Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (1038)

Content

Radio's Digital Dilemma: Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century

John Nathan Anderson

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States' digital radio...

Detox Your Ego: 7 Easy Steps to Achieving Freedom, Happiness and Success in Your Life

Steven Sylvester

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

What stops you performing at your best? Your ego. Your ego is your natural defence system, triggered...

How to Beat Panic Disorder One Step at A Time: Using Evidence-Based Low Intensity CBT

Paul Farrand and Marie Chellingsworth

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), initiated in 2008, has made psychological...

The Strength Switch: How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Helps Your Child and Your Teen Flourish

Lea Waters

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Unlock your children's potential by helping them build their strengths. This game-changing book...

ClareR (5674 KP) rated This Party’s Dead in Books

Feb 28, 2021

This Party’s Dead

Erica Buist | 2021 | Mind, Body & Spiritual, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences

9.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

This Party’s Dead is a book, unsurprisingly, about death, and whilst it sounds like it’ll be depressing, it’s anything but that. The book follows the author, Erica Buist, as she visits seven death festivals around the world. There is a reason: after her father-in-laws death where he was left in his house for a week before he was found, Erica experiences great anxiety, feeling ill-equipped to deal with the whole idea of death. She suffers with her mental health, so decides that she needs to do something to confront her fears surrounding death. She has lived in Mexico, so has some knowledge of the Day of the Dead, and this leads her to research other death celebrations .
It’s absolutely fascinating: we in the West have a very sanitised attitude towards death, and the cultures and countries that Erica visited couldn’t have been more different. It’s quite a sobering read in places, but there is a healthy dose of humour as well. It’s a really accessible, interesting and engrossing read. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this, and to Erica Buist for joining in.

Kudos

BookInspector (124 KP) rated Create your own calm: A Journal for Quieting Anxiety in Books

Jan 26, 2021

I was very interested to check out this journal because I wanted to find out more about anxiety and how to deal with it. All these terms regarding mental health are still new to me, so I was intrigued to find out more of the ways to identify it and deal with it. I have been sent a digital copy of the journal to review, so I am going to share my overview of what to expect. 🙂
The first thing that caught my eye was quotes written in watercolour! I have a weakness for beautiful quotes and watercolour art, and this journal has that on every second page! Also, this journal is a very well designed tool to write down your thoughts. There are plenty of prompts to guide you, and it makes you delve deep into yourself and your mind.
So, to conclude, even though I didn’t get the chance to actually fill in the journal, I really liked the way it is designed. The colours and the art are soothing and inspiring, and I liked that there are so many prompts to help with everyday and life fears and things that make people anxious.