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.

A young person’s guide to careers, money – and the future

Have you ever felt confused, scared or even a little annoyed when an adult has asked, as if it were the most normal thing in the world: What do you want to do when you grow up? If so, you are not alone. Knowing what you want to do with your life is one of the hardest questions you will ever have to answer and it’s one that most adults are still grappling with…

Exercise your imagination; discover your true self

A unique and creative way to help us to learn about and understand ourselves.

A guided journal for vows, goals and aspirations

This journal invites us to regularly check in on ourselves – what we want, where we want to change, where we need to go – in order to maximise our chances of leading a fulfilled and contented life.

The journal helps us to carve out time to focus on someone it is too easy to neglect: ourselves. With the help of some well-focused and proven questions, the journal prompts us to clarify our goals, assess our options and plot a route to a flourishing future. This is a tool for a newfound feeling of lightness, creativity and purpose.

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 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.

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.

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.

Love is a skill, not just an emotion – and in order for us to get good at it, we have to practice, as we would in any other area we want to shine in

Here is a workbook containing the very best 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.

A guided journal with psychological exercises to develop self-understanding

One of the trickiest tasks we ever face is that of working out who we really are. If we’re asked directly to describe ourselves, our minds tend to go blank. We can’t just sum ourselves up. We need prompts and suggestions and more detailed enquiries that help tease out and organise our picture of ourselves.