What's it about? What’s Going Right (2026) offers a refreshing approach to mental health by shifting the focus away from endless self-criticism and toward the powerful drives that are already working within you. With insights on self-awareness, motivation, and emotional balance, it explores how people can reconnect with purpose, resilience, creativity, and genuine joy in everyday life. Mental health never feels quite as straightforward as physical health, does it? If you want to improve your body, you know the routine: exercise, eat well, sleep, repeat. But emotional well-being isn’t so obvious. You may’ve even tried therapy, medication, or various self-help techniques and found little benefit. When that happens, people often start blaming themselves instead of realizing that mental health, like physical health, requires patience, flexibility, support, and a deeper understanding of how the mind actually works. In this lesson, we’re going to give what is hopefully a fresh and unde...

What's it about? Who’s the Favorite? (2026) explores how sibling relationships shape our identities, tracing the roles, rivalries, loyalties, and shared histories that can bind brothers and sisters together or drive them apart. Drawing on interviews, research, and cultural examples, it examines themes like sibling labels, friendship and conflict, shared trauma, family language, and estrangement to show why these bonds can be some of the most formative relationships in our lives. Narrated by…. Few relationships begin earlier, last longer, or carry more emotional weight than the one between siblings. If you have a brother or sister, chances are they were part of your first lessons in closeness, jealousy, loyalty, competition, and belonging. Even when those bonds fade into the background of adult life, they can still shape how you see yourself, how you handle conflict, and what home means to you. Yet sibling relationships are often treated as secondary beside parents, partners, and ...

What's it about? The Art Cure (2026) draws on decades of scientific evidence across neuroscience, immunology, psychology, and epidemiology to make the radical argument that engaging with art, in all its forms, is one of the most powerful things humans can do for their health. Drawing on studies that consider the art-health connection, from the way songs shape the developing infant brain to the measurable effects of concert-going on longevity, this is an invitation to rethink art as a prescription and not a luxury. Russell Haines was just 44 when the blood supply to his brain became blocked and he suffered a devastating stroke. His recovery was painstaking. And even after he relearned how to walk and talk, Haines did not return to full health. He suffered back pain that made sleep impossible. His sleeplessness induced anxiety which, in a vicious cycle, exacerbated his sleeplessness. He gained weight and couldn’t lose it. He fell into a depression and soon enough, was taking a cock...

What's it about? This Is the Door (2025) is an exploration of physical pain and what it reveals about the human condition. Drawing on personal experience, neuroscience, philosophy, and spiritual tradition, it examines how suffering reshapes identity, empathy, and the way we move through the world. It argues that pain – however unwanted – can open us to a deeper understanding of our own bodies, our connections to others, and the fragility and wonder of being alive. Pain is one of the most universal human experiences, and one of the least understood. It lives in the body but reaches far beyond it, touching memory, identity, fear, and even faith. Yet most of us face it alone, without the language or framework to make sense of what it’s doing to us. But This Is the Door isn’t a book about eliminating pain. It’s about what pain can reveal. Drawing on the lives of philosophers, artists, saints, and ordinary people in moments of suffering, Darcey Steinke explores how pain can strip away...