Showing results by author "Ruby Wax" in Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development

Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing about it wasn't either, but here we are. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health. While searching for inner peace and equanimity amidst global chaos, Ruby realises that, ultimately, the most challenging gauntlet we all must face is ourselves. I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was is Ruby's most honest and raw book to date.

Five hundred years ago no one died of stress: we have invented this concept, and now we let it rule us. Rest has become a dirty word, and our idea of satisfaction is answering the last email. We're sleepwalking through our own lives. Ruby Wax shows us how to wake up from this stupor with a scientific solution to modern problems: mindfulness.

Ruby Wax - comedian, writer and mental health campaigner - shows us how our minds can jeopardize our sanity. With her own periods of depression and now a Masters from Oxford in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to draw from, she explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress. If we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, rewire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world.

This workbook is a guide on how to drop anchor when life, and the world around you, gets too daunting. It's filled with exercises and information for when you're suddenly forced to confront the hard truths or as I like to call them, the BIG SIX realities - difficult emotions, uncertainty, loneliness, change, dissatisfaction and death. It isn't just about how to get through a pandemic.... Or the post-pandemic fall-out. It is a WAKE-UP call. One that will increase your awareness of every moment through mindfulness.

Stress ist heute allgegenwärtig und beeinflusst unseren Körper und unsere Psyche auf alarmierende Weise. Wir können gleichzeitig telefonieren und E-Mails schreiben, doch wie wir auf uns selbst achten und auf unser Inneres hören, haben wir verlernt. Ruby Wax rät uns zu einem wirkungsvollen Gegenmittel: Achtsamkeit. Mit Witz und Charme erklärt sie, dass Achtsamkeit nicht bedeutet, dass man sein Geschirr begrüßen muss, bevor man es abwäscht. Achtsamkeit bedeutet vielmehr, Stress und Druck zu reduzieren, indem wir Kleinigkeiten in unserem Alltag verändern und Gefühle und Gedanken wirklich wahrnehmen.