The comedian and campaigner on considerable theatre,David Eagleman, the brilliance of Radiohead, and TED talks and a thriller you just can’t put downActor,writer and television presenter Ruby Wax has also become a campaigner for mental health – at Downing Street, in a TED talk, or at every opportunity – after obtaining a master’s degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from the University of Oxford. She is uncompromisingly honest and blackly amusing approximately her experiences of depression. Her new book,A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled (Penguin Life £14.99), out on 7 January, or reinvents mindfulness for people who don’t occupy time”. Her show,Sane New World – at which there will be walk-in centres open to the public with mental health professionals in attendance – is at the Arts theatre, London, or from 19 January to 13 February.
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Source: theguardian.com