By Brittany Riley
Spotlight: R U OK? Day
It’s R U OK? Day today.
A lot can happen in a year, a month, a week. Whether it’s your friend, family member, colleague, partner, or teammate, the people you care about go through life’s ups and downs every day.
By having regular, meaningful conversations, you build trust and normalise talking about what’s really going on, so when the people in your world find themselves struggling, they know you’re someone they can talk to.
Spotlight: REDeLEARN
Libraries love education, and we’ve just launched a brand-new learning platform!
REDeLEARN is an online resource for children in middle to upper primary school. It can be used in class or at home and has been created to be easy to use and closely aligned to Australian Curriculum topics.
Have your borrower number handy and search our eResources webpage to get started!
Spotlight: New books
For the thriller fanatics, we have The God of the Woods (AFT MOO) by Liz Moore.
Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars. Some said the Van Laars deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their missing son. Some said there was a reason it took the family so long to call for help. That they knew what happened to the boy.
Now, fifteen years later, the daughter the family had in their grief has gone missing in the same wilderness as her brother. Some say the two disappearances aren’t connected.
Some say they are…
The Mindful Freak-Out (152 GOO) by Eric Goodman presents strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) to give you the evidence-based tools you need to face highly distressing moments.
The goal of these strategies is to soothe your suffering while giving you the inner strength, wisdom, and commitment needed to face the emotional pain in a flexible way that you feel good about (rather than deeply regretting your words or actions later on).
Kirsty Greenwood has penned The Love of my Afterlife (AFR GRE).
Delphie entered the afterlife wearing the sort of pyjamas you don’t want anyone to see and finds herself face-to-face with her soulmate. As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise – until someone comes running about a huge mistake and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth.
In a twist of fate, Delphie is offered a deal in which she can return to her previous life and reconnect with the mysterious man. The challenge? She only has 10 days to find him. Ten days to make him fall for her. Oh, and he has no recollection of them ever having met…
Come say hello at your local library!
