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Suggested Books

Our curated list of evidence-based books about balance and dizziness disorders and related issues.

Most titles are available for loan through public libraries. If your local library does not own a copy, ask for it to be sent from another library through interlibrary loan

General Alternative Balance Brain Diet Disorders Hearing Self Help Sleep Stories
General

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Dizziness, Vertigo: A Simple Guide to Figuring it Out by William Wright
Dizziness and Vertigo: A Simple Guide to Figuring It Out

An ear surgeon with 30 years of experience distills his knowledge about vestibular disorders in this simple, 84-page guide written for the general public.

2014
Dizziness: Why You Feel Dizzy and What Will Help You Feel Better by Gregory Whitman and Robert Baloh
Dizziness: Why You Feel Dizzy and What Will Help You Feel Better

This short and practical guide explores different conditions that can cause dizziness, describes common types of dizziness and explains what people with dizziness can do to feel better. The authors are renowned doctors – the credibility of the information is unparalleled. An essential read for every dizzy person!

2016
Disease-proof
Disease-proof: The Remarkable Truth about What Makes Us Well

A leading specialist in preventive medicine outlines an evidence-based, user-friendly set of tools that helps us make simple behavioural changes that have a tremendous effect on our health and well-being.

2013

Alternative

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Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science
Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science

Looks at the the cognitive biases that lead to pseudoscience, the history of pseudoscience, the reasons for its wide acceptance, how it is endangering our society, how to recognize it, and how we might reduce its impact.

2018
Homeopathy: The Undiluted Facts
Homeopathy: The Undiluted Facts

A rational and scientific discussion of the biological, chemical and psychological questions that homeopathic treatment raises.

2016
Chiropractic: Not All That It’s Cracked Up to Be
Chiropractic: Not All That It’s Cracked Up to Be

An evidence-based critique of the often less than responsible and sometimes dangerous claims and assumptions made by chiropractors.

2020
The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud and Pseudoscience
The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud and Pseudoscience

An insightful examination and clarification of what science is and how it differs from pseudoscience.

2019
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine

An evidence-based examination of more than 30 of the most popular CAM treatments including acupuncture, homeopathy, aromatherapy, reflexology, chiropractic, and herbal medicines.

2008

Balance

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Balance: A Dizzying Journey Through the Science of Our Most Delicate Sense by Carol Svec
Balance: A Dizzying Journey Through the Science of Our Most Delicate Sense

Follow award-winning science and health writer Carol Svec through various facilities as she talks with leading scientists doing state-of-the-art balance research. Svec translates their most fascinating findings for the layperson in a way that is highly entertaining and accessible. Along the way she cites case studies of people whose lives are affected by balance dysfunction, explains how research is being applied to help them, and provides a glimpse at what potentially life-changing advances may be on the horizon.

2017
Balance, In Search of the Lost Sense by Scott McCredie
Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense

A scientific, historical and practical exploration of how balance works. From simple motion sickness to astronauts’ “space stupids” and from fetal somersaults to the Flying Wallendas, McCredie explores the physiology of equilibrium.

2007
Better Balance for Life
Better Balance for Life: Banish the Fear of Falling with Simple Activities Added to Your Everyday Routine

Details a 10-week plan for improving stability and banishing fear of falling.

2018
Terra Infirma: A Life Unbalanced
Terra infirma: A Life Unbalanced

An account of the author’s toxic reaction to the antibiotic gentamicin and how she learned to function without a working vestibular system.

2007
Exercises for Better Balance: The Stand Strong Workout for Fall Prevention and Longevity
Exercises for Better Balance: The Stand Strong Workout for Fall Prevention and Longevity

The workout presented in this handbook will guide you to improved balance through simple, easy to follow exercises.

2015
The Book of Balance: Rehab Secrets to Improve Your Balance and Decrease Your Risk of Falling
The Book of Balance: Rehab Secrets to Improve Your Balance and Decrease Your Risk of Falling

This easy-to-read practical guide shows how to add life to your years by improving balance.

2018
Balance and Your Body: How Exercise Can Help You Avoid a Fall
Balance and Your Body: How Exercise Can Help You Avoid a Fall

A seniors’ home-based exercise plan to help prevent falls, maintain independence, and stay in your own home longer.

2019

Brain

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The Anxiety and Worry Workbook
The Anxiety and Worry Workbook: The Cognitive Behavioral Solution

Written by the founder of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) together with a fellow cognitive therapy expert. Includes worksheets and exercises designed to help people get on top of anxiety at their own pace, one step at a time, either independently or guided by a therapist.

2012
Change Your Thinking: Overcome Stress, Combat Anxiety and Depression, and Improve Your Life with CBT
Change Your Thinking: Overcome Stress, Combat Anxiety and Depression, and Improve Your Life with CBT

A practical reference to using cognitive behaviour therapy to change negative thoughts and emotions presents a range of exercises for managing destructive feelings and bolstering self-esteem, in a guide that covers such additional topics as problem solving and communication.

2007
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety: A Step-by-step Program
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety: A Step-by-step Program

Written by a psychologist with over 40 years experience in using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to treat anxiety and depression. Intended for independent use or guided by a therapist.

2014
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

Cited as “The Most Influential Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Publication” by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, this classic book has helped many to conquer anxiety through CBT.

2nd edition, 2015
The Healing Power of the Breath
The Healing Power of the Breath

Simple techniques to reduce stress and anxiety, enhance concentration, and balance your emotions.

2012
Mindfulness: An Eight-week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Mindfulness: An Eight-week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

Offers simple and straightforward forms of mindfulness meditation – based on the techniques of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

2011
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

Explains how anyone can use mindfulness to reduce anxiety, achieve inner peace, find fulfillment and enrich one’s life. Accompanied by a series of anecdotes, instructions and meditations. Also available on CD and as an audiobook.

updated 10th anniversary edition, 2005
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

An informative and entertaining look at the science behind healthy ways to breathe. The techniques are described in detail at the end of the book, along with a list of apps and YouTube tutorials.

2020
Be Calm: Proven Techniques to Stop Anxiety Now
Be Calm: Proven Techniques to Stop Anxiety Now

How to handle anxiety with simple evidence-based techniques that can reduce anxious feelings and responses on the spot.

2019
Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks
DARE: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks

Based on hard science and over 10 years helping people who suffer from anxiety, the author advocates facing your fears, anxiety and panic head-on. McDonagh’s approach best suits those who are at a stage when they are willing to try something new.

2015
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
Rewire Your Anxious Brain

Offers an evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based on current neuroscience and research.

2015
Don’t Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
Don’t Feed the Monkey Mind: How to Stop the Cycle of Anxiety, Fear, and Worry

A psychotherapist shows how to alleviate anxiety, worry and stress using a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) techniques.

2017
Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety and Eliminate Negative Thinking
Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety and Eliminate Negative Thinking

Focuses on teaching mindfulness techniques to allow you to be present in the moment and take control of your thought processes.

2016
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook

Written by a leading expert in cognitive behaviour therapy, this fully revised 7th edition offers step-by-step treatment strategies for anxiety, worry and fear.

2020
Unwinding Anxiety
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

A clear, step-by-step plan to uproot anxiety at its source using brain-based techniques and small hacks accessible to anyone.

2021

Diet

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Diet Cults
Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us

A good look at actual nutritional science suggests that it is impossible to identify a single best way to eat. Fitzgerald advocates an agnostic, rational approach to eating habits, based on one’s own habits, lifestyle, and genetics/body type.

2014
Disease-proof
Disease-proof: The Remarkable Truth about What Makes Us Well

A leading specialist in preventive medicine outlines an evidence-based, user-friendly set of tools that helps us make simple behavioural changes that have a tremendous effect on our health and well-being.

2013
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

As Pollan says, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.”

2009
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat

A professor of nutrition, food studies and public health, emerita, at New York University reveals the conflicts of interest between the food industry and nutrition science.

2018
A Grain of Salt
A Grain of Salt: The Science and Pseudoscience of What We Eat

Dr. Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society, debunks the baloney and serves up the raw facts in this appetizing collection of articles about the scientific basis of food chemistry.

2019
The Dizzy Cook: Managing Migraine with More Than 90 Comforting Recipes and Lifestyle Tips
The Dizzy Cook: Managing Migraine with More Than 90 Comforting Recipes and Lifestyle Tips

The author developed her recipes using the principles of Dr. David Bucholz’s “Heal Your Headache” diet for managing migraines, including vestibular migraines. You’ll find ideas for every meal of the day, common ingredient substitutions, travel tips, meal plans and more.

2020

Disorders

ImageBook TitleDescription With LinksYear
Benign Positional Vertigo: A Guide to Treating BPPV by Helen Wilcox
Benign Positional Vertigo: An Essential Guide to Coping with and Treating BPPV

Provides a basic understanding of the causes and symptoms of BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo), diagnostic tests available, treatment options and ideas for managing this condition. Though the information in this book can be readily found online, it may be a good choice for those without online access.

2015
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity

Describes natural, noninvasive avenues into the brain provided by the energy around us — in light, sound, vibration, and movement — that can awaken the brain’s own healing capacities without producing unpleasant side effects. Doidge explores cases where patients alleviated chronic pain; recovered from debilitating strokes, brain injuries, and learning disorders; overcame attention deficit and learning disorders; and found relief from symptoms of a variety of disorders.

2016 updated edition
Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Diane Roberts Stoler and Barbara Albers Hill
Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

A guide to living with the challenges associated with post concussion syndrome and brain trauma written by a neuropsychologist and concussion survivor. Often presenting itself after a head trauma, concussion — or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) — can cause vestibular problems, chronic migraines, depression, memory, and sleep problems that can last for years, referred to as post concussion syndrome (PCS).

2013
Menieres Disease Explained by P.J. Haybach
Ménière's Disease Explained

Describes Ménière’s disease, its affects, symptoms and the many treatments available from mainstream medicine. Written by a health care professional to help people with the disorder better understand their situation.

2017
Heal Your Headache by David Buccholz
Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain

A professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine writes this clear, insightful guide, filled with useful tips for migraine sufferers. While the subtitle suggests that this book focuses only on headaches, the principles discussed apply to the diagnosis and treatment of migraine disorders in general, including vestibular migraines.

2002
Migraines: More Than a Headache by Elizabeth Leroux
Migraines: More Than a Headache

A comprehensive, easy-to-read overview of current scientific knowledge and available treatment options written by a Montreal neurologist specializing in headache medicine. Dr. Leroux explains what can predispose a person to migraines, what can trigger them, their phases and recommended lines of treatment.

2016
The Ghost in My Brain, How a Concussion Stole My Life by Chuck Elliott
The Ghost in My Brain

The subtitle captures the contents of this inspiring book in a nutshell: “How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back.” The author gives hope to the millions who suffer from head injuries each year, and provides a unique and informative window into the world’s most complex computational device: the human brain.

2015
A Hole in My Life: Battling Chronic Dizziness
A Hole in My Life: Battling Chronic Dizziness

An inspirational personal account of living with semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome (SCD).

2016
Overcoming Positional Vertigo
Overcoming Positional Vertigo

An in-depth guide to the diagnosis of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV), treatments and manouevres, and preventative measures to avoid recurrence. Dr. Foster is an otolaryngologist and Director of the Balance Laboratory, University of Colorado Hospital.

2019
Terra Infirma: A Life Unbalanced
Terra infirma: A Life Unbalanced

An account of the author’s toxic reaction to the antibiotic gentamicin and how she learned to function without a working vestibular system.

2007
I Can Finally Hear Birds
I Can Finally Hear Birds

A candid, comical look at hearing loss, Ménière’s disease, vertigo and the process of undergoing cochlear implant surgery written by a woman who has lived with Ménière’s for most of her life.

2013
Victory Over Vestibular Migraine: The Action Plan for Healing & Getting Your Life Back
Victory Over Vestibular Migraine: The Action Plan for Healing & Getting Your Life Back

An informative, comprehensive and inspiring guide to vestibular migraine written by one of the few neurologists in the US who specializes in vestibular disorders.

2020
The Dizzy Cook: Managing Migraine with More Than 90 Comforting Recipes and Lifestyle Tips
The Dizzy Cook: Managing Migraine with More Than 90 Comforting Recipes and Lifestyle Tips

The author developed her recipes using the principles of Dr. David Bucholz’s “Heal Your Headache” diet for managing migraines, including vestibular migraines. You’ll find ideas for every meal of the day, common ingredient substitutions, travel tips, meal plans and more.

2020

Hearing

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How to Manage Your Tinnitus, A Step-by-Step Workbook
How to Manage Your Tinnitus: A Step-by-Step Workbook

A self-help workbook intended for use by anyone who is bothered by tinnitus. This third edition of the workbook has been extensively revised and expanded to include new sections describing key components of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
Not available from public libraries in BC – download a PDF version free-of-charge from the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research.

2010
Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook
Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook

Tinnitus Toolbox Hyperacusis Handbook covers currently available international science-based approaches including self-help, guided self-help, professional treatments, clinical trials, and experimental research. Written by a Vancouver audiologist who herself suffers from tinnitus.

2019
Living with Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
Living with Tinnitus and Hyperacusis

Presents recent medical thinking and treatments, including sound therapy, and suggests effective self-help techniques based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Topics include: relaxation therapy, getting a good night’s sleep, avoiding relapse, and helping adults and children with these disorders.

2010
Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss
Smart Hearing: Strategies, Skills, and Resources for Living Better with Hearing Loss

A fact-filled guide for living better with hearing loss. Includes information about how to buy a hearing aid as well as assistive listening technology.

2018
Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World
Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World

Owen demystifies the science of hearing while encouraging readers to get the treatment they need for hearing loss and protect the hearing they still have.

2019
Hear AND Understand: What You Need to Know About Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids
Hear AND Understand: What You Need to Know About Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids

A comprehensive look at the common challenges and misconceptions of hearing loss and how to overcome its obstacles.

2016
Rewiring Tinnitus
Rewiring Tinnitus: How I Finally Found Relief from the Ringing in My Ears

Actionable techniques and specific exercises to help those with tinnitus change their emotional, physical and psychological response to tinnitus so they can finally start to tune it out. The author was 24 years old when developed severe tinnitus after being diagnosed with Ménière’s disease.

2016
I Can Finally Hear Birds
I Can Finally Hear Birds

A candid, comical look at hearing loss, Ménière’s disease, vertigo and the process of undergoing cochlear implant surgery written by a woman who has lived with Ménière’s for most of her life.

2013

Self Help

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Finding Balance, Healing from a Decade of Vestibular Disorders by Sue Hickey
Finding Balance: Healing from a Decade of Vestibular Disorders

The author addresses her journey through over a decade of illness, from searching for a diagnosis, through years of treatment, and finally to rebuilding a life within the confines of what her dizziness will allow. Medical information in the book reviewed for accuracy by vestibular specialists.

2011
The Alchemy of Illness
The Alchemy of Illness

Reflecting on her own experience with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, and integrating insights from psychology, religion, and other disciplines, a counselor sheds new light on the meaning of illness, recovery and healing.

2000
The Anatomy of Hope
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

Why do some people find and sustain hope during difficult circumstances, while others do not? With appreciation for the human elements and the science, Dr. Groopman explains how to distinguish true hope from false hope – and how to gain an honest understanding of the reach and limits of this essential emotion.

2004
At the Will of the Body
At the Will of the Body

In this memoir, the author explores the events of illness from within. To illuminate what illness can teach us about life, he draws upon his own encounters with serious illness and offers insights into what happens when our bodies and emotions are pushed to extremes. Ultimately, he examines what it means to be human.

reprint 2002
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway

In this enduring guide to self-empowerment, Dr. Susan Jeffers outlines techniques and concepts that have helped many people grab hold of their fears and move forward with their lives.

2006
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

The classic work on mindfulness, meditation, and healing. Kabat-Zinn is the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

revised and updated 2013
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

An expert of the psychology of shame presents advice on how to overcome paralyzing fears and self-consciousness, and at the same time increase feelings of self-worth, gratitude and acceptance.

2010
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions
Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions

Tips, suggestions and strategies to deal with chronic illness and symptoms. Originally based on a five-year study conducted at Stanford University, this work has grown to include the feedback of medical professionals and people with chronic conditions all over the world, including Canada.

Canadian 4th edition, 2013
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

With insight and humour, Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can “start where we are” — embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives.

2004
Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live one Step Ahead of Your Symptoms
Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live one Step Ahead of Your Symptoms

Written by a blogger who suffers from an invisible chronic illness, this book offers peer-to-peer support to help you stay sane, be your own advocate, and get back to living your life.

2018
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

A treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties. Companion title: The places that scare you: a guide to fearlessness in difficult times (2001). Also available on CD and as an audiobook.

2016
You Don’t Look Sick: Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness
You Don’t Look Sick: Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness

Chronicles a patient’s true-life accounts and her physician’s compassionate commentary as they take a journey through the three stages of chronic illness: getting sick, being sick, and living well.

2012
But You LOOK Good: How to Encourage and Understand People Living With Illness and Pain
But You LOOK Good: How to Encourage and Understand People Living with Illness and Pain

A convenient, informative way to educate loved ones about what people living with ongoing illness struggle with, fight for and need from their friends and family.

2014
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Chronic Invisible Illness
Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Chronic Invisible Illness

Insights and information about coping and living with long-term conditions.

2000
When Someone You Love Has a Chronic Illness: Hope and Help for Those Providing Support
When Someone You Love Has a Chronic Illness: Hope and Help for Those Providing Support

Dr. Greenburg offers hope and practical advice to those impacted by a loved one’s chronic illness. Providing easy-to-understand explanations for complicated feelings and behaviour, this book will help you not just cope, but thrive, in your day-to-day life.

2012
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide

A practical guide for navigating the many challenges of living with a chronic condition, from career crises and relationship issues to struggles with self-blame, personal identity, and isolation.

2015

Sleep

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The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night’s Sleep
The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection Between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night’s Sleep

Written by renowned sleep researcher and founder of the Sleep Research Center at Stanford University.

1999
Say Goodnight to Insomnia: Six-week Drug-free Program Developed at Harvard Medical School
Say Goodnight to Insomnia: Six-week Drug-free Program Developed at Harvard Medical School

Written by an insomnia specialist at the Sleep Disorders Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School who spent almost 20 years treating and researching insomnia.

2009
Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day
Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day

The author, the medical director of sleep disorders centres in Arizona, covers the basics of sleep disorders.

2014
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

The neuroscientist who directs UC Berkley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab explains how sleep can make us healthier, safer, smarter and more productive.

2018

Stories

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10% Happier
10% Happier

The subtitle says it all: “How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works.” The art of meditation for skeptics.

2019
Terra Infirma: A Life Unbalanced
Terra infirma: A Life Unbalanced

An account of the author’s toxic reaction to the antibiotic gentamicin and how she learned to function without a working vestibular system.

2007
A Hole in My Life: Battling Chronic Dizziness
A Hole in My Life: Battling Chronic Dizziness

An inspirational personal account of living with semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome (SCD).

2016
Dizzy: A Fictional Memoir
Dizzy: A Fictional Memoir

Angie Styles, a beloved Broadway star, is struck down at the height of her career by bilateral vestibulopathy (BVP). Based on his personal experiences with BVP, author Arthur Wooten takes a light-hearted approach to chronicling the challenges of living with a disorder that has a major impact on daily life.

2012
The Alchemy of Illness
The Alchemy of Illness

Reflecting on her own experience with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, and integrating insights from psychology, religion, and other disciplines, a counselor sheds new light on the meaning of illness, recovery and healing.

2000
Vertigo! When the World Spins Out of Control (Menieres Disease,, Benign Positional Vertigo and Other Vestibular Illnesses) by Linda Howard Zonana
Vertigo: When the World Spins Out of Control

Offers not only detailed information about vestibular disorders, but also an exploration of the vertigo experience itself and of the problems that can crop up in searching for effective therapy and a sense of understanding. The book is unique in that more than fifty people were interviewed in order to provide a good look at a variety of real life experiences.

2017
Finding Balance, Healing from a Decade of Vestibular Disorders by Sue Hickey
Finding Balance: Healing from a Decade of Vestibular Disorders

The author addresses her journey through over a decade of illness, from searching for a diagnosis, through years of treatment, and finally to rebuilding a life within the confines of what her dizziness will allow. Medical information in the book reviewed for accuracy by vestibular specialists.

2011
Dizzy Me, Light on Balance by Tania Stadsbader and Floris Wuyts
Dizzy Me

Together with Antwerp professor Dr. Floris Wuyts, Tania Stadsbader, who suffered from vertigo for fourteen years, has written a book about her experiences in a fast-paced, career-oriented world in which there is little room for dizziness.

2017

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