A Year to Change Your Mind
Ideas from the Therapy Room to Help You Live Better
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Publisher Description
'Twelve months' worth of smart self-help from someone you'd want on your team in a crisis ... genuinely useful, charming, comforting' - Guardian
'Compelling, warm and authoritative' - Viv Groskop, bestselling author of Lift As You Climb
'A compassionate book filled with useful tips to help us through life' - Claudia Hammond, bestselling author of The Key to Kindness
Help yourself to live a better life
Psychology underpins everything we do, determining the decisions we make, the relationships we build, the roles we play and the places we live, and our behaviour is further influenced by the changing seasons, encouraging many of us to fall into unhelpful patterns again and again each year.
In A YEAR TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, consultant clinical psychologist Dr Lucy Maddox explains how psychological processes thread through our lives, pinpointing those issues most frequently encountered in each month, and shows us how by reflecting upon past experiences, both joyful and painful, and considering evidence-based ideas from the realm of psychology, we can learn to live a more thoughtful, positive life that better prepares us for the future.
From the tendency to lack motivation in January and to experience red-hot anger in the heat of August, to the weight of expectation associated with that back-to-school feeling in September and the pressure to enjoy the December holiday season, we're shown recognisable features of behaviour over the course of the year. In sharing with us the most useful psychology ideas the author has learned in her 15 years as a clinical psychologist - ones she uses in her own life, and returns to time and time again with people who have come to see her for therapy - she provides plenty to think about that we too can put into practice to improve our own lives.
'Compassionate and easy to read, this book can lead us to better ways of living. It is filled with unpretentious wisdom' - Henry Mance
'A fantastic book crammed full of practical - and evidence-based - tips to shift your thinking' - Sonia Sodha
'Warm, assuring' - Independent
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s not entirely unreasonable to regard the self-development industry with a skeptical eye, but even the most cynical reader should be reassured enough by Dr Lucy Maddox’s credentials to give A Year to Change Your Mind a fair chance at improving their mental health. Maddox draws on her 15 years of experience as a consultant clinical psychologist to offer research-backed, science-based strategies for managing life’s challenges, establishing healthy practices and breaking out of negative patterns. Psychological explanations for everyday problems such as social anxiety, harmful self-talk and strained relationships are laid out in clear, personable language and presented alongside straightforward, encouraging solutions. Change, of course, doesn’t happen overnight and in tying the pace of this book to the natural rhythm of the year, Maddox discreetly eases the internal pressure and expectation to see immediate results. Each chapter ends in a list of bullet points that rounds up all the key information, so whether you choose to take it month by month or pick up where you need guidance the most, the advice in this genuinely useful read is relevant all year round.
