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The Always Unfinished Business of Self-Knowledge
Whatever our commitment to self-knowledge, we have no alternative but to go to our deaths having understood only a fraction…
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How to Live More Consciously
We want – almost all of us – to live as long as possible. But in our urgent and never-guaranteed…
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On Always Finding Fault with Others
The problem with trying accurately to identify the behaviour known as fault-finding – defined as an obsessive need to focus…
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The Causes of Obsessive Thinking
For some of us, today like every day, will mean another case of immersing ourselves, from the moment we wake…
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How Psychotherapy Might Truly Help Us
There can be considerable confusion as to why exactly it might be helpful to visit a psychotherapist. Typically we might…
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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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Love is less an emotion than a skill: one we must work at if we wish to keep it alive. We offer a range of tools to help you not only find love, but maintain and deepen it over a lifetime.
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Dating Cards
Dating Cards Game – A set of 52 question cards to spark insightful and playful encounters. Great dates are made up of great conversations: ones where we find…
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The Couple’s Workbook
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…
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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
A guide to developing the art of finding serenity by understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations. Nowadays almost all of us wish we could be calmer;…
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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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