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Health and Wellbeing

Resources to support your wellbeing, at work and beyond.

Explore books, podcasts and trusted websites covering mental wellbeing, stress, sleep, mindfulness, resilience and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

 

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Wellbeing eBooks

Waves of hope: personal stories of ECT
Thinking for yourself: smart thinking and clear decision making in a complex world
Thinking developmentally: nurturing wellness in childhood to promote lifelong health
The wellbeing toolkit for doctors: a supportive guide to help everyone working in healthcare
The Sun My Heart : The Companion to the Miracle of Mindfulness
The silence between us: a mother and daughter's conversation through suicide and into life
The Role of Music in Health and Wellbeing Journeys
The Philosophy of Well-Being
The kindness revolution: how we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism
The Junior Medical Officer's Guide to the Hospital Universe : A Survival Manual
The interpretation of dreams
The good goodbye: the transformative power of conversation at the end of life
The essential guide to women's sleep: supporting healthy sleep practices for wellbeing and performance
The certainty illusion: what you don't know and why it matters
The burnout doctor: your 6-step recovery plan
The Art and Science of Physician Wellbeing
Stress to calm in 7 minutes for nurses
Self-Care Is Essential : A Personal Resiliency Program for Healthcare Professionals, First Responders and Other Caregivers
Rumi: selected poems
Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing
Resilience Recipes : Making Space for Wellbeing That Works
Reading literature and chronic pain
Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl : A Memoir
Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace : a practical guide for employers and employees
Medical Student Well-Being
Lovingkindness : The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Long yarn short
Labour of love: a midwife's stories of birth, life and speaking up for women
Kin: family in the 21st century
Job stress revisited: a thought provoking take on mental health and work
How to be well: finding a way through the healthcare epidemic without losing your mind or your money
Handbook of Health and Well-Being
Growth-based career planning for healthcare professionals: a narrative for change
Good work: transform your work from the inside out
Good habits (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
From burnout to brilliant: a practical guide to recharging, resetting and redesigning your life
Frog: the secret diary of a paramedic
First knowledges health: spirit, country and culture
Enshittification: why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it
Conscious change: how to navigate differences and foster inclusion in everyday relationships
Career break compass: navigating your path to a balanced life through intentional time off
Burnout : A Guide to Identifying Burnout and Pathways to Recovery
Being patient: close encounters in cancer world
Becoming Aware : A 21-Day Mindfulness Program for Reducing Anxiety and Cultivating Calm
Admissions: voices within mental health
Achieving Sustainable Workplace Wellbeing
A hundred years of bibliotherapy: healing through books

Wellbeing print books

You are not alone in this: supporting a loved one's mental health without losing your own
Workplace wellness
Will you read this please
Why women grow
When breath becomes air: what makes life worth living in the face of death
Wellbeing strategies for nurses
Unquiet mind
Twas the nightshift before Christmas
Toxic positivity: how to embrace every emotion in a happy-obsessed world
This is going to hurt
The war for kindness: building empathy in a fractured world
The thriving doctor
The motherhood: Australian women share what they wish they'd known about life with a newborn
The menopause brain: the new science for women to navigate midlife and optimise brain health for later years
The Let Them theory
The juggle
The happiness trap: how to stop struggling and start living
The habit revolution: simple steps to rewire your brain for powerful habit change
The gifts of imperfection
The cure for burnout: build better habits, find balance and reclaim your life
The book you wish your parents had read (and your children will be glad that you did)
The book you want everyone you love* to read *(and maybe a few you don't)
The book of burnout
Stronger
Strong ground: the lessons of daring leadership, the tenacity of paradox and the wisdom of the human spirit
Slow productivity: the lost art of accomplishment without burnout
Sit, stay, grow: how dogs can help you worry less and walk into a better future
Roadtesting happiness : how to be happier (no matter what)
Right story, wrong story: adventures in Indigenous thinking
Restorative practice at work
Read yourself happy: how to use books to ease your anxiety
Promoting healthy behaviour : a practical guide to physical health and mental wellbeing
Patient doctor
Overcoming secondary stress in medical and nursing practice: a guide to professional resilience and personal well-being
Not how it ends
Normally weird and weirdly normal: my adventures in neurodiversity
Minding your mind
Mindful self-compassion for burnout
It's not you, it's perimenopause: science-based lifestyle and supplement solutions to help you thrive in midlife
In my time of dying
I'm your peri godmother: a happily-ever-after guide to kicking perimenopause in the ovaries
How to promote wellbeing : practical steps for healthcare practitioners' mental health
How to make your brain your best friend: simple steps to a kinder mind
How to be hopeful: your toolkit to rediscover hope and help create a more compassionate world
Hiking Zen: train your mind in nature
Health and wellbeing at work for nurses and midwives
Harvesting silence: a journey from being 'hushed' to being heard
Hark: how women listen
From hurting to healing: delivering love to medicine and healthcare
Fallible
Emotional female
Demystifying disability: what to know, what to say, and how to be an ally
Conversations on kindness: how the power of kindness can change the world
Career planning for doctors: an evidence-based guide
Burnout-free working: your expert guide to thriving in a stressful workplace
Brown, female, doctor: a memoir
Broken to safe tackling toxic workplace cultures and burnout
Broken brains
Breath: a triumphant story of hope and survival
Brainstorm
Boosting your mental wellbeing
Bibliotherapy: the healing power of reading
Bibliotherapy: books to guide you through every chapter of life
Because I love him
Beating burnout, finding balance: mindful lessons for a meaningful life
Bad influence: how the internet hijacked our health
Atomic habits
Alive: an alternative anatomy
Addicted brain
ABC of clinical resilience
A particularly nasty case
A heart as wide as the world: stories on the path of lovingkindness

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