HOW TO PUT YOURSELF FIRST

A basic translation of this word is ‘controversy’, but there’s greater depth to the word taayeetbak. A more nuanced interpretation is the galling way someone might say one thing, while their actions tell you something else!

Calling all people pleasers! This book is for anyone who feels stifled, craves approval and acceptance or is plagued by the inability to say no. Please Yourself by psychotherapist Emma Reed Turrell offers an alternative for chronic people pleasers and includes techniques, real stories and ways to understand your behaviour – so you can begin to speak up, live bigger and learn to give yourself permission to put your own happiness first.

‘Please Yourself: How To Stop People-pleasing And Transform The Way You Live’ by Emma Reed Turrell (Harpercollins, £14.99)