Getting Over Your Parents - Book
€21.50
Untangling Your Own Childhood
Our parents play a significant role in shaping who we are. Regardless of the nature of our relationship with them, our family of origin profoundly influences key aspects of our lives—our approach to love, our attitudes toward work, and even our sense of self-worth.
Following the bestseller How to Overcome Your Childhood, Getting Over Your Parents by The School of Life serves as a practical guide for navigating the complex legacy our parents leave behind.
By examining different types of parents—such as "The Preoccupied Parent," "The Overprotective Parent," and "The Controlling Parent"—the book provides a vocabulary to help us understand some of the strange and challenging ways parents can impact their children. It also offers advice on how to move past these inherited complexities. The focus is not on assigning blame but on fostering understanding.
This book presents constructive strategies for dealing with the lingering effects of a difficult childhood, encouraging us to reflect on the past so we can avoid repeating our parents' mistakes. Ultimately, it helps us pave the way for the creative, peaceful, and loving future we deserve.
Hardcover | 224 pages
Dimensions: 19 x 13 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
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Rapeseed Wax Candle
€45.00
These scented rapeseed candles are all hand-poured into beautiful recycled amber glass jars in a small studio located in Amsterdam. The candles emit a warming glow and work well in everyone’s interior
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Pilton
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Ingredients: 100% natural rapeseed wax, essential oils, paraben-free botanical fragrances and cotton wick. Lids are aluminium and packaging is 100% plastic-free.
Size:
- 170ml equals a burn time of 45-50 Hours
- 500ml equals a burn time of 65 Hours (3 wick)
How to Overcome Your Childhood Book
€14.00
We don’t have to remain prisoners of the past, but in order to liberate ourselves from our histories we must first become fully aware of them.
How to overcome your childhood is an English book by The School of Life about such a liberation. We learn about how character is developed, the concept of ‘emotional inheritance’, the formation of our concepts of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and the impact of parental styles of love on the way we choose adult partners. We learn too about how we might evolve emotionally and, in particular, how we may sometimes need to have a breakdown in order to have a breakthrough.
We are left with a powerful sense that building up an emotionally successful adult life is possible so long as we reflect with sufficient imagination and compassion on what happened to us a long while back.
Topics Include:
- Emotional Inheritance – How emotional problems are handed down from parent to child
- The Golden Child Syndrome – How too much love from our parents can be just as damaging as too little
- Over-Achievement – How we compensate for emotional neglect through worldly success
- Splitting – How we fail to reconcile between the good and bad aspects of our parents
- Soothing – How we still require the kinds of affection we received as children
- Becoming an Adult – How recognising our immaturity is the key to growth
Content: Hardback book | 118 pages
Dimensions: 115 x 185 x 15 mm
Language: English
Pebble - Incense Holders
€30.00
Studio Arhoj's handmade Pebble incense holders are a pleasure to look at whether you have incense burning or not, perfect to make your home more fun for the summer time. The heavy glass with decorative elements is perfect for those longer incense sticks.
Important:
- Each Pebble is handmade and varies in size and shape, no two are exactly alike! These are made of clean glass containing no lead, not actual "crystal glass"
- Sizes may vary from 4-7 cm tall depending on the design.
- We have a selection of the Pebble's in different colours so please indicate a colour preference in the order note and we'll try to accommodate you otherwise we'll pick one at random for you.