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Six Persimmons

Once we have learnt to draw value from inexpensive things, we can never be poor — whatever our ostensible level of wealth — and we can never be bored, however quiet things might have become.

Six Persimmons

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Victor Hugo and the Art of Contempt

Victor Hugo knew that people-pleasing carries grave risks — and it’s contempt that can save our lives.

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Self-Knowledge

Why We Sometimes Feel Like Curling Up into a Ball

True adulthood knows how much continues to be owed to the child version of oneself.

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Self-Knowledge

What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

CBT wants to help us to perceive how we now think: how unkind, jumpy, selective and cruel our mental processes can be and what we are missing out on as a result.

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Self-Knowledge

What is Body Therapy

Body therapy does the enormous service of speaking up on behalf of our numb and disenfranchised limbs

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  • Finding Love

The Importance of Being Single

There is no better guarantee of a successful relationship than knowing that we could — and can — manage perfectly well on our own.
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  • Self-Hatred

Why People Take Their Own Lives

If self-love deserves such sustained attention as a topic, it is because its shortfall is what can, in acute cases, be responsible for a choice to end one’s own life.
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  • Romanticism

Kierkegaard on Love

Kierkegaard insisted that through concentrating on Romantic love, we develop a narrow and impoverished sense of what love can actually be.
Kierkegaard on Love

Self-Knowledge

What is Art Therapy?

Art Therapy can help us to assemble a range of ever clearer portraits of our elusive true selves.

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Six Persimmons

Leisure

Six Persimmons

Everything has become abundant, everything is in reach; we can have produce from the four corners. Fruit is flown in…
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What is Body Therapy?

Self-Knowledge

What is Body Therapy?

The discipline known as body therapy starts with a basic and hugely persuasive insight: that our emotional problems will not…
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What is Art Therapy?

Self-Knowledge

What is Art Therapy?

One of the more surprising aspects of being human is that we often can’t tell other people or, more strangely,…
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