Barry Taplin — writer, guide, and calm advocate.
Author of Finding Calm: Creating Peace in a Busy World
Barry Taplin is the creator of MindYourHeadUK and author of Finding Calm: Creating Peace in a Busy World and Mind Your Head UK: Awareness, Stress & Confidence.
His writing draws on his own personal journey through severe anxiety, together with a lifetime of working with and understanding people. Rather than complicated theories or promises of instant solutions, Barry shares real-life experiences, observations and simple ideas that have helped shape the way he looks at anxiety, worry, confidence and contentment.
Finding Calm reflects a simple belief: that calm is not necessarily something we have to search for. Sometimes it comes from looking at ourselves, our thoughts and the world around us a little differently — and learning to appreciate the ordinary moments along the way.
Practical guidance and reflective collections for calmer days.
by Barry Taplin
Paperback £9.99 | Kindle £4.99
My own personal journey from severe anxiety to the other side. Written from personal experience rather than theory, Finding Calm shares the thoughts, lessons and simple ideas that helped me understand anxiety, regain confidence and find greater contentment in everyday life.
by Barry Taplin
How well do you understand the way you think, react and feel? And could a little more awareness help you handle worry and build confidence?
In this revised edition of Awareness, Stress & Confidence, Barry Taplin explores three connected parts of everyday life: understanding yourself, dealing with stress and worry, and growing in confidence. Through stories, questions and simple weekly exercises, he invites you to notice familiar patterns, question unhelpful thoughts and take manageable steps towards the things that matter to you.
Originally published in 2008 and revisited with eighteen more years of life experience, the book offers practical ideas without pretending there is one answer that works for everyone.
Read it at your own pace, try what feels useful and leave aside what doesn’t. Change doesn’t have to happen overnight. Sometimes it begins with one small step — a bite at a time.
by Valerie Taplin
A collection of pictures and poems gathered in Valeries Gallery, celebrating moments of reflection, nature, and everyday calm. A wonderful book of photographs taken around the picturesque South Downs in the UK and accompanied by a poem for each picture.
Words from readers and colleagues who have worked with Barry.
Just finished your book. It’s brilliant. I’m going to buy several copies to give to people for Christmas presents.
Yes, you are a good, kind man with a great sense of humour, common sense, and have the gift of having a parallel mindset with people and life itself.
I have found Barry an inspiration.
Barry acts as a career coach by helping people learn and accept their weaknesses and offers methods for people to work on them.
I have always admired his tenacity and willingness to move forward, both in the areas of work but most importantly in peoples' development.
Barry was a big inspiration to me for his constant engagement.
He had a vision and motivation.
Barry has the ability to create an environment based around trust, this allows people to take risks and test their own ability.
Barry is honest, diplomatic and always gives accurate and constructive feedback based on his experience, empathy and understanding of people at all levels he is dealing with.
Barry has the emotional management skills to understand different personality types require different management techniques.
I can rate Barry as one of the best.
Barry leads through relationship management.
“Calm isn’t something you find. It’s something you learn to create.”
Barry Taplin
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