Mental Health, But Make It Joyful!
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🧠 May Is Mental Health Awareness Month—Let’s Talk Brains, Burnout & Being Weird
Ever feel like your brain didn’t get the group chat memo on how to function "normally"? Like you’re the only one Googling “Why am I like this?” for the third time this week? Welcome to The Heal Spurs Book Club—where we believe in reading our way toward joy, healing, and a little healthy chaos.
Mental Health Awareness Month is the perfect time to slow down, check in with ourselves, and pick up a book that gets it. Not the sugar-coated stuff. We’re talking about books that say the quiet parts out loud. That make us laugh mid-breakdown. That give language to things we thought only lived in our heads.
At The Heal Spurs, we read nonfiction that’s rooted in real life: self-care that doesn’t ignore the messy parts, memoirs that shift perspective, and health-conscious reads that don’t pretend there’s one right way to be well. And this month, we're spotlighting quirky, honest, and radically validating books that make mental health feel less clinical and more human.
Here are some of our May picks—now available as audiobooks, so you can take care of your mental health while folding laundry, doom-scrolling, or walking off your existential dread:
🎧 How to Not Fit In: An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism & ADHD
If you’ve ever felt like the world was built for someone else’s brain—this one’s for you.
How Not to Fit In Audiobook on Libro.fm
’The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.’ – Jess Joy and Charlotte Mia Written by two late-diagnosed neurodivergent women...
🎧 ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to Mostly Living with ADHD
A hilarious, heartfelt take on life with a brain that refuses to sit still.
ADHD is Awesome Audiobook on Libro.fm
Read by the authors.AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — MORE THAN 250,000 COPIES SOLD!The engaging, uplifting antidote to traditional ADHD books (which, let's be honest, if you have ADHD you'd never read anyway).You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the...
🎧 The Book of Burnout
For when “just rest more” isn’t cutting it and your to-do list has become your worst enemy.
The Book of Burnout Audiobook on Libro.fm
Australia's bestselling anxiety and mental health expert, Bev Aisbett, tackles a growing mental health emergency: burnout. Burnout happens when we take on too much, when we think we can do the impossible, at the cost of our wellbeing, our health and even our quality of life. Although the term is often casually tossed about, burnout is no joke –...
🎧 My Life Beyond Depression: A Mayo Clinic Patient Story
A personal, hopeful look into recovery, written by someone who’s been through it—and made it out the other side.
My Life Beyond Depression Audiobook on Libro.fm
Author and illustrator Hey Gee tells the story of a real-life Mayo Clinic patient. Through a first-person narrative, this book gives a glimpse into the daily routine, challenges, and coping techniques of a child managing depression. Color and visual techniques bring the emotional ups and downs to life for a powerful impact.
🎧 Me vs. Brain: An Overthinker’s Guide to Life
Because sometimes the most comforting thing is knowing someone else’s brain is also spiraling at 3AM.
Me vs. Brain Audiobook on Libro.fm
In her warm and witty debut about living with intrusive thoughts and anxiety, bestselling author Hayley Morris shows—with her signature sparkling humor and unflinching honesty—that being an overthinker is both a blessing and a curse. She confronts the funny (if painful) moments that arise when your brain and body refuse to cooperate and your...
This Mental Health Awareness Month, let’s normalize talking about mental health the same way we talk about literally everything else. With curiosity. With honesty. And if we're lucky—with a few snort-laughs along the way.
📚 Check out our full list of audiobook recommendations below—and treat your mind to something that actually gets it.
5 Mental Health Books That Won't Bore Your Brain Playlist on Libro.fm
🧠 It’s Mental Health Awareness Month, and The Heal Spurs book club has audiobook picks that actually get it.🎧 Think: burnout, ADHD, depression, overthinking—and a little laugh-through-the-chaos energy.📚 Tap to listen in.
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