StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life by Lyssa Danehy deHart

When it comes to self help books, I was always going to like one about ‘storyjacking.’ It appeals to the inner writer in me. In StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life coach Lyssa Danehy deHart outlines her seven step process to getting out of your own way and on with your life. She doesn’t pretend that

Start Where You Are: An Illustrated Journal For Self Exploration – Meera Lee Patel

A sucker for pretty books, a passion for scribbling, and an endless curiosity mean that I’ve tried plenty of journals over the years, but Meera Lee Patel’s Start Where You Are: An Illustrated Journal For Self Exploration has got to have been one of the most beautiful. Small and unassuming, this notebook focuses on embracing

Motivational Tattoos

Whether it’s a bad mood or severe mental illness, when we’re mentally or emotionally unwell it’s very difficult to fix. Unlike a grazed knee or broken arm there are no bandages or plasters to help the healing process, no spoonful of sweet medicine to ‘make it all better.’ Gone are the days when mum and

Derren Brown – Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

Derren Brown’s job is to use psychology to convince. When he’s up there on stage and entertaining audiences, he guiding those in front of him to believe things – to tell themselves stories that may not be true. So he’s pretty well versed on how the brain works. You’d think we might be by now,

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving A F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do – Sarah Knight

Most of us spend far too much time doing things we don’t want to do in places we don’t like with people we don’t want to be with for ends we don’t care about it. All because of what? Essentially, fear. Fear of the judgement and criticism of others. It’s this which zaps us of