A reading list for exploring the interdependent systems of health.
| Gaia’s Garden is an accessible and thorough introduction to permaculture and practical ways of integrating it into one’s own home environment. environmentphysical-health | |
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 | The Light Eaters explores the unbelievable plant world and broadens our understanding of the intelligence of our environment. environment |
 | In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong prompts us to look at ourselves and our animal companions in a new light—less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent multitudes we assuredly are. environmentphysical-health |
| The Wakeful Body is an invitation to “wake down” into our bodies by taking time to tune in to our bodies and deepen the connection to our physical and subtle body in meditation practice and in everyday life. physical-health mental-health | |
 | The Myth of Normal breaks down the idea that anyone is normal through close examination of the issues that plague many of us today: illness, loneliness, trauma, addiction, etc. physical-healthsocial-healthmental-health |
| Mutual Aid is an essential, quick read about why and how to practice mutual aid, tips for organizing & how mutual aid intimately connects to social justice movements. social-health | |
| The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness is an incredible look at meaning in our lives and the importance of cultivating and strengthening our relationships. Pulling from a decades-long study of individuals across their lives, insights are shared on how to live a good life. social-healthmental-health | |
| Everyday Utopia explores the many different social configurations humans have lived in—“utopian visions for rearranging our private lives”— and how they inform the future we might like to dream into existence together. social-health | |
 | Belonging without Othering proposes ways to expand our sense of identity and build commonalities that are not based on an “other.” social-health |