We know how useful it can be to have a first aid kit to hand. A kit naturally cant solve everything, but what counts is that it is immediately present and at once highly effective. It contains whats most urgently needed to contain a situation until calm returns or more substantial help can be called for.

This is a counterpart to that medical first aid kit, an emotional kit that provides a set of useful salves to some of lifes most challenging psychological situations.

Hopefully we wont face them very often (if at all), but knowing how we might respond can lend us an important degree of confidence and resilience. This kit is an artful collection of some of what the wisest and kindest, most experienced and most thoughtful people might say to us if they were beside us in a crisis.