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Absolutely extraordinary...I needed this book 30 years ago.

Absolutely extraordinary...I needed this book 30 years ago.

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Full of sound, helpful advice with life skills, from building confidence to managing stress

It's so engaging that it's even led me to switch off my phone for several hours so I can read it, and in this social media-obsessed age, I don't think I can give a bigger recommendation than that

This book is a goldmine. I truly treat it like a handbook now - when I feel an unpleasant feeling brewing or come up against a tricky moment at work or in my relationships, my first thought is to wonder what Smith might suggest

So much advice on such a wide variety of things: it's brilliant. So helpful

The book's great. It's real, it's authentic . . . Very practical and very, very helpful

DR JULIE SMITH is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author and content creator. After working in the NHS and private practice, Julie made it her mission to make good-quality mental health education freely accessible across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. Her audience grew astronomically as users related to the bite-sized self-help videos she was sharing. Today she has over 10 million followers across the social media platforms and her content has had over 1 billion views.

Julie’s first book, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? , was an instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller, clocked up over 140 weeks in the UK Top Ten, sold over 1 million copies in the English language and was translated into more than 45 languages.

Julie is a regular expert on ITV’s This Morning and has been featured widely across the media and further afield. Julie is a proud ambassador for BBC’s Children in Need and has appeared as a guest on many of the most-listened-to podcasts, including The Diary of a CEO and The Mel Robbins Podcast . Julie lives in Dorset, England, with her husband, three children, ten chickens, three goats, two dogs and a cat.