The Bookshelf

Written by Dawnn Karen

“Harness the power of your wardrobe to achieve your dreams with this timely take on personal style from a world-renowned fashion psychologist. You may get dressed every day without really thinking about what you're putting on, but did you know that what you wear has a powerful effect on how you feel? Or that your clothes influence the way others perceive you? By making a few adjustments to your wardrobe, and learning to style from the inside out, you'll not only elevate your look, but level up your entire life.”

Why Birch Cove recommends it?

Ah finally! A book that connects fashion and psychology. We have been waiting years for this. It is more than a fashion book though. It is honest, genuine, inspiring and moving. How do you feel? What’s going on in your life? What has previously gone on in your life? How is the past, present and future showing up in your clothes choices? What clothes will make a difference to your attitude and mood? How will others perceive you based on what you wear, and is it what you want? Most importantly, how do you discover how to dress in a way that makes you feel like you, and how can it support you going through different life stages and experiences. Are your clothes aligning with the life you want and are living? This book is beyond styling, it gives you time to consider your what you want from your life and how that can show up in the clothes you choose. A brilliant read, filled with stories, practical advice and tips to help you discover and reimagine your relationship with clothes.

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
- Maya Angelou

Why it impacts your well-being?

Emotional, intellectual and spiritual well-being dimensions are supported by reading and absorbing this book. Providing you with encouragement and inspiration of how to dress and why clothes matter. Fueling you with inspiration to choose confidently and align with your life purpose.

Written by Jay Shetty

“Shetty grew up in a family where you could become one of three things—a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. His family was convinced he had chosen option three: instead of attending his college graduation ceremony, he headed to India to become a monk, to meditate every day for four to eight hours, and devote his life to helping others. After three years, one of his teachers told him that he would have more impact on the world if he left the monk’s path to share his experience and wisdom with others. Heavily in debt, and with no recognizable skills on his résumé, he moved back home in north London with his parents.”

Why Birch Cove recommends it?

Exploring fear, failure, negativity, overthinking, pain, and trauma, and discovering compassion, kindness, love, thoughts and purpose. This book is filled with examples, stories, and practical techniques that can you live more peacefully and contentedly with yourself and with others. Finding ways to achieve your life path, passion, and purpose. It is a book that will leave you feeling filled with possibility and excitement for life.

Why it impacts your well-being?
Emotional, intellectual, and spiritual well-being dimensions are supported by reading and absorbing this book. Giving you encouragement and inspiration, helping you to explore new ways of interacting with your world, and giving you a perspective about your purpose.

Written by Yung Pueblo

“In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.”

Why Birch Cove recommends it?

Read it from cover to cover, or dip into any page for a soul infusion of brightness and awakening words. “Know your sources of rejuvenation: the amount of solitude you need to feel fresh again, the activities that strengthen your creativity, the people who light up your spirit.” - page 91 excerpt. It is a book with words that fill you from the ground up, words that will challenge you, comfort you, and inspire you. Begin to gently recognize and release past wounds so they add to your present relationships not hinder them.

Why it impacts your well-being?

Emotional and spiritual well-being dimensions are supported by reading and absorbing this book. Providing you with encouragement, insight, comfort, and calm. A beautiful gift to give to yourself or others it acts as encouragement when the world feels too heavy.

Written by Charlie Mackesy

“Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book, following the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together in sometimes difficult terrain, sharing their greatest fears and biggest discoveries about vulnerability, kindness, hope, friendship and love. The shared adventures and important conversations between the four friends are full of life lessons that have connected with readers of all ages.”

Why Birch Cove recommends it?

Simply put: A hug in a book. An encouragement for anyone. Through the stunning illustrations, gentle words and delightful humorous moments the journey the boy, the mole, the fox and horse embark on leads to love and joy for all. The tears might trickle with this one, but in a really good way, bringing in healing moments, and a reminder that all storms do pass, and if we let them we’ll come through stronger, brighter, with more love and more compassion. Read from cover to cover in one sitting, or dip into a page or two to enjoy this book at any time of day or night. A super gift for yourself or friends, family, or colleagues.

Why it impacts your well-being?

Emotional and spiritual well-being dimensions are supported by reading and absorbing this book. Have it on your bookshelf and it’ll be a regular go-to throughout the year as you remind yourself of the good things in life, the important things you experience and share, as well as hints to explore your purpose.

Written by Eckhart Tolle

“To make the journey into The Power Of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of this extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, ’the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.’ Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question-and-answer format to guide us.”

Why Birch Cove recommends it?

Every time you read these words it guides you to touch that timeless, ageless, problem-less, truly free layer of yourself that lies deep within. This book cuts through any mental concepts you are attached to, and allows you to feel true unwavering freedom - not in a week or months, but right now.

Why it impacts your well-being?

We’ve become a culture that identifies who we are, as what we think. Our mental-emotional self has wreaked havoc on our own lives - seeking drama and deriving pleasure from it. Learning to find the off-switch for your mind, and living beyond mental-emotional patterns, you can alleviate all physical and mental dis-ease at its root.

Written by Michael A. Singer

"A thriving spiritual community on more than six hundred acres of pristine forest and meadows in Florida, a cutting-edge software package that transformed the medical practice management industry, a billion-dollar public company whose achievement are archived in the Smithsonian Institution, a book that became a New York Times bestseller and an Oprah favorite, and a massive raid by the FBI that would lead to unfounded accusations by the U.S. movement - how could all this spring from a man who had decided to live alone in the middle of the woods, let go of himself, and embrace a life of solitude? But this man had made a radical decision - one that would unwittingly lead him to both the pinnacle of success and the brink of disaster.

Michael A. Singer, author of The Untethered Soul, tells the extraordinary story of what happened when, after a deep spiritual awakening, he decided to let go of his personal preferences and simply let life call the shots. As Singer takes you on this great experiment and journey into life’s perfection, the events that transpire will both challenge your deepest assumptions about life and inspire you to look at your own life in a radically different way.”

Why Birch Cove recommends it?

When you know you need to let go of your past and your ever-growing expectations for your life, this book will give you the faith you need to take the plunge. The real-life storytelling is relatable and is living-proof that there is an easier, and more aligned way to life.

Why it impacts your well-being?

There is no more fighting with the cards life has dealt you. And without the constant internal fight and chatter, your mind and body find ease, and therefore health.