Celebrate this World Mental Health Day on 10th October, 2024 with our mesmerizing top 5 books related to mental well-being. This year the theme for World Mental Health Day is 'It is Time to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace. Come together on this World Mental Health Day to create mental health awareness in the workplace and embrace a healthy working environment. Look inside our compelling blog and learn 5 unfiltered ways to foster a healthy working environment for better mental health. Seize the moment of peace and mental health awareness with our premier and power-packed books on mental health.

5 Ways to Prioritize Your Mental Health in the Workplace

1) Create Boundaries

While working with your seniors and colleagues, make sure you create some healthy boundaries in the workplace. Having said so, there is no need to be rude but make sure that no one is allowed to make comments that can disturb your mental health

2) Keep Your Professional and Personal Lives Separate

To keep your work-life balance, it is advisable to get your work done in the office and try to tackle work-life challenges during your office time. No job is more important than your family. After all, they are the ones for whom you are working so hard.

3) Meet Deadlines to Avoid Last-Minute Workload

A better way to keep things sorted at work is to ensure you meet deadlines to prevent a last-minute rush and avoid unnecessary extra work. As it can make you overburdened and mess up your mental and physical health.

4) Keep a Friendly Environment

We truly understand that the workplace requires commitment and professionalism but that doesn’t mean you have to be stern all the time. Whether, you are a junior, senior, or even CEO, create a healthy and friendly relationship with each other.

5) Make Time Your Biggest Asset

Time management is the biggest game changer in your life. Respect time or it won’t respect you. Try your best to manage your daily tasks both at home and in the office. So, you can have some leisure time on hand for yourself.

Top 5 Reads for This World Mental Health Day

Immerse yourself in our best 5 books on mental health, that will make you swirl in the world of enthusiasm, and positivity and let you help in healing your inner wounds.

Beautifully Bare, Undeniably You  by  Habiba Zaman and Shalon Irving

On this World Mental Health Day, delve into one of our enchanting reads, ‘Beautifully Bare, Undeniably You’, which represents one’s journey of finding their true self. The book follows up with a therapeutic process, where you will be traveled through your path reflecting upon the factors and aspects of your life that shaped your personality and gives a real understanding of who you are. Interwoven with techniques that will let you understand the process and navigate through the underlying thoughts of yours. Experience the raw portraits of life’s struggles and successes and enter into the vulnerable state of humans. For sure, this is one of the most thought-provoking and insightful books you’ll ever read.

Saving Eric by Mary Burns

If you are looking for something impactful and evocative then ‘Saving Eric’ is the perfect fit for your reading radar on this World Mental Health Day. This exasperating narration is about an individual’s mental and physical struggle with himself which not only made him suffer but also his loved one, his mom the most. It all started when one day Mary heard her seven-year-old son screaming in his bedroom. Along with mental and physical illness, the unexplainable drowning in drug addiction made the case worse. This is a story where a mother is continuously trying her very best to save his child from his own demons. Give this book a read and you’ll understand why it is among our Top 10 Mental Health Books collection. Just the way, World’s Mental Health Day’s slogan says, it's time to prioritize mental health in the workspace, this book might become handy if you are also dealing with such a situation with your loved ones in this tough working life.

Positive Thinking As a Way of Life by Louise Pearce

Life is not meant to be spent in the darkness of our inner storms. It is meant to be that sun ray, which awakens the whole world with a hope of positivity. Our author gave his best shot to give you a pathway to a profound life. If you are someone who is looking for guidance and learning about yourself then this is one of the best mental health books to combat all the mental hurdles of your life. Delve into this alluring book to seek doses of positivity, self-assurance, and confidence in your day-to-day life. This book will make sure to keep you hooked until the very last page. No, doubt you will find it relatable because in this modern era of a hustle-bustle life where hustling has become a trend, you need to slow down and embrace the small moments of life and keep your spirits high in daily life. This book also focuses on the nurturing of yourself and of those who you hold dear to your hearts. So, how can you skip such an amazing and charismatic book on this World Mental Health Day to keep our thoughts and minds aligned especially in the workplace?

Quitting By Design by Dr. Lynn Marie Morski

We all believe that quitting and giving up is for losers but what we don’t understand is that the real genius is the one who knows when to keep going and when to quit. Dr. Lynn Marie has revealed her secret weapon in this book to guide you through your life. She has been a quitter her whole life, politics, relationships, education, and much more. You name it and she’ll show you her experience. And now she is ready to teach you guys how to quit something when it doesn’t align with you while keeping the chances of loss minimum and maximizing its benefits. So, if you are still unsure about some things in your life, then maybe this is the time you should read this book to gain clarity in both your professional and personal life.

Interior Consciousness by Brenda Murphy

Brenda Murphy is a resilient individual who refuses to surrender on the doorstep of destiny and conquers her life challenges with courage and enthusiasm. Her hard work, strategic work, compassion and focus lead her to where she is. Recovering from a devastating explosion, this lady made sure that nobody pitied her and made the world her. This is a book that should be on your work desk to keep you reminded that if she can show courage and heal herself then why can’t you? Life is not a bed of roses and it's true but you can either cry in a corner, blaming the world for everything or you take the control of your life in your hand and tackle every hurdle with a smile on your face and faith in your heart.

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