Promoting Community Mental Health presents tools and strategies that local organizers, leaders, health workers, faith groups, and community members have developed to combat the mental health crisis.Stories from across the US demonstrate how to better understand, respond to, and move toward healing the challenges to emotional health in our communities. The key to creating better mental health lies in challenging discrimination, building equality, improving ...

Imagine if people around you had x-ray vision that could capture your inner experience. In your most stressful moments as a physician, what would they see? As a medical doctor, every treatment prescribed or surgery performed carries high stakes for each patient. It can impact their quality of life in significant ways, or literally mean life or death. But the culture of silence in medicine makes it difficult to talk about the unique responsibilities and stresses associated with being a phys...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom an award-winning physician, health innovator, and former head of the Canadian Medical Association comes a groundbreaking exploration of how anger and a sense of betrayal deepen into outrage when we lose hope that change is possible—and a guide to finding our way back, individually and together.If you’ve found your way to this book, you may be troubled by the rising tension in the world around you. Perhaps you’ve been...

Harm reduction is one of the most important movements of the 20th century, and yet a compilation of its critical stories and voices was, until now, seemingly nowhere to be found.Saving Our Own Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time organizer Shira Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of how sex workers, people of color, queer folks, and trans, gender non-conforming, and two-spirit people are building systems of change and support outside the societal framewo...

In a nation where an estimated 25 percent of high-school seniors use illegal substances on a monthly basis, parents are wise to be concerned about setting their children on a drug-free course. While much advice handed out these days focuses on teen behavior and on what to do once drugs have become a problem in the home, Raising Drug-Free Kids takes an innovative approach and focuses instead on preventative measures that can be followed early on in a child's life. Developm...

A practical guide to self-care and community care, written for helpers—the caregivers, activists, community leaders, mental health and medical professionals who are the first to help others, but the last to seek help themselves.As an activist, community organizer and social worker, Farzana Doctor has preached self-care to hundreds of people struggling with burnout and exhaustion. But for years she couldn’t manage to take her own advice.Many other helpers sh...

Embrace your innate power and find growth from trauma with this essential guide filled with groundbreaking solutions and strategies for your healing journey.Amid collective trauma, it helps to know that our bodies are built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes. Having studied brain-based and body-based approaches to wellbeing, Dr. Christy Gibson teaches readers how to embrace their innate power and catalyze community wisdom. Drawing on ...

'A vital read, not just for parents but anyone who values the next generation' Psychologies'A provocative new book which challenges every aspect of modern parenting' Daily MailSociety is making great strides in increasing awareness of oppression and injustice, but one group remains mistreated: children.Commonly recommended parenting and discipline methods treat children in ways that would cause uproar if adults wer...

Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna LambkeThe introduction begins with a thought-provoking quote by Levon Helm: "Experience pleasure, experience pleasure; all the money in the world is spent on enjoyment." This quote encapsulates the essence of the book, highlighting the pervasive pursuit of pleasure in our society and the significant resources devoted to it.Dr. Lembke introduces the central theme of the book, which revolves around the pursuit of pleasure and its consequences. She a...

**Facts—women in pain are much more likely than men to receive prescriptions for sedatives rather than pain medication; Black women are more than three times more likely than white women to die of childbirth-related causes. Whether it’s age, body size, sexual orientation, or other cultural factors, bias in healthcare is an uncomfortable truth. In this first-ever book on the subject written from the author’s unique perspective of being a doctor, a woman, and Black, Dr. Angela Marshall, a co...

For readers of Atul Gawande and Siddhartha Mukherjee--a timely, vital exploration of the burnout, grief, depression, and trauma that America’s healthcare system engenders among doctors, nurses, and medical workers.Practicing medicine is traumatic: coping with the death of a patient, sharing a life-changing diagnosis, grieving futility in the face of a no-win situation. The emotional burden placed on doctors, nurses, and other healthcare practitioners is profound......

Becoming a new mom is a life-changing experience. This comprehensive guide offers practical tips and strategies for navigating the ups and downs of parenthood. From preparing for your baby's arrival to dealing with sleepless nights and common challenges, this book covers everything you need to know to become a confident and successful new mom