Reclaim Joy, by Emine Rushton, is just what the subtitle says: a guided journal to discover simple pleasures every day. The author is a holistic therapist (not exactly sure what that entails) who provides a years’ worth of prompts and rituals designed to help the reader who is trying to incorporate more mindfulness into their life…which seems to apply to many of us during this pandemic!

Examples include “Harvesting foraged blackberries in a city park. Listening to the sound of the rain. Making petal paint.Tuning into birdsong. Creating your own morning motto. Appreciating the fragrant steam from a cup of tea. All nice things, and the print book is a workbook format that allows the reader to get creative with their efforts. It is more of a series of prompts to enable the reader to discover for themselves the benefits of mindfulness, rather than a book telling the reader about it. I like that!

A nice addition to my little library of self-help books. Now I just need to spend some time at being more mindful instead of reading for so many hours each day! With gratitude to Quarto Publishing/Leaping Hare Press and NetGalley, this is a five star entry into the literature of mindfulness.