You can’t move past the breakup. You feel stuck in cycles of rumination and pain.

This helpful guide provides brand-new therapeutic tools to revolutionise the way we overcome loss, and seek and welcome love, within and outside of ourselves.

We know heartbreaks are inevitable. We also know that somehow it is within our power to break free of the suffering and transform pain into meaning. Yet, somewhere between the sad songs, the late-night fixations, and the social media stalking, we get lost.

Alice Haddon, psychologist of over twenty-five years, and Ruth Field, bestselling self-help author, show us how we can dissect heartbreaks, mine them for strength and live our most empowered life. They also examine how society sets up women to fall into love traps and engage bad habits of self-sacrificing and enabling. With Alice and Ruth’s help, those patterns end forever.

Bursting with compassion, humour and courage, this book will take you into the actual exercises conducted at the retreat that they run. It will teach you how to:

•     face your deepest hurt without shame or judgment
•     ask for help and lean on the collective
•     be kind and forgiving to yourself
•     turn your heartbreak into love and pride

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Essential reading' SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE 'A book of hope' OBSERVER 'A marvellous tour of insights' THE TIMES 'A must-read . . . I couldn't recommend it higher' MICHAEL BALL What can a diseased brain tell us about being human, living our own lives better and helping those with dementia get the best from theirs? When Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with young-onset dementia at the age of fifty-eight, her brain was overwhelmed with images of the last stages of the disease - those familiar tropes, shortcuts and cliches that we are fed by the media, or even our own health professionals. But her diagnosis far from represented the end of her life. Instead, it was the start of a very different one. Wise, practical and life affirming, What I Wish People Knew About Dementia combines anecdotes, research and Wendy Mitchell's own brilliant wit and wisdom to tell readers exactly what she wishes they knew about dementia.

A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life.

Unlock your full potential and tackle life's challenges head-on with this practical workbook, guiding you through transformative exercises to boost your confidence and embrace every opportunity with self-assurance.

Feel more self-assured with this step-by-step workbook to help you overcome uncertainty and approach every situation with confidence. Life can be challenging, and it's normal to feel unsure of yourself sometimes. But when low self-confidence becomes a regular occurrence and you start avoiding certain situations because of it, it's time to find a strategy to start believing in yourself.

The Confidence Workbook contains practical tips, thoughtful advice and guided exercises to help you overcome self-doubt. Based on trusted mindfulness techniques, this workbook will fill you with the assurance you need to become your own cheerleader and focus on the things you really like about the person in the mirror.

Inside this book, you will find:

• A friendly and supportive approach, allowing you to calmly complete the exercises at your own pace
• Actionable advice for boosting your self-confidence and acting more assertively
• Tips on how to practise mindfulness and self-care
• Exercises grounded in research-supported cognitive behavioural therapy techniques

Based on Dr. Wolfelt's unique and highly regarded philosophy of "companioning" versus treating mourners, this self-care guide for professional and lay grief caregivers emphasizes the importance of taking good care of oneself as a precursor to taking good care of others. Bereavement care is draining work, and remaining empathetic to the painful struggles of mourners, death, and dying, day in and day out, makes caregivers highly susceptible to burnout. This book demonstrates how caring for oneself first allows one to be a more effective caregiver to others. Through the advice, suggestions, and practices directed specifically to caregiving situations and needs, caregivers will learn not to lose sight of caring for themselves as they care for others.

Over the past 120 years, successive governments have failed to make inroads into the problem of the substantial minority of pupils in our schools with poor literacy and/or numeracy skills.Ian Copeland examines the root causes of this failure and explains how, as early as 1880, thinking about the education of backward pupils became divorced from mainstream thinking.He discusses the idea of the primacy of innate mental ability as an explanation and organising principle, the inadequacy of our definition of terms and the confusion of the technical lexicon of backwardness with the vernacular.In a final chapter he argues that the British Prime Minister's view that 'a long tail of poor achievers has consistently marked us out from our economic competitors' is correct and set to continue.He says that this is due to the inclusion and exclusion inherent in our social class system and the dividing practices in our education system.Over the cycle of a century he notes that we have effectively closed off a solution to the problem of the education of pupils with learning difficulties through mainstream modifications to the curriculum, teaching style or class size.