Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller 2022

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Mindfulness is a great skill … for building that ability to … notice your thoughts and let them pass without getting caught up in them. Worth a read but it’s certainly far from a comprehensive perspective of all the factors that influence mental (and physical) health and far too individualistic. Not that the text should be shorter, but the spaces, the whole pages containing a title, the chapter divisions and the pages with one or two paragraphs in massive font are all unnecessary and mere distractions (and a sad waste of paper), and all just to make a longer book, perhaps thinking that this will make it more interesting or worthier. While working for this news agency, Smith became the first woman after the Second World War to get hired for the newsroom.

It is always more or less the same with self help books but this one is just not worth the hassle of listening. The way you feel influences the type of thoughts you have (See the CBT therapy model The Hot Cross Bun | Dr Julie Smith (doctorjuliesmith. Filled with secrets from a therapist’s toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Embrace the opportunity to embark upon the profound path of self-discovery and resilience that this exceptional book offers. At the beginning of her book (her first, surely not her last) Dr Smith explains that said book contains the further "details" of her mini-clips.The first thing we read about the author in this book (in the dust jacket literally after the book's title), is that Dr Julie Smith is "a social media superstar . Stress and anxiety are both associated with states of alertness – but generally anxiety with fear and stress with responding to the threat of immediate danger. Excitingly, she is in front of the familiar bookshelves-and-plants background she uses for most of her TikTok posts, though today it is bare and not as set-designed as in her videos—it’s like seeing Pedro Pascal act against the green screen in those “The Mandalorian” behind-the-scenes outtakes.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I warmly recommend this book for everyone who wants to improve their mental health, and live more fulfilling lives. She reaches a large audience because she's thorough in what she does, but also simple - in the best sense of the word, she knows what's good for the spectator and how to reach him, she's indeed, and thankfully, no “celebrity” blabbing platitudes. A positive, practical handbook for better mental health from clinical psychologist and multi-million-follower TikTok sensation, Dr Julie Smith Drawing on her years of experience as a clinical psychologist, Dr Julie Smith's first book is a must-have resource for instantly better mental health. On long term goals we have to learn to counter-balance the stress of effort with the replenishment of rest.I would not say any of her tools are new but they are presented in a new way which makes it valuable. As a fully qualified and accredited psychotherapist, I can confirm I regularly use the material in this book. An essential mental-health bible for adults and teenagers’ YOU Magazine’If you want to feel like you have a therapist sitting across from you, empowering you with how to be your best self, this book is for you! I think more people are starting to realise that now and that’s helping to tackle the stigma around mental health. As a veteran reader of self-help books I look for original content and information that can be actually put to use rather than theoretical prose.