New Wellness Books To Read This Year

When Sheinelle Jones launched “Through Mom’s Eyes,” a recurring Today show segment interviewing celebrities’ mothers about raising successful kids, she had an ulterior motive — she wanted to bring all their wisdom to bear on raising her own three children. This inspiring collection of heartfelt life-lessons from the mothers of our favorite celebrities blends their sage advice with Jones’ own journey into modern parenting.

Through stories of ordinary people, renowed psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson explains how our loved ones continue to communicate and share their wisdom with us even after they’ve passed. Guided: The Secret Path to an Illuminated Life teaches readers how to move towards a more meaningful life by staying connected to those on the Other Side.

A revolutionary approach to treating anxiety, depression, PTSD, or other mental health challenges, Psychedelic Therapy offers a hopeful, evidence-based exploration of how psychedelics can address deep rooted trauma. Will Van Derveer, MD, and Keith Kurlander, LPC, two leaders in psychedelic therapy and trauma treatment, draw on their clinical expertise, client stories, and latest research to help readers understand how psychedelic therapy uniquely targets the root causes of suffering. A transformative reexamination of modern mental health care, it’s the perfect guide for anyone considering pscyaedlic therapy, supporting a loved one, or working as a mental health provider.

Drawing on her experience with serious illness and her work as a divinity professo, Kate Bowler argues that joy is different from happiness and doesn’t depend on solving all of life’s problems. Through loosening control, introducing novelty, and choosing charity we can open can ourselves up to real joy.

If you struggle to discern life’s meaning, you’re not alone. Social scientist and happiness expert, Arthur C. Brooks explains why finding meaning in modern life has become especially difficult and offers science-backed strategies to help readers discover their true calling. Drawing on the great philosophers and faith traditions of the world, Brooks provides a blueprint that will help even the most skeptical person find a life of spiritual transcendence and fulfillment.

Life has a way of thwarting our best-laid plans. Out of nowhere, we’re confronting the end of a relationship, an unexpected diagnosis, the loss of a job, or some other twist of fate. Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar shares stories of people navigating major life disruptions and invites us to rethink our relationship with change altogether by showing us how unwanted change can lead to new abilities, perspectives, and values.

Feeling valued and having value to add are core human needs. Mattering introduces a transformative new framework to confront the loneliness, burnout, and lack of purpose so many of us face today and explores how our lives are transformed when we are reminded, in small and intentional ways, that we matter.

A timely, practical, and innovative look at the relationship between parent and child. Parenting Anxiety offers evidence-based strategies, built on a “love and limits” approach, to help parents stop shielding their kids from every discomfort and instead build resilience and adaptability across all stages of development.

Backed by the latest neuroscience and psychology research, Nir Eyal argues that beliefs are tools rather than facts. Learn how to stay grounded under pressure, break costly patterns, and question limiting assumptions, so you can stop fighting yourself and start building change that lasts.

Indigenous Medicine Woman, and author of You Are the Medicine, Asha Frost invites readers to honor their “inner winter” by slowing down, listening deeply, and returning to the natural rhythm of the seasons. Where others frame winter as a temporary retreat, Frost reveals it as a lifelong companion for those living with chronic illness, grief, depression, or soul-weariness — a truth she knows intimately through her own lupus diagnosis. Through the lens of the Medicine Wheel and the turning of the seasons, she guides readers to see their “inner winter” not as something to fix, but as something sacred to tend.

Dr. Marisa G. Franco, the New York Times bestselling author of Platonic, shows you why the usual self-esteem fixes, like positive self-talk and compliments, can backfire when you feel unworthy. Through exercises, stories, and the cutting-edge science of memory reconsolidation, Worth is a groundbreaking guide exploring the promise (and limits) of secure attachment and offers you new techniques to help feel you better and boost your self-esteem.

Part memoir, part spiritual companion, Sister Dang Nghiem’s early life was shaped by abandonment, displacement, and grief. As a former physician turned Buddhist nun, she now focuses on how mindfulness, compassion, and inner healing can transform even the deepest suffering. With fifteen guided meditations, designed to help readers heal emotional wounds, embrace impermanence, and approach death with dignity, Live Beautifully, Die Beautifully will inspire readers to reflect on their own lives with greater compassion and clarity.

The pioneering book that exposed the intergenerational health impacts of systemic racism is back — with 50 percent new content to meet the demands of our post-2020 reality. With unflinching honesty and a practical lens, Winters and Reese document the enduring toll of “living while Black” while also equipping readers with strategies for personal healing and organizational transformation. The research is current, the case studies are real, and the tools are designed to create lasting systemic change.

Stop ignoring your “invisible list” and transform hobbies to habits in this inspiring approach to resurrecting your passions. Part memoir, part guidebook, part manifesto, The Invisible List shows you that no matter how limited your time or money, you can create a life worth living.

Harvard Business School graduate and leading wellness CEO, Demond Martin is, by all accounts, a self-made man. But when Demond stumbles across Aristotle’s theory on friendship — friends of the good — he learns about the three types of companionship at the center of our orbits: convenience, pleasure, and virtue. It wasn’t simply by luck, or chance, that he found the courage to leave a violent environment as a preteen; it was thanks to a supportive teacher who taught him to lean into his gifts. As Demond considers his past and his present, stories of chosen family and the mentors who’ve helped him along the way, he realizes how these connections provided him the foresight to recognize his dreams and the fortitude to pursue them.

The author of the #1 bestseller The New Menopause explains everything a woman needs to know to thrive during the often-misdiagnosed and medically ignored perimenopausal years. OB/GYN Mary Claire Haver walks readers through the hormonal changes behind perimenopause symptoms,  the latest research on progesterone therapy, and even provides easy-to-use doctor-visit checklists.  Whether you have symptoms or not, The New Perimenopause helps remove the mystery around this time of change, putting women in control of their health.

As “mentors in your pocket,” three successful Black women executives — Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, and Rhonda Joy McLean — share their strategies for playing, and ultimately winning, the power game in corporate America. This updated edition of their 2009 classic, The Little Black Book of Success offers career strategies for navigating unconscious biases and microaggressions in the workplace, managing a global workforce, returning to the office after years of remote work, and the importance of self-care.

In The Art of Fighting, Priya Parker explains that we can’t form and grow effective relationships without healthy conflict. As she did in the now-classic The Art of Gathering, Parker draws on her far-reaching experience as a conflict facilitator, with real-world examples, to lay out the ways that we can harness the power of healthy disputes to forge long-lasting communities.

Have you ever found yourself wondering “Why do I want more than I have?” Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world’s leading experts on behavior change, explains how our scarcity mindset is a symptom of a world overloaded with everything we’re built to crave. The fix isn’t to blindly aim for less but to understand why we crave more in the first place. After traveling the world to consult with remarkable innovators and scientists focused on finding solutions, Easter discovered simple tactics that can move us towards an abundance mindset, cement healthy habits, and appreciate what we have.

Find rest and balance through 100 mindful moments, brought to life with beautiful illustrations and the timeless wisdom of Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood. Thoughtfully written and filled with reflections on the natural world, Winnie the Pooh 100 Mindful Moments offers a soothing escape into a land where the sky is always blue and the honey is always sweet.

The creator of the viral TikTok series “Who TF Did I Marry?” shares an even more unfiltered account of how she reclaimed her life. With self-reflection, acceptance and humor, Tareasa unravels the details of what caused her to stay in a partnership where familiarity became too comfortable, and loneliness was a scarier proposition than owning her solitude. As Tareasa regains her footing and her faith in herself, she offers readers the chance to do the same.

Combining nature writing, philosophy, myth, science, and sixty-four beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, Lea Korsgaard’s number-one international bestseller, The Butterfly Season, is a luminous account of one woman’s quest to see all sixty-four species of butterflies native to Denmark in a single year. Part field diary, part mythological tapestry, part existential reflection, Lea Korsgaard’s journey unfolds across seasons and geographies, through meadows, marshes, and ancient coastal lands, as she discovers the mysteries and miracles of the natural world.

An in-depth look at both common and surprising allergies, Dr. Rubin provides actionable treatment options while also sharing the history and science behind allergies. With sections on asthma, contact dermatitis, sinusitis, food allergies, anaphylaxis, medication allergies, and more, All About Allergies is the ultimate resource for anyone who’s ever felt in the dark about their health.

In a world that feels faster, louder, and more uncertain than ever, The Anatomy of Awakening offers something steady to stand on. Combining quantum science and cosmic principles with practical tools, best-selling author of The Energy Codes, Dr. Sue Morter, uses five transformative universal principles, or “quantum codes,” to activate deeper levels of awareness within yourself and unlock your destiny.

Born from hip-hop workshops where young men sought guidance beyond music, SupaNova decided to create a wellness manifesto to help other men seeking change. The son of celebrated holistic healer Queen Afua, SupaNova saw firsthand the incredible power of ritual and discipline among his mother’s followers and worked with her to synthesize essential teachings geared specifically toward men. Drawing on traditional African wellness and contemporary self-care, Man, Heal Thyself offers daily disciplines, affirmations, and reflection practices for physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

In Seeding Hope, Jack Algiere, Chief Agroecology Officer at Stone Barns, shares the wisdom he’s gained in a lifetime of farming, growing, and observing the natural world. This luminous book is directed not just to farmers, but for all who desire a more connected and meaningful life. By following and examining the stages of a plant’s life cycle, Seeding Hope explores how this botanical pattern is a vital blueprint, offering lessons that inform all aspects of our lives.

Drawing on two decades of research, Shawn Achor has discovered the greatest predictor of your future is the beliefs you hold about the world. Organized around the seven most predictive “core beliefs,” Achor shows us that the beliefs we hold about ourselves, money, the world, politics, faith, and work do more than shape the lens through which we see the world. They shape what happens next.