Published in 2025
9 hours and 43 minutes
Suzy Reading is a mother of two, a Chartered Psychologist, Yoga Teacher, and Health Coach. She specialises in wellbeing: head, heart and body, helping people manage their emotions, energetic bank balance and the inevitable stresses of life.
It was her life experience of motherhood colliding with the terminal illness of her father that sparked her passion for self-care which she now teaches to her clients of all ages to cope during periods of stress, loss and change and to boost their resilience in the face of future challenges.
Suzy a founding member and contributor to the Nourish App for maternal wellbeing and the Psychology Expert for wellbeing brand Neom Organics. She figure skated her way through her childhood, growing up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, and now makes her home in hills of Hertfordshire, UK. She has nine titles on self-care and has just released her first deck of cards, ‘The Little Box of Self-Care’.
What is this book about?
IT’S TIME TO START LIVING LIKE YOU MATTER TOO
In How to Be Selfish, chartered psychologist Suzy Reading challenges everything we’ve learnt about selflessness, and dispels the widely accepted myths about what it is to be ‘selfish’.
Drawing on somatic therapy, neuroscience and psychology, alongside highly effective coaching tools and techniques, Suzy presents seven steps to guide you towards reclaiming your peace and your power. We can only become calmer, stronger, well-rested people by prioritising ourselves and also allowing others to fill up our cup. It is time to receive.
By reclaiming the right to self and honing the skills of self-advocacy, we deepen the authenticity of our bonds, we protect the energy to take care of others and also tend to our own needs and ambitions without depletion.
Understanding the true glory of being able to embrace ‘selfishness’ is our opportunity to break the cycle of stress and toxic productivity, disrupt patriarchal pressure and transform the way we live, love, work and parent.
‘The 7 steps to self-love everyone needs to thrive.’ – Dr Martha Deiros Collado, bestselling author of How to Be the Grown Up
‘This book is balm for the burnt-out. Wise, clear and compassionate’ – Anna Mathur, bestselling author of The Uncomfortable Truth
‘An empowering and important book for anyone who has always put themselves last’ – Helen Thorn, bestselling author of Get Divorced, Be Happy
