How to Weaken the Hold of Addiction
The triggers for addictive behaviours are always rooted in painful, self-critical emotions. Sign up to our mailing list to receive 10% off your first order with us: For books and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop:…
Why Some Adults Can’t… “Act Their Age”
In contact with given challenges, we leave behind our adult faculties and slip very quickly into a child-like spectrum marked by panic, rage, despair, terror and appeasement. The specific occasions that shift us from adult to child can serve as…
How To Simplify Your Life #theschooloflife #shorts #simplelife
What many of us long for more than anything else is a simpler life… See the full film this exert is taken from here and explore more of our classic content:
Why Relationships Require Self-Love
No animal, perhaps, can hate itself except – of course – a human being: it’s one of the strangest, and most regrettable, flaws in our condition. This tendency to self-hatred is not only destructive of our spirit, it constantly undermines…
Why We Should Admire Planes
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The Fix For a “Boring Life” – Sei Shonagen – The Pillow Book
It feels natural, at times, to lament how boring our lives are. We do the same things each week, nothing special or exciting ever seems to happen. We enviously compare our dull routines to the adventures of others. An antidote…
Reparenting Our Inner Child
All of us have over the years made efforts to become adults, it can be at once grating and dispiriting to be told that there might, nevertheless, be an ‘inner child’ still lodged somewhere within us, holding us back. Sign…
The 7 Things You Can Do to Make a Relationship Work
We can spend a lot of time in committed relationships wondering, maybe with a fair amount of anxiety: do they love me? Might it all suddenly end? But perhaps less time asking the more salient question: what can I do…
Why Successful Love Requires Vulnerability
We can state the matter starkly: we cannot be good lovers if we don’t know how to be vulnerable. Sign up to our mailing list to receive 10% off your first order with us: For books and more from The…
3 Ways to Deal with Envious Friends…
Almost inevitably, somewhere along the path of our friendships, we are fated to stumble upon one of the most paradoxical yet universal of characters: the envious friend. The situation is as wounding as it is uncharted. How are we to…