{"product_id":"9781916753136","title":"A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain de Botton's redemptive volume - now in paperback - charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alain de Botton, one of our era’s most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.” \u003cb\u003e— \u003cspan\u003eThe Marginalian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA Therapeutic Journey is a collection of essays about mental challenge and health. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is a practical guide to well-being and a source of consolation and companionship in what might be some of our loneliest, most anguished moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAlain de Botton explores how we can cope with a variety of forms of mental pain and illness, from the mild to the severe. It considers how and why we might become ill; how we can explain things to friends, family and colleagues; how we can find our ways towards recovery; and how we can build resilience, so as to live wisely alongside our difficulties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt heart this is a book about happiness - about regaining the thread of our lives, rediscovering meaning, and finding our way back to connection, warmth and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alain Botton","offers":[{"title":"The School of Life |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-10-18","offer_id":45663916130559,"sku":"9781916753136","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/71wWL0CNYnL._SL1500.jpg?v=1718380920","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781916753136","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}