Must Reads About Health, Healing & Happiness
Your Personal Connection to Experts!
September 2025 Issue
Must Reads About Health, Healing & Happiness
By Elizabeth Skenes Millen
As long as there are books, there is hope, especially when it comes to improving one’s health. Whether mental, self-care, or physical health is your concern, there is practically an endless selection of books to turn to when you want to dive deeper. You will find books on specific conditions, healing, eating, and everything else that comes along with addressing your ailments and living a healthy life.
Books can be your personal connection to experts who have spent many years studying the exact thing that may change the trajectory of your health and life—mind, body and soul. I chose a variety of books from well-respected experts, many of whom have overcome their own health challenges to share their journey from experience. Most of these picks are 5-star rated by reviewers and New York Times bestsellers. And the great news is every one of them is in stock at the Barnes & Noble on Hilton Head Island.
We encourage you to check with your favorite local bookseller, as well.
Feeding the Soul
(because it’s my business)
By Tabitha Brown
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Before Tabitha Brown was one of the most popular personalities in the world, sharing her delicious vegan home cooking and compassionate wisdom with millions of followers across social media, she was an aspiring actress who in 2016 began struggling with undiagnosed chronic autoimmune pain. Her condition made her believe she wouldn’t live to see 40—until she started listening to what her soul and her body truly needed. Now, in this life-changing book, Tabitha shares the wisdom she gained from her own journey, showing readers how to make a life for themselves that is rooted in nonjudgmental kindness and love, both for themselves and for others. Rich with personal stories and inspirational quotes, and sprinkled with a few easy vegan recipes, Feeding the Soul is a book to share—and to return to when you want to feel seen, loved, and heard.
How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t:
14 Habits that Are Holding You
Back from Happiness
By Andrea Owen
A cut-through-the-crap guide to quitting the self-destructive habits that undermine happiness and success How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight-shooting self-improvement guide for women, one that offers frank advice about the most common self-destructive behaviors women engage in. Andrea Owen—a nationally sought-after life coach—crystallizes what’s behind several invisible, undermining habits, from catastrophizing and people-pleasing to listening to the imposter complex or to one’s inner critic. Powerfully on the mark, the chapters are short and digestible, nicely bypassing weighty examinations in favor of punch points of awareness. Her book kicks women’s gears out of autopilot and empowers readers to create happier, more fulfilling lives.
Healthy in a Hurry: Real Life. Real Food. Real Fast. [A Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, Dairy-Free Cookbook]
By Danielle Walker
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Beloved author Danielle Walker proves that healthy cooking is both doable and oh-so-satisfying. In Healthy in a Hurry, Danielle presents more than 150 paleo recipes inspired by her sunny California lifestyle and diverse cuisines from around the world, including: No-cook lunches; Freezer-friendly meals; Delicious pasta dishes; Sheet pan dinners; and Easy Grills.
Each recipe is shaped by Danielle's capable hands to be free of gluten, grains, and dairy—and most have just ten ingredients or fewer. And if that weren't good enough, every recipe is photographed and all are fast to make, giving busy people with dietary restrictions many ways to eat well on a tight schedule. With prep times and cook times, dietary guidelines, a pantry of sauces and spice mixes, and six weeks of meal planning charts, Healthy in a Hurry will help you become the calm, organized cook you've always aspired to be.
How We Heal
By Alexandra Elle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Beloved wellness author and teacher Alexandra Elle shares this practical and empowering guide to self-healing. How We Heal offers a life-changing invitation to heal yourself and reclaim your peace. Readers will discover essential techniques for self-healing, including journaling rituals to cultivate innate strength, accessible tools for processing difficult emotions, and restorative meditations to ease the mind. Her 4-part framework for healing will appeal to anyone who wants a clear process, while the compelling personal stories leave each reader feeling connected and ready to begin again.
Medical Medium Brain Saver: Answers to Brain Inflammation, Mental Health, OCD, Brain Fog, Neurological Symptoms, Addiction, Anxiety, Depression, Heavy Metals, Epstein, Barr Virus
By Anthony William
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The first of two essential books, in full color and over 600 pages, written like an easy-to-read textbook about our most complex organ—the BRAIN—dives deep into why people all over the world are suffering with mental health and brain-related symptoms and conditions, and explains what to do to finally heal.
This Book May Save Your Life
By Dr. Karan Rajan, TikTok’s Favorite Doctor
#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Your body is incredible, but it’s also out to destroy you. Your brain is like an early computer operating system, riddled with bad code, slow to load, and more likely to watch cat memes than go to sleep. You’d be a mess without your skeleton, but it can be a bony cage if you’re tortured by backaches, niggling neck pain, and knee joints that crumble under pressure. And your nose is a design disaster, getting blocked, springing leaks, and growing random tufts of hair.
You are the sum total of a lot of mistakes, trials, and errors, and you have to learn to live with them as best you can. That’s where this book comes in. This Book May Save Your Life offers everything you need to know to slow the inevitable decay that’s plagued your body from the moment of your birth explaining how to keep all your organs living in peaceful harmony so you can enjoy a better, longer, healthier life.
13 Things Mentally Strong
People Don’t Do
By Amy Morin
How do we strengthen ourselves mentally for the truly tough times? And what should we do when we face these challenges? Or as psychotherapist Amy Morin asks, “What should we avoid when we encounter adversity?” Through her years counseling others and her own experiences navigating personal loss, Morin realized it is often the habits we cannot break that are holding us back from true success and happiness. Indulging in self-pity, agonizing over things beyond our control, obsessing over past events, resenting the achievements of others, or expecting immediate positive results holds us back. This list of things mentally strong people don't do resonated so much with readers that when this book was picked up by Forbes.com it received ten million views.
Increasing your mental strength can change your entire attitude. It takes practice and hard work, but with Morin's specific tips, exercises, and troubleshooting advice, it is possible to not only fortify your mental muscle but also drastically improve the quality of your life.
The Little Frog’s Guide to Self-Care
By Maybell Eequay
We instantly fell in love with this little book and little frog! It is a MUST-HAVE. With its mushroom hat and endless collection of fabulous footwear, this adorable little frog is here to be your new best friend. Whether you need an emotional boost, some friendly encouragement or an honest view on the world, this little frog will be your guide. A humorous, no-nonsense approach to positivity, these happy illustrations, paired with positive affirmations on self-love and empowerment, will fill your heart with love for yourself and others, and remind you that it’s brave and wonderful of you to exist!