Hoopla is a free digital media platform that works through your local public library. If you have a library card, you can download the Hoopla app and instantly borrow audiobooks, eBooks, comics, movies, TV shows, and even music — without late fees, without waiting lists in many cases, and without spending money.

I’ve linked to Amazon simply for reference. Most are available Free from the Library or youtube

The Power of Now is a guide to stepping out of mental noise and into present-moment awareness. Tolle explains that much of our suffering comes from living in the past or worrying about the future, and that peace becomes accessible when we anchor ourselves in the Now.

For readers (or listeners) — especially those healing from trauma or brain injury — the book offers a simple but profound shift: you are not your racing thoughts, your fear, or your symptoms. There is a deeper awareness beneath them. By gently observing the mind instead of being consumed by it, you create space, calm, and clarity.

I Highly recommend the Audio version. His tone and chimes are very calming

101 Ways to Think Positive
The latest Chicken Soup book written by Amy Newmark features a story by Celeste Palmer! Everyone can benefit from a little more positive thinking. Your attitude is a powerful tool that can help you react to the ups and downs of life and even change what happens next.

In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described spiritual entertainer was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights of Asia and India

From Concussions, mTBi to traumatic brain injury, this book is the best guide in learning about TBI scientifically and practically, so you are ready to take the right action at the right time to limit the damage and overcome challenges that come with it, both as a caregiver and as the patient.

The searing, wry memoir about a woman’s fight for a new life after a devastating brain injury.‍ ‍When PhD candidate Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she walks away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she’s quickly led from work to the emergency room. By the end of the week, a neurologist delivers a devastating prognosis: Sarah suffered a traumatic brain injury that has caused her IQ to plummet, with no hope of recovery. Her brain has irrevocably changed.

More to come…