8 Bookish Self-Care Items for Mom

This book offers tactics to strengthen your mental well-being through quick daily prompts. It includes 366 different insightful prompts, powerful quotes, and encouraging affirmations to help you start every day with a sense of positivity and ready to take on the day.

This book also helps you target and discover what self care means for you with exercises that include writing down what you’re grateful for, taking a refreshing new route to work, or taking a breather from social media. There’s brief daily morning entries to help start your day, as well as themes for every month modeled after 12 different values that bolster self-care as you move through the year, including relationships, gratitude, simplicity, and discipline.

This is the perfect book to help you get organized and take some time for yourself out of the everyday.

For moms who want to try a new dish or cuisine, cookbooks make wonderful gifts. This is a great book to grab to cook solo or with your partner in crime. The Easy Puerto Rican Cookbook is packed with 100 classic recipes made simple that leave time for Netflix and a glass of wine.

The author’s family is from Santurce, Puerto Rico, and the cookbook helps you discover dozens of weeknight-friendly recipes, including a number of dishes that take 30 minutes or less to prepare and serve. There’s also simple one-pot meals and slow-cooker dinners. The authentic recipes in this Puerto Rican cookbook focus on whole foods, so you get all of the incredible flavors of traditional cuisine without processed ingredients.

The book also helps you create a simple and stocked pantry to create some yummy Caribbean dishes. It’s definitely one you should keep in your kitchen for busy days when you want to relax and cook something different.

Can’t afford a trip to the spa? It’s time to do it yourself, right at home, with this guide. Cosmetic experts Juliette Goggin and Abi Righton bring the entire spa experience right to your door, with this comprehensive guide to replicating the luxury of a spa in your own home using natural, botanical items and preparations.

The book offers 40 natural recipes tailored to whatever mood you may be in and they show you exactly how to transform your home into a tranquil, relaxing retreat.  The authors explain how scent and well-being go hand in hand, with energetic citrus recipes, warming ginger and cinnamon, relaxing lavender and soothing camomile products, allowing you to choose the perfect treatment for the desired effect.

Want more for your spa experience? There’s also candle-making to simple massage techniques, incense-making and hot-cloth cleansing techniques, sure to transform your bathroom or preferred room into the perfect spa day or evening.

Take a moment to get creative and unwind with some crayons or coloring pencils with this coloring book tailored just for the cool mom that you are.

The Cool Mom Quotes Coloring Book is a fun gift that helps mom unwind and relax with 25 unique designs and even full-page designs that include inspirational and funny quotes that center around mom life.

Each design is printed on a single-sided sheet of paper to prevent ink from bleeding through. And, you can even cut out a page and frame your own beautiful poster to remember that moment of relaxation and fun and to keep you inspired throughout your busy week.