LibGuides: Wellbeing Collection: Loneliness

Books

Navigating Loneliness by Cheryl Rickman
Call Number: Craiglockhart Main stock 158.2 RIC
How to use strategies to support and maintain existing relationships, foster new connections and shift your perspective about community and belonging.
The Cure for Loneliness by Bill Howatt
Call Number: Craiglockhart Main stock 158.2 HOW
Using a mixture of real-life case studies, self-reflection exercises and CGT, counsellor Bill Howatts drills into the root causes of isolation and loneliness.
Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
Call Number: Craiglockhart Main stock 305.8 BRO
Brown aims to redefine what it means to truly belong on an age of increased polarisation and challenge everything we believe about ourselves and others.
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
Call Number: Craiglockhart Main stock 823.92 HON
Best-selling and award-winning novel that explores the life of platonic friendships.

The Lonely Hour
The Lonely Hour is a podcast about loneliness–but it’s not a bummer. Julia Bainbridge has created a space to talk openly in hopes of both de-stigmatizing loneliness and underscoring the joys of solitude.

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