As it is Mental Health Awareness Week, I thought I would remind you about our delightful Wellbeing Area in the library which provides a private and comfortable space. The books in this collection can inspire, lift your mood, and inform you on a variety of topics associated with mental health. Here are my favourite three:

Positively Teenage: a positively brilliant guide to teenage well-being by Nicola Morgan

Full of practical, proven strategies for physical and mental health, ‘Positively Teenage’ will show you lots of ways to flourish physically and mentally, allowing you to take control of many areas of your life. With these new strengths and skills, you can survive any storms and thrive on the challenges of your exciting life.

Creative coping skills for teens and tweens: activities for self-care and emotional support including art, yoga and mindfulness by Bonnie Thomas. 

This photocopiable activity book helps teens and tweens who are feeling voiceless, ineffective or fearful in response to events at a world, community or individual level. It incorporates exercises using art and craft, nutrition, mindfulness, yoga, and other movement-based activities.

The Emergency Poet: an anti-stress poetry anthology edited by Deborah Alma. 

A brilliant new anthology of poems that will help you to overcome stress, depression and other anxieties; the sections include a range of verse, new and old, which may be of comfort to those in need of a pick-me-up for the soul. This collection is designed to lift your mood and offers poetic help whenever it may be required.

Ms Wenman, Librarian