Self-love & Healing

The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest
This book helped me see that self-sabotage isn’t weakness — it’s just unhealed patterns that need compassion and clarity. It’s like a mirror that shows you how to stop being your own biggest obstacle and start becoming your own ally.

How to Love Better by Yung Pueblo
This is poetry-meets-wisdom on love — not just romantic love, but how we show up for ourselves and others. His writing is simple but piercing, and it feels like a gentle guide to practicing love with more clarity and honesty.

Acceptance Commitment Therapy

The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
This is the ACT book I wish I’d had years ago — it makes the whole framework simple, practical, and actually doable in everyday life. No therapy jargon, just tools you can use right away.

The Illustrated Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
If you want the same life-changing ACT concepts but explained with visuals and cartoons, this is the one. It feels lighter, easier to digest, and honestly more fun to flip through when your brain is already overloaded.

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life by Steven C. Hayes
Written by the founder of ACT, this one is more like a hands-on workbook. It’s full of exercises that walk you through acceptance, defusion, and values in a really structured way.

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