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The Five Features of Paranoia
There are perhaps five main features of the very sad, indeed hellish, condition we know as paranoia… Firstly, paranoia means…
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Reasons to be Hopeful
An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn’t short of darkness, there can be few more urgent priorities…
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On Self-Hatred
A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life. Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don’t like ourselves very much. We…
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How to Overcome Your Childhood
A guide to understanding, and liberating ourselves from, our past. To an extraordinary and humbling extent, who we are as adults is determined by events that happened to…
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Dating Cards
A set of 52 question cards to spark insightful and playful encounters. Great dates are made up of great conversations: ones where we find out more about one…
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The School of Life Therapy
The School of Life offers online therapy as a resource to help people feel connected and supported all around the world.
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Connect
A card game to foster connection and closeness We tend to chat all the time with our partners, but often not about what really counts – the sort…
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How to Think More Effectively
A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity. We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a…
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Teamwork Game
Exercises to build better team dynamics. In order to work well together, people need more than just technical skills; they need to get to know and understand each…
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The Career Workbook
A thought-provoking and practical workbook with exercises to help you discover a career that is truly fulfilling. The Career Workbook is a guided journal designed to help you…
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Calm
Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst decisions and interactions are almost invariably the result of a…
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Anxiety
Far more than we tend to realise, we’re all – in private – deeply anxious. There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether…
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Calm Prompt Cards
60 prompt cards designed to help you find perspective on life’s sorrows and regrets. Every day brings with it temptations to lose our tempers: the behaviour of partners,…
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Why So Many of Us Are Masochists
There are few psychological concepts harder for most of us to grasp than masochism: how can we speak of enjoyment…
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Relationships
Stop Avoiding Conflict
Being ‘conflict -averse’ sounds like a lovely mild and peaceful way to be. Wouldn’t we all like to avoid conflict?…
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Calm
How and Why We Catastrophise
The idea of a catastrophiser has an almost comedic ring to it. We picture someone sweet-but-silly running around feeling like…
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On Suicide
It’s commonly assumed that people kill themselves because something goes wrong in their life: perhaps they made a mistake at…
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The Agonies of Shame
One of the worst symptoms of childhood trauma is a feeling of shame, by which is meant: a pervasive impression…
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