Ep. 16: Book Recs for Self-Improvement, Happiness, Health, & Positivity

Dr. Yasmine S. Ali shares her Positive Vibes roundup for the end of the year (2025): book recommendations for self-improvement, happiness, health, positivity, and creativity; as well as Dylan Crowell’s Christmas letter and a special musical ending. 

Featured books include Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life, Colleen M. Story’s Escape the Writer’s Web, Cal Newport’s Deep Work, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Touching Peace, Dick Van Dyke’s 100 Rules for Living to 100, and Yasmine S. Ali’s The View from the Cliffs and Walk through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America.

Dr. Ali’s online bookstore with all of her books and merchandise: https://LastSkyWriting.com

If you’d like to send Dylan some stamps, or become one of his pen pals—he always loves it when people write to him; he will write you back promptly!—you can send those to the following address:

Dylan Crowell 

P.O. Box 517

Burns, TN 37029

 

Show links:

Get your free Positive Vibes e-book: https://yasmine-ali-author.beehiiv.com/

Support the Positive Vibes podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/onthesunnyside

Dr. Ali’s personal website: https://YasmineAliMD.com

Dr. Ali’s online bookstore with all of her books and merchandise: https://LastSkyWriting.com

It Doesn’t Have to Hurt, by Dr. Sanjay Gupta: https://bookshop.org/a/447/9781668014479

Collen M. Story’s book, Escape the Writer’s Web: https://bookshop.org/a/447/9798992617245

Deep Work, by Cal Newport: https://bookshop.org/a/447/9781455586691

Touching Peace, by Thich Nhat Hanh: https://bookshop.org/a/447/9781941529393

100 Rules for Living to 100, by Dick Van Dyke: https://bookshop.org/a/447/9781538777909

The View from the Cliffs, by Yasmine S. Ali: https://lastskywriting.com/products/the-view-from-the-cliffs

Walk through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America, by Yasmine S. Ali: https://lastskywriting.com/products/autographed-copy-of-walk-through-fire-the-train-disaster-that-changed-america

Positive Vibes podcast Ep. 1: The Waverly Train Disaster and the Origins of Positive Vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YbXASWOgSc

Positive Vibes podcast Ep. 7: The Pen Pals Project (Interview with Dylan Crowell)

Positive Vibes podcast Ep. 8: Follow Your Bliss and Doors Will Open (Interview w/Sarah Samaan)

 

About Yasmine S. Ali, MD: Known as "The Positive Cardiologist," Dr. Ali is an internationally recognized preventive cardiologist and bestselling author of both nonfiction and fiction. She focuses on the science of happiness and the importance of optimism for health and longevity. She is an award-winning speaker and is the creator of the ORCHID Model for Positive Living (TM). Her work unites science, storytelling, and optimism. She brings nearly three decades of medical experience to her teaching and writing, along with a lifelong devotion to creativity and the pursuit of optimum health.