Monthly Round-Up No. 9: The Importance of Emotional Health and Reading

Hello, how was your July? Are you doing the things you wanted to do this summer?

Below are a couple of items that caught my attention this month:

• A TED Talk about the importance of caring for your emotional health.
• An article about we why should all read more!

 
TED Talk: Why we all need to practice emotional first aid by Guy Winch: “Why is it that our physical health is so much more important to us than our psychological health?” A talk about how emotional injuries stay with us unless we treat them as seriously as physical injuries.
 
Article: Why reading books should be your priority, according to science. Reading is good for your health: “...the practice of reading books creates cognitive engagement that improves lots of things including vocabulary, thinking skills, and concentration. It also can affect empathy, social perception, and emotional intelligence…” A great excuse to pick up a (fiction) book! (See the article for an argument to read more fiction.)