Die besten 100 Bücher zu Healthy Living

Savor (2010) provides advice and inspiration on how to find inner peace, joy and strength – especially for those trying to sustainably lose weight – with Buddhist teachings and techniques for appreciating the richness of life in the present moment. It also draws on the latest nutritional science research on the best ways to eat and exercise, presenting readers with a holistic method for improving their physical, psychological and spiritual well-being, and thereby transforming their lives.

Eat, Move, Sleep (2013) offers simple tips for improving your health and well-being in some very important ways. You don’t have to revolutionize your lifestyle to get in shape and increase your energy levels – little changes can make a big difference, and these blinks will show you how.

How Not to Die (2015) explains how a plant-based diet can extend your life while transforming your quality of living. These blinks offer a wealth of health-boosting nutritional information and hands-on dietary advice that you won’t get from your doctor.

The Sleep Solution (2017) discusses the fundamentals of sleeping. It explains why keeping a consistent rhythm and schedule is important, and how insomnia is not a lack of sleep, but rather a result of dealing poorly with substandard sleep. You’ll learn how to improve your sleeping patterns and, as a result, improve your quality of life.

The Diabetes Code (2018) addresses one of the western world’s most alarming health epidemics: the rise of type 2 diabetes – a disorder closely related to poor diet and obesity. But as Jason Fung shows, it can be reversed. The important thing is to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Drawing on his professional experience as well as the latest scientific data, Fung makes a powerful case for a dietary strategy to prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes that you can start implementing today.

Minimalism (2011) offers readers an alternative path that avoids nine-to-five drudgery and helps them focus on what’s important in life. Authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus have practical guidance on how anyone can free themselves from the financial and emotional binds of modern life to build a new and simpler lifestyle that is still authentic and rewarding.

Body Kindness (2016) offers a refreshing approach to your overall physical and emotional health – one that allows you to tune into your own unique body and discover what is best for your well-being. This approach does away with one-size-fits-all dietary and exercise rules that often introduce a lot of added stress and anxiety into our daily lives. With small, easy-to-implement steps, you can learn how to boost their health and happiness, without the rules and rigidity.

Do/Breathe (2015) is a calming antidote to the stressors of contemporary life, offering a simple guide to cultivating balance, honing focus, and learning to be present. Do/Breathe takes you right back to life’s basics – like breathing, eating, and sleeping – to show how adjusting fundamental practices, habits, and mindsets can produce positive, lasting change in your life. 

“No supplement can replicate the full spectrum of light humans need from the sun.”

Super Human (2019) is a guide to the latest research in longevity. By making basic changes in your diet and adopting cutting-edge anti-aging technology, you can bypass aging for decades to come while looking as good as you feel.

Breath (2020) is the fascinating and unexpected story of the power of breathing. Western science has overlooked the amazing effects that different methods of breathing can have on our health.

When the Body Says No (2003) probes the hidden connections between mental health and physical illness. Modern medical science often tries to reassure us that our minds and bodies are totally separate – when, in reality, they’re deeply interconnected. Mental stresses often play out in the body as physiological diseases, disorders, and chronic conditions that endanger our health and well-being.

Body by Science (2009) is a comprehensive guide to building muscle. This handbook is driven by data, and it offers a scientifically proven approach to sculpting a fitter, firmer body. All you’ll need is a few minutes a week.

The Alcohol Experiment (2018) is your practical guide to giving up alcohol for 30 days – or perhaps a lifetime. Packed with science-based tips and personal anecdotes, it offers a new perspective on alcohol and explores why we drink it, what it really does to us, and how we can give it up.

SuperLife (2015) is the missing manual for your body. By outlining the five life forces fundamental to human well-being, it explains how you can harness these forces to optimize your health, feel amazing, and live long into the future.

Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety (2021) is a groundbreaking look at how nutrition can influence mental health. Based on the latest scientific information, it gives the lowdown on the mind-gut connection, inflammation, and keeping your microbiome healthy. 

Fast This Way (2021) is not just another book touting the benefits of fasting. Instead, it uses the most up-to-date science and the author’s years of experience to outline exactly how to sustainably fast for a long and healthy life.

Good Habits, Bad Habits (2019) lays out the workings of human habits, drawing on groundbreaking new research into the psychology of human behavior. Combining the insights of neuroscience and lab-based experiments, it shows how we can harness our habits to change our lives for the better.

Burn (2021) shines a light on the science behind metabolism – the way our bodies burn energy. Packed with memorable insights and facts, it draws on the latest metabolic research and delves into the evolutionary history of the human body. 

The Wim Hof Method (2020) posits that we can overcome almost anything, from illness and depression to extreme climate conditions, by employing Wim Hof’s methods. Based on three pillars – cold, breathing, and mindset – The Wim Hof Method seeks to help you activate your full potential.

Stress Less, Accomplish More (2019) shows how meditation can help busy people accomplish more in their fast-paced lives. In recent years, science has revealed what meditators have known for millennia: this simple tool can be practiced anytime and anywhere to relieve stress, gain mental clarity, and improve performance across your life.

The Comfort Crisis (2021) offers a cure for the physical and mental health problems of modern-day life. It’s all about getting comfortable with discomfort, which can mean anything from roughing it in the wilderness to contemplating death.

How to Do the Work (2021) is a hands-on guide to healing our bodies and minds. The physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of our health are all interconnected. By changing how we eat and exercise, engaging in mindfulness and tackling past trauma, we can heal ourselves and transform our relationships.

Set Boundaries, Find Peace (2021) lays out everything you need to know about boundaries: what they are, why you need them, and how to implement them in your life right now. By breaking down the ins and outs of setting healthy boundaries, these blinks will leave you feeling confident and empowered to finally tackle those thorny conversations that you’ve been avoiding for so long.

Love People, Use Things (2021) is a manifesto extolling the pleasures of minimalism. This primer explains why living with fewer things can lead to less clutter and more fulfilling relationships.

Biohack Your Brain (2020) is a guide to caring for your most essential organ – the brain. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research, it’s packed with actionable advice on everything from optimizing your diet for brain health to stimulating your gray cells and beating stress. Along the way, it sheds light on how you can start protecting yourself against cognitive diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Brain Food (2018) highlights the role nutrition plays in your brain’s health. It explores the incredible brain-gut connection and reveals exactly what to eat and drink to maximize your cognitive power and prevent stress, dementia, and memory loss.

The Expectation Effect (2022) explores the connection between our minds, our bodies, and our outcomes. It explores how our expectations can form our realities, and reveals the extent to which self-fulfilling prophecies shape our lives.

How to Meet Your Self (2022) is a practical guide to self-discovery. These simple exercises can help you to become more conscious, and more in touch with your own body and emotions, ultimately allowing you to discover your true self.

Million Dollar Habits (2017) is the manual to your brain and your life that you never got in school. It explains the “secrets” of success and what you need to do to unlock your full potential.

Master Your Core (2021) provides a holistic overview of how strengthening your core can directly boost your athletic performance and mood while reducing injuries. It offers a scientific explanation of “core stability” and includes breathing, stretching, and dynamic exercises to train your core muscles and improve your overall health.

Evolve Your Brain (2007) dives deep into the human brain and its structures. It demonstrates the power of neuroplasticity to change thinking, behavior, and biology.

Eat It! (2022) offers a sensible, fact-based and reassuring weight-loss program for those of us who are tired of chasing the latest diet trends. You’ll find sound advice and a guilt-free approach to shedding pounds and eating sensibly.

You Can Fix Your Brain (2018) is a step-by-step guide to improving cognitive function and overall brain health. Through dietary choices, environmental adjustments, and other health practices, you can reduce brain fog, enhance your memory, and increase your mental clarity.

Outlive (2023) is a comprehensive guide to living a longer, healthier, and more fulfilling life. Drawing on cutting-edge science and practical advice, it empowers you to optimize your exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional health for maximum longevity.

Eat to Beat Your Diet (2023) is a science-backed guide to healthy weight loss and disease-free living. It reveals surprising links between fat, metabolism, and certain nutrients, showing that eating more of the most beneficial foods is actually the path to increased health and happiness.

Forever Young (2023) challenges the notion that poor health associated with aging is an inevitable part of life. Instead, it provides a roadmap to not only live longer but to enjoy good health until death.

Unlock your brain's full potential with cutting-edge techniques and personalized brain health approaches detailed in this revised and updated version of the original Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (1999) by Dr. Daniel G. Amen.

Built to Move (2023) is your ultimate guide to building a better, healthier, more functional body. The concept is simple – it provides a handful of simple tests to assess your movement, and a handful of easy-to-follow routines to improve it. Utilizing the latest insights of mobility, sleep, and nutrition science, you’ll learn to keep your body and mind as fit as possible with minimal effort – no matter if you’re a couch potato or a world class athlete. 

Retrain Your Brain (2016) is all about learning practical strategies to break free from negative thought patterns and cultivate a more positive, fulfilling life. Whether you're struggling with anxiety or depression, or just want to improve your overall mental well-being, this guide is a valuable resource for retraining your brain and becoming your best self.

The 12-week Fitness Project (2021) offers an alternative to restrictive diets that addresses health beyond the scale, creating sustainable change that draws on time-tested wisdom to improve overall well-being.

The Joy of Saying No (2022) is a practical guide for people pleasers. It explains what people pleasing is, why it impacts well-being, the different ways it manifests in behaviors, and how it can be overcome, so that people can live more authentically.

Eat More, Live Well (2021) offers a fresh take on the diet and health connection, building on the importance of a diverse and thriving gut microbiome for health, well-being, and longevity.

Scarcity Brain (2023) reveals how our ancient scarcity mindset now backfires in a world of abundance. Michael Easter traveled the world consulting innovators on tactics to counter scarcity cues – from a Las Vegas slot machine designer detecting triggers to coffee-making monks finding happiness in alone time. By understanding our cravings, we can shake the worst habits and use what we have better for a more satisfying life.

Mindfulness for Beginners (2016) teaches wholeness and contentment are qualities present within each of us, accessible through mindful awareness. It serves as both a practical guide to and philosophical exploration of mindfulness.

How Not to Age (2021) delves into the scientific understanding of the aging process, exploring biological mechanisms and lifestyle choices that can influence longevity and vitality. It offers a comprehensive look at research-based strategies, from diet and exercise to sleep and stress management, to slow down aging and improve overall health. Get practical advice, debunk the myths, and discover effective, scientifically grounded approaches to aging well.

How to Be the Love You Seek (2023) is part candid memoir, part practical manual to improving your romantic relationships. Supported by personal experience and patient case studies, it argues that deep inner work is the essential prerequisite to secure, loving outer relationships – and outlines the process to make this transformation possible. 

Dopamine Detox (2020) is a concise guide that addresses a prevalent issue in today's distraction-filled world, offering you practical strategies to overcome procrastination and enhance focus. It reveals the impact of excessive dopamine stimulation on your ability to concentrate and tackle demanding tasks. Through a step-by-step approach, it empowers you to implement a dopamine detox in just 48 hours, enabling you to regain control over your attention and pursue your goals with renewed clarity.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2020) explores a range of mental health topics, including managing anxiety, overcoming guilt, handling addiction, and integrating mindfulness into your daily life. Filled with practical tips, exercises, and real-world examples, it offers a user-friendly approach to enhancing mental well-being.

Zero Sugar / One Month (2024) is a roadmap aimed at helping individuals eliminate sugar from their diet to achieve long-term health. It provides actionable advice, including guides on what to eat, how to resist temptation, and a day-by-day timeline of what to expect – along with motivational anecdotes and tips to navigate emotional challenges and build confidence throughout the 30-day journey. 

Little Treatments, Big Effects (2023) addresses the widespread issue of unmet psychological needs and introduces single-session interventions as a novel complement to traditional approaches. It argues for systemic changes in mental health care and demonstrates how these brief interventions can create significant impacts.

Gut Check (2023) explores the critical role that our gut bacteria play in determining our overall health. It argues that nurturing a healthy microbiome can lead to a longer, more vibrant life, against the backdrop of conventional dietary beliefs.

Languishing (2024) delves into the often-overlooked state between mental well-being and mental illness: languishing. It offers a comprehensive analysis of how individuals can find themselves stuck in this state of stagnation and emptiness and presents a compelling guide for recognizing and addressing this state. Through an exploration of strategies for enhancing well-being, it empowers readers to transform their mental health landscape, advocating for a proactive approach to emotional and psychological resilience.

Stress Resets (2024) offers a plethora of quick and scientifically validated methods for managing stress. It introduces you to effective exercises that promise to ease your stress quickly without intensive meditation, medications, or alcohol. Through practical tips and exercises, it teaches you to regulate your emotions and build resilience, fundamentally changing how you perceive and handle stress.

You, Happier (2024) is a guide to achieving lasting happiness and well-being by understanding and adapting to your own specific brain type. Packed with practical strategies and science-backed insights, it offers a roadmap to improving brain health and unlocking the keys to feeling good, both mentally and physically.

The CBT Workbook for Mental Health (2022) is a practical guide to using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to improve your emotional well-being. It offers targeted solutions for common issues like anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and relationship issues, providing simple exercises that can be completed in just 10-30 minutes a day.

Good Energy (2024) explores the connection between metabolism and a wide range of health conditions, from depression to heart disease and cancer. These diverse ailments, it argues, can often be traced back to the same underlying issue: metabolic dysfunction. The upshot? One of the best things you can do for your health is to boost your metabolism – and that’s much simpler than you think. 

What It Takes to Heal (2024) explores the interconnected nature of personal and collective healing, drawing on the author’s experiences as a therapist, facilitator, and social justice advocate. It offers insights into how trauma manifests in individuals and communities, emphasizing the importance of understanding your own healing journey in relation to broader societal issues. Through a blend of personal anecdotes, practical exercises, and philosophical reflections, it provides a roadmap for cultivating resilience, compassion, and transformative change.

Reversing Alzheimer's (2024) offers a groundbreaking perspective on combating a devastating disease, presenting evidence-based strategies to improve cognition and quality of life for those affected. Drawing from clinical practice and cutting-edge research, it provides actionable steps for patients and caregivers to fortify brain health and potentially reverse cognitive decline – challenging the notion of Alzheimer's as an inevitable fate.

The Anatomy of Anxiety (2022) challenges the conventional view that anxiety is solely a mental disorder. It proposes that many forms of anxiety originate from bodily imbalances rather than troubled thoughts. It offers actionable strategies for managing anxiety through lifestyle and diet adjustments, while also suggesting that some forms of anxiety can serve as helpful signals for achieving a more balanced life.

Blind Spots (2024) examines how modern medicine sometimes gets crucial issues wrong, leading to widespread public harm. It explores the consequences of medical groupthink, highlighting failures like the opioid crisis and misguided dietary advice, while advocating for a more transparent and evidence-based healthcare system. Through critical topics such as nutrition, childbirth, and the microbiome, it sheds light on the gaps in medical knowledge that continue to affect patient outcomes

Heal Your Gut, Save Your Brain (2024) delves into the vital connection between gut health and cognitive function, illustrating how a balanced gut microbiome can help prevent mental decline and neurodegenerative diseases. It offers a holistic wellness approach rooted in nutrition, physical activity, and fostering a sense of community.

Tell Yourself a Better Lie (2021) explores how the stories we tell ourselves shape our reality, and offers strategies to reframe negative beliefs into empowering ones. Through practical tools and case studies, you’ll learn to identify and transform self-limiting thoughts – and take steps toward personal growth and emotional well-being. 

Life Time (2022) reveals how your body’s 24-hour biological clock shapes your health, sleep, and mental performance. Through groundbreaking research in circadian science, you’ll discover how simple timing adjustments can dramatically improve immunity, sharpen thinking, and prevent disease. Armed with this revolutionary understanding of daily rhythms, you’ll learn to optimize every hour for better health and longevity.

Sleep Drink Breathe (2024) presents a straightforward approach to transforming health and wellness through three fundamental biological behaviors. It explains how making simple adjustments to sleeping, hydrating, and breathing can dramatically improve energy, stress levels, and cognitive function in a matter of weeks.

The Longevity Formula (2024) explores holistic practices and personalized strategies for enhancing longevity, blending ancestral wisdom with contemporary medical insights. Underscoring the importance of synchronizing your circadian rhythm, balancing your gut microbiome, and stimulating your vagus nerve, it offers a path to optimizing your health span and life span. 

The Baby Book (1993) is a comprehensive guide to infant and toddler care, emphasizing a nurturing, responsive approach known as attachment parenting. It covers topics like breastfeeding, co-sleeping, babywearing, and understanding a child’s cues to foster a strong parent-child bond. With practical advice and medical insights, it encourages parents to trust their instincts and create a loving, supportive environment for their baby’s development.

The End of Alzheimer's Program (2020) provides a step-by-step plan to protect – and even restore – cognitive health. It uncovers hidden drivers of Alzheimer’s, such as inflammation, toxins, and insulin resistance, and offers practical strategies to address them. Through a targeted approach that includes diet, sleep, exercise, and personalized interventions, this program empowers you to take control of your brain health and enhance mental clarity.

Why We Sleep (2017) examines the essential role sleep plays in nearly every facet of our physical and mental well-being. Drawing on decades of scientific research, it reveals how sleep strengthens memory, supports learning, bolsters the immune system, and regulates emotions. Building on these insights, it offers thoughtful solutions that challenge modern attitudes toward rest, paving the way for a healthier and more productive future.

The Ageless Brain (2025) presents a comprehensive approach to preventing and reversing cognitive decline. Through diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes, it integrates cutting-edge neuroscience with practical strategies aimed at maintaining and enhancing brain health throughout one's life. 

The Stress Paradox (2025) flips the script on how we think about pressure, showing that the very thing we try to avoid might actually help us grow stronger, smarter, and more resilient. What if stress isn’t your enemy, but your hidden superpower? Find out how stepping outside your comfort zone might be the best thing you can do for your health and wellbeing. 

Taming the Molecule of More (2025) provides practical methods for guiding the brain chemical that fuels your drive and wanting. You’ll get insights into managing urges, sparking motivation when it flags, and handling modern situations from relationships to digital distractions. Its step-by-step approach shows how dopamine can support you, leading to greater satisfaction and personal command in daily life.

The Gut-Brain Paradox (2025) explores how the gut microbiome profoundly influences mental clarity, emotional balance, and neurological health. It explains how modern diets and environmental factors disrupt this gut-brain connection – and how restoring microbial balance can reverse symptoms like brain fog, anxiety, and cognitive decline.

Brain (2025) offers a practical, science-backed roadmap for optimizing mental performance and emotional well-being. It blends neuroscience, psychology, and real-world tools to help you understand how your brain works – and how to improve memory, focus, mood, and resilience at any stage of life.

Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine (2025) methodically deconstructs the harmful ideas that obesity is a personal failing and that weight loss is a matter of willpower. It offers an up-to-date precis of how science understands weight loss, touching on neuroscience and nutrition, and a thorough analysis of how the latest GLP-1 weight loss drugs can be folded into a holistic weight management approach.

Heavily Meditated (2025) offers a practical guide to rewiring the mind and body using a blend of ancient spiritual practices and modern science. It introduces a toolkit of techniques – including meditation, sleep optimization, and ego training – to boost mental clarity, emotional resilience, and physical energy. The goal is to help you reclaim your focus, clear out hidden stress, and unlock your full potential.

The Book of Awakening (2000) offers daily reflections designed to inspire mindfulness, emotional clarity, and spiritual growth. Blending personal stories with poetic insights and simple meditative practices, it invites readers to meet life’s challenges with presence and compassion. Each entry encourages a deeper, more grounded connection to both self and world.

The Brain at Rest (2025) challenges the conventional wisdom that constant productivity is the key to success, revealing how letting your mind wander can actually make you more creative and less stressed. This science-backed guide offers a refreshing antidote to our culture of overwork, showing how rest activates the brain’s default network and can lead to greater contentment and improved mental performance.

The Stronger Sex (2025) dismantles the long-held myth of the “weaker sex” by redefining what it truly means to be strong. It takes you on a journey through the science of female biology, revealing the hidden superpowers in everything from your immune system to your metabolism. Prepare to see the female body not as a collection of limitations, but as a marvel of resilience, durability, and power.

Strong Minds (2021) shows how top athletes blend mental discipline with physical skill to deliver when it matters most. Through stories of champions like Meb Keflezighi, Megan Rapinoe, and Michael Phelps, it uncovers the psychological tools that keep high-performers focused, resilient, and adaptable under pressure. But this isn’t a treatise on elite sports: the same techniques, it shows, can help anyone tackle big work goals, meet tough deadlines, or push through personal challenges with more confidence and control.

This Isn’t Working (2025) uncovers how patriarchal workplace structures create impossible double standards for women leaders, causing chronic stress and burnout that no amount of individual resilience can overcome. It offers a playbook for recognizing these systemic patterns, developing protective strategies, building collective power, and ultimately reshaping organizations to value human sustainability alongside business success. 

A High-Performing Mind (2024) is a practical and energising guide that shows how to train your mind to be more focused, resilient, and effective under pressure. It explores how to build mental habits that support confidence, clarity, and long-term success in everyday life. It offers a toolkit for anyone who wants to overcome setbacks, perform at their best, and feel more in control of their thoughts, emotions, and outcomes.

Stronger (2025) challenges outdated biases against muscle and strength training by highlighting the crucial role of muscles in our health and wellbeing. Through fascinating stories from history to modern research, it reveals how everyone – regardless of age, gender and ability – can benefit from strength training. 

How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend (2025) is a self-help guide from a neuroscience perspective. From exercise to online habits, learn how to work with your brain rather than against it.

Nobody Wants Your Sh*t (2023) delivers a profanity-laced wake-up call about clearing out possessions while you still can. It blends irreverent humor alongside actionable decluttering advice, aiming to help you simplify your daily existence and spare loved ones from the burden of your possessions.

Joyspan (2025) reframes aging as an era of growth, offering a practical, science-based path to sustaining inner well-being beyond lifespan and healthspan. It shows you how to leverage strengths that often sharpen with age – like judgment, empathy, patience, problem-solving, resilience, and a deeper spiritual life – so you stay visible to yourself and live fully to the end.

Smarter (2024) offers a revolutionary approach to achieving more through strategic productivity, challenging the toxic “busyness” culture that leaves so many ambitious women feeling burnt out. This empowering guide provides clear practical steps to help you reframe your mindset, establish healthy boundaries, and leverage your natural strengths for lasting success on your own terms.

Dealing with Feeling (2025) examines the emotional literacy gap, or the inability to recognize and regulate emotions, along with the steep costs this dysregulation creates across all areas of life. It offers a practical system for building the emotional skills that schools and families failed to teach.

Small Moves, Big Life (2025) shows how life gets better when you stop chasing huge changes and start taking tiny actions that actually fit your day. It gives you simple energy-enhancing habits that help you build a life that feels joyful and manageable, even when everything else is loud and busy.

52 Weeks of Wellbeing (2024) explores how to build a healthier, more fulfilling work life through 52 small, practical changes spread across a year. It focuses on simple, research-backed ideas – like improving boundaries, rest, movement and digital habits – that help people protect their mental health and thrive in modern, high-pressure workplaces.

Why We Drink Too Much (2025) reveals why some people can drink socially while others spiral into dependence. It explores how alcohol hijacks ancient survival circuits in the brain, traces the spectrum from casual consumption through grey area reliance to full dependence, and explains why the answer lies in genetics and life experiences rather than weak willpower. It offers 12 science-backed principles for anyone ready to change their relationship with alcohol, from initial abstinence through to lasting sobriety.

Weightless (2026) argues that while GLP-1 medications have revolutionized obesity treatment, patients often receive prescriptions without the essential guidance needed to achieve and sustain results. This comprehensive guide, covering everything from selecting the right medication and understanding how it changes hunger signals to adopting crucial lifestyle changes like increased protein intake and strength training, fills that gap. 

The Balancing Act (2026) blends psychological insight with practical guidance to help readers understand and cultivate healthy dependency and connection without losing their sense of self. It explores how to navigate relationship dynamics –⁠ specifically codependency and counter-dependency –⁠ in order to build more authentic, balanced connections and foster both closeness and independence.

The Invincible Brain (2026) reveals how your daily habits play a vital role in shaping your memory, focus, and long-term brain health – right down to the level of your cells. It explains what you can start doing today to help your brain grow stronger, sharper, and more resilient, no matter how old you are.

The Anatomy of Awakening (2026) explains how people can move from stress-based, habitual reactions into a steadier, more authentic state of awareness by reconnecting with the body’s deeper energetic and nervous-system patterns. It presents five core principles, along with practical exercises, aimed at healing, expanding consciousness, and helping you live with more clarity, peace, and purpose.

How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay (2026) hands you practical, lived-in strategies for handling mental health struggles, creative block, and overwhelming anxiety. You’ll find ways to reframe your darkest moments into sources of strength, along with tools for setting unapologetic boundaries that protect your peace. These insights help you survive and thrive on the days your brain tries to sabotage you.

In a Good Place (2026) explores how the spaces around us quietly shape the people we become. Drawing on psychology, design, and everyday life, it reveals how homes, offices, streets, and public spaces can either nourish or frustrate our need for agency, connection, and a sense of belonging.

This Is the Door (2025) is an exploration of physical pain and what it reveals about the human condition. Drawing on personal experience, neuroscience, philosophy, and spiritual tradition, it examines how suffering reshapes identity, empathy, and the way we move through the world. It argues that pain – however unwanted – can open us to a deeper understanding of our own bodies, our connections to others, and the fragility and wonder of being alive.

What’s Going Right (2026) offers a refreshing approach to mental health by shifting the focus away from endless self-criticism and toward the powerful drives that are already working within you. With insights on self-awareness, motivation, and emotional balance, it explores how people can reconnect with purpose, resilience, creativity, and genuine joy in everyday life.

Off the Scales (2026) explores the decades-long global race to create a long-lasting version of the GLP-1 drug semaglutide to help fight the growing diabetes and obesity epidemics. Presenting all sides of the story, from the fraught scientific competition to be the first to bring these drugs to market, to the side effects rippling through global societies, it uncovers.

Make Your Brain Work (2013) is a practical guide to understanding the brain's key systems and how they shape focus, habits, and decision-making. Grounded in neuroscience, it shows how working with your brain's natural architecture rather than against it can transform productivity, emotional regulation, and goal achievement.