Description

For this episode, Cindy and Jen committed to reading at least 20 minutes per day for pleasure. There are a lot of known benefits to reading:

• Lower stress levels.
• Slow cognitive decline.

Improve sleep.

• Enhance social skills.
• Improve focus.
• Engage imagination and creativity.
• Improve language development and so much more for children.

Read what you like! Don’t worry about reading best sellers or what you think you “should” read.

Some places to buy books, besides Amazon:

• bookshop.org
• bookoutlet.com
• thriftbooks.com
• halfpricebooks.com

Ways to fit in more reading, from the Happier Podcast with Gretchen Rubin:

• Read 21 in 21 tracker
• Tips for reading more

Books we read:

• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• Taking Point: A Navy SEAL’s 10 Fail Safe Principles for Leading through Change by Brent Gleeson
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Lots of ideas and resources are out there for starting a social justice book club of your own, including many virtual clubs you may be able to join. Reach out to Jen if you want to talk about anything like that.

And read the news for personal education, not for stress relief!