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Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again. A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, 'Reasons to Stay Alive' is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.
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Gill & Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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?Life can be demanding enough without us causing ourselves greater upset because we ?don?t feel happy?. Instead, let?s welcome all our feelings of distress, all our thoughts and beliefs about life?s challenges, and focus on transforming these in a way that is helpful for us.? In How to Cope, psychologist and clinical director of depression awareness charity Aware Dr Claire Hayes takes a good look at our thoughts and how they can affect us, demonstrating...
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Icon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Change can often seem like an impossible task, but this practical book will help you put it into perspective. With guidance from two experts, you?ll recognise the behaviours and thoughts that hold you back, and will develop skills to think more positively, act more calmly and feel better about yourself. Using the same tools employed by CBT practitioners, this book is full of activities and experiments to explore and challenge, stories and exercises...
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Clink Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Boss a bitch?Diet a hot mess? Broke after payday? Ghosted on tinder? If life feels like a constant hangover why not take five f**king minutes for yourself to decide what you really want. Slam on the brakes, kick off your heels and unplug from the social media circus. Stop Surviving - Start Thriving Live Like You Give A F**K will show you how to create the future you want, not the one that?s been shoved down your throat. It will shake and wake...
25) Her own rules
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Meredith Stratton, at forty-four the owner of six elegant international inns, is about to celebrate her daughter?s engagement. At this seemingly happy time in her life she begins to suffer from a strange illness that baffles everyone. Her doctor cannot find a physical cause for her debilitating symptoms, and, desperate for answers, she seeks the help of a psychiatrist. Through therapy Meredith peels back the layers of her life to discover the truth...
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Offering advice on how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding, this work teaches readers how to make friends easily, increase popularity, win people to a way of thinking, win new clients and customers, become a better speaker and arouse enthusiasm among colleagues.
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Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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The authors bravely share their unique stories of suffering from and eventually overcoming their own severe eating disorders. Interweaving personal narrative with the perspective of their own therapist-client relationship, their insights bring an unparalleled depth of awareness into just what it takes to successfully beat this challenging and seemingly intractable clinical issue. For anyone who has suffered, their family and friends, and other helping...
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Duckworth Overlook
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Laid out here are the eleven key elements that make up footballing greatness, in a thinking-man's study of the beautiful game. Highlighting such elements as Vision, Toughness, Graft, Endurance and Madness, A Cultured Left Foot is an insightful and amusing study into the finer points of the world's favourite game.
30) PS, I love you
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But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, one for each of the months after his death, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Three people, struggling to come to terms with great loss after the end of the war, search for peace in a small town's library in a heartbreaking novel of love and loss and the healing power of memory and words. In a small town on the land's edge, in the strange space at a war's end, a widow, a poet and a doctor each try to find their own peace, and their own new story. In Thirroul, in 1948, people chase their dreams through the books in the railway's...
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2018
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Map your habits, set your own goals, and treat yourself with the kindness you truly deserve. Shahroo Izadi has a revolutionary message: treating yourself kindly is the only way to make changes that last. She is living proof that her method works - after years of yo-yo dieting she shed over 8 stone (and has kept it off ever since). Professional training coupled with personal experience led her to develop The Kindness Method?, where traditional strict...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in-demand as it is today; we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we've grown uncomfortable with boredom and a lack of stimulation and distraction. In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey - described by TED.com as 'the most productive man you could ever hope to meet' - provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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The Invictus Games change lives and save lives.Created and spearheaded by Prince Harry, for whom this is a very personal cause, the Games are for current and former servicemen and women who have been wounded, injured or sick.Most races are about who gets to the finish line first. At the Invictus Games, even making the start line is an achievement beyond measure. Triple amputees, cancer survivors, multiple sclerosis patients, PTSD sufferers and many...
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Transit Lounge
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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James Murray recounts nine days spent in the remote and beautiful landscapes of the Northern Territory, yet this is much more than a book about bushwalking. A delicate hymn to the wilderness of Northern Australia, it is also a journey of personal exploration and self-discovery, and a passionate argument for a new way of living. The ways in which rampant consumerism and an obsession with the motor car have become so entrenched in people?s lives is...
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Ebury Digital
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, an academic GP, and Dr Liz O?Riordan, a Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon, are not only outstanding doctors, but they have also experienced breast cancer first-hand. The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer brings together all the knowledge they have gathered as patients and as doctors to give you and your family a trusted, thorough and up-to-date source of information. Packed full of all the things the authors wished they?d...
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Tobacco Research Council volume research paper 12
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Tobacco Research Council
Pub. Date
1973
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English
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Bolinda/Lagom audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Through his incredibly popular podcast, Motivate Yourself, registered psychotherapist Richard Nicholls set out to cut through some of the myths and misconceptions about self-help and offer effective solutions to real-life problems. In his first book, Nicholls looks at the science behind what works and what doesn't when it comes to making ourselves happy. He discusses how little changes to our thoughts, emotions, lifestyle, attitude, self-esteem, health...
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"... thoughtful tools for helping young people help themselves." -Library Journal Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how to apply specific skills to support your teen. Most parents find it frustrating when common sense and logical methods such as reassurance don?t seem to work to allay their teen?s anxiety....
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