Rachel Lanning

This book explores ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied, and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of...

A guide to our anxious minds; offering a route to calm, self-compassion, and mental well-being.Far more than we tend to realize, we’re all—in private—deeply anxious. There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether our hopes will...

A guide to developing the art of finding serenity, not through meditation, but through understanding the sources of our anxiety and frustrations. Few life skills are as neglected, yet as important, as the ability to remain calm. Our very worst...

The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair and agitation. Seldom has the world...

A practical guide to being nice. Much of today's media tells us to be thinner, richer, and more successful. This book tells us how to be nicer. Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but we can all benefit from practical advice...

A guide to emotional healing and living a more self-accepting life. Behind many of our problems lies an often ignored factor: we don’t like ourselves very much. We are sufferers of self-hatred. We tell ourselves the meanest things. It’s because of...

"... A book reminding us of all the small moments we overlook when they happen."- Emma Gannon, Ctr Alt Delete podcast52 overlooked small pleasures, from flirtation and figs to cyprus trees and the pleasant exhaustion that follows an especially...

A book to offer clarity and guidance when facing the difficult decision of whether your relationship has a future. Whether we should stay in or leave a relationship is one of the most consequential and painful decisions we are ever likely to confront....

A guide to the art of failing well—with actionable tips and a gentle approach. This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing – in small...

The key ingredients to contented love—quintessential advice on relationships from The School of Life, with an approachable tone It can sometimes seem a mystery why some couples stay together and thrive – while many more split up or drag on scratchily....