A Manual for Being Human: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Finally! A book which takes psychological wellbeing across the lifespan out of the therapy room and into the mainstream. Dr Soph’s warm, reassuring and frank style will have you understanding yourself, your actions and your relationships without a hefty therapy price tag.' Finally! A book which takes psychological wellbeing across the lifespan out of the therapy room and into the mainstream. Dr Soph's warm, reassuring and frank style will have you understanding yourself, your actions and your relationships without a hefty therapy price tag.' -- Dr Karen Gurney, author of Mind the Gap The first part of any manual usually looks at how your machine has been put together and includes a diagnostic for problems. In AMFBH we started by looking at everything that made us the person we are - childhood, friendship, grief and loss, social media. The text is broken up with questions and exercises which make this really accessible as well as being helpful and illuminating. This part of the book can be tough - it’s revealing, unsettling, fascinating..but it can make you feel quite vulnerable. You can’t skip through this bit - its like trying to mend your machine without knowing what the problem is. This is about really understanding yourself and how you work. The main aim of this new book is to improve psychological well-being. Dr. Sophie’s expert knowledge and genuine desire to help others makes this book hugely impressive. Dr. Sophie Mort delves into reasons that lurk behind our struggles. She shines a super light on the entire life span. Providing clear insight and priceless knowledge, Dr. Sophie’s manual is the ultimate toolkit for better understanding ourselves.

Do you want to understand how your childhood affects who you are today? How it affects your relationship with yourself and others? How school, bullying, gender expectations and even the social media you consume each day affects your emotional wellbeing? Do you want to know what your emotions actually are, where they come from and how to manage them when they threaten to overwhelm you? Psychology at its most accessible and usable! Sophie takes us on a journey through our lives to make sense of how we think, feel and behave then helps us build a strong path to go forward and live our future lives well.' -- Dr Emma Hepburn, author of A Toolkit for Modern Life: 53 Ways to Look After Your Mind There is a damn good reason why people are struggling. We are not raised to understand ourselves. In fact, we are raised misunderstanding ourselves and fearing the very thing that makes us, us.’ There is a damn good reason why people are struggling. We are not raised to understand ourselves. In fact, we are raised misunderstanding ourselves and fearing the very thing that makes us, us.' Dr Soph Dr Soph is the therapist and best friend that the world deserves. The world of therapy and professional help is still so inaccessible to so many people and this book is a crucial and life changing one that should be placed in everyone’s mental health toolkit!' Scarlett Curtis

A Manual for Being Human is the motherlode, enlightening on why you might feel and behave how you do.' The Times Do you want to understand how your childhood affects who you are today? How it affects your relationship with yourself and others? How school, bullying, gender expectations and even the social media you consume each day affects your emotional wellbeing? Do you want to know what your emotions actually are, where they come from and how to manage them when they threaten to overwhelm you? We cannot control every aspect of our lives. We cannot be perfect at all times. We cannot please everything we meet. The good news is, we don’t have to.’ Through her book, Dr Soph manages to not only help us understand ourselves better but shares the therapeutic tools we can put in place to make life a little easier too. Insightful and robust and yet also, warm and personal, this book will stay with me for years.' -- Lucy Sheridan, author of The Comparison Cure

This book is incredible. So many things made better sense to me about myself and what I can do in future to make being human a bit easier. Your journey with this book will be completely different but here are some things I learned - This awe-inspiring book focuses on human experience. It is brimming with prompts, theories, techniques and tips for you to apply immediately. Honestly, we all experience occasions wrought with emotional and mental turmoil. Furthermore, it is well-known that therapy is just not available to the majority. That is why ‘A Manual for Being Human’ is such an important read for everyone. Offering optimal insight and undeniably useful guidance, the book feels like a breath of fresh air at the break of day. A Manual for Being Human is the motherlode, enlightening on why you might feel and behave how you do.' * The Times * Dr. Sophie remarks on the years she spent witnessing just how inaccessible therapy is for the masses. She points out the concerning fact that many problems are left to fester. People end up in therapy after suffering long-term anguish. Often, this is due to not accessing the fundamental coping strategies and ideas that are obvious to psychologists.This book was life-changing. There is no other way I could put it. It was kind of scary yet eye-opening and very insightful.