Book Recommendations & Learning Resources

We are honoured to feature and share with you Jessica Victoria's book 'So I Said to My Anxiety...'. Jessica shares her knowledge about anxiety, drawing from her own personal experiences with anxiety disorder as well as knowledge gained through the psychology and mental health courses and training programs she has taken throughout the years. As founder of Stay Strong Collective , Jessica provides text-based anxiety and stress coaching services. This book serves as a tool for t

We are honoured to feature and share with you Jessica Victoria's book ' From Why to Fly '. Jessica shares deeply about her own personal experiences and provides advice around mental health, disability, and LGBTQ+ identity. This book serves as a support tool for those experiencing similar life situations to those Jessica outlines, as well as an educational tool for loved ones to encourage understanding and acceptance. “My hope is that I reach more and more people in the future

We are thrilled to feature and share with you Cathy Marie Buchanan’s most recent novel, Daughter of Black Lake. Like both of her previous novels, this story is brought to life through vivid imagery and attention to historic detail. Readers are transported to an ancient village which will soon be forever changed due to the imminent Roman influence. The book follows the lives of Devout as she is finding her place in the world and (set seventeen years later) her daughter Hobble

We are thrilled to feature and share with you Emily Ladau's ' Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally '. This book serves as a friendly, practical, and intersectional handbook on the importance of understanding disability as part of the human experience and how we can better use our actions and voices to advocate for and support the disability community as disabled and non-disabled people alike. Ladau makes it clear that she is only one disab

A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome This is a raw and honest read exposing the impacts of society’s obsession with the idea of beauty and the unrealistic expectations it puts on individuals to try to reach ‘the golden ratio’. Ariel Henley's personal story of living with Crouzon syndrome (a craniofacial condition where the bones in the head fuse together too early, inhibiting the growth of the bones) with her twin sister Zan, shines a light on the harmfulne