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SET BOUNDARIES, FIND PEACE By Nedra Glover Tawwab

Healthy boundaries make for healthy relationships, but knowing when to stand firm can be hard. In this book, a licensed counselor and influential Instagram relationship expert shares simple but effective recommendations for how readers can establish healthy relationship boundaries, successfully have their needs met and be assertive without being offensive. If standing up for yourself is one of your new year’s resolutions, then this book is the perfect read for you.

THINK AGAIN By Adam Grant

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant invites us to examine the critical art of rethinking: learning to question our opinions and open other people’s minds, which can position us for excellence at work and in life. It’s an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom. A welcome guide to confronting the dogmas that keep us divided, and paving the way for a more civil discourse.

WILL By Will Smith with Mark Manson

Need some inspiration for the new year? Consider this autobiography that offers so much more than just personal anecdotes. “Will” is the story of how one person mastered his own emotions, written in a way that can help everyone else do the same. Few of us will know the pressure of performing on the world’s biggest stages for the highest of stakes, but we can all understand that the fuel that works for one stage of our journey might have to be changed if we want to make it all the way home. The combination of genuine wisdom of universal value and a life story that is preposterously entertaining puts this book, like its author, in a category by itself.

FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS By Oliver Burkeman

Becoming more productive and efficient are lofty goals, but Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman rejects the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” and instead introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

CHATTER By Ethan Kross

We all talk to ourselves. Sometimes it’s an internal pep talk, but often it’s our inner critic telling us we can’t, so why try. This negative and disorienting self-talk is what Kross calls “chatter” and it can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure. But, it’s possible to make our inner voice work in our favor by developing our more positive self, allowing us to have better chats with ourselves, ones that make us happier, healthier, and more productive people. This book gives us the power to change the most important conversation we have each day: the one we have with ourselves.

UNWINDING ANXIETY By Judson Brewer, MD, PhD

We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as struggling to find a work/life balance when working from home, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control. But in this timely book, Judson Brewer explains how to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone. This book will help break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits and give 2022 a fresh start.

ATLAS OF THE HEART

By Brené Brown

Brené Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances--a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

THE MAGICAL YET By Angela DiTerlizzi; illustrations by Lorena Alvarez

Each of us, from the day we’re born, is accompanied by a special companion--the Yet. Can’t tie your shoes? Yet! Can’t ride a bike? Yet! Can’t play the bassoon? Don’t worry, Yet is there to help you out. “The Magical Yet” is the perfect tool for parents and educators to turn a negative into a positive when helping children cope with the inevitable difficult learning moments we all face. Whether a child or an adult, this encouraging and uplifting book reminds us that we all have things we haven’t learned...yet!