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Open When Spiral-Bound | 2024-12-31

Dr. Julie Smith

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Clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Julie Smith (@drjulie) returns with this highly anticipated handbook full of "break in case of emergency" advice for dealing with mental health challenges in the moment they occur.

Open When is the book clinical psychologist and online sensation Dr. Julie's readers and clients have long been anticipating. In this essential guide, she teaches how to navigate life's toughest occurrences while they're happening, rather than moments or even years after the fact. What if we could learn to harness our emotions and stay present in the moment, processing and choosing how to respond to a situation? The possibilities for improving our lives is breathtaking.

Picking up where Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? leaves off, Dr. Julie shares the research-backed concepts and powerful skills we can use to weather vulnerable moments. Written with the accessible format her fans have come to embrace, Open When guides us through some of the stickiest situations, including:

  • When it's hard to be with yourself: facing vulnerability alone, dealing with your inner critic, imposter syndrome, what to do when everything feels pointless.
  • When it's hard to be with other people: dealing with betrayal, what to do when you got it wrong (or your parents), how to let yourself be loved.
  • When it's hard to be with your feelings: coping with loneliness, fear, and hopelessness
  • When you're healing from the past: getting out of a trauma response, when you can't stop thinking about old events, learning how to accept and move on.
  • When you're looking to the future: how to stop making the same mistakes, tackling uncertainty and finding your path, even when it seems impossible.

Open When teaches each of us to find and listen to the positive voice within when we need it most, and to care for our future selves and our mental health.

Publisher: HarperCollins
Original Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336 pages
Item Weight: 1.0 lbs
Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.0 x 8.5 inches
"Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need." -Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the "Dear Therapists" podcast, on Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Dr. Julie Smith has over ten years' experience as a clinical psychologist and was the first professional to use TikTok to give insights on therapy. After running her own private practice, Julie launched her TikTok channel with the mission of making top-quality mental health education accessible to all. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her audience grew astronomically to 3 million followers as users related to the bite-size self-help videos she was sharing and put her advice into practice. Those videos have clocked up around half a billion views across platforms. Julie has appeared in two BBC films. She has also appeared on CBBC, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, and CNN International and is the BBC Radio 1 Life Hacks psychologist. She has been featured by Women's Health, Buzzfeed, The Telegraph, The Times, The Sunday Mail, Glamour, CNN and more. She was also named by TikTok in the top 100 creators. She lives in Hampshire, England, with her husband and three children.