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A guide to recognising and naming emotions and social experiences, with the aim of developing greater emotional clarity and understanding.

A practical introduction to making small changes easier to start, repeat and sustain by shaping cues, environments and everyday systems.

Explores awe through psychology, nature, art, music, spirituality and collective experience, asking how moments of wonder can change perspective.

Examines ageing, serious illness, autonomy and care, asking what matters when medicine cannot simply restore health or extend life indefinitely.

Presents a metabolic perspective on mental health, inviting readers to consider possible links between brain function, energy regulation and psychiatric symptoms.

Reflects on belonging, loneliness and maintaining a sense of integrity while staying open to connection across difference.

Explores breathing habits, nasal breathing and the cultural history of breath practices through personal experiments, science and conversations with practitioners.

Focuses on the relationship between food, anxiety and emotional wellbeing, with ideas for supporting mental health through everyday eating patterns.

Offers a structured approach to deciding which technologies genuinely support a person’s values and which may be worth using less.

Uses evolutionary biology to examine why humans move, why exercise can feel difficult and which common ideas about physical activity deserve reconsideration.

A practical guide to fermenting vegetables, fruits and herbs into krauts, kimchis, brined pickles, relishes and flavourful everyday foods.

Explores fibre, plant diversity and the gut microbiome, with practical ideas for gradually increasing the variety of plant foods in everyday meals.

A thoughtful challenge to productivity culture, exploring time, mortality, limitation and the possibility of living more deliberately.

A research-informed exploration of how habits form, why context matters so much, and how to make helpful behaviours more likely.

Explores how air quality, ventilation, light, temperature, noise and building design can influence health, comfort and performance.

Presents the theory that emotions are constructed through bodily signals, past experience, language and the contexts in which we live.

Challenges the idea that intelligence resides only in conscious thought, exploring how bodies, sensations and environments shape thinking.

An accessible introduction to lovingkindness meditation and the cultivation of compassion, joy, connection and equanimity.

Explores play as an important part of learning, creativity, relationships and wellbeing throughout childhood and adult life.

Connects mindfulness and compassion with engaged, everyday action, moving beyond the idea of inner work as purely personal self-care.

Explores deliberate rest as an essential part of sustainable work, creativity and a life that does not depend on constant output.

A practical introduction to mindfulness for children and families, with short exercises for attention, emotions and everyday calm.

A wide-ranging reference to fermentation traditions, processes and practical techniques for vegetables, grains, dairy, drinks and many other foods.

A reflective exploration of why people travel and how journeys, unfamiliar places and closer attention can broaden perspective.

A detailed practical guide to brewing kombucha at home, including techniques, flavour variations, troubleshooting and safety considerations.

Explores how daily timing—including light exposure, sleep, food and activity—can influence metabolism, energy and overall health.

Explores how modern comfort, convenience and reduced physical challenge may shape wellbeing, resilience and our relationship with discomfort.

Explores how expectations can influence perception, symptoms, performance and behaviour, and why the stories we tell ourselves can matter.

Explores how thinking is supported by the body, movement, physical surroundings and relationships with other people.

Offers practical ways to make more room for fun, enjoyment and spontaneity without turning happiness into another achievement project.

Offers practical suggestions for smoothing glucose responses through food choices, meal structure and timing, while encouraging readers to notice what works for them.

Explores appetite, food reward and the ways modern food environments can interact with human biology to encourage overeating.

Invites readers to see movement not only as exercise, but also as a source of pleasure, confidence, connection and wellbeing.

Explores dopamine, desire and motivation, and how the pull of what comes next can shape habits, ambition, relationships and satisfaction.

Examines illness, stress and trauma through a broad social and personal lens, questioning how modern culture can disconnect people from their needs.

Investigates how contact with natural environments may influence stress, attention, mood, creativity and our sense of wellbeing.

Presents breathing exercises aimed at improving breathing efficiency, tolerance to carbon dioxide and physical performance.

Explores belonging, purpose, storytelling and transcendence as four ways people can experience greater meaning in life.

Examines human evolution and the ways modern environments can differ from the conditions in which many aspects of human biology developed.

Explores links between food, the gut–brain axis and mental wellbeing, combining nutritional psychiatry with practical dietary ideas.

Presents a method for building change through very small actions, clear prompts and positive reinforcement rather than relying on willpower alone.

Explores loneliness, social connection and the public-health importance of relationships, belonging and community.

Offers an integrative approach to health that brings together breathing, body awareness, mindfulness, food, movement and rest.

An accessible overview of sleep science, exploring the many ways sleep is linked with learning, mood, physical health and daily functioning.

Explains the biology of stress and how prolonged activation of stress responses can affect the body, mind and health over time.