Well-being Books from the World’s Happiest Country Catalogue 1 / 2025
Discover the wisdom, resilience, and balance of Nordic well-being through our carefully curated selection of books from Finland.
Heal your body with your mind. Rewire Your Brain and Heal presents twelve powerful steps to support healing. Developed by Maria Nordin, the revolutionary Free to Heal© method utilizes neuroplasticity and awareness skills to show how you can with the mind and emotions create favorable conditions in the body for a health-supporting microbiome The book contains awareness skill exercises to harness the healing powers of the mind immediately.
The book, having already helped thousands of people, is a comprehensive package of information about the connection between the mind and healing. In the book, you will find up-to-date guidance on topics such as the mental and physical effects of stress and well-being, the benefits of the brain's malleability, the body's ability to heal itself, and how thoughts and emotions relate to the health of the body and mind.
Start reprogramming your brain now and take advantage of this method to: - relieve physical symptoms and diseases - manage anxiety and depression - boost energy, cheerfulness, and enthusiasm.
In addition to the Free to Heal© method, the work covers Maria Nordin's own inspiring journey from illness to health. The author shares her story and what she has learned to help others unleash their own healing power.
Maria Nordin is a Finnish architect, wellness coach, and creator of the Free to Heal® method. After struggling with severe sensitivities and chronic illness, she began exploring natural healing and the power of neuroplasticity. Her recovery inspired her to develop Free to Heal®, a method that combines brain retraining, microbiome awareness, and stress management to support lasting well-being. Since 2019, thousands around the world have used her approach to overcome various health challenges. Maria is also a mother of three.
In this book, Dr. Sandra Rangel explores how the body’s microbiome especially that of the gut affects our health in light of recent medical breakthroughs.
The term “microbiome” refers to the body’s bacterial flora microorganisms that live within us. Our wellbeing and health are entirely dependent on them, as microorganisms make up 90% of the cells in the human body.
This timely book explores topics such as:
•What causes microbiome imbalance and why it leads to disease
•Which illnesses are directly linked to microbiome imbalances
•How the gut microbiome affects our brains and its connections to anxiety, depression, ADD, and autism
•The relationship between leaky gut and gut bacteria
The book includes a wealth of practical tips and simple, natural remedies for balancing the microbiome. With easy and delicious recipes, you’ll effortlessly get acquainted with a microbiomesupporting diet—helping you live a healthier, more energetic life.
2025
196 pp
ISBN: 9789523841079
This book is intended for anyone interested in treating or preventing type 2 diabetes.
With its help, you can restore balance to your body or prevent disease altogether. Sandra Rangel’s guidance will help you break free from sugar addiction and support the health of your body’s microbiome, the natural bacterial flora essential to your well-being.
The End of Type 2 Diabetes focuses on healing the microbiome through nutrition. The included recipes, along with Sandra’s recommended supplements, herbs, and lifestyle changes, will support you in reaching your health goals.
This book is also suitable for reducing excess weight, managing high blood sugar and cholesterol levels, and even overcoming sleep problems and chronic stress.
Sandra Rangel is a doctor, author, and international speaker specializing in holistic medicine and the microbiome. She has collaborated with one of the world’s leading alternative health clinics, the Hippocrates Health Institute. Rangel is dedicated to helping people by combining conventional medicine with alternative healing methods. She has been lecturing in Finland on the microbiome and the healing of chronic diseases for over a decade.
The Best Meal of the Day
Things can reflect past events and people, love, pain and shame or visions of the future. The emotions aroused by things can also make you avoid going through and organizing them. In her book Organize Your Life - Free Yourself from the Load of Stuff in Your Home and Mind, professional organizer Laura Holmström guides you through how to work through your own feelings in relation to things, the people around you and the culture.
With understanding, you learn to let go of the old and make room for the new.
The everyday life of a family with children can be wonderful, or terrible - but usually both! The same applies to families with special needs children, whose everyday life also involves dealing with neuropsychiatric challenges. At the same time, they describe successes and joys in an entertaining way and remind us how important it is for families to accept the facts, do things together and, above all, take care of the parents' well-being.
The mother's stories about the children and parents' experiences at home, at school and on holiday offer peer support, ideas and hope for the most difficult moments.
In her book Feel the Sex - Find the Connection to Authentic Pleasure, sex therapist Susanna Syld reveals the great significance of emotional connection and guides us on the path towards our own authentic core self and liberated pleasure. The book provides answers to why sex does not bring pleasure or why we experience reluctance, loneliness or a lack of connection during sex. It also sheds light on how the attachment model affects sex.
The journey to changing sexual pleasure begins with understanding our own sexual world and examining it gently.
Healthy eating doesn't have to be monotonous, boring or tasteless - quite the opposite. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to eat your morning porridge in the form of a mocha cup? Or grab a porridge that tastes exactly like a cornelian cherry with your coffee?
The recipes in the book The Best Meal of the Day will pleasantly surprise even the most seasoned healthy dieter. The book contains more delicious breakfast and snack recipes than ever before, which are good for both your body and your mind.
The instructions are designed to fit into your everyday life, so that making better choices is easy, no matter what the day.
Have you been on a forest bath walk? Are you familiar with the health effects of microbes living in forests? Did you know how important connecting with the earth's energy field is for our body's vitality and balance?
The book brings together current and researched information about the wellbeing effects of forests on people. With this book you can realize how enormous revitalizing power and wisdom forests have when we give it a chance.
Meditation is more valuable than gold, because it gives us peace of mind, joy, and increases our capacity to love. Meditation increases our creativity and improves our health. It reduces our stress and improves our relationships. And ultimately, meditation gives us the highest goal of human life - enlightenment, endless bliss.
Even if the highest goal of meditation seems very distant, meditation still makes our everyday life better. That is why meditation is one of the best gifts we can give ourselves.
Here is a practical guide that tells you about meditation in the light of scientific research and scriptures.
Open to the Inner Light is a three-step guide to a method that allows the reader to learn to remove their protective layers and return to their own center. The first part of the book explores and releases their own shadows using the method. The second part teaches you to recognize the influence of the mind, physical body and other energy bodies. The final step is Heart Meditation, which helps you return to your own center, your own light and core. The journey is made possible by Kundalini Yoga, breathing and mindfulness exercises and meditation.
The book gives you thought and writing tasks that fit the theme of each week. The tools used are colors, numerology, breathing and Kundalini Yoga body and mind strengthening exercises.
In the middle of the dark night of the soul, the publishing house asks that a woman who has been passionately studying spiritual matters for decades write a book about her relationship with God. Vaara resists with all her might, because the timing is the worst. In addition to the God crisis, Vaara struggles with her identity as a writer, her pre-menopause years, and her dead tormentors, Christian mystics. Besides, stories about God don't really increase anyone's credibility in these latitudes, quite the opposite. However, God doesn't leave the writer alone.
The writer sets out to find answers among mystics, monastic life, wilderness fasting, the silence of a cottage, and priests. The ride on the emotional roller coaster is thrilling and there are no potholes.
ISBN: 9789523841888
The book is a map for women navigating their inner transformation and an invitation to a deep understanding and acceptance of this significant life stage. The book covers perimenopause and menopause holistically. It emphasizes the spiritual and psychological growth potential associated with menopause, without forgetting the physical symptoms.
The book includes various tips for wellbeing, including diet, exercise, mental exercises, and medical treatment.
Our Connection to Nature describes the spiritual and physical process of creation through twelve stages. The process is constantly changing, like the phases of the moon or the cycle of nature around us. “Nature is beautiful, harmonious, peaceful and quiet. Nature is fierce, wild, loud and painful. If we surrender to the process of creativity, if we surrender to life, we experience all the forces of nature within ourselves.”
The cycles of creativity unfold in the book in a powerful, inspiring and downto-earth way.
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Many mysteries are hidden in water. Why does ice float? How is a jellyfish a conscious being, even though it has no brain? What is the water like inside a person? Can we also heal ourselves by treating water?
In addition, the book brings together questions about the relationship between water and consciousness, and water, memory, and intention.
The book provides a comprehensive picture of the structure of water, water research, and how water has been approached in the natural sciences.
All of these open the door to inner silence and take us to a new world, where we can enjoy and rejoice in the little things in life. 2025
ISBN: 9789523842083
In his book, Appelberg guides you on how to achieve a peaceful mind, where life feels simpler and clearer, and everyday decision-making becomes easier. In such a state, we find our true nature, which is full of joy and energy. In the book, Appelberg shares concrete ways to learn to observe the sensations of the body without the constant chatter of the mind. He encourages you to find the means that are specific to each person - whether it is exercise, meditation, breathing and yoga exercises, or even cold exposure.
Get What You Want is a guide to selfdevelopment, taking responsibility for your own life, and achieving even largescale goals. The book helps you overcome challenging life situations, find faith in yourself and your dreams, and make them happen. With practical tips, you will learn how to achieve the goals you set - even those you don't yet recognize.
The book helps to find faith in yourself and your dreams, and take steps toward making them come true.
Achieving happiness has been considered complicated. What if it was easy? In his book The Happiness Minute, Ilkka Koppelomäki debunks the myths of happiness. He shows that achieving happiness can be simple and possible for everyone. All it takes is the courage to feel happy.
The core of the book is the Happiness Minute exercise, which can easily make life happier day by day. The stories of those who have tested the exercise bring its power to life.
Choose Wisely - Decide Better! helps you understand how the human mind works and how you can learn to make better choices. Self-management is a skill that is inspiring and rewarding to develop for people of all ages, regardless of profession or stage of life.
The book offers inspiring, practical tips and exercises, as well as illustrative examples, that help you understand human behavior and become a better decision-maker throughout your life - at work, in relationships, or even with the refrigerator.
The book provides clear and encouraging guidance on how to strengthen the connection between the body and mind and get rid of the social anxiety that limits our lives. Social anxiety is often a reaction of our brain and body to traumatic experiences in the past. With the cooperation of the mind and body, the chronic state of overexcitement of the nervous system can be resolved. Our wise body knows the root causes of our anxiety and provides solutions for releasing it.
The book offers peer support for anxiety sufferers and concrete tools for everyday life.
This book helps you unleash your imagination and encourages you to live life on your own terms. The chance to come up with successful ideas is within everyone’s reach what matters is recognizing which ones have real potential. The first part of the book guides you in exploring and harnessing your own wealth of ideas. The second part offers tools to test and refine those ideas, along with tips for stepping into entrepreneurship. The third part focuses on our most valuable resource: holistic well-being.
This inspiring guide motivates you to see new possibilities while also providing practical tools to test your ideas.
What is the mindset of a multiple world champion like? How do you rise again and again from repeated setbacks? How do you harness your own talent?
Hanna Skyttä is a 12-time world champion in fitness, Ms Universe and three-time Finnish champion. Despite serious injuries and illnesses, Hanna has been able to continue her career at the top of sports. The mindset of a world champion is a multidimensional exploration of Hanna's mindset and attitude.
The book is primarily intended for anyone who is interested in developing themselves and their thinking, and seeking new perspectives on life and overcoming challenges.
Do you dream of changing your field, starting your own business, or advancing in your career? Do you want to stop languishing in your unsatisfying job, achieve your professional dreams, and create the career you've always dreamed of? Do you wish you could enjoy the rest of your life while you're moving towards what you want?
This book is an entertaining and humorous guide and inspiration book for those of you who want to say goodbye to Sunday anxiety, create the career of your dreams, and enjoy your life to the fullest.
A soulful and rooted, sensitive and strong book invites women to the edge of their diversity in an easily approachable and creative way. The book has 13 themes that sensitize them to listening to themselves, deepen their connection with nature and increase their creative power. The themes include cyclicity, intuition, the balance of feminine and masculine, and sexual power.
You can progress through the book's journey of change one month at a time or at your own pace.
The Nordic Woman's Power Book is for women who live simultaneously on different levels and dimensions, in the visible and invisible world.
The hectic pace of modern life challenges our ability to concentrate. However, we can strengthen our attention and manage our time more effectively. In his book Taming the Restless Mind - A Handbook for Concentration, teacher Pasi Hänninen unlocks the secrets of concentration with the help of research and practical tips.
The writer discusses various distractions and how to assess and improve your own concentration, providing many practical tools and techniques for developing it
The Find Your True Self workbook contains various exercises that help you discover your own strengths, dreams and values. The exercises help you reflect on your own boundaries and goals. You will also find tips on how to plan a future that suits you.
Sometimes your life gets in the way of work or family. Sometimes it is difficult to separate your own wishes from external pressures. In those cases, it is good to stop for a moment and think about who you are at your most authentic.
The Find Your True Self workbook helps you find a connection to your own inner resources.
The book is based on Karita's personal experience of overcoming brain cancer, which required courage, determination and new perspectives on health. The book offers practical tools for balancing body and mind in the midst of rush and change. It helps you understand how the body and mind work together and how you can support them naturally through nutrition, stress management and nervous system balance. You already have all the power you need within you - this book helps you find it.
This book is a companion on your journey towards a more balanced life and deeper self-knowledge. It is a guide that helps you take an active role in your own well-being.
The book From Crisis to Growth opens up human resilience and recovery from the perspective of spiritual growth. People who have faced various life crises, setbacks and extreme circumstances in their lives have been interviewed for the book. The setbacks they have experienced have changed the direction of their lives positively. Recovering from a crisis can sometimes require learning a new way of living, in which one's own thoughts, beliefs and operating models are renewed as part of the recovery process.
The book's strong core is the art of changing perspective: how a crisis can turn into a story of growth.
Step into the world of fairy tales and take both your child and yourself on a journey toward a more positive outlook on life and a relaxed mind. Magic Journey is a meditative fairy tale book that, through enchanting stories, activates the imagination, evokes healthpromoting emotions, and helps process everyday challenges.
Written by Maria Nordin, the stories explore themes familiar to children, such as celebrating a birthday, going swimming, sledding, or playing. Functioning like guided visualization journeys, the texts are perfect both as bedtime stories and as relaxation exercises for groups.
Onni's ordinary day turns extraordinary when a rabbit leads him into an underground world of fairies and forest creatures. There, he meets a fairy queen who needs his unique wisdom. Co-written with her 8-year-old son, Mervi Enqvist’s story is filled with wonder and heart. She is also a yoga teacher and breathing specialist, reminding adults of the natural skills children often still possess like breathing with ease. 2022
1. Now to Bed, Silly Billy! by SannaVaara
Höntti Pönttinen refuses to go to bed there’s always something more to say, feel, or imagine. From monster noises to mysterious hunger pangs, bedtime turns into a hilarious and all-too-familiar nightly circus. This humorous story helps children and parents alike understand bedtime resistance and offers a warm reminder that sleep is ultimately comforting. Sanna Vaara is a writer, performer, and mother of three known for her sharp humor and poetic insights into family life.
2. The Forest Speaks by HennaHelmenmaa
Siblings Valtteri and Veera get separated in a deep forest, only to discover that nature has much to teach. As they meet fairies, trolls, wise old trees, and talking animals, they learn to trust their senses and connect with the forest. This story is a heartfelt tribute to nearby nature and its calming, healing powers. Henna Helmenmaa, a mother of two and a doctor of forest sciences, draws on her deep connection with nature to inspire respect and curiosity in young listeners.
3. Onni and the Snowy Owl by MerviEnqvist(withSebastianEnqvist)
These tales are ideal for children aged 2–10 and create a nurturing space for rest, reflection, and joy.
Intuition cards help you hear your inner wisdom. The cards' energizing images, engaging texts, and inspiring practical guidance sensitize and open your intuition.
These high-quality cards serve as a question-provoking tool and reveal new perspectives, while reminding you of the wisdom and joy of life.
2025
72 cards + small book
ISBN: 9789523841598
Tarot: Life Wisdom Cards combines traditional Tarot themes with fresh, contemporary interpretations.
The cards' centuries-old history is woven together with ancient Christian mysticism, magical European and Eastern traditions, esoteric deep culture, depth psychology, and contemporary spiritual culture. The result is a fascinating weave of personal life wisdom and profound mysticism.
2024
44 cards + small book ISBN: 9789523841390
Invite love to you and be inspired to do things of love
The Power of Love oracle cards remind you of the sustaining power of love and guide you to do things of love in everyday life and at celebrations. They encourage you to be your authentic and loving self.
The world needs love. Surrender to love and let love heal you. Share love with yourself, your loved ones, and the whole world. Light the fire of love within you and let its warmth spread from you to everywhere outside of you.
2022
44 cards + small book
ISBN : 9789522608192
The Women's Power Deck of Cards was created in collaboration with women. The inspiring, mystically beautiful and thought-provoking cards present 44 different archetypal themes related to femininity. The engaging texts and inspiring practical guidance open up new perspectives on femininity.
The cards serve as a tool and an everyday joy, reminding us of the power, wisdom and beauty of femininity. They are also suitable as part of caregiving or for use with friends. The deck of cards includes 44 colored cards and a guidebook.
