Dr Chris Johnstone, author of Find Your Power and all-round good egg, recently delivered a talk at the Bristol Happiness Lectures. Sadly, I couldn’t make it to the event (ironically some of my own gut-wrenching mental health problems made it impractical), but thanks to the wonders of the internets and portable recording devices, the talk is available on YouTube.

For your pleasure and ease of viewing, I’ve plunked them below.

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I’ve started reading Find Your Power recently. It’s bloody good. Blissfully free of the usual self-help claptrap hyperbole, and it’s refreshing to see a Brit talking about mental health issues for once. Too many books in this genre are American imports written for the American market (which sounds terribly xenophobic when I don’t mean it to be), whereas this is very much a Brit writing style. Having a Brit chap write about brain health makes a big difference to me. Which is not to say I dislike American writing styles, it’s just something worth mentioning. Plus, I’m utterly rubbish at book reviews and recommendations. The mere fact I’ve mentioned it should be enough for you to work out that I like it.

‘Find Your Power’ by Dr Chris Johnstone (ISBN13: 9781856230506, ISBN10: 1856230503) is published by Permanent Publications and is available in paperback right now. Go buy it, chop chop.