While things are already heating up outside, use these fantastic books to avoid cabin fever and learn a few new tricks on living a better life, says Ipshita Sharma.

Self-improvement books are usually bought on New Year’s Eve and forgotten about by New Year’s Day. But these are the kind of books that deserve their day out in the sun and have their message heard. Check out the books below and let us know your favourites in the comments.

How to do the Work — Nicole Lepera

Psychoanalyst Lepera has come out with this incredible book about healing from traumas and recognising how these and family dynamics may be causal factors for bad habits or relationships. There are many steps on understanding how we can use mindfulness and other techniques to break out of troubling cycles and ruts.

Happy Sexy Millionaire – Steven Bartlett

Fascinating and genre-defying book about success that makes us unlearn all that we understand about material comforts and definitions of wealth. The major takeaway from the book is how our focus should inherently be on long-term and deep happiness rather than letting uncertainty and short term goals hamper your reach.

Me Time – Jessica Sanders

While self-care is a big buzzword now, how do we actually make time to understand what will light us up from within and give us back the buzz daily life drains you of? This book is more like our best friend that helps us tune in what really makes us tick and how we can get back in harmony with the world.

Choose Happy – Sarah Gregg

NLP practitioner Gregg talks about using positive psychological practices to heal past traumas and aim for a life of true contentment. The best part of this book is the actual daily exercises and reflections at the end of each chapter.

Good – Self help books are an easy way to assimilate knowledge on how we can better understand the world around us

Bad – sometimes the books can be preachy or self-congratulatory

Trendy – learning how to handle past traumas and unlearning society’s conditioning are the big trends for now

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