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Fragile: Why we feel more anxious, stressed and overwhelmed than ever, and what we can do about it Paperback – 5 April 2019
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Stella O’Malley is the author of Cotton Wool Kids and Bully-Proof Kids. This new book moves beyond parenting books to general self-help and explores the reasons why so many people feel more anxious, overwhelmed and stressed than ever. The way that we are encouraged to emphasise our emotions, often causing more harm than good, and how we are misreading mental health messages is also scrutinised. With a particular interest in the rising levels of anxiety, she shows us how our increasingly perfectionist and materialistic society has created a society shallow and toxic that is high on expectation and low on satisfaction.
After examining why and how we feel so overwhelmed and anxious, the second half of the book focuses on tapping into our inner strength so that we can learn to stop giving our power away. More than anything, this book, with a series of simple thinking tools, helps the reader to move forward to a place where they can experience challenges to their mental health and yet feel adequately empowered to address their issues.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGill Books
- Publication date5 April 2019
- Dimensions15.1 x 2.2 x 23.4 cm
- ISBN-10071718322X
- ISBN-13978-0717183227
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When Michael Gill founded Gill & Macmillan in 1968, The Irish Times described it as ‘a welcome enterprise’ and hoped it would become a home for the best of Irish authors. Since then, we’ve published the work of great writers such as Noël Browne, Garrett Fitzgerald, Maureen Gaffney, Diarmaid Ferriter, Tom Garvin, Darina Allen, Fintan O’Toole, Tony Bates and Éamon de Buitléar, to name but a few.
We’ve been there in good times and bad, publishing books on every aspect of Irish life: from the 1960s bestseller Prayers of Life to How Stormont Fell; from Rachel’s Favourite Food to The Encyclopaedia of Ireland; from the heady high of The Pope’s Children in 2005 to the popular reissue of Soundings in 2010, when perhaps we all needed a bit more poetry in our lives. Each book, in its own way, captures a slice of life, a slice of the times we live in.
But it was really Michael’s great-great-grandfather who started our story. In 1856, Michael Henry Gill, then the printer to Dublin University, purchased the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, forming McGlashan & Gill, which in 1875 became M. H. Gill & Son. The bookshop, popularly known as Gills, was located on Dublin’s O’Connell Street for 123 years until it closed in 1979.
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Stella O’Malley is a psychotherapist, bestselling author, public speaker and a parent with many years’ experience working as a mental health professional. Stella contributes extensively to national media on mental health issues.
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- Publisher : Gill Books (5 April 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 071718322X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0717183227
- Dimensions : 15.1 x 2.2 x 23.4 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 490,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- 4,308 in Popular Psychology
- 16,889 in Practical & Motivational Self Help
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2020A management tool, a teachers tool, a counselors tool. A book for every parent.
I love Stella's writing. Straight to the point, no waffle.
Simply buy this book, along with her other two books.
You wont regret one page of it.
enjoy
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2019A deeply insightful look into what anxiety is. How debilitating it can be, why so many of us suffer from it and what we can do to help make ourselves calmer and more resilient.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2019I am reading this book atm great read and a lot to give to readers
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2020Great
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 April 2019This is by far one of the best books I've read on anxiety, depression and how to overcome or live with it in a positive, realistic and triumphant way. This book is like having a good friend in your house and that friend is you.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2019This is a great read full of interesting and enlightening stories. Well worth buying for anyone stressed or anxious
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2019Helpful and practical




