Amy Birch – författare

Transform your outlook with this yearly guide to cultivating gratitude. Featuring daily prompts to encourage you to reflect and focus your thoughts, alongside more in-depth check-ins and challenges, as well as inspiring quotes to keep you motivated throughout the year, this is the only journal you need to bring positivity, happiness and thankfulness into your life. The act of writing is a powerful tool for improving mental wellbeing. Among other benefits, journaling about gratitude reduces stress, increases happiness and improves self-esteem. This flexible journal allows you to either jump start your day with five minutes of journaling in the morning or to take some time before bed collecting your thoughts, encouraging a good night’s sleep. Written by a qualified counsellor, and beautifully designed and illustrated throughout, this gorgeous journal offers a calming and supportive space to help you on your gratitude journey.

Att oroa sig är mänskligt och kan hjälpa oss att navigera bort från fara till trygghet. Men när oro går över i ångest och blir något som hindrar oss i vårt dagliga liv, behöver vi hitta strategier för att minska ångest och oro.Den här boken går igenom vad ångest är och erbjuder övningar och utrymme för självreflektion. Den är en kompis att hålla i handen och ta hjälp av för att tackla orostankar och ångest. I boken finns bland annat anteckningssidor för dina upplevelser (observation och gradering) och tips på hur du kan hitta ut ur ångesten, till exempel med hjälp av andning och mindfulness. Vackert illustrerad med lugna färger och ett format som är lätt att bära med sig.

Serien Fri från riktar sig till dig som är ung och mår dåligt. Hjälpsamma handböcker som innehåller konkreta tips och övningar, med fina illustrationer och luftiga sidor som gör de lätta att läsa. Allt är faktagranskat av professionella psykologer och psykiatriker.Amy Birch är terapeut och medlem i British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

 

Staying at home doesn’t mean that you have be stuck in front of the TV. This is the ultimate companion to help you beat boredom and to embrace your time indoors.Organized by mood, this book is packed with ideas on how to energize yourself, find your purpose, relax and reflect, get creative and connect with the world around you. Whether it’s for a rainy day or a weekend indoors, there are over 80 ideas to keep busy and to challenge your mind. Staying at home can be a challenge and this clever book will offer ways to keep you happy and healthy, from putting together a homemade exercise routine using everyday household items to creating your own home silent disco as well as ideas to help you discover a new hobby, such as learning a language or upcycling furniture. There are also tasks to keep you feeling engaged and proactive, with tips on lowering your plastic pollution and ways you can volunteer from the comfort of your home, as well as practical ways to help you stay connected with nature, from making your own bird feeder to star gazing from your window, and creative activities to help reduce stress and worry, such as journaling, colouring and crafting. Staying in is the new going out, and it’s so much more fun when you have ideas to keep you busy and entertained. These simple activities are full of tips and tricks to make your time at home as enjoyable as possible. You’ll never wonder what you can do with your spare time ever again!

Rein in your anxiety with this simple guided journal.Worrying is human. Worry can help to keep us safe and warn us of potential dangers. But when worrying becomes anxiety, and begins to get in the way of our everyday lives, we need strategies to overcome it.Written by a professional counsellor and full of ways to help you understand and take control of your anxiety, this book is the ideal guide to help you dial down that constant worry, tackle unhealthy thought patterns and build habits to help prevent anxiety from taking over. Full of guided exercises and spaces for self-reflection, as well as beautiful illustrations and inspiring quotes, it is perfect for the over-worriers everywhere.