True friendship is a skill, not a divine accident

Few things promise as much potential happiness as friendship, yet the challenge of finding and maintaining meaningful connections remains one of life’s great struggles. By explaining friendship’s true purpose, the book gives us a chance to build new relationships of genuine depth and meaning.

How to locate, process and recover from psychological wounds

All of us have – to a greater or lesser extent – suffered from traumas in our lives, often at a young age. The less we address these traumas, the more they have a habit of causing us difficulties in the form of broken relationships, nagging anxieties, depression or physical symptoms like insomnia, digestive issues or back ache.

Emotional baggage – everyone has it; the trick is to carry it elegantly

A tote bag to celebrate one of the most exciting projects any of us can undertake: learning how to carry our emotional baggage well.

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 find a more fulfilling career. Through a series of essays, questions and written exercises, you’ll build up a personalised portrait of your talents and ambitions and zero in on the career that will satisfy both.

A practical and encouraging workbook featuring exercises to help us rediscover and nurture our innate confidence

The difference between a successful and a disappointing life often comes down to a critical ingredient that we overlook at our peril: confidence. What makes one life cheerful, purposeful and energetic and another less so typically has nothing to do with intelligence or qualifications, but almost everything to do with the courage to try, the refusal to accept defeat, persistence in the face of obstacles, and ambition about what the future could hold for us.

A guide to psychological adulthood

We all know our physical age, but what is our emotional age?

Most of us long to be more emotionally mature and better able to face life’s challenges with poise, confidence, kindness and good-natured intelligence. We want to be proper grown-ups. But to become so means, first and foremost, that we have to understand the many curious ways in which we might not currently be as mature as we would have hoped.

The true ingredients of fulfilment

To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated, and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic on which ordinary mortals cannot make much progress. In truth, it is for all of us to wonder about, define and work toward a more meaningful existence.

A tool to explain our moods

It can be remarkably hard to tell other people how we really feel; it may even be tricky for us to get clear about our own moods. Mostly, if people ask how we are, we’ll just say, ‘Fine’ – knowing that we’ve provided only a sharp abbreviation of what is actually going on in our minds.

Ideas that shaped the world

Great Thinkers is a collection of some of the most important ideas of Eastern and Western culture – drawn from the works of those philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, artists and novelists whom we believe have the most to offer to us today.

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 of topics that clear the air, that reintroduce a spirit of fun, that draw us together, that make us remember what is really special about being part of a couple.