Positively Entertained
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Books
From happy to helpful, this book list can give readers a welcome escape or eye-opening insight. New bookshelf sold separately.
Music
Check out Amy’s “Positively COVID” playlist on Spotify - it’s sure to put a smile on your face and a tap in your toe!
Movies & TV
Looking for something hopeful, inspirational, or just want a good old fashioned belly laugh? Check out Amy’s list of movies and shows
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Great Reads: Happy, Positive, and Uplifting
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The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year
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The Book of Delights
Ross Gay
The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers, award-winning poet Ross Gay.
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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
David Sedaris
This collection of sharply observed animal-themed tales is a delight, told with David Sedaris's trademark blend of hilarity and good-naturedness. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of our own everyday interactions.
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The Book of Joy
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams
Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
A moving personal narrative shot through with lessons from literature, mythology, and the natural world, May's story offers instruction on the transformative power of rest and retreat.
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Sand in my Bra and Other Misadventures
Jennifer L. Leo (editor)
Funny women write from the road - Essays on travel by women.
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The Good Pig
Sy Montgomery
A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings.
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Set in an exotic eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as The Lord of the Rings, The Alchemist, and The Wizard of Oz.
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Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally best-selling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai - the happiness of always being busy - as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people.
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The Unwinding: And other Dreamings
Jackie Morris
A highly illustrated pillow book to prompt dreaming and creativity by Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist Jackie Morris
Great Reads: COVID and General Health
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Unlearn Your Pain, fourth edition
MD Howard Schubiner
A look at cutting-edge science on the mind-body connection, and a complete guided program for recovery from mind-body syndromes. Access to online audio meditation exercises is included with purchase.
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The Joy of Movement
Kelly McGonigal, PhD
The best-selling author of The Willpower Instinct introduces a surprising science-based audiobook that doesn't tell us why we should exercise but instead shows us how to fall in love with movement.
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The Brain that Changes Itself
Norman Doidge, M.D.
An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable.
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Biohack your Brain
Kristen Willeumier
A neuroscientist’s groundbreaking, science-driven plan for revitalizing, nourishing and rejuvenating your most essential asset - your brain.
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Anatomy of an Illness
Norman Cousins
The power of laughter triumphs over illness in Norman Cousins's bestselling classic memoir that revolutionized medicine.
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The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” (Alexander McFarlane, director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies)
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Breath
James Nester
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.
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The Breathing Cure
Patrick McKeown
“Many people believe that taking a deep breath increases body oxygenation. The opposite is the case.” (Patrick McKeown, best-selling author of The Oxygen Advantage)
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Self-Compassion
Kristen Neff
From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more self-compassionate and achieve your dreams in life.
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How your Mind Can Heal Your Body
David R. Hamilton, PhD
A game changer in the field, proposing how we can use the power of imagination and thought to stimulate our body's own defenses and healing systems to combat disease, pain, and illness.
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Full Catastrophe Living
Jon Katab-Zinn
Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness.
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Where Ever You Go, There You Are
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Warmth, humor, anecdotes, and poems make up this inspirational guide to a revolutionary new way of being, seeing, and living.
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The Mindful Way through Depression
Williams, Teasdale, Segal and Kabat-Zinn
If you've ever struggled with depression or know someone who has, take heart: Mindfulness practice is a simple, powerful way to naturally break depression's self-perpetuating cycle.
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A Little Peace of Mind
Nicola Bird
Do you feel like anxiety is making your life smaller? Are you always worried about the next panic attack? Or are you so stressed that you can't remember when you last felt peaceful and happy?
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Altered Traits
Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson
Two New York Times best-selling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain.
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Lovingkindness
Sharon Salzberg
Dating back 2,600 years, the practice of metta (an ancient Buddhist term meaning "lovingkindness") is a timeless method for unlocking your heart's immense healing resources.
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The Way Out
Alan Gordon
A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research.
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Say Good Night to Insomnia
Gregg D. Jacobs, PhD
Jacobs' program, developed and tested at Harvard Medical School and based on cognitive behavioral therapy, has been shown to improve sleep long-term in 80 percent of patients, making it the gold standard for treatment.
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Get the Life you Love, Now
Phil Parker
Based on two decades of research and Phil's world-changing 'Lightning Process', this book takes you step-by-step through an amazing journey of self-discovery unlike anything you've ever done before.
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The Tapping Solution
Nick Ortner
In the New York Times best-selling book The Tapping Solution, Nick Ortner, founder of the Tapping World Summit and best-selling filmmaker of The Tapping Solution, is at the forefront of a new healing movement.

Great tunes
Check out the “Positively COVID” playlist on Spotify - it’s sure to put a smile on your face and a tap in your toe

What the people need is a way to make 'em smile
-Doobie Brothers
Also be sure to check out the incredible playlists from our rock star community of strong haulers and gracious contributors! Thank you Amy Gawlik and Elizabeth Rowe for getting us started!
Great shows
Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it you'll never make it through the night.
Princess Leia, Star Wars, The Last Jedi

Movies
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Amélie
Audrey Tautou is a true delight as a pixieish waitress who makes it her mission to help the quirky characters in her life.
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Babe
That'll do pig! An eccentric little pig, raised by canines, trains to be a champion sheep herder in this classic family comedy. Oscar winner for best visual effects.
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Big
A boy's wish is answered when magically he becomes a grown man and finds work designing toys - but the benefits of adulthood may be highly overrated in this classic comedy.
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Billy Elliot
The life of a miner's son in Northern England is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class on his way to boxing lessons.
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Cornetto Trilogy
The Cornetto Trilogy - comprised of three infamous films (also listed separately in our list) - ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ ‘Hot Fuzz,’ and ‘The World’s End’ is sure to keep you laughing for hours.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Crafty highschooler Ferris ropes his girlfriend and best friend into a school-cutting scheme for an unforgettable day out in Chicago.
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Hot Fuzz
A highly skilled London cop is transferred to a small town with a dark secret, where a witless partner is the only other person he can trust.
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Little Miss Sunshine
When a fluke gets an awkward 7-year-old invited to compete in a beauty pageant, her misfit family rallies behind her.
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My Octopus Teacher
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
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Paul
Two English comic book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51.
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Pitch Perfect
A rebellious college freshman finds herself through her university's a cappella team in this engaging comedy.
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The Princess Bride
You've yet to hear the tale? Inconceivable! Join Westley on his epic adventure to rescue the fair Buttercup from the clutches of the evil Prince Humperdinck in this delightful classic!
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Shaun Of The Dead
An aimless TV salesman (Simon Pegg) and his friend battle zombies.
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Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman shines as a struggling actor who becomes a TV star and finds true love - by dressing as a woman!
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When Harry Met Sally
Over the course of 12 years, Harry and Sally go from mutual dislike to unexpected friendship as they slowly realize they might be made for each other.
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Winged Migration
A critically acclaimed and award-winning unique, exquisitely beautiful and jaw-dropping documentary about birds in flight in their natural world.
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The World's End
Five friends reunite for an epic bar crawl that takes an other worldly turn in this horror-comedy from the makers of ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz.’
TV
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Hacks
Hacks explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.
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Love on the Spectrum
A documentary series following young adults on the autism spectrum as they explore the unpredictable world of love, dating and relationships.
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Schitt's Creek
After being a victim of fraud, Johnny Rose and his family go from extremely wealthy to penniless overnight. The only asset left to them is a small, unsophisticated town: Schitt's Creek.
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Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso, an American college football coach, is unexpectedly recruited to coach an English Premier League soccer team, AFC Richmond, despite having no experience coaching soccer.