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    Katy Bevan

    Finding Quiet Strength: Emotional Intelligence, Embodied Awareness by Judith Kleinman

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    Finding Quiet Strength is a practical philosophy for meeting life with calm, confidence and poise. Judith Kleinman connects ancient practice with modern neuroscience to build emotional intelligence and an embodied awareness of how we hold ourselves.

    At its core are F.M. Alexander's principles of inhibition and direction (stopping, thinking and connecting), brought together with Chi Kung and Tai Chi. Hardback, 160 pages, 182 x 256 mm, with line drawings throughout.

    The aim is a deep, gentle self-acceptance, and from it a resilience carried in the body rather than argued for in the head.

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    Katy Bevan · Quickthorn Books

    Finding Quiet Strength: Emotional Intelligence, Embodied Awareness by Judith Kleinman

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    Finding Quiet Strength is a practical philosophy for meeting life with calm, confidence and poise. Judith Kleinman connects ancient practice with modern neuroscience to build emotional intelligence and an embodied awareness of how we hold ourselves.

    At its core are F.M. Alexander's principles of inhibition and direction (stopping, thinking and connecting), brought together with Chi Kung and Tai Chi. Hardback, 160 pages, 182 x 256 mm, with line drawings throughout.

    The aim is a deep, gentle self-acceptance, and from it a resilience carried in the body rather than argued for in the head.

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    Katy Bevan

    Quickthorn Books

    Katy Bevan publishes books about making from Stroud: on darning and mending, rag rugs, stitched social history and an artist blacksmith who changed his craft. Every title is printed in the UK in a small run, on recycled or FSC-certified paper, with no plastic on the cover.

    • Woman with short grey hair holding a copy of the book Intelligent Hands, against a grey backdrop
    • Woman with grey hair standing in doorway of stone building with white-painted wooden door
    • Woman holding open a book titled "On Mending" in a bright attic room with exposed wooden beams, potted plant
    • Flat lay of embroidery and mending supplies: wooden hoop with teal thread, wooden labels
    • Colourful collection of darned and mended textile pieces arranged on grey background, including patched fabrics
    • Light blue shirt with two patch pockets featuring appliquéd and stitched textile fragments in blue
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    • Light grey linen drawstring bag with orange cord, containing wooden darning egg, coloured wool on wooden bobbins

      Darning Kit with Wooden Darning Egg, Long Needles and Wool

      £15
    • Book cover with cream background, rust-red oak leaves with visible veining printed across lower half

      Collect Print Collage: Printing with Nature by Sue Brown

      £25
    • On Mending book cover: a darned Fair Isle cardigan in cream, blue, purple, red and yellow

      On Mending: Stories of Damage and Repair by Celia Pym

      £19.99
    • Intelligent Hands book cover: hands holding a ceramic hand-shaped dish decorated with blue birds and stars

      Intelligent Hands: Why Making Is a Skill for Life by Charlotte Abrahams and Katy Bevan

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    Quickthorn Books
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    Quickthorn Books

    Inspired byThe makers in her books, and the people who teach them

    Katy Bevan publishes books about making from Stroud: on darning and mending, rag rugs, stitched social history and an artist blacksmith who changed his craft. Every title is printed in the UK in a small run, on recycled or FSC-certified paper, with no plastic on the cover.

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    • Light grey linen drawstring bag with orange cord, containing wooden darning egg, coloured wool on wooden bobbins

      Darning Kit with Wooden Darning Egg, Long Needles and Wool

    • Book cover with cream background, rust-red oak leaves with visible veining printed across lower half

      Collect Print Collage: Printing with Nature by Sue Brown

    • On Mending book cover: a darned Fair Isle cardigan in cream, blue, purple, red and yellow

      On Mending: Stories of Damage and Repair by Celia Pym

    • Intelligent Hands book cover: hands holding a ceramic hand-shaped dish decorated with blue birds and stars

      Intelligent Hands: Why Making Is a Skill for Life by Charlotte Abrahams and Katy Bevan