The Power of Now
Most of your suffering lives in the past and future. Peace is only ever here, now.
Emotional Intelligence
Understanding and managing emotions, your own and other people's, is a skill that can be learned. These books explain how emotions work and how to respond to them with more awareness and less reactivity.
They help with stress, anxiety, anger, empathy and the everyday work of getting along with others.
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Our essential picks in emotional intelligence.
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Most of your suffering lives in the past and future. Peace is only ever here, now.
Attached
Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Understand your attachment style, and your relationships start to make sense.
Attached
Understand your attachment style, and your relationships start to make sense.
Daring Greatly
Vulnerability isn't weakness. It's where connection and courage begin.
Feeling Good
Change the distorted thoughts behind low moods. The classic self-help guide to cognitive therapy.
Nonviolent Communication
Say what you need without blame, and hear others without defensiveness.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
A psychologist helps readers understand emotionally immature parents and heal from loneliness and self-doubt.
Burnout
Twin sisters explain how to complete the stress cycle and why burnout isn't a personal failing.
Dare to Lead
Courageous leadership means rumbling with vulnerability, living your values and having tough conversations.
Difficult Conversations
Every difficult conversation is really three: what happened, feelings and identity. How to handle all three.
Emotional Agility
Don't fight difficult emotions or get hooked by them. Approach them with curiosity and act on your values.
Emotional Intelligence
Understanding emotions, yours and others', is a skill that shapes your life. The book that popularized emotional…
Hold Me Tight
Seven conversations that help couples break negative cycles and build secure emotional connection.
How Emotions Are Made
A neuroscientist argues that emotions aren't hardwired reactions but are constructed by the brain.
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
A psychotherapist combines the life of Marcus Aurelius with Stoic techniques and modern CBT.
Leadership and Self-Deception
Most conflicts are fuelled by self-deception: seeing others as objects. A business parable about 'getting out of the…
Learned Optimism
Pessimism is a habit of explanation, and it can be changed. The research-based guide from a founder of positive…
Option B
After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg and psychologist Adam Grant explore how to build resilience.
Permission to Feel
Emotions are information. A Yale researcher's practical framework for recognizing and managing them.
Radical Acceptance
Freedom begins when you stop fighting yourself. Mindfulness and compassion for the feeling of not being enough.
Self-Compassion
Treat yourself with the kindness you'd offer a friend. The research pioneer explains why it helps more than self-esteem.
Self-Esteem
A practical, cognitive-behavioural workbook for quieting your inner critic and building lasting self-esteem.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
A therapist's practical guide to recognizing when you need boundaries and setting them kindly.
Thanks for the Feedback
Most advice teaches how to give feedback. This book teaches how to receive it, even when it's unfair or badly delivered.
The Art of Happiness
Conversations between the Dalai Lama and a psychiatrist about training the mind for happiness.
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