self
Suzy Greaves
No doubt about it, I’d had a tough day. I was facing big challenges at work and home. I’d thrown a handful of books into my bag that I needed to read before a meeting the following day, and was slumped on the sofa, feeling defeated. I started Real Love: The Art Of Authentic Connection by Sharon Salzberg (Pan Macmillan, £14.99, out 1 June) and it was exactly what I needed to read at that moment: ‘You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to deserve it. You do not have to earn love. You simply have to exist.’