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A Novel To Strengthen Our Love Lives
The founder and creative director of the channel, Alain de Botton, has written a novel called THE COURSE OF LOVE. If you enjoy the channel, you'll enjoy it. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full…
Psychotherapy
Having some psychotherapy is just about the most significant and interesting thing you could do to improve your chances of contentment - in relationships, at work, and with friends and family.…
What is University for?
Universities have a hugely prestigious place in our societies. We go there to be taught how to make a living. We should also perhaps be going there to learn how to live. Enjoying our Youtube…
The First Rule for Thriving Relationships
In relationships, honesty is key. Learn how to say what you truly feel by following this one simple rule. If you are looking for more rules to help guide your relationship, check out this…
How to Cease People Pleasing and Discover Happiness
One of the more curious aspects of the ways we are built is that it can take us a very long time indeed to work out what we need in order to be happy. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to…
The Agonies of Jealousy
Never feel bad about not being mature about jealousy: sometimes wisdom means recognising when wisdom isn't an option. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos,…
The Concealed Expense of Skipping Key Stages of Development
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A Writing Exercise to Help You Discover Yourself
In order to accurately reflect what we truly think we may have to not to agonise about every word, not to go back and correct anything - and instead, just to write down everything that comes into our…
LITERATURE: Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka is a guide to some very dark feelings most of us know well concerned with powerlessness, self-disgust and anxiety. This literary genius turned the stuff of nightmares into redemptive,…
How Not To Rant
When we next catch ourselves going on a bit too long on a topic – or, to put it bluntly ‘ranting’ – we should dare to ask ourselves where our behaviour is coming from. Enjoying our Youtube videos?…
Freud on: Channelling
A lot of what we long for and desire will never be ours; we might go out of our minds with frustration, were it not for a very useful manoeuvre first identified by Sigmund Freud: sublimation.…
Why People Develop Mental Illness
It sounds really strange to speak of the upsides of being ill. Surely there are only downsides? Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of…
The Enjoyment of Kissing
We know that kissing is pleasurable but the reasons why are a little mysterious; it may have a lot to do with feeling accepted. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio…
How to Remove Your Parents from Your Thoughts
The human mind between the ages of one and ten is infinitely attuned to its environment. A somewhat cold forbidding father or an erratic mother really may be all that are required to breed an…
A Handbook For the Recovering Avoidant
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LITERATURE - Charles Darwin
Darwin liked to say he had thought of calling his book “the Ascent of Man” - but that that would suggest some idea of progress. Rather what he wanted to do was show that despite the obvious technical…
Why Your Child's Drawings Matter
Children can’t draw very well in the technical sense - but their art has important value for us nevertheless. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and…
Concealed Musings: The Marriage
After seeing them only a few seconds, certain people prompt us to dream of spending forever with them. Crushes are sweet and deeply romantic, in a way. They are also an immature form of madness we…
The Hidden Strength Of Psychedelic Therapy
There is a form of therapy which is, right now, in most countries of the world, illegal but which stands to become a dominant way of doing therapy over the coming years and may be the principal route…
The Downfall of London
London's skyline was for decades protected by regulations governing the heights of buildings in the historic core. These regulations have now been torn up, and an unprecedented tower building-boom…
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