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|summary=Nick Weatherhogg has been diagnosed as suffering from severe depression. Many of you will be nodding wisely and thinking that you know how he feels: but there are two points he wants to make here. You ''donThis isn't'' know how he feelsa diet book. This The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''his'' depression and only he knows what  There was a time, not that long ago, when it feels like was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high- if he's able fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to think or express how heelevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's feelinga problem, though. The other point Sugar is that there's a big difference between ''feeling'' depressed addictive and ''being'' depressed - ''fepression'' can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and ''bepression'' as he terms themcocaine. He's right: I've been there. Does that sound over the top? My feelingsWell, my experience will have been different, but I do know that it was hellish. He describes the experience as isn''a mental state in which your brain regularly and consistently lies to yout.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663662</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 12/1 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Jo Bird1635866847|title=Web to SuccessThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|summary=[[:Category:Jo Bird|Jo Bird]] (illustratorIt's strange, designer and… errr.. .wall tattooist) had a lightbulb moment about positive thinking, self-improvement and successthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The road to an improved self isnLavender Companion''t linear in a , I visited the author'change this thing s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and all will be fine' way; itthere's a web that connects picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and intersects several paths and subjects desserts - but I wanted that can be summarised under three headingscake viscerally. All successful people (socially as much as professionallyThere's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) know about self-awareness, personal development Then I started reading the book and emotional awarenessI was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. After having a shot at principles of self-improvement herself, Jo shares You get to fold down the fruit corners of her experience across a wealth of fields to make one heck pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a self-help problem. I ''loved'' this bookalready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152466622X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Ellen Guiney0760381267|title=Vietnamese VoicesVerdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago

|summary=Mary Ellen Guiney has been diagnosed at various times with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. ''The resulting treatment most important part of choice a garden is the conventional western medicine approach and drug regimens that brought with them unpleasant side-effectsone who enjoys it''. Determined to find  I've 'gardened' in a better vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a century. I know (most of symptom control, using her biochemical background, Mary Ellen begins to investigate alternative eastern medicine ) the basics but life has changed and therapies in addition I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to looking at the effect gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of nutrition projects for both indoors and exerciseoutdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answer. The results are here: this is Mary Ellen's story written in her own words.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524663123</amazonuk>So, how did it stack up?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick MbayaSarah Wilson|title= My Brain Is Out Of ControlThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating= 43.5|genre= Home and FamilyLifestyle|summary=Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. His career was going well '' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and he enjoyed making ill people better. His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their potential, often through precious life the uplifting power of musicway I want to. Life was good Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. But then In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524636649</amazonuk>1785633848

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan S Lee1394159544|title=Lean GainsRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45|genre=SportLifestyle|summary=I don't often begin a book by telling you what it 'Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'isn't ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.' but in this case I think it's important.  If you're a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking send an apple core to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book. You'll find some good advice about dietlandfill, but I'm afraid that much of it is going will take between 6 months and 2 years to go over your headdecompose. Of course you could always A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a sport seriouslydilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, if you I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I''are'' a serious sportsman then m looking at you ) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could find that go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of performance- but what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463493X</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Slater0760378134|title=Hollywood BeautyThe First-Time Gardener: Vintage SecretsContainer Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=45|genre=LifestyleHome and Family|summary=I have vivid memories from my youth of seeing If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the Hollywood beauties on the television or at the cinema garden and pick some fruit and wishing vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn''I'' could look like that and - of courset know where to start, no matter how I tried, I never couldthis is the book you need. The look of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Ava Gardner and Sofia Loren always eluded me. To begin with, I lacked knowledge. Despite being reasonably petite my oblong face was never going to look anything like Audrey HepburnIt's. I lacked quite a few of Brigitte Bardotcomprehensive: you's attributes too. Graduallyll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, I realised that developing my own style was the best way what you're going to gogrow, but Iwhat you'll confess that there are still ''elementsgrow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you' ll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the stars' looks which I'd love to copybook with a handy section on troubleshooting. ThatThere's where ''Vintage Secrets: Hollywood Beauty'' comes inalso a good glossary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655083</amazonuk> So, is it any good?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yuchi Yang1398508632|title=A Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple StepsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=45

|summary=Yuchi Yang has It had been on the cards for a registered dietitian for over twenty years while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and she's allowing us a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the benefit area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure ''without'' taking medicationrun a fridge, although she does stress that if you ''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctorfreezer and dehydrator. You can reduce your BP in six steps, which are actually She had a lot simpler than they soundcar - and fuel. Does it work? YesMost importantly, it doesshe had shelter: Ithis was not a plan to 've been eating this way for more than two years and I've gone from having live'very worrying' blood pressure readings wild just to getting a smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sortlive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael LongBjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)|title=The Mock OlympianI May Be Wrong|rating=45|genre=SportAutobiography|summary=It started with an idle conversation just before When the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of Dalai Lama adds his birthday present. It was ''Time Out's'words to your frontispiece, I' guide m inclined to the history of the Olympics and think it covered each of the summer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. Sarahdoesn's boyfriend James commented that with all t really matter how the running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most rest of the Olympic citiesworld responds to your book. Although Long had done a goodly number of runsI know, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed having read the book in two of the twenty three cities - London and Athensquestion, that Lindeblad would disagree with that thought. Now most of us would have left it He knows (and at core so do I) that, but that's not it matters very much how the rest of the Michael Long you're going world responds to come to know and love. He saw this book, because it tells the truth as a ''challenge'' and what's more he blogged about it and then wrote this bookis, in the early 21st century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524662887</amazonuk>1526644827

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Numba Pinkerton1732898731|title=The No Black ProjectBoy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese

|summary=I donThere was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't like shopping for clothes, but there's no valid reason why. believe their luck! I'm smallIt began with art supplies, but reasonably slim - a size 10 petite usually fits me perfectly - stuffed toys and I'm lucky to be able to afford to buy whatever clothes I wantthe like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The trouble is that I lack Boy's delight was in the confidence to know what is going to suit me and to be honest sense of order in his room: it's very difficult to get excited about a trip which will almost certainly end made him feel happy. As he grew up with another pair of smart black trousers and became a matching top. I never feel that I look particularly good in blackMan, but I've resorted to it because it can usually take me anywhere his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and is unlikely to cause offencebetter boxes. So, how did I feel when I was given a copy Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of ''The No Black Project''? Well, to be honest, I felt them has a little scaredpadlock...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1533506957</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Short1846276772|title=101 Things To Do When You're Not DrinkingThe End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=If you're thinking about giving up alcohol long termAnyone who is not an able, short term or for Dry January then you might be wondering if white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's going to leave one helluva hole in your social simply a part of everyday life. You might be thinking about what you'll do with the time you normally spend out socialising (just having a quick one White men will always come first. The able will come before you get the train homedisabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man..) as well as Even when those who wouldn't pass the time you spend recovering from having had medical become a part of an organisation it''just'' one too many the night befores rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. Sunday mornings will loom large as uncharted It's personally appalling and largely unknown territory. Robert Short has a few answers degrading for you - well 101 the individuals on the receiving end of them in fact - in a pocket-size book which should give you some inspirationthe bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722877</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tonia VojtkofskyErling Kagge|title=Keep Your Brain Stronger for LongerWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=45|genre=Lifestyle|summary=On Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the front number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book it says not mine. In my defence, I will say that our brains need as a well-rounded workout just like reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our bodies. A decade or two ago own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I wouldn't have given very much thought to this - my body ''and'' my brain seemed finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to get all the workout they needed without me adding to their burdensSouth Pole, but close on the beginning North Pole and the summit of my eighth decade I've noticed somethingEverest. He knows a thing or two about walking. I keep losing words: nothing majorHowever, you know, but this morning I couldnisn't remember the name of a flower which I hadn't seen since this time last year - until travelogue about half an hour later, whenany of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of course what it was means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no longer relevant. When you're young you doncontents' page and I haven't worry about what you'll suffer from in old agecounted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. As you get older you develop dreads and one Perhaps then, better thought of the biggest for people who are still hale and hearty is that they'll develop dementiaas a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722842</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margery Allingham and Julia JonesRichard Brook|title=Beloved Old Age and What to Do About itUnderstanding Human Nature: Margery AllinghamA User's the RelayGuide to Life

|summary=I have am a favourite cigarette lighterfirm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. That sentence may become more strange to you when you consider In my case, this is one of the fact that latter. Not so very long ago, if I have never smoked. had come across this book I don't know how d have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but I got it as a freebie donkeywould not have 'hit home's years ago, and I loved its curvy bronzed lines, and in the fact way that I had to click down on a button instead of rub against a flint-wheel to light itdoes now. I optimistically took believe it with came to me at uni in case not just because I found was likely to give it a girl good enough to be with even though she smoked (which took almost another twenty years, but thatfavourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's a different story) – therefore I was carrying something so evidently not a match as a potential match-makeru.s.p. Lateris that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, its semi-art deco styling made it perfect for so there is a play I was in oncepredisposition towards expecting to like the book, after which even if it dried up. Now doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it's more or less is a paperweight. But if book I can imbue such personal relevance in a bleeding fag lighterneeded to read, just think what all of culture can do?right now.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1501307363</amazonuk>1800461682

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lydia Pyne0753558378|title=Bookshelf (Object Lessons)Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown

|summary=Could you imagine a whole book dedicated to a single lump ''The marginal return of woodworking harder was, in fact, or a few sections of metal? I cannegative.''t assume it would be great – with or without said item being  That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It'an object with physicals no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, historical he had lost his health and psychological components''his job had little value. But shove He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some distorted tree bychanges. He did survive and came through stronger -products on to said wood or metaland richer. There is, and lo and behold you have see, a bookshelfdifferent way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break. Now you're talking – but could you even now imagine a whole book dedicated to it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307320</amazonuk>'

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Georgina Rodgers1523092734|title=Peace of Mind: A Book of Calm for Busy MumsWomen's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=35|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=The promise of ''She brings a book bringing me calm was too much hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to resist! live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. There it It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is, much in the titlenews, my job description (busy mum...well, that''A Women's just one of Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem desk. Now - to be trying clear - this book is not a 'how to finddisable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, peace of mindbut discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I have 've always thought that women need to sayrise above this, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my lifebe people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. I think the problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mumIf all women did this, those few men who is trying are violent to wear a hundred masks at the same time, and carry out a multitude of roles, this book isn't entirely sure what it's trying women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be, with everything from poetry and colouring used to mindfulness and recipesprove that they are big men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473635519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Merinda D'Aprano1529109116|title= The Essential Guide to Your Prep School Journey (Head Teacher in Your Pocket)|rating= 4.5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= As you might have gathered from the title, Call Me Red: A Shepherd''The Essential Guide to Your Prep School s Journey'' is pitched at parents who intend on using the private sector to educate their children. And clearly, these are the parents who will benefit most from reading the book. However, there is a great deal of general advice within its pages which will prove helpful even to parents whose children will be travelling through the state sector. So if this is you, don't discount this book immediately. Such advice includes ''Why is reading so important?'', ''How can I promote a brave learner?'' and ''Is the internet safe for my child?'' - you can see that these are universally applicable topics and topics that all parents appreciate advice about. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993550304</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomHannah Jackson|rating=4.5

|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-''I want the-Pooh talks an awful lot image of sense and we should a British farmer to simply be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life and person who may well have discovered the secret of happiness. Pooh's take on life is very simple and none proudly employed in feeding the worse for thatnation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts|title=One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=Have you ever worked at a task and found your mind wandering to something else? Do you find yourself breaking off what youI don're doing to answer an email? Do you try to multitask, thinking t think that you're being more efficient? Do you have far is too much to attend to, to complete and nowhere near enough time to do it all?ask.''

You The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do? : he knows that he'll be a farmer. Me tooIt's not always the case though. You need Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this bookwhen her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1137551909</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas W Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh1786495902|title= The Natural Health Service: How to Sound Cultured Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel Hardman|rating= 45|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Sometimes it can be hard Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to run share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the big dogs, and while I know time by 'keeping going': the names next day she went to drop in my field of workto cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, some wider cultural references can pass me by. This is especially true for those from before my time the political party leadership contests and so I then it was delighted party conference season. One night she had to find icons from all decades be sedated and centuries featured in this bookreturned home to begin long-term sick leave. Badged as ''the 250 names that intellectuals love That was what brought me to drop into conversation'' this book features quotes and biographical titbits covering big names from every sector – science, : 2020 was the year when the arts, philosophybins went out more often than I did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848319304</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tony CrabbeLauren Martin|title=Busy: How to Thrive in a World The Book of Too MuchMoods

|summary=Serendipity often brings you to the important books. Recently I heard myself say to was in a friend: great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesn't always translate well into writing, imagine the word 'I'm far too busy to do some of the important stuffgreat''being delivered with an eye roll and a sigh, through clenched teeth. It pulled me up short: there was definitely something wrong here - and then I had spent the opportunity to listen to an audio download best part of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. It''Busy'' s a volunteer duty we all do during the year, and normally I knew 'm happy to, but that it day the weather was something I ''had'' to do miserable and take notice of if I was miserable, and it all came to stop going ''backwards''a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife". Wow. Because that was what I was doinghad never needed this book more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B01727ER84</amazonuk>1538733625

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Kelly and Jonathan Pugh0008420386|title=Walking on SunshineFailosophy: 52 Small Steps to HappinessA handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth Day

|summary=How would you like 52 tips on how to be happierWhat do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? No this isnThey've all failed and - more importantly - they't an offer ve been willing to sign up to a dodgy website - itappear on Elizabeth Day's a small book which you could pop into a bag podcast to discuss their failures and which will give you tips, tools and positive idea about how you can make your life happier, less complicated and more fulfillingworked out for them afterwards. Open it at random, if that's what you feel like doing, or work your way through it reading one tip per week - theyYou're helpfully divided into ll find the four seasons - and savour just a couple results of pages of elegant writing which will give you something to think about or something positive to do (or not do - if you see what I mean).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722524</amazonuk>these discussions in ''Failosophy''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ilka Heinemann1504321383|title=101 Things to do Instead of Playing on Your PhoneSingle, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa Pateman|rating= 4.5|genre= LifestyleAutobiography|summary= There's 'You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a great joke I saw online recentlyman''. One cartoon person says  This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the other, ''What's your favourite position adults in bed?'' and her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the other replies girl (she''Closest to s usually fairly young) is rescued by the plug handsome prince who then marries her so I that they can still use my phone while itlive happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''s chargingwithout''the expectation that they will marry and have children. Itwas a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice's funny because it's true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072246X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brene Brown1538731738|title=Rising StrongSimple Abundance: 365 Days to a Balanced and Joyful Life|author= Sarah Ban Breathnach|rating=45

|summary=This is Brené BrownSomeone once said: it's fourth book. Like Elizabeth Gilbertnot self-indulgence, she is well known for her TED talk. As a professor at the University of Houston, she has spent the last 13 years working with peopleit's stories. Such a qualitative approach, based on anecdote and experiencetherapy! I think they were talking about shopping, is relatively rare in the social sciences but certainly makes her work more accessible it probably can be applied to laymenmost things. Her books fall into the 'self-help In my case, it applies to writing about things because I want to, rather than because I can sell it or because I' arena, but without any of the negative connotations of that term. Here she makes her research relevant ve got something to everyday life by weaving in pop culture references and telling stories from her family and professional lifesell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091955033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lee CrutchleySharon Blackie|title=How to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative WorkbookIf Women Rose Rooted|rating=45|genre=LifestyleBiography|summary=I gave up hoping for happiness normally say that you can tell how much a book means to me by how many years ago and settled instead for enjoying contentment when it arrived and trying pages have corners turned down. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting out to make buy my own copy before I've finished reading the most of itone I've borrowed. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful'Happiness' seemed to be rather like inspiring'privileges' life- something which you shouldnchanging't expect as of right. Most of – although it is definitely the first two and only time it works well, will tell about the third – but just occasionally an extra boost - clichés exist for a new approach - is needed. Lee Crutchley has suffered from depression reason and he knows that this book is I'm not going to help when you're clinically depressed, but those of us who have been down that road know that there are certain laybys where you stop and possibly turn aroundsure I can succinctly put it any better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241201950</amazonuk>1912836017

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Dawson1543987877|title=The Sty's the LimitLearn to Love: When Middle Age Gets MuckyGuide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan

|summary=Simon Dawson has met something he cannot beat. He can't come 'Learn to Love: Guide to terms with it eitherHealing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. ItThe two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''s called Getting Older: not the if you love'getting older' which we all do day by day, but that Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the moment when you realise that you've moved on to an entirely different stage in your life - re born and no one actually asked end only when you if you wanted die. Whilst we all come into the world hoping to go on give and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the journeysame mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For Simon it's Middle Age that's taken him by surprise: bits of the body have stopped working as they ought to and he's realised that if he's going to look in people who are making the mirrorsame mistakes repeatedly, bareself-chestedpreservation, then he shouldn't do it when he's standing next to in the form of resignation is a fit teenage boynecessity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409160858</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth SwadosMichael Harris|title=My Depression Solitude: A Picture Book|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you have ever suffered from depression you'll find it very difficult to explain to other people how you're feeling. You're not feeling ''just a little bit down''. A treat or a dollop In Pursuit of positive thinking will not miraculously cure you. You're definitely not swinging the lead, but suffering from a legitimate illness which deserves to be recognised. Elizabeth Swados is a long-term sufferer from severe depression: she's also Singular Life in a talented storyteller and has told her the story of how depression feels for her - complete with drawings, which fill in those gaps which words can never fill for any sufferer from depression.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609806042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=William Alexander|title=Flirting With FrenchCrowded World|rating=4.5

|summary=This is not the book I am not a bad linguistwas expecting it to be. For some reason I don’t tend expected it to be another self-help manual on how to struggle with languages too muchfind calm, especially when how to step outside the goal mainstream, but it is communicative fluency rather than precise grammatical accuracynot that at all. Instead of telling us how, and I’ve taught English as a foreign language in it is more about the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a handful natural part of countries tooour human life, so I and why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have some ideas found solitude and what has come of what does that, and doesn’t work with language acquisition eventually in adults. William Alexander is, perhaps, not so lucky. An American with a longing to be a Frenchmanthe final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he is devoting himself to learning wanders down the lingo alleys and much more, and chronicles by-ways that his efforts in thinking about this booklost art led him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649957</amazonuk>1847947662

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy Morin0753553236|title=13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoTiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as a psychologist and therapist her husband died suddenlyGo on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, but quirky even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things loveable (to you) habits which she must ''not'' doseem to annoy other people. She knew that she must not develop Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a sense little bit of entitlementeffort. Or put another way, feel resentment I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or succumb do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to self-pity. That was ten years ago: since then Morin has remarried and worked grips with numerous patients using the principles which she applied to herselfconcepts. She's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life I constantly fail and developed strategies to combat themthen I get cross with myself for failing. But the best thing which she makes clear Lack of willpower is that mental strength is not about acting tough - for instance, if you've suffered a bereavement, you need another burden to add to grieve - it's about having the mental wherewithal to overcome life's challengeslist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kemp1785785516|title=Caring for ShirleyFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin

|summary=John KempIt's wife, Shirley, suffered from dementia and loss of coordination and for eight years he was her full-time carer as she was unable very difficult to walk unaided (well, she classify ''Painting Snails'could': originally I thought that as it' - s loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but it was likely you're not going to get advice on what to result in a serious fall) plant when and took care of all her most personal needswhere for the best results. Probably The answer would be something along the most heart-breaking part lines of this 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part-time). I found out that Shirley didnthere's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you't recognise John as her husband - apart ll ever glean from 'give us a kiss'Casualty'', but that isn't really what the question book's about. There'wheres a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's John?life, but it didn' was usually t actually fit into the first which sprang to her lips in any situationentertainment genre either. Although she could often Did we have quite an affable disposition she was capable of kicking and biting when she was being a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'encouraged? Yep - that' to do something which she didns the one. It't want to dos an autobiography.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1479374245</amazonuk>