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  • Published: 7 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241663943
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $40.00

Open When

A Companion for Life’s Twists & Turns





Million-copy bestselling psychologist Dr Julie is back with the book that will carry you through life's difficult moments

This is a book for when you feel overwhelmed – whether you’re facing grief, fear, self-doubt, relationship issues, difficult decisions, burnout, regrets or don’t know how to ask for help.

Each chapter begins with a letter from Dr Julie to the reader offering comfort and perspective. She then follows with her trademark simple and straightforward advice to help you see clearly how best to respond and act.

Showing you how to re-frame life’s complex problems, Open When . . . will help you navigate any crisis or tough moment and return to a place of calmness, strength and positivity.

  • Published: 7 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241663943
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $40.00

About the author

Dr Julie Smith

Dr Julie Smith is a clinical psychologist with over a decade of professional experience. She is also an online educator and social media star with a combined following of more than 3 million.

Julie launched her Tik Tok account to make her services more accessible; her posts on TikTok and Instagram have already amassed more than 20 million likes. She has appeared in two BBC films and on BBC Breakfast, CNN International and Radio 5 Live and has written for The Mail on Sunday, The Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph.

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Praise for Open When

Praise for the author

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Full of sound, helpful advice with life skills, from building confidence to managing stress

Sunday Times

It's so engaging that it's even led me to switch off my phone for several hours so I can read it, and in this social media-obsessed age, I don't think I can give a bigger recommendation than that

Bryony Gordon, Telegraph

This book is a goldmine. I truly treat it like a handbook now - when I feel an unpleasant feeling brewing or come up against a tricky moment at work or in my relationships, my first thought is to wonder what Smith might suggest

Stylist

So much advice on such a wide variety of things: it's brilliant. So helpful

Katie Piper

The book's great. It's real, it's authentic . . . Very practical and very, very helpful

Lorraine Kelly