"Contrary to popular belief, a healthy mind is not one that feels happy all the time and doesn't feel sadness or other (what we might perceive as) negative emotions...a healthy mind is one that can help you look after yourself and treat yourself respectfully, with kindness and compassion. It allows you to understand your emotions and respond to them in a way that is helpful to you so that you can manage stressors that life throws at you and make the most of your life."
This is a perfectly compact and concise toolkit of methods to manage your mind, accompanied by Dr Emma Hepburn's fabulously bright illustrations. It's divided into six chapters, covering the basics of mental health, ups and downs, emotions, triggers and different ways to respond to emotions (what we do and what we think). Each chapter has three exercises, which encourage you to write in the book if need be, to put into practice the different areas. This also means you can refer back to them later, akin to journaling.
It can be read from over to cover (as I did) or dip in and out of (my sticky notes indicate I'll return to it to do just that. You may feel some elements are more applicable to you and that's encouraged too. It's written in an engaging and accessible way that makes you feel good about yourself and capable of making improvements if you feel you need to. I particularly like the illustrations, which distill the solutions and simplify the approaches. I think most people would benefit from reading this, will learn about their mental health and how to manage it.