How to change your life: From beating burnout and facing fears to helping your child's mental health, experts pick the books everyone needs
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by Anna Mathur. (Penguin Life £16.99, 352pp). In this punchy book packed with bracing common sense, psychotherapist Anna Mathur asks us to look our worst fears in the face. ‘We spend our lives finding new ways to skirt around the truths of life,’ she writes. ‘But avoidance of life’s truths carries the highest price of all. Burnout, perfectionism, addiction, anxiety, people-pleasing, grief, and so, so much shame.’.
. Among the ten fears she asks us to lean into are: ‘Some people don’t like me’, ‘I am going to fail’, ‘I will hurt people I love’, ‘life isn’t fair’, ‘bad things will happen’, ‘I will lose people I love’, and ‘I am going to die’.
If you ‘dive headfirst’ into those ‘uncomfortable truths’, Mathur writes, you’ll ‘feel less burdened by the troubles of the world on your shoulders and by the constant nagging voice of self-blame.’. So: face up to past and future uncomfortable truths, rather than hiding away from them. ‘In order to live a full and thriving life, you must live a risky one.’.
by Simon Gilham. (Ebury £14.99, 208pp). Successful CEO and now highly successful relationship guru Simon Gilham speaks to millions of his followers daily on social media, in short, sharp bursts of harsh wisdom. Here’s a collection of 101 of his mantras, in large print on one side of the page, with a brief expansion and explanation on the other side.
