This week, Your Favorite Librarian shares her personal stories navigating and battling anxiety. Before or after checking out Episode 8, check out this uplifting reading list, to guide you along.
"Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood" by Marjane Satrapi
"You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience" by Tarana Burke and Brene and Brown
"You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays" by Zora Neale Hurston
"100 Days Inside" by Madison Martin and Fionna M. Wright
Your Favorite Librarian defines what Generalized Anxiety Disorder is based off the DSM-5's guidance, shares tools to help readers navigate challenging and difficult emotions, and situations, and also provides real-life examples and tools of how to be your best self... with anixety.
From dancing to channel negative and anxious energy, engaging in laughter to escape from bouts of lowness, hiking to engage in a new environment, or mediating to detach, or reconnect... Reading can provide readers an opportunity to figure out what mental health tool or resource is best.
This Week's Honorable Mentions include:
"I Don't Want to Die Poor" by M. Arceneaux
"It's About Drama Time" by Arlan Hamilton
"Fear the Black Body" by Sabrina S.
You are not alone-- there is something for you. Continue reading!
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