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ABC Bookstore Online UK
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Updated on 23rd November 2025
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Self help and personal development books…
…Designed to help you to be happy, healthy, successful and interpersonally, lovingly successful
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Welcome to The ABC Bookstore Online UK
Unlock the Keys to a Richer, More Rewarding Life – One Book at a Time
Self-help books have transformed our lives.
Studying personal development books moved us from being at the effect of others, to being independent causes in our own right.
Achieve autonomy, integrity, physical and mental health, personal growth, and mastery of your own journey through life.
Have a better relationship, an enjoyable career and a happy and healthy life journey!
Read the books we wrote about the books that made our lives so full and happy, and fruitful!
Each of our books is designed to help you now; to solve your problems; to achieve your goals; and to live the kind of life you will love!
Best wishes for a great life!
Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne
December 2025
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Manage your mind and your life by managing the tension in your body
Relax Your Way to a Better Life: Using Dr Jacobson’s Progressive Muscle Relaxation technique for physical and mental health
By Renata Taylor-Byrne
This book introduces the Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) technique, enhanced with breathwork, as a scientifically validated method to boost physical and mental health. Developed by Dr. Edmund Jacobson and refined over time, PMR helps alleviate anxiety, stress, chronic pain, sleep disturbances, and high blood pressure. It promotes resilience, immune system activation, and a natural sense of calm. Through engaging success stories, the book emphasizes rediscovering and practicing these relaxation techniques daily to enhance well-being without relying on medication, offering transformative benefits such as reduced anxiety, better sleep, and improved overall health.
To read more, please go to the Preface to Relax Your Way to a Better Life!
Life will seem a whole lot sweeter! Click: Relax Your Way to A Better, Happier, Healthier Life!…
Or click to buy the eBook or paperback on Amazon.
Now available as an Audiobook, here: Audiobook edition of “Relax Your Way to a Better Life.”***
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Transform your life with writing therapy
How to Write a New Life for Yourself: 20 Exercises to Guide Your Journey
By Dr. Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling
Unlock the transformative power of journaling and writing therapy with Dr. Jim Byrne’s guide, “Write a New Life.” Designed for emotional healing and personal growth, this book offers twenty strategic writing exercises to enhance self-regulation, reduce stress, and foster creativity. By sharing compelling stories of individuals—from a professor of psychology to a film producer—Dr. Byrne illustrates how writing can resolve conflicts, manage life challenges, and lead to a balanced, fulfilling life. Now available as an audiobook, this essential roadmap empowers readers to craft a brighter future through the therapeutic art of journaling.
Unsolicited reader testimonial:
“Hello Dr. Byrne. My name is Jackson, and I live in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I started listening to your book – How to Write a New Life for Yourself – on Audible this week and it’s excellent so far. Thank you for writing and publishing this book!”
“Cheers from Across the Pond.”
J.K., Atlanta, 12th June 2025.
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Don’t miss your chance to transform your life. Click to buy: How to Write a New Life for Yourself…
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For more information, visit: An Introduction to How to Write a New Life for Yourself!
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Or go to: Preface of How to Write a New Life for Yourself.
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“The power of self-help books lies in their ability to inspire change and cultivate resilience from within.”
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Don’t kick over the beehive if you want to collect honey!
Anger, resentment and forgiveness: How to get your anger under reasonable control
Don’t waste your life on dark emotions, when you could be having fun
If you want to stop wrecking your relationships, and other aspects of your life, by “kicking over the beehive”, then this book will help you significantly.
This book will teach you:
- eight insights into your anger management problem; which will help to calm you down;
- six ways to reframe your anger-inducing problem, so they become more manageable;
- plus two strategies for developing forgiveness; which will drain the resentment out of your brain-mind, and leave you more in control of your feelings.
Now available as an Audiobook: Manage your anger Audiobook.***
You will also develop a comprehensive understanding of the nature of anger in yourself and others. You will be calmer and more assertive as a result. Other people will become more open to you, and more friendly towards you. And happiness will return to your heart and your mind.
Change your life for the better, today!
Read about this book: Click: Anger, Resentment and Forgiveness; How to “get off it” with other people…
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Or see the Anger book on Amazon.***
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“Every self-help book you read is a step closer to realizing your aspirations and living the life you envision.”
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Managing conflict during festive celebrations!
Managing conflict and communicating effectively are skills; and here is the training course…
How to Resolve Conflict and Unhappiness: Especially during Festive Celebrations: Coping with and resolving frustrations, disappointments and interpersonal clashes at family celebrations …
Conflict in couple relationships, and in families in general, is a major source of human misery. However, with the right kind of instruction, you can insulate your social relationships from constant or repeated misery and unhappiness; and learn to have a wonderful life with your family and friends. The essential solutions to destructive social conflict have been assembled by Dr Jim Byrne in this book about how to re-think/re-feel/re-frame your encounters with your significant others; how to communicate so they will listen; how to listen so they can communicate with you; and how to manage your emotions and lifestyle for optimum peace, happiness and success in all your relationships. More…
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How to combine extreme self-care with realistic goals and action plans, using powerful ideas from moderate Stoicism, moderate Buddhism, better lifestyle self-management, and reframing of existing problems
Don’t try to be Superman or Superwoman. Better Spock than crock!
The Bamboo Paradox: The limits of human flexibility in a cruel world – and how to protect, defend and strengthen yourself
How to find the Golden Mean that leads to strength, resilience, and appropriate flexibility, in order to be happy, healthy and realistically successful
This book will help you to take a critical view of the idea that you should try to be Super-Strong in the face of increasing levels of stress and strain in work, and in life in general. It teaches a realistic approach to developing achievable levels of resilience, and rejects the idea that we can be (and should be) as flexible as a bamboo!
If you subject yourself to excessive stress, you will become like the boiled frog that did not notice the rising temperature of the water in the pan into which it had been thrown, until it was fully cooked! (Or, in human terms, burned out! Self-harmed!)
You do not have to be super-strong. Strong enough is good enough. You do not have to ignore your own feelings and needs. Your feelings (at their best) are guides to action. Learn to honour them! And you certainly do not have to put other people’s needs before your own!
Take back your personal power!
This book will teach you to stand up for your reasonable rights. The Bamboo Paradox: How to quit before you break down!…
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“Reading self-help books unlocks the doors to personal growth and transformation, guiding you to your true potential.”
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How to have a happy relationship, and what to avoid – based on case studies of actual lives of couples…
How to Build Your Own Love Island:
An easy to follow blueprint, plus seventeen illuminating case studies from the Couples Therapy Room.
How to Build Your Own Love Island – the new book by Dr Jim Byrne, a Doctor of Counselling with 26 years’ experience of couples therapy – offers a practical and research-based approach to cultivating deep, lasting love by treating love as a learnable skill rather than luck.
It guides readers through a transformative journey with tools and case studies to improve communication, intimacy, and connection in various relationship stages.
- Learn love as a skill: The book presents love as a conscious practice supported by relationship science and Transactional Analysis, emphasizing mindful choices over fleeting feelings.
- Practical tools for connection: Readers gain methods to communicate honestly, set healthy boundaries, and transform conflict into connection by understanding family patterns and operating from an Adult self.
- Support for diverse relationship journeys: Seventeen case studies illustrate healing, growth, and renewed passion applicable to singles, those recovering from heartbreak, and long-term partners seeking intimacy and joy.
Read the full book description online.***
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Read the Introduction here.***
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Take control of your journey through life!
Who Are You, and Where are You Going?
Transformative insights from psychology and the philosophy of psychotherapy
Find out who you are, and how to get off the low road and on to the high road through life!
This book explores the Greek adage “Know thyself” as essential for a fulfilling life.
It highlights self-awareness, personal purpose, and the impact of childhood experiences on adult behavior.
Key questions include:
Who are we (as human individuals)?
How did we get to be ‘wired up’ the way we seem to be wired up?
And how do we change and grow?
Encouraging proactive self-discovery, the author offers psychological insights and strategies for managing emotions, habits, and relationships, aiming to help individuals rewrite their life scripts and take control of the steering wheel of their life.
If you feel like you are lost, cannot get the world to relate to your self-identity, and cannot reach your desired destination, then this book will help you to get on track.
Click for more information: Explore who you are, and the road you are (non-consciously) on…
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“Self-help books are the compasses that direct your journey towards a fulfilling and successful life.”
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Get more of what you want – using the WDEP model
Pathways to Personal Growth and Success: Using the enhanced WDEP model…
By Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne, February 2025
This guide to personal growth combines insights from renowned leaders like M. Scott Peck, Julia Cameron, and Stephen Covey, covering topics such as holistic self-care, overcoming addiction, and setting SMART goals. It emphasizes the WDEP model as a tool for self-awareness and effective planning, integrating techniques like writing exercises and meditation to foster balance and purpose. Chapters include strategies for aligning goals with core values and using creative approaches for personal transformation.
- To read the Preface of this book, please click this link: Read the Preface.
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- See the book description on Amazon.
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– James Clear
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Worry kills us, even though most of our worries never materialize!
Cutting Through the Worry Knot!: How to Reduce and Control Your Anxiety Level: Using a whole body-brain-mind approach
Anxiety and worry can become things of the past, with this book.
Anxiety may be spoiling the quality of your life; frightening you and worrying you.
This book will teach you:
Nine ways to reduce your anxiety about threats and dangers;
a powerful relaxation technique to neutralize anxiety;
and some guidelines for managing your anxiety via your diet, exercise, breathing exercises, and sleep strategies. Cut out the worry and anxiety…
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Childhood trauma gets stuck in the body-mind, but can be flushed out!
Transforming Traumatic Dragons: How to recover from a history of trauma – using a whole body-brain-mind approach
This book is designed to help you:
to understand what trauma is;
the various forms of post-traumatic stress; including the nature of complex childhood development trauma;
and also, most importantly, to help you to recover from your traumatic past. Our major aim is to teach you how to slowly and cautiously process, or digest, old emotional traumas, so they can be healed. Heal your childhood or long-term complex trauma problems…
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You are what you eat (among other things). Feel better by eating better!
How to control Your anger, anxiety and depression: Using nutrition and physical activity
Nutritional deficiencies lead to emotional disorders –and well as physical diseases. But this book’s focus is on the link to mental health and emotional wellbeing.
This book will teach you about the links and how to avoid the negative effects.
The authors also present detailed guidance about how to change your eating and exercising habits, successfully, and without a lot of pain. Change your diet and exercise approach, and watch the negative emotions drop out of your life…
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Sleep is a form of nightly therapy. Inadequate sleep is an overdraft on your health account!
Neglect Your Sleep – Wreck Your Health and Happiness: Eleven ways lack of sleep damages you, and eighteen powerful strategies for getting great sleep!
This book will teach you about the major sleep destroyers and their negative effects on your body and mind; plus the negative effects of insufficient sleep upon your body and your emotional life.
You will learn the Top Solutions for improving your sleep, and overcoming insomnia! And you will gain enormous benefits, at home and in work, from improving your sleep quality and quantity.
Now available as an Audiobook: Sleep well, feel great!***
This book teaches fourteen key learning points about managing your own sleep needs. Adequate amounts of good quality sleep are essential for a happy, healthy life…
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Insomnia is a horrible experience. Here is the cure!
How to Sleep Well, Every Single Night: Quick solutions from the science of sleep
The goal of this book is to give you very precise, clear information about what you can do to improve your sleep quickly and safely, if you are suffering from insomnia.
Insomnia is a horrible experience which not only makes your life miserable, but it can also impact your weight, your anger management, and our physical and mental health. But it can be fixed, and the author of this book knows the solutions.
Powerful evidence is presented to convince you of the effectiveness of the various sleep solutions reviewed in this book. How to fix your insomnia problem, quickly and effectively…
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A marriage is a house that is built every day. Here is the blueprint for your house!
How to Have a Wonderful, Loving Relationship: Helpful insights for couples and lovers
Love is an innate emotion, but you have to know how to find it; and loving is a set of learnable skills!
If your parents did not love, like, respect and/or care for each other; or they failed to demonstrate active love for you; then you are going to have to learn from scratch:
– How to offer love;
– and how to communicate with the person you love.
This book teaches the essential skills of relating successfully to a person you love, in such a way that they will reciprocate your love. And this is the basis of a happy, joyful, fun-filled life!
Individuals who know and practice these relationship skills have happier and healthier lives!
Read the book – and get the benefits: Click: Get the love you need, by learning how to love…
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The Inner Couple model and these 18 principles will improve your relationship
How to Quickly Fix your Couple Relationship: A brief DIY handbook for serious lovers
This book has been specially designed to provide some quick relief up front. That means that, right at the start of the book, the author shares with the reader some of the most powerful insights into how to have a happy relationships.
He then helps you to complete a couple of exercises that take five minutes per day, which will begin to change your relationship situation almost at once. More…
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