These are books I have enjoyed and recommend to clients wanting to explore time, life and purpose.
📚 How to live, love, learn and connect…
Passionate, perceptive and much-treasured meditations on the natural world and what connects all living things. Mary Oliver’s collection of poems in Devotions.
📚How to spend time…
Draws on the insights of philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers. Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks is a great place for exploring your relationship with time.
📚 How to live a life and find purpose…
Nod to Socrates (the unexamined life is not worth living). Psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his experiences in creating thought-provoking tales of everyday human experience and exploring purpose in life.
📚 How to get unstuck…
Using emotional agility to quieten a judgemental inner voice – Emotional Agility by Susan David. This is a relatable and practical book (more behavioural than existential). Psychological tools for addressing an inner negative chatterbox and move towards thriving in life and work.
📚 How death teaches us about life…
One of the most beautiful books I have read in recent years: A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom. An existential exploration. What it means to have a good death, and what it means to live with loss. This is a book that is centred around grief and loss, but explores purpose, intimacy, love, and grief.
📚 Challenging your perspective…
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest does what the title says it will!
📚 Making sense of suffering …
Viktor Frankl’s classic Man’s Search for Meaning is a challenging and very thought-provoking book. Explores how we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it and move forward with renewed purpose.
📚 How to love...
Conversations on Love is a collection of essays by a range of writers exploring how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime.
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