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The Uncomfortable Truth
  • Published: 15 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405968348
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

The Uncomfortable Truth

Change Your Life By Taming 10 of Your Mind's Greatest Fears




A guide to overcoming the 10 fundamental, uncomfortable truths in life that everyone will face from a 4 times Sunday Times bestselling author and expert pyschotherapist.

‘Some people don’t like me"

"Bad things will happen to people I love"

"I’m going to fail"

… these words underpinned my anxieties and nightmares. I bet they feature in yours too.

Our fears are anchored in the unavoidable truths of life; all things reach an end, bad things happen, and we lack the control we crave.

As an experienced psychotherapist, who’s had years of therapy, I realised that ploughing endless energy into trying to control the uncontrollable is keeping us all tired, wired, and worried. Ignoring fears doesn’t make them less true, it makes them more powerful. I decided to try a different tact and it changed my world.

Instead of doing everything I could to ease and avoid life’s uncomfortable truths, I sought a deeper acceptance of them. Through using this approach, my clients and I discovered that fear began to loosen its grip. We were living more intentionally and peacefully.

So, face your fears one a chapter at a time, and discover who you are without worry, doubt and people-pleasing holding you back.

  • Published: 15 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405968348
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

About the author

Anna Mathur

Anna Mathur is a psychotherapist and the bestselling author of Mind over Mother. She's passionate about taking therapy out of the therapy room and sharing her own personal and professional experiences to support mums through motherhood.

She shares supportive insights on her Instagram (@annamathur) and runs regular 'Mental Health' lives. Anna has appeared on Sky News, Good Morning Britain and BBC Three. She has been featured in Grazia, Stylist and The Telegraph. Her podcast, 'The Therapy Edit', has around a quarter of a million downloads and she has appeared on podcasts including Deliciously Ella, Control Alt Delete, Scummy Mummies, The Midult and Honestly.

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