Book Club Details

 Welcome to MeWeRTH’s Reading for Well-being Community Book Club!

Reading is associated with several health benefits including improved mental health, stress reduction, and improved cognitive function. Benefits of community include improved well-being, decreased social isolation, and increased connectedness.

Each month I’ll select an evidence-based book focused on a dimension of well-being, known as Professor Pozzulo’s Picks. I’ll also give you my take on the book. We will use a digital platform to post book selections and reviews and communicate with each other. And if you’re reading a book that you want others to know about, you too can post about it! We will have draws for book giveaways and host book events throughout the year. 

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Professor Pozzulo’s Pick (June, 2024)

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  Professor Pozzulo’s Pick (June, 2024) Why we sleep: Unlocking the power of sleep and dreams  by Matthew Walker, Ph.D. (published by  Simon & Schuster) My take: I’ll admit it, I thought I knew about sleep….get 7-9 hours of sleep a night, if you can’t sleep meditate and if that doesn’t work, get up and do something else. I was curious to read Walker’s book, Why we sleep: Unlocking the power of sleep and dreams (published by Simon & Schuster). Well, as it turns out there’s A LOT more to sleep than I thought. I’ll mention upfront that the book has been met with some criticism of Walker’s claims, so I was even more curious. In Why we sleep the reader is provided with several examples suggesting that a lack of adequate sleep both in quantity and quality is connected to ill health, from depression to Alzheimer’s to cardiovascular problems to cancer. I was hard pressed to think of a disorder or illness, mental or physical, that wasn’t connected to (lack of) sleep according to Walker.
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Giveaway!

We're giving away a copy of June's Professor Pozzulo's Picks. Click on read more  then  click here to enter to win  or copy the web address and search it in your browser:  https://carleton.ca/mental-health/giveaway/ 
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Stay tuned for this upcoming month's book selection!

Welcome to the Reading for Well-being Community Book Club! I am super excited to share my picks of evidence-based books on different aspects of well-being. I'll also give you my take on the book. I'm announcing my first pick on June 1st! I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on the book and to find out what else you might be reading. Reading and community have been shown to positively impact well-being so let's read together! - Joanna 
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