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The Gentle Reset: How to Take the Pressure Off and Actually Live Well
In her latest book and live conversations, psychologist and broadcaster Claudia Hammond offers a compassionate, evidence-based roadmap for navigating modern overwhelm. Rather than promising to eliminate stress, she shows us how to accept life’s realities, release perfectionism, and build a personal toolkit for calmer, more sustainable living.
I still remember the exact moment I felt the familiar knot in my stomach tighten: notifications pinging, an overflowing to-do list, and that quiet voice whispering that I should be doing more, better, faster. If that scene sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In a world that equates busyness with worth, feeling overwhelmed has become our default state.
That’s why Claudia Hammond’s recent work feels like such a necessary exhale. The award-winning presenter of BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind and author of Overwhelmed: Ways to Take the Pressure Off doesn’t offer another hustle-heavy productivity hack. Instead, during her Intelligence Squared live event (and throughout the book, which became Radio 4’s Book of the Week), she delivers something rarer: permission to be human, backed by psychology and neuroscience.
