Mental Health for Everyone
Here are our most popular mental health and self-help books. These are all great resources for regular freaked out people, peers, and professionals. Want to unpack your trauma? Manage your anxiety and depression? Turn your autism into a superpower? Have better relationships and boundaries generally (including with yourself)? Want to create a more just world? We've got books for you.
Stress Coping Skills Deck
We live in an era when stress is a way of life and can seem inescapable. But stress doesn't have to run our lives, and…
Unfuck Your Stress: Using Science to Cope with Distress and Embrace Excitement
Stressed? Hell yeah, you are. It's part of living in this modern world. But you don't deserve to feel like you're…
Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers
The Wall Street Journal Bestseller that helps us feel better every day with neuroscience and humor. Our brains are…
Unfuck Your Brain Workbook: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers
Our brains are doing their best, but sometimes they act like real assholes and it can take a lot of work to calm them…
Unfuck Your Anxiety: Using Science to Rewire Your Anxious Brain
Anxiety is a survival skill gone haywire. It happens when our brain is working so hard to protect us that it forgets to…
Coping Skills: Tools & Techniques for Every Stressful Situation
You know those days when you just can't even? When everything is haywire and everyone, including yourself, seems to be…
If You're Freaking Out, Read This: A Coping Workbook for Building Good Habits, Behaviors, and Hope for the Future
Is everything terrible? Is your life going to shit and your brain's convinced you that you’re utterly screwed? Have…
This Is Your Brain on Depression: Creating Your Path To Getting Better
People who have never been depressed have no idea what it's like. And people who have know all too well how tough…
How Not to Kill Yourself: A Survival Guide for Imaginative Pessimists
Are you inclined to escape the crumminess of everyday life into fantasy worlds? Are you smart and imaginative in a way…
Hardcore Anxiety: A Graphic Guide to Punk Rock and Mental Health
Punk rock and mental health have been intertwined since the very beginning. Nervous breakdowns, anxiety, seeking…
Friending: Creating Meaningful, Lasting Adult Friendships
Friendships are like any other relationships—when they work, they make our lives better. When they aren't working, or…
Unfuck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness
If you've ever been so pissed off that you did things that you regretted, or ruined your own day and some other people's…
Unfuck Your Anger Workbook: Using Science to Manage Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness
Anger is a vital emotion for survival, but when it gets out of hand, or if you always bottle it up, it can be…
Unfuck Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships Through Consent, Communication, and Expressing Your Needs
Boundaries are the ways we communicate our needs. They are what allow us to feel safe among strangers, in everyday…
Unfuck Your Boundaries Workbook: Build Better Relationships Through Consent, Communication, and Expressing Your Needs
Are other people constantly intruding on your personal space, using your stuff, disrespecting you, and otherwise…
The Courage Party: Helping Our Resilient Children Understand and Survive Sexual Assault
The Courage Party is a "gently explicit" book about sexual abuse, written for kids to read alone or (better) with a…
Unfuck Your Consent: A History and How-to for Claiming Your Sexual Autonomy, Personal Boundaries, and Political Freedoms
What does consent mean? Where does this idea come from, and why is it being talked about in a different way now than it…
Unfuck Your Intimacy: Using Science for Better Relationships, Sex, and Dating
Explore your relationships and sexuality, with yourself and with others, with this new book by Dr. Faith, author of…
Unfuck Your Intimacy Workbook: Using Science for Better Dating, Sex, and Relationships
Let this handy workbook guide you on your quest for healthier relationships and more excellent sex. These exercises can…
Self-Compassion: Be Kind to Yourself Instead of Striving for Bullshit Self-Esteem
For decades, the U.S. has been obsessed with "self-esteem" or rather with our lack of it. But self-esteem isn't actually…
Unfuck Your PTSD: Trauma Recovery Using Brain Science
Do you freak the fuck out at the weirdest possible times? Are there some normal life things that you just don't do or…
Unfuck Your Grief: Using Science to Heal Yourself and Support Others
When we lose someone or something close to us—a loved person or animal, a relationship, our health, our dream, our…
Unfuck Your Addiction: Using Science to Free Yourself from Harmful Reliance on Substances, Habits, and Out of Control Behaviors
We have almost all been addicted to something at some point, or had a habit spiral out of control. But what does that…
Unfuck Your Sleep: The #1 Non-Negotiable Necessity For Emotional and Physical Health
Sleep is so, so, so important! We spend a third of our lives doing it... well, ideally we do. In reality, we get far…
Unfuck Your Masculinity: How Cultural Bullshit Fucks Up Men's Body Image; What to Look For and What to Do About It
Body image problems and eating disorders have long been considered mostly to be women's problems. But did you know that…
Surviving: Getting Through the Shit Life Throws at You
This is a zine for getting through it when life is piling it higher and deeper, the political and personal and social…
Standing Unafraid: Healing Trauma with EMDR Therapy
In this pocket-sized, handwritten, illustrated zine, Robert talks about how he went to get EMDR therapy (a kind of…
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT): Combining Ancient Acupressure With Modern Science
"Tapping," aka Emotional Freedom Technique, is a method that uses Traditional Chinese Medicine to clear emotional…
Achieve Your Goals: The Workbook
Everyone's got goals. Maybe you're working towards single-payer health care in the US, or maybe you've set your sights…
Anxiety is Really Strange
From the author of Pain is Really Strange and Trauma is Really Strange, Steve Haines teases out the nuances of anxiety…
Trauma is Really Strange
Steve Haines, author of Pain is Really Strange and Anxiety is Really Strange, talks about the nature of trauma and its…
Pain is Really Strange
Managing pain and figuring out how it works can be difficult to navigate. In the words of Virginia Woolf, "Let a…
Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change
Christien Storm walks the reader through understanding what boundaries are and how to create, communicate, and uphold…
You Are Enough: How to love the skin you're in & embrace your awesomeness
A handy guide on how to learn to accept your body the way it is, with all its quirks and bumps and bruises. This book…
Maps to the Other Side: The Adventures of a Bipolar Cartographer
Part mad manifesto, part revolutionary love letter, part freight train adventure story—Maps to the Other Side is a…
The Autism Handbook: Everything You Wanted to Know About Life on the Spectrum
What's it like to be autistic? As many as one in forty-five people live that reality every day, but our culture remains…
The Autism Partner Handbook: How to Love an Autistic Person
So, your partner is autistic. Or you suspect they might be. And you're wondering, "What does this mean for my…
The Autism Relationships Handbook: How to Thrive in Friendships, Dating, and Love
Ever since Joe came out as autistic, people have been sharing their stories and asking questions. The most common…
Neurodivergent Pride #2: A User Guide to Treating People Like People
Neurodiversity occupies a similar place in the public consciousness as gay rights did in the 1970s: most people on the…
Neurodivergent Pride #1: Autistic Pride in a Neurophobic World
The R-word has been used against us as hate speech for decades. Neurotypicals have tried to dictate our motives,…
Unfuck Your Parenting #1: Doing our Best to Raise Intersectional Feminist, Empathic, Engaged, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids
Got kids in your life? This zine is full of helpful wisdom about raising them to be socially aware, respectful of…
Getting Over It: When Other People are Total Assholes or You're Just Tired of Your Own Bullshit
Is it time to get over it? You know, whatever the thing is that's got its claws in you—family stuff, addictions, awful…
Forgiveness is Really Strange
To forgive or not to forgive, what a question indeed. Forgiveness Is Really explores the aspects of forgiveness using…
The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age
When crime and violence invades a person's life, vengeance and justice are seen as acceptable responses. However, The…
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
In the past twenty years, the number of disabled mentally ill people in the United States has tripled. In this work,…
How to Be Accountable: Take Responsibility to Change Your Behavior, Boundaries, and Relationships
Accountability means accepting responsibility for your actions and repairing any harm you have done. This book can be…
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help,…
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
What can we learn about activism from sex? Surprisingly quite a bit. Using feminist (and specifically black feminist)…
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans…
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Waking the Tiger is Peter Levine's book about his trademarked Somatic Experiencing therapy technique for recovering…
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love
We rely on science to tell us everything from what to eat to when and how long to exercise, but what about…
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely…
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Addiction is quickly becoming a global health crisis, without any easy way of fixing it. In this book, Maia Szalavitz…
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
Living with attention deficit disorder or living with someone who has it can be challenging. However, there are ways you…
The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole
Unpacking trauma and working through PTSD is a long, complicated process. Whether you're starting on this journey for…
Panic Attacks Workbook: A Guided Program for Beating the Panic Trick
Panic tricks you; but it's just a trick. Panic Attacks: Workbook breaks down identifying triggers, addressing your…
Strengths-Based Workbook for Stress Relief: A Character Strengths Approach to Finding Calm in the Chaos of Daily Life
A lot of the advice out there for the stressed and overwhelmed among us is about focusing on fixing whatever your…
Phone Addiction Workbook: How to Identify Smartphone Dependency, Stop Compulsive Behavior and Develop a Healthy Relationship with Your Devices
Smartphones may have improved our lives overall, but too much of a good thing can still be damaging. Use this book to…
Herbs for Stress & Anxiety
Treat stress, anxiety, depression, and more with simple herbal remedies that calm your mind, build a healthy nervous…
Getting Grief Right: Finding Your Story of Love in the Sorrow of Loss
When Patrick O'Malley lost his infant son, the grief took him full force and challenged everything he'd ever learned…
It's OK That You're Not OK
Looking at grief as both a therapist and as someone who has felt loss in their personal life, Megan Divine creates room…
May Cause Happiness: A Gratitude Journal from the Teachings of Brother David Steindl-Rast
David Steindl-Rast's genius-yet-obvious gratitude journal is meant for exactly that: journaling a different thing for…
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
From Psychology Today: "The title refers to my maternal grandmother and to how both trauma and resilience were…
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Slavery still exists in the United States of America, we just hide it behind prison walls. From the school-to-prison…
So You Want to Talk About Race
This is THE book on race we've been waiting for. Ijeoma Oluo turns her wise and brilliant brain to the task of teaching…
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Racism isn't just something done by violent mobs in white pointy hoods or MAGA hats. It's baked into our culture and…
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Daring Greatly is not about winning or losing. It’s about courage. In a world where “never enough” dominates and…
I Thought It Was Just Me (but It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"
"Nobody's perfect," we've all heard from every person trying to reassure us ever, and nice and important as that…
Perfectly Hidden Depression: How to Break Free from the Perfectionism That Masks Your Depression
Do you keep up a good storefront but everything's falling to pieces behind the scenes? That's very relatable. This book…
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Is that the weight of the whole world's problems making your shoulders tense? Are you the one who's always picking up…
F*ck No!: How to Stop Saying Yes When You Can't, You Shouldn't, or You Just Don't Want To
If you're feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, put-upon, obligated, and like the many demands on your time, attention and…
Choose Wonder Over Worry: Move Beyond Fear and Doubt to Unlock Your Full Potential
Worry, fear, self-doubt, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, inner criticism? Check, check, check, check, check. In…
Unstressed: How Somatic Awareness Can Transform Your Body's Stress Response and Build Emotional Resilience
Emotional stress doesn't just affect the mind, but also the entire body—manifesting as anxiety and depression, as well…
Sex From Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules
Modern life calls for modern relationship advice. Sex From Scratch is a love and dating guidebook that gleans real-life…
Consensuality: How to Love Other People Without Losing Yourself
There are infinite possibilities in human relationships, but the fairytale ideal of companionship does not exist for…
The Thorn Necklace: Healing Through Writing and the Creative Process
Writing is a form of creative expression with tremendous power to heal our personal and societal traumas. Francesca Lia…
How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use
Have you been working toward being a pro at being miserable? It isn’t as difficult as it sounds, and chances are,…
Exercise Your Demons: A Mindful Journal
Got some these pesky demons hanging around you—overthinking, embarrassment, jealousy, self-pity, anger, etc? Exercise…
It's OK to Feel Things Deeply
In an emotional rut? Well, in lieu of a good hug, this book is definitely the kind of pick-me-up your probably looking…
The Emotionary: A Dictionary of Words That Don't Exist for Feelings That Do
Dissconstrue means to misconstrue someone's word's as disrespectful or offensive. Deliberhate is to consciously choose…
The Little Book of Bad Moods
Ever just get into a pissy mood and need to get it out? Use this journal to write all the terrible thoughts you have…
How do you feel today? (With River the Cat) poster
Meet River, the genderqueer kitty with all the feelings. Besides juggling the ups and downs of mental health, they enjoy…
$60 Super Pack: All the River Magnets
We made these magnets showing the many emotions of River the cat at the request of one of Dr. Faith's clients, who saw…
$20 Superpack: All the River Buttons
Got feelings? Say them with buttons! These made-in-the-USA pin-back badges show the many feels of River the…
Sticker #386My Doctor Says I'm Depressed...
...I say that I have a bicycle. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black or pink print on a white background. Reads: "my doctor…
Sticker #385My Doctor Says I'm Bipolar...
...I say that I have a bicycle. (Sturdy vinyl sticker with black or pink print on a white background. Reads: "my doctor…
$25 Superpack: Autistic Lives Matter
There's a lot of writing about autism out there... and not nearly enough of it is written by and for autistic adults…
Actually Autistic
Show your neurodivergent pride with this multi-colored soft enamel pin. A rainbow infinity shape reads "Actually…
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
Trauma can affect every aspect of your health, whether you want to admit it or not. This book and CD set can help you…
Heal Your Inner Wounds: How to Transform Deep Emotional Pain into Freedom & Joy
Moving past emotional trauma can be difficult, but it is possible. In this book, Wynne takes readers through exercises…
How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can: A Total Self-Healing Approach for Mind, Body, and Spirit
Using energy work and magic to help yourself heal can be empowering and help alleviate stress. In this powerful guide on…
Support: Feminist Relationship Tools to Heal Yourself and End Rape Culture
Support encourages everyone to take a step back, listen, think, and talk about sex, consent, violence, and abuse. If you…
Learning Good Consent: Building Ethical Relationships in a Complicated World
Collecting the original zines Support and Learning Good Consent into one volume, Cindy Crabb takes us on a tour of the…
Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
A survivor-focused look at childhood sexual abuse, focusing on the voices of Black survivors and advocates. This…
The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
Learn better coping skills and how to deal with the stress of modern life with this book. Stress-proofing your brain…
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder
Is there someone in your life with bad boundaries, unreasonable and inconsistent demands, a terror of abandonment, a…
Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed (2nd Edition)
While it seems easier to cut the pathologically abusive and self-centered people out of your life, it's not always…
Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People--and Break Free
Gaslighters are those around us that manipulate, lie, and take credit for our work so much so, that we begin to question…
My Ex Is Driving Me Crazy: 10 Strategies for Reclaiming Your Life after Divorce
This book was written by a therapist particularly for people who are experiencing backlash from their ex-spouses during…
The Optimist's Guide to Divorce: How to Get Through Your Breakup
Getting a divorce can seem like a monumental task - not only logistically, but also emotionally. This book will help you…
Overcoming Distractions: Thriving with Adult ADD/ADHD
A guide for living with ADD/ADHD as an adult, written by an actual adult living with ADHD and running his own PR and…
ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World
Often goal oriented and creatively detailed, people with ADHD would have thrived in a hunter-gatherer society versus…
No Hard Feelings
It's unrealistic to expect everyone to be an emotionless drone at work, but navigating emotions can be difficult in…
Unlocking Your Self-Healing Potential: A Journey Back to Health Through Creativity, Authenticity and Self-determination
While your mindset isn't everything when it comes to recovering from an illness or sudden loss, it certainly can help.…
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Are you stressed, overwhelmed, and emotionally exhausted? Do you find yourself longing to stay in bed instead of…
You Are Here: An Owner's Manual for Dangerous Minds
When Jenny Lawson is anxious, one of the things she does is to draw. Elaborate doodles, beautiful illustrations, often…
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Drawing both upon Buddhist philosophy and previous books, Pema Codron provides a compact guide to understanding what's…
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Sometimes the best way to deal with tough feelings and situations is to become more involved with them rather than…
This Difficult Thing of Being Human: The Art of Self-Compassion
Contemporary psychologists are focusing less on self-esteem and more on self-compassion. Bodhipaksa, a practicing…
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
Daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Sasha Sagan writes a memoir on the backdrop of the inquiry of her parent's…
Sleep: Harness the Power of Sleep for Optimal Health and Well-being
Take control of your sleeping life with this beautifully illustrated self-care book about sleep. From coping with jet…
Sleep: Relax, Replenish, and Rejuvenate with a New Approach to Sleep
In a perfect world, we'd spend about 1/3 of our life sleeping. But how do we get to that ideal - or at least closer to…
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
A serious, accessible, totally fascinating scientific examination of the activity we spend a third of our lives doing.…