★★★★★ "Must read for anyone interested in improving their mental health!" - Reader review ___
Discover how to improve your mental health through proven, holistic strategies that will last a lifetime!
Good mental health is the sum of adequately incorporating obvious, and less-obvious practices affecting well-being.
Not only will you learn about topics such as exercise, sleep, and nutrition, but also news, psychedelics, and sex influence our mental health in unforeseen ways!
Through thought-provoking conversations with authors, speakers, teachers, and researchers, Chenevert holds up a mirror that challenges predominant convictions and practices.
Based on expert knowledge and his own experiences, the author helps outline practices in 19 important areas that positively contribute to good mental health.
Mental Health over Matter is a holistic book about the many areas influencing mental health. Experts show that, besides "traditional therapies," mental health is something you can improve yourself.
Noah Chenevert is a mental health writer and advocate. He writes on the influence of diverse areas and practices influencing mental health for his website, mainly focuses on the effects of technology, societal issues, and optimizing our lives in different areas.
This book provides many answers to a question which is important for us all to ask - what can I do to improve my mental health? The answers included areas I was already quite familiar with, such as sleep, nutrition and mindfulness, but also others I was less familiar with, such as slow living, the impact of the news on mental health and minimalism. Each subject has its own chapter and is written in the format of a Q&A session with an expert in that subject. I think the reader could dip in and out of this book, selecting the chapters that interest them the most, without the need to read each chapter in order. I thought that the content of the chapters was a good introduction to each subject for readers who were unfamiliar with the subject, but that it may seem a little basic for someone who already knows quite a bit about that subject. I did like that each chapter ends with a question that invites the expert to share recommendations for further reading on the subject, which I think would be interesting for those wanting to explore a topic in more depth. The author ends the book by drawing together the wisdom imparted by the experts in a series of nine lessons, giving the reader something to takeaway with them from the book. I thought that this book was a useful introduction to topics that the reader can explore when they want to work on their mental health, and I think it is one that I will re-visit when I want to explore those topics further.