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  • Published: 12 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241707197
  • Imprint: Penguin Life
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.99

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.

The instant Sunday Times top ten bestseller

'Gently challenging, deeply empowering,' Julia Samuel, Sunday Times bestselling author of This Too Shall Pass


‘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 tack 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: 12 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241707197
  • Imprint: Penguin Life
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $36.99

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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Praise for The Uncomfortable Truth

'Have you got in my head? This book makes me feel like I'm back in the driving seat of life.'

Louise Thompson, author of Lucky: Learning to live again

'This is a necessity in your life. I absolutely loved it. Because it's everything I believe in and so much more.'

Lisa Riley

'Anna wrote this book as a stream of consciousness that just poured out of her. It's full of really insightful tools that help put things in perspective.'

Julia Bradbury, author of Walk Yourself Happy

'I can’t put it down, learning through every page. I didn’t realise how much I needed this book. Thank you Anna.'

Clare Bourne

'I love how the book approaches these truths, with the right balance of gritty realness and gentle compassion required. It’s a powerful resource and one that will make such a difference'

Suzy Reading

'Anna Mathur does it again - a perfect dose of practical and digestible therapy in a beautiful book. It's a friend and a professional in book form. Realistic and empowering discussion of uncomfortable truths with all of the compassion we know and love Anna for.'

Grace Timothy
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