Sane New World: Taming the Mind by Ruby Wax - Non Fiction Mental Health Self-Help Paperback

Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781444755756. Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks. Age Range: Adult. Overview. Sane New World: Taming the Mind is Ruby Wax's candid, funny and evidence-based exploration of why our own minds so often work against us. Blending memoir with mindfulness science, Wax draws on her personal history of depression and her Oxford Masters in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy to explain how habitual, self-critical thinking fuels anxiety and stress - and, more importantly, how we can retrain our brains to find calmer, clearer ground in a frantic modern world.. About the Book. In this new paperback edition, comedian and mental health campaigner Ruby Wax takes readers on a frank, funny and deeply personal journey through the workings of the human mind. Rather than offering vague platitudes, Wax grounds her advice in neuroscience and clinical psychology, explaining exactly how the brain's "monkey mind" chatter develops, why it spirals into anxious or self-defeating loops, and what can genuinely be done to interrupt the cycle. Drawing on her own experience of depression alongside her postgraduate study in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy at Oxford, she translates complex psychological concepts into accessible, often laugh-out-loud prose. The book walks readers through practical mindfulness exercises designed to build self-awareness, reduce reactivity and cultivate a calmer relationship with one's own thoughts. It has become a modern mental health touchstone precisely because it refuses to be preachy: Wax is as willing to mock herself as she is to share hard-won insight, making the material feel like advice from a witty, wise friend rather than a clinical textbook. Whether you are new to mindfulness or looking to deepen an existing practice, this paperback offers a structured, honest and genuinely useful route through anxious thinking towards steadier, more present living.. Written by a mental health campaigner with lived experience of