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I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them InsteadI Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead by Byron Katie
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $7.26
As kind and gentle a book as the front cover suggests. Love is wonderful - except when we are searching for it, trying to hold onto it, or missing it. Once you've found love I recommend a technique my dear late Mother taught me: break its ankles, tie it to a metal bedstead and keep it gagged, clean, watered and fed through a tube.
Life's Missing Instruction Manual : The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at BirthLife's Missing Instruction Manual : The Guidebook You Should Have Been Given at Birth by Joe Vitale
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.40
A splendid book that will wear out the muscles in your neck - from nodding yes, yes, aha, yes, I see, yes... All of the things that your parents actually did tell you through the years while you weren't listening to them.
10 Days to Great Self-esteem: 10 Easy Steps to Brighten Your Moods and Discovering the Joy in Everyday Living10 Days to Great Self-esteem: 10 Easy Steps to Brighten Your Moods and Discovering the Joy in Everyday Living by David D. Burns
Buy used from: $14.67
Dr David Burns is a clinical psychiatrist and one of America's foremost authorities on mood and personal relationship problems. He knows more than I do. I'm just a clinical vanilla cheesecake removal expert and one of England's foremost authorities on throwing my toys out of my metaphorical pram. I loved this book - and it's working for me too.
Are you alright pet?Are you alright pet? by Ian G Hutson
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $21.92
We Brits tend to like our Health Services public and our Self-Help to be private. No yin-yang yoga and yak-hugging on the hillsides, just isn't on, can't be done. So, here's a very successful & simple technique to help a nation of shop-keeping animal-loving trifle-eating types to reclaim self-esteem, self-confidence and self-love - quietly, in secret and without fuss.
Snap Out of It: 101 Ways to Get Out of Your Rut & into Your GrooveSnap Out of It: 101 Ways to Get Out of Your Rut & into Your Groove by Ilene Segalove
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $0.01
Sometimes - when the sunlight is sufficient and the biorhythms are largely in sync, you need a book like Snap out of it! 101 ways to explode routine, liberate Mojo and transform your rut into a groove. Of course, try reading this on the wrong day and, well, Mojo might need an ambulance... Splendid book!
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and MadnessAn Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.24
This book scared me. Superbly written and supremely uncomfortable if, like me, you can occasionally be less than full of the joys of Spring.
Overcoming Low Self-Esteem Self-help Programme: A 3-part Programme Based on Cognitive Behavioural TechniquesOvercoming Low Self-Esteem Self-help Programme: A 3-part Programme Based on Cognitive Behavioural Techniques by Melanie Fennell
Buy new: $33.49 / Used from: $26.79
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to change unhelpful patterns of behaviour. I call it "covering up all of the mirrors on a bad day and only keeping plastic cutlery" but they have lots of fancy terms for it in here.
Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great AgainReinventing Your Life: The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again by Jeffrey E. Young
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.70
I find that the best way to communicate with experts - and by best I mean least violent and least litigious - is by reading their books. I quite liked this one. Clear, compassionate and liberating - but hey, enough of Clingfilm for underwear.
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Library)Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Library) by Pema Chodron
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $8.98
Baggage. Emotional baggage. There's a reason why we carry it. You might hate trailing sixteen cases through the airport but there's a reason why you checked them in! Ditto emotional baggage - it's all yours and there for a reason, so, accept the excess charge and get over it.