Real Talk: Lessons From Therapy on Healing & Self-Love

Real Talk is a book that provides techniques and wisdom from a therapist's toolkit to help readers have genuine, authentic conversations with themselves and start the journey of healing their past experiences and coping with the challenges of modern life. It covers topics such as trauma & inner-child healing, love, trust, and attachment, family, self-esteem, and sex, and teaches readers modern language and ideas about mental health, exploring self-love and self-understanding.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2023
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Real Talk is like having a kind, supportive, and wise one-to-one conversation with a great therapist.
- Abby Rawlinson, author of Reclaiming You

As thorough and pertinent as it is real, guiding readers on a journey to self-love.
- Charisse Cooke, author of The Attachment Solution

It's time to bring therapy out of the therapy room and into the real world.

In recent years, therapy and self-care have become familiar buzzwords, but it's clear that people are having to face their emotional difficulties without the tools and insight to work through them.

Enter Real Talk: A book to enable readers to have genuine, authentic conversations with themselves, and to start the journey of healing their past experiences and coping with the challenges of modern life.

Filled with techniques and wisdom from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimizing your mental health. Drawing on her experience as a qualified psychotherapist and applying her intersectional perspective, Tasha Bailey shares the knowledge and skills you need to change your life.

Tasha's straight-talking but compassionate style will help readers hold up a mirror to their present situation and make sense of their past. Delving into topics such as:

- Trauma & inner-child healing
- Love, trust, and attachment
- Family: intergenerational cycles of behavior, rupture, and repair.
- Self-Esteem, body image, and sex

Real Talk contains a collection of lessons that the reader might typically learn in therapy. Tasha teaches readers modern language and ideas about mental health, exploring self-love and self-understanding. Connecting psychological theory, lived experience, references from modern-day media, and case studies from Tasha's work to create a more current, creative, and inclusive approach to mental health.

By engaging in Real Talk, readers can develop the skills and confidence to have meaningful conversations with themselves, leading to greater self-awareness, self-love, and emotional well-being. This book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to improve their mental health and navigate the complexities of life with greater resilience and clarity.

Weight: 438g
Dimension: 141 x 224 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804190913