Stress, emotional burnout, and a life in the “work-home-work” format can lead to a loss of the ability to enjoy moments. We have made a selection of books that will bring back the taste for life.
How does reading help restore the zest for life?
Reading allows you to get away from your routine, experiencing other people's fascinating stories, gives you food for thought, and provides motivation. Useful in this regard:
- books about personal growth;
- autobiographies of people who overcame difficulties or “made themselves” (success stories);
- fiction that evokes strong emotions (books can be both “cozy” and those that tell about various crisis situations).
Reading will help if your problems are related to fatigue (including the monotony of life), and not depression. With depression, reading alone will not solve the problem. But even in this case, good books can be part of the therapy.
In addition, scientific and popular science literature on psychology can help those who have not yet understood the cause of difficulties or a pessimistic perception of life.
Psychology books
R. Norwood “Women Who Love Too Much”
If “to love” means “to suffer,” then you love too much. This book examines the reasons that lead many women who are looking for love and a loving man to fatally inevitably find inattentive, selfish partners who do not reciprocate them. We will learn why, even if our relationships with a loved one do not satisfy us, we still find it difficult to break them. We will understand how our desire to love and love itself become an obsession, an addiction, a habit, a chronic incurable disease.
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A book about how traumatic childhood scenarios affect adult love. It helps us understand what codependency is.
Suitable for those who think: “I reach out to those who hurt me.”
S. Johnson “Hold Me Tighter”
The book will help you overcome the fear of intimacy, the need for control, and loneliness when you are with your partner.
When love and intimacy are replaced by dissatisfaction, quarrels, and cooling, both partners suffer. Emotionally focused therapy will allow anyone who wants to understand the tangled tangle of emotions and restore trusting and close relationships. Author Sue Johnson popularly presents the principles of the technique she developed, and real stories and a practical part will help apply them to your own relationships.
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G. Chapman “The Five Love Languages in Marriage”
The book is written for those who do not feel reciprocated by their partner in a relationship and do not feel loved.
The simplest and most brilliant book about how we talk about love in different “dialects”. Useful for both those who are in a relationship and those who are just getting started. The book helps you stop devaluing what is important to your significant other.
The author invites readers on an exciting journey, during which they encounter the personal lives of many young people and understand that the most valuable thing in life is giving and receiving love.
Fiction
F. Backman “The Second Life of Uwe”
At first glance, Ove is the most gloomy person in the world. Like many of us, he believes that he is surrounded by mostly idiots – neighbors who park their cars incorrectly; shop assistants who speak bird language; bureaucrats who ruin the lives of normal people…
But the grumpy, grumbling pedant has a big, kind heart. And when a young family of new neighbors accidentally damages his mailbox, it's the beginning of an incredibly moving story about lost love, unexpected friendship, stray cats, and the ancient art of trailer hitchhiking. Stories about how one person's life can greatly impact the lives of many others.
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This book is perfect for those who feel like life is over.
M. Pavych “Box for writing utensils”
This novel by the famous Serbian writer Milorad Pavić is characterized by ambiguity and non-linear narrative direction, free handling of space and time. The “inventory” of a randomly purchased antique writing box, the examination of its compartments and secret corners turn into the disclosure of the cosmos of the human soul.
The novel has several layers of narrative, designed for different levels of reader perception. The book will be interesting to both lovers of intellectual reading in search of “Easter eggs”, and those who like books about true love.
Джерело: ukr.media
