Author: The School of Life

A guide to our anxious minds; offering a route to calm, self-compassion and mental well-being. Far more than we tend to realise, we’re all – in pr...

Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. Ther...

This journal invites us to regularly check in on ourselves – what we want, where we want to change, and where we need to go – in order to maximise ...

To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic...

Most of us long to be more emotionally mature and better able to face life’s challenges with poise, confidence, kindness and good-natured intellige...

Children are used to hearing about how important it is to protect nature, but they may not fully understand how the natural world can positively im...

A thought-provoking and practical workbook with exercises to help you discover a career that is truly fulfilling. There are few questions harder o...

Everyone tells kids that art matters – but the truth is that very often it’s hard to know why it really does. Museum visits can feel like a chore a...

Children are rarely introduced properly to architecture, but there are in fact few subjects more important – because the quality of the architectur...

When Socrates, apparently the wisest man of antiquity, was asked to define our highest purpose as humans, he responded, ‘To know ourselves.’ The ad...

The difference between a successful and a disappointing life often comes down to a critical ingredient that we overlook at our peril: confidence. ...

Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causin...

In the first of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled its most essential ideas on love in order to produce a bitesize manual t...

In the second of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled its most essential ideas on self-awareness in order to produce a bitesi...

This is a journal to help us process our lives; to think more clearly about what we really want, what we are actually feeling and what might be hol...

A beautifully photographic therapeutic novel which teaches us about our own emotions through a young woman’s journey of self-discovery. This is a ...

It can sometimes seem a mystery why some couples stay together and thrive – while many more split up or drag on scratchily. While we might think ha...

It’s important to think about what others might be feeling, so we can understand the people around us better and be a good friend. But sometimes it...

An illustrated guide to emotions that helps children identify and articulate how they are really feeling. What Are You Feeling? is the first in a ...

Knowing how to be calm is one of life’s greatest skills, for even if we have every other possible advantage, so long as our mind is frantic, we wil...

Our parents are a huge deal: no matter what our relationship to them happens to be, who we are today (what love stories we get into, our attitudes ...

One of the things we all deeply crave, and all richly deserve, is a more exciting life. We know well enough that many things have to be routine, ha...