{"title":"Audiobooks","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore a selection of our titles as ebooks and audiobooks - a way to explore our ideas on self-knowledge, relationships, work and more in the format that suits you best.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-simpler-life","title":"A Simpler Life","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe modern world can be a complicated, frenzied and noisy place, filled with too many options, products, ideas and opinions. That explains why what many of us long for is \u003cem\u003esimplicity\u003c\/em\u003e: a life that can be more pared down, peaceful and focused on the essentials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut finding simplicity is not always easy; it isn't just a case of emptying out our closets or trimming back commitments in our diaries. 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There is so much that worries us across our days and nights: whether our hopes will come true, whether others will like us, whether the people we care about will be OK, whether we can escape humiliation and grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToo often, we bottle up our anxieties or try to avoid looking at them directly. We are ashamed of how worried we are and end up feeling isolated and yet more worried. None of this is necessary. Anxiety is deeply normal and, like so much else that troubles our minds, it can be understood and brought under our control. We all deserve to wake up every day without a sense of foreboding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a guide to anxiety: why we feel it, how we experience it when it strikes and what we can do when we come under its influence. Across a series of essays that look at the subject from a number of angles, the tone is helpful, compassionate and, in the best sense, practical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have suffered for too long under the rule of anxiety. 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