How to Feel Better: A Guide to Navigating the Ebb and Flow of Life

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'A tender appreciation of life's beauty' Matt Haig, The Guardian In How to Feel Better, bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shares the advice that has seen her through life's ups and downs. From her etiquette for bad news to the words of wisdom she would like to pass onto her son, How to Feel Better is full of warm, gentle guidance and comfort for when you need it most. Previously published as A Manual for Heartache, this revised edition contains a new introduction from Cathy and an inspiring addendum of advice from other authors on what they do to feel better, whatever the world throws their way.

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Poignant . . . short on self-pity, but big on compassion and supremely big-hearted. It is a generous and important addition to an expanding shelf of therapeutic memoirs that help us blunder through modern life. -- The Sunday Times
The perfect choice for anyone keen. . . to make sense of any recent emotional upheaval -- Laura Barnett
'A tender appreciation of lifes beauty' - Matt Haig, The Guardian

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Cathy Rentzenbrink is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Last Act of Love, How to Feel Better (A Manual for Heartache), Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books, Write It All Down and Everyone Is Still Alive. It took her twenty years to wrestle her own life story on the page and she loves to use what she has learnt about the profound nature of writing the self in the service of others. Cathy has taught for Arvon, Curtis Brown Creative, at Falmouth University and at festivals and in prisons, and welcomes anyone, no matter what their experience, education, background or story. She believes that everyone's life would be improved by picking up a pen and is at her happiest when encouraging her students to have the courage to delve into themselves and see the magic that will start to happen on the page.