if you’re looking for a read that's light enough to distract you from whatever you’re currently dealing with, but not so light that you feel frivolous or like you’re wasting your time, look no further. may i introduce you to dr natalie cawley and her memoir ‘just about coping’ about...
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‘quiet’ by susan cain is one of those books that is so hyped, one just expects to love it—at least if you are an introverted idealist who loves reading in general and psychology in particular. but to my surprise, i didn’t. now, don’t get me wrong, i didn’t hate it...
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'tara schuster’s ‘buy yourself the fucking lilies’ is equal parts memoir and self-help book. this is a combo that i usually enjoy very much. in life, things don’t always work out the way we want them to, and i find it refreshing to hear stories from people who’ve been there...
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'maybe you should talk to someone' is my kind of book. it ticks all the right boxes: it’s smart and funny, honest and touching. it gives me all the good feels, and it’s narrated by a badass female voice. that voice belongs to lori gottlieb. in her memoir, she recounts...
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first contact with the marschmallow test the first time i heard of mischel’s research was quite a few years back when i watched an hilarious youtube video of kids trying to resist marshmallows and other sweets. some succeeded. other didn’t. but all these kids with their gestures and wait tactics...
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in her fifth book 'braving the wilderness', brené brown tackles true belonging. and how this surprisingly involves, first of all, to belong - and be true - to ourselves. a manual for today's world and with that, it seems as if brown has written a manual on how to exist...
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‘self-compassion’ by kristin neff was a personal read for me. combining elements from both her own psychological research and her study of mindfulness into a kind of manual for self-reflection, she takes the reader on a journey from self-critic to self-appreciation. and if that sounds hard, that might be because...
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i finished this memoir in just over 24 hours and if it weren’t for things like sleep and social obligations, i would have read it in one go. what the book is about in ‘group’, christie tate tells her story from a borderline suicidal, albeit high functioning, loner to a...
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whereas no any prior knowledge of any kind is needed to follow the argument and teachings of 'the distracted mind', a love - or least tolerance - of fascinating, but dense academic reading is a must. psychology 101 textbook part one read like one of my psychology 101 textbooks. or...
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