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Samantha Hardy

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski

The Nagoski sisters wrote this book for any woman who has felt overwhelmed and exhausted by everything she had to do, and yet still worried she was not doing “enough”. Sound familiar? With backgrounds as a sex educator and a choral conductor, they might seem unlikely experts on stress. However, what they bring to the

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Samantha Hardy

Invent your own emotion

While I was preparing our Working with Emotions in Conflict online course, I came across a great exercise and I’m going to challenge you all to participate! It’s from Lisa Feldman Barrett‘s book How Emotions are Made (an essential book in this field). As you may know, the bigger vocabulary we have to describe our emotions,

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Samantha Hardy

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall

The Storytelling Animal: How stories make us human by Jonathan Gottschall This book explains how humans are natural storytellers – in fact, storytelling may be one of the essential things that makes us human! Gottschall draws on research in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology to show how fundamental storytelling is in shaping our beliefs, behaviours

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