Booktube Bites: Reading As Self Care
Booktube Bites is a weekly segment in which I spotlight cool bookish videos on the internet. I will discuss some entertaining videos and Booktubers which you can check out. Feel free to participate as well, and send in your own recommendations of videos you would like spotlighted.
Found on: Winx & Ink
Today’s Video: Reading As Self Care
Booktuber Winx from the channel Winx & Ink discusses the issue of “reading as self-care” for my viral pick of the week. In her video, she talks about how reading such a great tool to relax, escape, and learn and how it has helped her cope with her own health issues.
While readers always talk about how reading is magical, I think it encompasses the fact that books offer a such healing effect. Books have helped me cope when I’m really sick, when I need a pick-me-up after a stressful day, or when I just need to escape from the chaos of life. In other words, books are therapy.
Question of the Week: What is one book or genre that always helps you to relax or escape from the world? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.
Have a bookish and relaxing weekend! 😀
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Oh I enjoy watching Winx & Ink!
I see reading as self-care too and my go to when I’m feeling down and in dire need of a pick me up is either HP & the Sorcerer’s Stone or Eat Pray Love.
That was actually the first Winx & Ink video I watched, I just discovered her on Booktube and I want to subscribe to her channel. HP is always a good pick-me-up read!
She’s really sweet and she has such a calming voice.
I love that. It’s totally something I do. In nights when I cannot sleep, I read and I feel better. Even blogging about books is a coping mechanism for anxiety for me. It focuses me and makes me concentrate on something positive.
Me too! I love reading a good book to help me fall asleep. And I agree that blogging is a good coping method as well. 🙂
What helps me escape really depends on my mood! Sometimes I have to have a book about people trying to be good to each other and then I like to read Elinor Lipman’s The Family Man or one of Eva Ibbotson’s silly romances. Other times that feels too escapist, and then I like reading scholarly nonfiction — like even if it’s depressing, there’s enough distance to it, and it settles me a little to know that I’m learning new things.
The Family Man (just googled it) sounds like a good book. I’m intrigued. Like you, I do enjoy reading silly romances. Books that make me laugh out loud are very therapeutic to me.