The Mind Manual: Mental Fitness Tools for Everyone (Dr Alex George)

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Your lifestyle is often your body's biggest support system and the more robust you can make that, the more you can rely on it to get you through. The author's goal of promoting mental fitness and advocating for it in many useful ways is admirable enough (4 stars), but this work quickly devolves into a concatenation of boilerplate life hacks (2 stars) citing dubious scientific underpinnings.

As an aspiring Buddhist, I found a lot of this book aligns with certain values, and with that a bit of an eye opener. Dr Sula’s Workbook mentioned in the episode “Cultivating safety in the body through action” can be found, for free, here: https://www. Not only are these pretty vital if we want to function at our best, they’re also areas in which we can make changes and that’s key.This is a well written book which has an abundance of practical examples and tools to help you understand and improve your mental health. He is a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Sunderland School of Medicine and was formerly at Imperial College London. This book brings together everything she has learned, in twenty years of clinical experience with six essential health prescriptions distilled into simple and free, daily habits.

Alex has a hugely successful podcast, Stompcast, which promotes the importance of walking in nature for mental and physical well being.

His new book The Mind Manual teaches you how to assess your mental health today - and understand what's normal for you.