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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 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 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.

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.

How to build a true library for happiness - recommended reading from The School of Life, featuring 100 books that offer therapeutic insight and enlightenment There are about 130 million books in the world - and they are being added to at a rate of 4 million a year or so. Which ones should we really read? What are the books that count? Which ones are going to make a real difference to us in the limited time we have? This is The School of Life's answer: a definitive list of the 100 books that we feel should truly matter to anyone who cares about their development and growth, 100 books that are guaranteed to inspire, console and uplift us. We find books from all over the world, some very well known, others fascinatingly unfamiliar, united by a common ability to help us grow into the best versions of ourselves and to combat anxiety, despair and loneliness. This book answers one of the great questions we all face: how to assemble the perfect set of books with which we can acquire self-understanding, calm and emotional maturity.

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