Protecting our emotional safety, serving others, and exploring our inner and outer worlds is best achieved from a place of simplicity and self-compassion. These excellent new personal development books will help you achieve just that.
Fake Love / Gibson, Nova
“Nova Gibson provides guidance for those who have experienced narcissistic abuse. With over a decade of experience working with clients and an online community, Gibson helps readers identify, navigate, and survive this damaging form of abuse. The book covers behaviours of narcissistic abusers such as coercive control, gaslighting, pathological lying, and smear campaigns. It also explores the concept of trauma bonding, offering practical strategies to break the toxic cycle, protect oneself, and heal.” (Adapted from catalogue)
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality / Edmonds, David
“Parfit was a philosopher who argued for prioritizing the common good over our own individual interests and, from this, developed his own non-religious, grand unified theory of morality known as ‘Theory X’. Despite spending most of his life in cloistered institutions, Parfit had an enormous influence beyond philosophy in fields such as climate ethics and poverty relief. This biography aims to make his profound ideas accessible to a broader audience.” (Adapted from Catalogue)
A Philosophy of Walking / Gros, Frédéric
“This “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers–from Thoreau to Gandhi and Nietzsche. The book charts the many different ways we get from A to B, including the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, and the nature ramble. The author draws attention to other thinkers who saw walking as central to their practice. It’s an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.” (Adapted from catalogue)
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