Getting Over Your Parents - Book
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Untangling Your Own Childhood
Our parents play a significant role in shaping who we are. Regardless of the nature of our relationship with them, our family of origin profoundly influences key aspects of our lives—our approach to love, our attitudes toward work, and even our sense of self-worth.
Following the bestseller How to Overcome Your Childhood, Getting Over Your Parents by The School of Life serves as a practical guide for navigating the complex legacy our parents leave behind.
By examining different types of parents—such as "The Preoccupied Parent," "The Overprotective Parent," and "The Controlling Parent"—the book provides a vocabulary to help us understand some of the strange and challenging ways parents can impact their children. It also offers advice on how to move past these inherited complexities. The focus is not on assigning blame but on fostering understanding.
This book presents constructive strategies for dealing with the lingering effects of a difficult childhood, encouraging us to reflect on the past so we can avoid repeating our parents' mistakes. Ultimately, it helps us pave the way for the creative, peaceful, and loving future we deserve.
Hardcover | 224 pages
Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
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Mind And Body Book
€22.00
A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony.
The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact of our body upon our mind is something that needs to be explored as it is easy to pay attention to one more than the other and to ignore the crucial balance between the two.
Hardcover book | 248 Pages
20x14 cm
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How to Overcome Your Childhood Book
€14.00
We don’t have to remain prisoners of the past, but in order to liberate ourselves from our histories we must first become fully aware of them.
How to overcome your childhood is an English book by The School of Life about such a liberation. We learn about how character is developed, the concept of ‘emotional inheritance’, the formation of our concepts of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and the impact of parental styles of love on the way we choose adult partners. We learn too about how we might evolve emotionally and, in particular, how we may sometimes need to have a breakdown in order to have a breakthrough.
We are left with a powerful sense that building up an emotionally successful adult life is possible so long as we reflect with sufficient imagination and compassion on what happened to us a long while back.
Topics Include:
- Emotional Inheritance – How emotional problems are handed down from parent to child
- The Golden Child Syndrome – How too much love from our parents can be just as damaging as too little
- Over-Achievement – How we compensate for emotional neglect through worldly success
- Splitting – How we fail to reconcile between the good and bad aspects of our parents
- Soothing – How we still require the kinds of affection we received as children
- Becoming an Adult – How recognising our immaturity is the key to growth
Content: Hardback book | 118 pages
Dimensions: 115 x 185 x 15 mm
Language: English
Hand Painted Tree Hugger Leather Bookmark
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Hand-painted and foil-embossed vegetable tan leather With 'Tree Hugger' embossed on the reverse. Each one is a completely unique combination of colours.
Ark Colour Design was founded in 2015, when they set about creating products which are fun and affordable, but also well-made. All their products are made by a small family-run manufacturer in Scotland. The leather is processed in their on site tannery and then cut and foil embossed to our designs. Because every piece is hand-finished with embossing, each one is unique to the next.
Made by hand in the Cambridge studio.
Height 20cm
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