Burlington Public Schools in partnership with the Burlington Breakfast Rotary and the Burlington Public Library is hosting a community book group series on mental health. Over the next three sessions, we will be discussing three titles (listed below).  A limited number of each book will be available at the Library's Circulation Desk.  Readers are invited to attend any number of book groups they'd like to; the group meets on April 19th, May 24th and June 14th.

This month we will be discussing The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris.  A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle.

When a young boy walked into Dr. Nadine Burke Harris's clinic he looked healthy for a preschooler--but he was seven, and hadn't grown a centimeter since a traumatic event when he was four.  At that moment Dr. Burke Harris knew that her gut feeling about a connection between childhood stress and future ill health was more than just a hunch--and she began her journey into groundbreaking research with stunning results.

Material and topics shared within these books are sensitive in nature and can be triggering.  If you or anyone you know is in need of immediate mental health support please reach out to the Suicide and Crisis Helpline at 988 or the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Help Line at 833-773-2445.