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The Calm Workbook

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Category: Workbooks & Guided Journals

A guide to greater serenity

Most of us long to be a little calmer: too many of our days are lost to agitation and worry, stress and discord. Yet we know that we are at our best when we can manage not to panic and take challenges in our stride.

Fortunately, a calm state of mind is not a divine gift. Even those of us starting from a more agitated position can systematically understand and lay claim to it. Too many books on this subject simply explain what it would be like to be calm. This is a workbook that takes us through the practical steps required to actually become calm. It is filled with exercises and prompts that deliver the self-understanding and self-compassion on which true serenity depends. Furthermore, the book invites us to build calming routines into our daily lives so that what we learn can stick with us and change us for the long term.

Based on years of The School of Life’s work in the area of anxiety and calm, this is a landmark workbook guaranteed to bring about the calmer state of mind we long for and deserve.

Chapters include:

  • Learning to Handle Moods
  • Philosophical Meditation
  • No one is Normal
  • Global Pessimism

Hardback book | 192 pages | 222mm x 155mm

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Violet ★★★★★

I keep this on my nightstand and flip to the worry-audit page whenever my head won't quiet down at night. The prompts are short enough that I actually finish them instead of abandoning the book halfway. Three weeks in and I'm noticeably less keyed up by bedtime.

Madison N. ★★★★★

The two-minute breathing exercise at the end of each chapter is what sold me—I've been doing it on the train and it actually quiets my head. The writing doesn't lecture, it just nudges, which is rare for this kind of book.

Sofia H. ★★★★★

Three weeks in and the daily prompts have already made my evenings noticeably less wound up. The short sections on managing worry are easy to fit into a coffee break, which is honestly why I've stuck with it.