SHELF CARE

Reading can provide much needed therapy during rough times like a pandemic.

How Reading Promotes Self (Shelf) Care

  1. Reduce stress as you escape to a different reality or see through world through a character's eyes.

  2. Build your self esteem with a self-help book.

  3. Learn a new skill.

  4. Improve your memory.

  5. Increase empathy.

  6. Enables you to experience a new culture and travel to another place without the expense.

  7. Expands your imagination.

  8. Helps with sleep.

  9. Provides quiet time.

  10. Makes you smarter.