29/12/2025
Simple way to STRESS LESS. Reading for pleasure can reduce anxiety & stress levels by up to 68% in as little as 6 minutes studies show. 📚💚
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
~Somerset Maugham
Please share some of your fave books you’d recommend in the comments.
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Really enjoyable reads:
📙The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
📗Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans
📘State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
📕The Cazalet Chronicles
📚 - especially Dorothy Whipple- Because of the Lockwoods & Someone at a Distance
Feel good books if craving simpler times:
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-Secret Garden Francis Hodgson Burnett
-Ann of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
-The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 By Sue Townsend - a recc from ‘Read Yourself Happy’ by Daisy Buchanan
If you’re going through tough times & don’t know how you’ll get through read these true stories of resilience:
-Strength in What Remains By Tracey Kidder
-Twitch Annmarie O’Connor
-Educated by Tara Westover
-Man’s Quest for Meaning by Victor Frankl
What’s important in life:
📗The Death of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy
Children’s book:
📙THE EMPTY POT by Demi