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New | The Couple's Workbook
A workbook containing exercises that any couple can undertake to help their relationship function optimally, exercises to foster understanding, patience, forgiveness, humour and resilience in the face of the many hurdles that invariably arise when you try to live with someone else for the long term.
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Eight Rules of The School of Life
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Don't Worry, No One Cares
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Don't Worry, No One Cares
We're often held back by a crippling fear that we can't possibly do certain things because other people will judge us. But for those of us hemmed in by self-consciousness of this kind, there is very good news on the horizon. Amazingly, partly depressingly and partly redemptively, in reality, no one much cares...
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The Book of Life
If Love Never Came
New article on The Book of Life
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If Love Never Came
From the start of adulthood, we have been waiting. But time passed; decades went by; and at a certain point, we started to apprehend something whose terror we are still grappling with, probably late at night, because such things aren’t easy to look at in daylight: the probability that love isn’t, after all, despite our efforts and insights, ever going to come right for us. We are going to die without ever having known the love we long for.
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