and uniquely face. The outcome is a practical, insightful, and solution-focused guide to empower autistic parents from pre-conception right through to the first few months with baby, and to inform health and social care staff whose job it is to offer support and to meet their needs at these critical times.

In this candid, witty and insightful exploration into therapy, Steph Jones uses her professional and lived experiences as a late diagnosed autistic woman and therapist, as well as consulting therapists from across the world and tapping into the autistic community, to create the ultimate autistic survival guide to therapy.

An empowering lived-experience guide to celebrating and supporting neurodivergence from 24-year-old actor, social media star and disability advocate Chloé Hayden.

An updated edition of Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide's popular dyslexia book with a wealth of new material and improved dyslexic-friendly font

Almost 80% of autistic people have a co-occurring mental health condition, and this powerful book puts their voices front and centre, showcasing the human experience beyond the medicalised language and diagnoses. Covering a range of experiences from multiple ages, genders and backgrounds, discussions include trauma, relationships, masking, healthcare, intersectionality and more.

The creator of the YouTube channel How to ADHD shares the insights and strategies that help her thrive in this accessible and shame-free guide to working with, understanding, and celebrating the ADHD brain

Written by neurodivergent psychologists for neurodivergent readers, this empowering workbook offers self-compassion skills to help you embrace who you are and thrive.

Niamh Garvey offers tips and tricks designed to reduce sensory and emotional stress and look after your autistic self. Featuring strategies including 'quick calm plans' for managing triggers and lived-experience advice on understanding emotional regulation, coping with sensory overload and how to look after your senses during intimacy, this guide is here to ensure that you don't just survive adulthood, you thrive in it.

Speaking from a wealth of experience as both a mental health expert and an autistic parent, Pooky Knightsmith guides you through the joys and challenges of raising children in a neurotypical world. Always authentic, always practical, sometimes funny, and never judgmental, this book is an essential read for ADHD and neurodivergent parents (and future parents!) looking for advice from someone who's been there and made it work.

Combining lived experience with scientific research and practical advice, this book is the essential guide to understanding why you mask and how to feel confident without one. With expert advice on how to feel secure taking off your mask, this guide will give you all the tools you need to re-connect with yourself and the things you love.

This book is about what it means to be a part of the autistic community. Autistic people wrote this book. This book talks about what autism is and how it affects our lives. It talks about our history, our community, and our rights. We wrote this book in plain language so that more people can understand it. We wrote this book for autistic people, but anyone can read it. If you are not autistic, this book can help you support autistic people you know. If you are wondering whether you might be autistic, this book can help you learn more.

This guidebook is designed to increase readers' personal resilience, self-acceptance, and growth from minority stress.

The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook offers strategies for building confidence and resilience in the face of discrimination and inequality. It guides readers through challenging negative messages, managing stress, and finding support to embrace their true selves. Through cultivating resilience, individuals can navigate life's challenges and thrive despite societal barriers.

In this groundbreaking workbook, queer mental health practitioner offers a comprehensive toolkit for improving mental wellbeing among LGBTQ+ individuals. Divided into two sections, it explores identity, psychological well-being, and specific challenges such as anxiety, self-esteem, and trauma, all from a queer perspective.

In this empowering and uplifting book, award-winning podcaster Alexis Caught sets out to help queer and curious teenagers explore their LGBTQ+ identity and understanding.

This guidebook is designed to increase readers' social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress. It highlights the need for belonging and community building and a safe, collaborative, and peaceful coexistence with our diverse, pluralistic cultures.

A candid exploration of LGBTQIA+ identity and the journey to authenticity. Jo DeLuzio shares her own experiences and insights, offering a unique blend of memoir and social commentary. From coming out to navigating the challenges of living authentically, this book provides a heartfelt and honest perspective on the LGBTQIA+ experience.

For those who are givers, carers, and empaths, a guide to focusing that energy on yourself-even if that feels frightening, from popular LGBTQ+ activist and advocate Jeffrey Marsh.

There is no one way to be transgender. While trans people share many common experiences, there is immense diversity within trans communities. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource-a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender or genderqueer authors.

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.