A THERAPEUTIC JOURNEY

AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETTFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of LifeThis is a book about how to optimise your mental health Written with kindness and sympathy it is a practical guide to emotional well being calm and psychological maturity Alain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of mental challenges from the mild to the severe It considers how and why we can get overly anxious or low how we can best understand our pasts and how they shape us and how we can build resilience so as to live wisely alongside certain difficulties At heart this is a book about psychological happiness about discovering equilibrium and meaning and finding our way to connection and joy This book does a wonderful job of making you realise that the thing you re going through and the way that you are isn t evidence of your inadequacy It s actually evidence that you are perfectly human Steven Bartlett author and host of The Diary of a CEO One of our most consistently illuminating writers on contemporary culture John Gray New Statesman