Philip Cowell

**Winner of a Mobius award for best graphic design book and a Wood Pencil at the D&AD 2018 awards**From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including:The dashing dash - So-called "quotation marks"The colon: and on and on.The shouty exclamation!The three dots of...(Not forgetting the brackets)And even more

Stress takes a multitude of forms and, sometimes, is not even recognised as stress at all, but is accepted as the pressures of normal life. This book looks at the different kinds of stress and shows how mindfulness-based interventions can help both identify and deal with it. The aim is not necessarily to get rid of stress, but to use mindfulness to help us respond actively, and with kindness, to our stress.

This book explains the researched benefits of mindful journalling. Drawing on the author’s extensive writing experience, it is a thorough, practical exploration of how to use journaling positively, and how actually to break through the barriers and write.Topics include:· where to start (‘home is where we start from’)· writing your experience· recording key moments – or ‘steppingstones’· dealing with writer’s block · free writing and how to use it· other techniques such as recording and listing· letter writing and creativity· how to integrate keeping a journal with the mindful practice of letting go