I love these well outlined self help books especially when it comes to handling stress or anxiety.

This is a helpful guide to remind you how to keep your calm. While you should take most of these books as suggestions and not as official medical advice, they can prove to be helpful or inspire you to find your own ways to find your calm.

A title worth taking a look at if you struggle with staying calm or with anxiety.

Loved this book! So much information laid out in an easily digestible language. Then, simple but effective practices are sprinkled in. This book is well written and has amazing information!

Quick Calm by Jennifer Wolkin is a book that will help in our day-to-day lives. The book provides five-minute strategies to calm oneself. The author introduces mindfulness and provides exercises to have a more mindful and calm life. I started using exercise for body scanning before I go to sleep and I am asleep before I complete my scan. I also liked the other practical exercises such as washing dishes, walking and mindful social media consumption. Quick Calm will change your life five minutes at a time.

Quick Calm is a great book. I highly recommend it for anyone who would like a calmer & peaceful life.

Quick Calm: Easy Meditations to Short Circuit Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience by Jennifer Wolkin is a well-organized and extremely practical guide that includes information on mindfulness – both formal and informal practices – as well as the positive effects mindfulness can have in your life. Highly recommended. #QuickCalm #NetGalley

I found Quick Calm to be a helpful resource. The author shares easy meditations to short circuit stress using mindfulness and neuroscience. I was thrilled that the author was including neuroscience in the book to help you understand how it impacts you physical body and mind.

The author helps you find ways to be mindful in everyday tasks. She calls this informal meditation practices. This book is extremely helpful for people new to the practice. She is encouraging and provides simple solutions that are not overwhelming to help you start the practice.

She includes the how to practice in detail for each option. Once you read a few of them you can adapt it to any informal practice. Or you can skip to the one that you find easiest to implement. And it is good reference to go back to.

I love this book. I loved how simple it made the process and how helpful it can be to deal with stress and anxiety.

Wolkin has a unique way about offering her readers a real-life handbook for metering their breath--their very life source--in such a way that adds calm and ease to a time and place. Before reading this book, I didn't imagine there were so many parts of the body that could hold tension or be lightened by physiological intentionality. A very interesting and thought-provoking book.

This is a helpful book that's easy to read and implement. With all the stress we have from the pandemic and our changed circumstances, now is the perfect time to use these strategies, and I love that they're simple and can be very short.

Offers some good groundwork and some practices reader could use everyday or when needed. Mindfulness in relation to other areas of readers life.

This book is filled with easy to follow meditations for stress relief. Right now, politics, the economy, and COVID has us all stressed. This book presents many easy to follow activities, both formal and informal, to bring calm and ease anxiety. The author also includes background information on mindfulness and cites her sources of information. Highly recommended!

THERAPISTS- This is a good one to have in your arsenal to assist with introducing clients to mindfulness. The topics are covered in clear terms without any 'woo' that might turn some people off. My favorite part is the one on Mindful Living, which details how to take mindfulness into daily life and in your relationships.

ARC from the publisher via NetGalley, but the opinions are my own.

This book provided a plethora of quick tips and tricks to keep yourself calm, would highly recommend. I look forward to more books from this author.

This book was so well-organized and included so many helpful meditation practices! I love how the author included both formal and informal practices, along with what the practice is, the setup, and how to actually practice it. I know so many people have been struggling with anxiety and stress, and these are such great practical tips to help us calm down and destress. I will definitely be referencing this again and again as I work on the different practices!

I like that this book is research-backed and offers many approaches to finding calm. It almost read like a menu of options with an explanation of how to implement. Thanks for the ARC.

How frustrating is it to be told by all the different sources the things you must do to be successful in life? This book definitely does NOT do that. It instead takes an empathetic approach and gives bite size approaches and allows you to have kindness and patience with yourself when dealing with life. This is so necessary for everyone to read in life. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

The subtitle really nails this book’s essence: “Easy Meditations to Short Circuit Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience”.

There were a few huge points about this book that I really enjoyed. First how often Jennifer Wolkin points out how important it is to seek professional help if you are having mental health problems, how to proceed with caution in doing certain meditations if you’re for example experiencing PTSD.

I’m all for using witchcraft to support your health and mental wellbeing but it can’t be done without professional help in semi to serious cases. Using certain teas to treat symptoms of a cold for example, yes, totally. Having a stomach ache that won’t go away? Go to the fucking doctor’s - and yes, I’m speaking from a priviledged point of having a functioning health system. But still.

Second point of enjoyment? Science. There are a lot of footnotes and sources the author studied to prove her points in how meditation or mindfulness practise help stress. Since I’m suffering from chronic migraines as well as other health and mental health issues I especially enjoyed how she speaks from experience with having migraines as well.

Third point: The very do-whatever-fits-you-approach. The only set thing is that you should start with the breathing exercise first, since most meditation/mindfulness exercises kinda built onto this one. But other than that? Skip exercises, repeat the same one forever, do a certain one never.

It’s a very easy to follow book and the concept is especially inviting to beginners I think. But even if you’re practising meditation for years, like I do (on and off tbh) it*s fun to read and Quick Calm even gave me a few new ideas. What can I say, I’m a sucker for journaling prompts.