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A therapeutic and inspiring workbook with exercises to build confidence The difference between a successful and a disappointing life often comes down to a critical ingredient that we overlook at our peril: confidence. This is a book with a practical purpose: to take us through exercises that help us rediscover the confidence we all already have inside us--the confidence that we have neglected out of habit, fear or meekness. It's a faculty we are all endowed with and confidence can flourish with the right kind of practice and encouragement. This workbook contains over fifty exercises that flex our confident faculties and guide us to greater effectiveness in our relationships, in our working lives and in our approach to ourselves. This includes a Self-Esteem Audit to identify what we might have gone through in our early lives, asking questions such as: Do you think you are essentially a good person? Were your parents essentially supportive or not? Do you hate or like being you? There are sections focusing on confidence in relationships, friendships, and at work.This is a tool to unlock our latent powers - and help us become who we long, and deserve, to be. Pair with the Confidence Prompt Cards, designed to help you find confidence and battle against timidity.

A journal to help us process our lives--from The School of Life's line of beautiful, elegant journalsThis journal helps us to think more clearly about what we really want, what we are actually feeling and what might be holding us back from our goals, by asking a series of repeated questions so we can embark on this journey of self-reflection.We're given the space to observe what is going on in our minds and the encouragement to regularly analyze our thoughts with clarity and ease. By filling in the journal on a regular basis, we can lessen our anxieties and zero in on our genuine concerns. The questions, such as 'What is still lovely?' have been carefully picked to direct our minds to areas that we tend to neglect, and from where trouble can most intensely arise when we do so.This is a psychological tool to help us digest emotions and events - and over time, to establish the calm, mature and contented lives we deserve.Pair with the Journal Prompt Cards as a place to explore and capture what might otherwise float aimlessly in the mind.

A new series of Therapeutic Tales from the School of Life--now in paperback. Anna is a kind and thoughtful person, in her mid-twenties. But lately, life has been hard. Her job is extremely stressful, her relationship is lacking balance and support, she has a difficult and complicated family history. It's not hard to see a bit of ourselves in her. In a style that's brief and poignant, we follow Anna as she slowly unpacks the roots of her own self-suspicion and discovers something we all deserve but have so often been denied: a voice of our own. With beautiful documentary photography on each page, this is fiction as therapy--and it seeks to offer the reader consolation, recognition and therapeutic insight.

A guide to confronting modern social situations with confidence and grace.

The School of Life's approach to self-awareness - in a pocket format.In the second of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled it's most essential ideas on self-awareness in order to produce a bitesize manual that is both useful and entertaining. Understanding ourselves is the key to unlocking our true potential. Here is a collection of The School of Life's most penetrating insights into the puzzles of self-awareness. By exploring key themes within the topic of self-knowledge, such as Emotional Intelligence, Anxiety, Normality, Pessimism and Self-sabotage, this book teaches us how to look into ourselves, how to make sense of our past, and how to overcome anxiety and confusion. In a highly accessible form, The School of Life introduces us to a person we've been in flight from for too long and will benefit hugely from getting to know: our deep selves.Pair with the Know Yourself Prompt Cards, designed to help lead you through the important task of knowing yourself a little better in life.

The School of Life's approach to love - in a pocket format In the first of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled it's most essential ideas on love in order to produce a bitesize manual that is both useful and entertaining. We learn - among other things - how to pick partners more reliably, how to avoid conflict and how to know whether a relationship is really for us. By exploring key themes within the topic of relationships, such as Anxious Attachment, Attachment theory, Long-term love, Romantic disappointment, Secrets in love and Crushes, this book shows us how satisfied love life is not a chance event but something that we can all plot for and achieve. Love is a skill, not an emotion; this is a guide to how we might master it.Pair with the Connect Cards and The Compatibility Game, to help foster connection and closeness.

A small "museum"--in book form-- of calm A psychological guidebook that can help to quieten our worries and bring on a new mood of serenity and ease. Knowing how to be calm is one of life's greatest skills. It doesn't matter how well our own life is going; if our mind is frantic, happiness will always be just out of reach. The third title in the '40 Images' series, Calm in 40 Images is a comprehensive guide to the art of calm. Featuring the work of photographers and artists including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gustav Klimt, Gwen John, Johannes Vermeer and Edward Hopper, alongside essays to invite contemplation, it takes us systematically through the many things that unsettle us and arrives at a range of solutions to ease our spirits. Gustav Klimt's Pear Tree (1903) reminds us that we do not need a life of fame or melodramatic relationships, we should instead make our peace with so-called ordinariness. Mark Salamon's photograph, The Rays (2020), accompanies a guided anxiety-reducing exercise that we can partake in when the noise of the day has subsided. We are invited not just to understand calm, but to appreciate it with our eyes and, more crucially, discover it with all of our senses. Companion book to Confidence in 40 Images and Self-Knowledge in 40 Images. Pair with the Stoicism Cards for insights into building resilience and calm.

The key ingredients to contented love--quintessential advice on relationships from The School of Life, with an approachable tone It can sometimes seem a mystery why some couples stay together and thrive - while many more split up or drag on scratchily. While we might think happy love is left to chance, there are some identifiable secrets that underpin good relationships that we can learn and put into practice. The first title of a new series, The Secrets of Successful Relationships draws upon the expertise of The School of Life therapists to teach us the key ingredients of contented love. Chapters such as "Learning to Love Oneself", "Knowing What to Overlook", "Good Listening" and "The Importance of Bad Dates" prompt us to think about how we can achieve success in love. In a tone that's warm, encouraging and funny, we learn: how to communicate effectively, how to manage differences, what to do when sexual problems arise, how to air grievances, the best way to share a home and - when things grow truly problematic - how to judge whether or not we should stay or leave. This handbook shows us how to take the necessary, careful, intelligent steps towards the contented love we deserve.

Our parents are a huge deal: and no matter our relationship to them, who we are today (our love stories, our attitudes, our self-esteem) is crucially connected to our relationships with our origin families.Following on from the bestselling How To Overcome Your Childhood, Getting Over Your Parents is a practical guide on how to navigate the complex legacies left to us by our parents, and how to parent ourselves. By exploring different types of parents, such as "The Preoccupied Parent", "The Overprotective Parent"' and "The Controlling Parent", it offers a vocabulary to understand some of the stranger and more difficult things that parents sometimes do to their children, as well as giving advice on how to move forward from our puzzles or confusions. The emphasis is never on blame, always on understanding. Offering constructive solutions for dealing with the symptoms of a difficult childhood, this book helps us to explore the past so that we can avoid the mistakes our parents made, and secure for ourselves the more creative, calm and loving future we deserve.

An essential guide to encourage children to explore, enjoy and benefit from the natural world around them-- now in paperback Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively impact their emotional wellbeing. With that in mind, this book looks to enhance this time spent outside and show children how nature can be fun, uplifting, consoling, and even offer companionship. This is a book about how nature can touch us all and help us with our lives (especially when we might be feeling bored, sad, or lonely). Children learn about the ways in which they can be comforted, inspired, and uplifted by examples of nature such as: a flowing rivera cow in a fieldclouds in the skyrabbits in their burrowsstars at nightor a cuddle with a favorite puppy.This is an inspirational book, not just educating children about the natural world, but teaching them to love and connect with it. Beautiful illustrations and a tone that is encouraging, warm and accessible makes it easy for children, and their favorite adults, to relate to. ILLUSTRATIONS BY TYLA MASON bring animals and plants to life to get children excited about connecting with nature. EDUCATIONAL AND FUN encourages children to discover what's amazing and interesting about nature. EXPANDS EMOTIONAL LITERACY by helping kids explore how their environment makes them feel. AGES 8 AND UP with fun facts and engaging activities.

From The School of Life-- a roadmap for the emotionally mature adult Most of us want to be more emotionally mature and better able to face up to life's challenges with poise, confidence, kindness and good-natured intelligence. We want to be grown-ups! With gentleness and insight, How Emotionally Mature Are You? helps us to zero in on the key markers of psychological adulthood. It prompts us to look at how we respond to rejection, frustration, anxiety, ambiguity and hope, by asking questions such as: How much do we like ourselves? Do we worry too much about the opinions of other people? What might be the best way to become a more interesting person? This questionnaire considers the childhood, the role of self-love and the perils of perfectionism - as well as the best ways to achieve self-belief and overcome impostor syndrome. In a series of accompanying essays, we are given material to reflect on - and shown how to reach the emotional age we aspire to be.Pair with the Emotional Barometer to reach a clearer understanding of our inner emotional weather.

This third book in the best-selling Big Ideas series introduces readers to the classics, as well as modern children's fiction--a charming addition to Big Ideas for Curious Minds and Big Ideas from HistoryGreat stories are often universal: our very souls shine with new ideas when we read them. Books can be so powerful, helping us through tricky times, offering us wisdom we haven't learnt yet, showing us that there are people like us, or showing us the opposite, that other people live very different lives. Books can be a friend when you need one the most and you can use them to help and inspire others, too.Big Ideas from Literature helps the child discover key ideas that lots of different books are trying to teach through the stories they tell - and helps the growing child develop empathy and resilience.This book teaches children (and adults!) about the history of literature, from the first ever story that was written down to the invention of books just for children. The best children's books become our dearest friends and companions. Children discover characters from a diverse range of books - including J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe - and learn how these stories can help them better understand the world around them.

An intimate look at the complexities of family life told through evocative photography and authentic interviews.Families are a mystery. Is everyone's as complicated as ours? Is there such a thing as a "normal" one? We generally only get to see the polished exteriors and are left to imagine what might be going on behind closed doors. Here is a book that takes us on a tour around the reality of families. It provides a rare, privileged glimpse into private realms, allowing us a new, profound understanding of ourselves and others. Comprised of 60 interviews and portraits captured by five supremely talented photographers - Mark Hobbs, Kate Peters, Marjolaine Ryley, Michelle Sank and Naomi Williams - the book introduces us to an extraordinary array of participants: new parents, stepchildren, siblings, the wealthy and the marginalized, the old and the young.In this book, photographs intertwine with the the subject's story, reminding us of Humans of New York - a photographic project by Brandon Stanton which portraits daily glimpses into the lives of strangers on the streets of New York City.What surfaces is the astounding diversity of family life - and the number of commonalities too. Above all, we recognize the fundamental role that family plays in making us who we are.This is a book for anyone who has ever wondered about their family or fantasized about being part of someone else's - in short, this is a book for us all.

A guided questionnaire to help understand ourselves and our romantic relationships more clearly.Most questionnaires are happy to be a bit of fun; this one sets out to be both entertaining and, more importantly, useful - offering us nothing less than a guide to the comforting and supportive relationships we long for.With online apps taking over the dating game, it has never been more crucial to know the rules.Through a series of pertinent questions, it reveals our distinctive style of loving, what our strengths and weaknesses are with partners and how we might secure genuine fulfillment going forward.As we work through the questionnaire and its accompanying essays, writing the answers in a notebook, we discover the many reasons why relationships go wrong - and how they might do so far less often in the future. The book considers the role of self-hatred, the influence of childhood, the importance of vulnerability, the appeal of unavailable people and the best way to overcome patterns of self-doubt and unhealthy attachment.Our minds are such confusing places, even the most thoughtful among us can fail to know central things about how we behave in relationships. This questionnaire will help us to understand ourselves more clearly - and so set us free to discover the love we deserve.

A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular and essential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture.The School of Life is an organization with a mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. For the last 15 years, we have produced landmark essays on important life topics, now gathered together for the first time.Among the essays collected here, conveniently, in one volume: On Confidence: a guide to throwing off inhibition in the name of a more free and creative lifeSelf-Knowledge: a method for knowing ourselves better in order to make optimal choices in love and workWhy You Will Marry the Wrong Person: a hopeful and wry survey of the trials and joys of marriageIn elegant and clear, helpful prose, these essays take us on a tour around the banner topics of our emotional life, leaving us enlightened, calm and ready to tackle the harder things in life.This beautiful edition of The School of Life's best advice is a perfect companion to carry around or keep on a bedside table-- a concise compendium of some of the wisest things we'll ever need to know.What our readers have been saying about the individual essaysOn Confidence"Brief but insightful! Will be back for more School of Life reads. Works really well on Audible""Brilliant! Thought provoking. Kept concise enough to really focus on the subject and give you time to think about the subject in terms of yourself."Self-Knowledge"It's such a simple and small book but with a powerful message! I really needed it and I'm grateful I got to read this book and work on the exercises. The exercises are definitely a plus and they're very well thought-through!"Just perfect. Must-read for everyone who considers at least dating, not to mention serious commitment. Beautifully exposed all the myths and concepts of love, sex and relationships. While this is very entertaining and funny, the topics are very serious and make me think and change my attitude... a lot."Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person"Excellent little book for perspective on a considerably important subject. If you plan on marrying, take a day and read this magnificent little title."Essays from this series available as audiobooks: Self-KnowledgeOn Confidence