The Emotional First-Aid Toolkit

Created by The School of Life, this box of wise emergency advice for 20 key psychological situations, including Friendship, Love, Sex, Work and Self.

The Emotional First-Aid Kit that provides a set of useful salves to some of life’s most challenging psychological situations. Hopefully we won’t face them very often (if at all), but knowing how we might respond can lend us an important degree of confidence and resilience.

This box contains wise emergency advice for 20 key psychological situations, including: Friendship, Love, Sex, Work and Self. This is a counterpart to that medical first aid kit, an emotional kit that provides a set of useful salves to some of life’s most challenging psychological situations.

Emergencies Include:

• ‘I can’t sleep’
• ‘I’m in the wrong job’
• ‘I might be turning into an addict’
• ‘I’m so envious’
• ‘I don’t know how to make friends’
• ‘I will never find the right partner’
• ‘I’m going to be disgraced’
• ‘I’m a failure, I’ve wasted my life’

How to Use the Kit

You might…

• Keep the kit somewhere close to hand in readiness for life’s most testing moments.
• Read through the whole kit to steel yourself for challenges you may one day face.
• Give one to a friend experiencing a moment of crisis.

Hopefully we won’t face them very often (if at all), but knowing how we might respond can lend us an important degree of confidence and resilience.

This tool contains adult material.