Life

Living wholeheartedly with Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly

Brené Brown is a superstar of the self-help world. Since coming to prominence internationally in 2010 through her TEDtalk on vulnerability, Brown has published five best sellers, toured the world as a speaker, hosts two popular podcasts, and leads a personal development enterprise that encourages folks to get vulnerable. Brown’s CV may tell us that she’s a researcher, teacher, speaker and writer but, first-and-foremost, she is a storyteller. I’ve not

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How Jane Harper’s The Survivors will make you a better person

Reading Jane Harper’s The Survivors not only had me wanting to solve a mystery but it challenged me to be a better person. What is it about crime novels that keep readers coming back – book after book? Some answers easily come to mind – comfort, certainty, courageous characters, and confirmation of the belief that “justice prevails”. However, it was only when reading Jane Harper’s latest crime novel, The Survivors,

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The books that change your life

The theme for our first Rise and Shine Book Club was “The books that changed your life”. But how do we find the books that change our lives? Whenever I ask the question, “What book changed your life?”, I am always surprised (and delighted) by the diversity of responses. Cook books. Memoirs. Novels. Self-help. History. Classics. Car manuals. But what is it about these books that make them life-changing? Is

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Create a meaningful life: Yes to Life by Viktor Frankl

A new book from Viktor Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything, sees three of the famous psychotherapist’s early lectures on life-meaning published in English for the first time. For those who have not come across Viktor Frankl’s work before, he is most well-known for his memoir Man’s Search for Meaning in which he wrote about his time in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany during WW2, and how

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