The moving story of meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s journey into the wilderness and a near-death experience during his four-year wandering retreat is as inspirational as it is spiritual.

In his early twenties, Graham Caveneybegan to experience strange symptoms and was eventually diagnosed with agoraphobia. Drawing inspiration from the life of his late son, Gawdat has written a manual for happiness that is steeped in empathy. If you want to use this time to make a change, Behavioural Change Specialist Shahroo Izadi believes there’s only one way to make change last, and that’s to be kind to yourself. The Kindness Method was developed through a combination of professional training and personal experience and will leave you feeling empowered, positive and ready to make a change, whether it’s weight loss, cutting down on alcohol or improving your relationships. Behavioural change specialist and psychologist Izadi works a lot with food and alcohol addicts and says being that comfortable in our own skin is all about the way we talk to and treat ourselves: She told us: "Many of us wait to be kinder to ourselves once we've achieved our goals.Taking place over three invigorating and empowering sessions, this course will help you to create an honest snapshot of where you are today, gain clarity on where you would like to go, and really understand what might be standing in your way – and how to overcome it. She learned there that the evidence-based psychological programs proving most effective in treating addictions do not simply focus on how to change one habit. Shahroo’s first book The Kindness Method has so far been translated into 6 languages and been published across the USA. Understanding where your own emotional responses stem from and how they appear in your own body is an intriguing concept.

How to Feel Better is essential reading for anyone looking to make sense of a big upheaval, or those simply navigating the daily ebbs and flows of life.Statistics show that people from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds in the UK experience poor mental health treatment in comparison to their white counterparts, and are more likely to be held under the Mental Health Act. We see how her vacuum cleaner almost set her house on fire, how she was attacked by three bears, and why she can never go back to the post office. Anxiety itself is not a mental illness’, explains Eleanor Morgan in her sharp book Anxiety for Beginners: A Personal Investigation. We are somewhat surprised to hear from her that Macbeth is “too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”, because in the whole drama we find no trace of this milk of human kindness. By combining her own therapeutic style, personal experience and techniques learned from working in substance misuse, Shahroo shares simple steps that help strengthen your willpower like a muscle, so you can sustain motivation for the long haul.