Psychology \ Mental Health
MALES, James
Misdiagnosed, angry, and homeless, James’ journey through life became a nightmare for him and others around him.
SHEAN, Mandie
Everyone has challenges in their life, this is part of a normal life. Resilience is the ability to experience these challenges and keep living a good life. It is not having a perfect life, it is more not getting derailed by the challenges and stuck in them.
Yellow Ladybugs
Learn heaps about autistic identity and culture, and discover how to embrace yourself exactly as you are.
McBRYDE, Fiona
An authentic, genuine and eye-opening ride through the journey of starting a family that no one speaks about.
KOVACS, Joshua
For your benefit, I’m sharing the physical activities and thought processes I focused on that I accredit my success to through the most challenging time of my life, suffering from poor mental health and low self-esteem.
MORRIS, Don
All Don’s books are about hope for us humans to do better than a mishmash of historical and current issues and harms that arise from misguided, dysfunctional and destructive expressions of masculinity.
GLEESON, David
The author, David J Gleeson, was a high ranked station manager and detective in Victoria before joining the Australian Federal Police to work overseas. Following a series of incidents whilst deployed in Papua New Guinea in 2014, Federal Agent David J Gleeson is diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His bucket was filled.
BAUTISTA, Shane
A Story of Survival. Shade of all shades, many sights go unseen still beckoned in confusion, of a most stormy dream. These eyes will shut, the light will cut upon opening; an unexplored valley of shock and disbelief, of many streams coping.
COFFEY, Sarah
An authentic and powerful story, Sweet Grass: The girl in the dream will allow insight not only into Sarah’s own experiences but hopes to spread awareness around gender transitioning.
TANNER, Lindsay
The Warriors explores the appalling realities of male violence against women, the twisted mentalities that impel otherwise ordinary men to extremes of brutality and murder, and the challenges facing decent men caught in a bewildering maze of rapidly changing gender roles and expectations.
HOGG, Gavin
Hoggie takes you on the journey of Gavin’s rollercoaster life. In this book, Hoggie recounts how he became a top country cricketer, had his world upturned by severe depression and the resultant alcohol addiction, and then finally recovered to build a new wine business in Coonawarra. He now faces his greatest challenge.
McAULIFFE, Emma
In her younger years Emma struggled with severe mental illness. I’ll Give it One Week! is a intimate account of Emma’s personal journey and also a step by step program that you can follow to kick-start a new journey too.
NEWDAWN, Christina
This book is for anyone who has ever felt trapped, stuck, given away their power, suffers from low self-esteem, or finds it hard to say no.
McCLURE, Stephen
This book is basically an Australian’s autobiography origins, personal growth, and development, including living with schizophrenia medication, ie “how I survived the baby boom.”
FURTAK-ELLIS, Sher’ee
A choose-your-own-adventure prose, poetry and imagery journey from inside the mind of a bipolar-disordered human. One critic said it was like Alice in Wonderland on Lithium; psychedelic yet ordinary.
FENECH, Jody
My depression was so acute and resistant to treatment, I was not expected to recover. Take a trip down the highway with me from despair to a level of happiness I never knew existed.
Fasten your seatbelt!
DUNCAN, Craig
Dr Craig Duncan provides the basic concepts, the regimen and the vision for implementing the philosophy of “self-science”, a way of living that focuses on the importance of self-exploration and self-awareness as a pathway to a better life.
CHARLTON, Samuel
The Journey of Resilience is a supportive step-by-step resource that has been designed to evolve, and maintain resilient and emotionally intelligent behaviours in our current and upcoming generations.
RYAN, Debbie
This is Maddy’s story.
SAVIGE, Kim
From Tightrope Publishing. From high functioning, multi-tasking, goat-owning paramedic, to broken, blubbering mess on the side of the road – Kim’s journey through PTSD.