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                <title><![CDATA[Guest Post: Recovery at Christmas]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;">In this guest post, Sharon Hastings shares six proven strategies to engage with some of the perennial challenges to our mental health that can arise around Christmas.</span></p>]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Guest Post: Finding What Barbie Was Looking For]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jon Brown unpacks why he wore pink last night, and how a cultural phenomenon reveals the need for us to be 'More Real' (Among other things!)</span></p>]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Guest Blog: Know an anxious Christian? Five things you should say - and five you shouldn't!]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sharon Hastings, author of 'Wrestling With My Thoughts' and the forthcoming 'Tending to My Thoughts', writes about Anxiety for Mental Health Awareness Week</span></p>]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Guest Post: On Faith and Addiction]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p>Ally Gordon, author of 'Why Art Matters', offers up a searing and personal blog post about 'The Wolf at the Door'.</p>]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[20% Off Mental Health Resources]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we've put together a selection of IVP titles that encourage and support mental health, from inspirational biographies to insightful books on mindfulness and self-care. All 20% Off this month!]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Guest Post: Ten things I wish I had known about mental health before going to university]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sharon Hastings, author of Wrestling with my Thoughts, offers ten points to ponder as the new University year kicks off.</span></p>]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Five things you might be feeling on results day]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Results day. Whether you or someone you love is recieving good or bad news, there are certain to be lots of different feelings going round. Our Digital Marketing Editor, Tom Creedy, takes look at five of them, and suggest some ways to process them, with the help of a good book!</span></p>]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Wrestling With My Thoughts: A Year on from Publication]]></title>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">In this Guest Post, Sharon Hastings reflects on a strange year - which just happened to be the year in which her first book was published.</span></p>]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[First, comes Saturday]]></title>
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                <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Jonny and Joanna Ivey have written a profound and moving book about baby loss. In this post, they share the pain of their initial grief, and point to an unexpected source of hope.</span></p>]]></description>
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                <title><![CDATA[Resources for World Mental Health Awareness Day]]></title>
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">For World Mental Health Awareness Day 2020, we are sharing a range of resources to encourage, equip, and inspire. </span></p>]]></description>
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