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Bluebird
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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In 2008, twenty year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life. Fast forward to 2014 and Jonny, together with Rethink Mental Illness launch a campaign with a short video clip so that Jonny could finally thank that stranger who put him on the path to recovery. More than 319 million people around the world followed the search. ITV's breakfast...
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Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Award-winning writer and nurse Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking yet practical perspective on death and dying in this frank, direct and compassionate meditation on the inevitable. From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as you take your last breath) to the ridiculous (lessons on how to close the sagging jaw of a corpse), Tisdale leads the reader through the peaks and troughs of death with a calm, wise and humorous hand. More than...
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Publisher
Hay House UK
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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How can you learn to truly love yourself? How can you transform negative emotions into positive ones? Is it possible to find lasting happiness? In this book, Instagram guru Vex King answers all of these questions and more. Vex overcame adversity to become a source of hope for thousands of young people, and now draws from his personal experience and his intuitive wisdom to inspire you to: *practice self-care, overcome...
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Clink Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
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...
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Icon Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Language
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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English
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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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Transit Lounge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
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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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
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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Publisher
Ebury Digital
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
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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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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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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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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When Cathy Rentzenbrink was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy. In 'A Manual for Heartache' she describes how she learnt to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult and overwhelming and how we can emerge from suffering forever changed, but filled with hope.
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Bolinda/Lagom audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
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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Publisher
Bluebird
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an extreme case, you probably don't know that you have it. What unhealthy habits and attachments are holding your life together? Are you unconsciously dependent on food? Bad relationships? A job that doesn't fulfill you? Numb, constant perusal of your phone, looking for what? My qualification for writing this book is...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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For decades, film and TV producer Brian Grazer has scheduled a weekly ?curiosity conversation? with an accomplished stranger. From scientists to spies, and adventurers to business leaders, Grazer has met with anyone willing to answer his questions for a few hours. These informal discussions sparked the creative inspiration behind many of Grazer?s movies and TV shows, including Splash, 24, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Arrested Development, 8 Mile,...
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Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Confidence helps us to lead a happy life and achieve our goals, and yet sometimes it?s all too easy to lack faith in ourselves. This book of simple, easy-to-follow tips provides you with the tools and techniques needed to shake off your worries with a positive, can-do attitude and boost your confidence in everyday life.
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Publisher
Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Having a healthy, positive sense of self-esteem enables us to avoid the obstacles that can hold us back and to really make the most of life, even when we face knockbacks. This book of simple, easy-to-follow tips provides you with the tools and techniques needed to feel better inside and out, making you a more confident and positive person.
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Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Accessible psychotherapy to put us back in touch with our emotions, from the Mental Health Consultant to Mad Men In this practical and fascinating new account of psychological suffering, pioneering psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel shows that we should focus not on cognitive behavioural therapy or medication, but on our emotions. We were all taught that our thoughts affect our emotions, but in truth it is largely the other way around: we have to...
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Publisher
Bluebird
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: if you want to lift a society up, invest in women. Candid and inspiring, in The Moment of Lift, Gates traces her awakening to the link between women?s empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the tremendous opportunities...
20) The switch
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English
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Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It?s time for the switch ? Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen?s house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn?t offer many eligible gentlemen ? So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...
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