Welcome, Reader!
Thank you for signing up for the Reading for Well-Being Community Book Club!
Reading and community have been shown to positively impact well-being, so let’s read together!
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How the club will work:
At the end of each month, you will receive a newsletter announcing Professor Pozzulo’s Pick that will be an evidence-based book focused on some dimension of well-being. The newsletter will include a link to the digital platform where my review will be posted, including a discussion board where we can communicate with each other. I want to hear your thoughts about the book and what else you might be reading.
You can visit the Reading for Well-being Community Book Club’s site here: https://mewerthbookclub.blogspot.com/p/discussion.html
If you have any questions, please reach out via email to MeWeRTH@carleton.ca, or visit the MeWeRth website, https://carleton.ca/mental-health/
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Professor Pozzulo’s Pick:
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the power of sleep and dreams by Matthew Walker, Ph.D. (2018, 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.….
Please read my full review here:
Have you changed how you’re sleeping? Tried any of the sleep strategies? Let me know what you think:
https://mewerthbookclub.blogspot.com/2024/05/professor-pozzulos-pick-june-2024-why.html
Enter to win:
Enter to win a copy of Walker’s book and our reading giveaway package (includes a MeWeRTH tote bag, water bottle, sticky notes, and pen). Enter here: https://mewerthbookclub.blogspot.com/2024/05/give-away.html
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Happy reading! And don’t worry if you fall asleep while reading, that’s a good thing!
Stay well,
Joanna Pozzulo, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor
Department of Psychology
Director, Mental Health and Well-Being Research and Training Hub
Director, Laboratory for Child Forensic Psychology
Carleton University
