The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

Your child says "no" and something in you surges before you have decided anything. This is a short guided reset for that exact moment. We slow the breath to settle the nervous system, set a one-line i...

26 Aug 202513min

A calm Stoic meditation to close the day. We move slowly through mindful presence, a gentle review of the hours behind you, quiet acceptance of how the day actually went, and the wider view from above...

10 Jul 202513min

One complete Stoic meditation, built to be repeated. The idea is simple: a single practice you can return to every day, so the ideas stop being something you read and start being something you rehears...

23 Jun 202512min

A short clip with Erick Cloward, Stoic author and host of The Stoic Coffee Break Podcast, on the one idea that quietly runs most of our reactions: it is not the event, it is the judgment you make abou...

4 Jun 20254min

Five minutes to find your calm centre when everything around you is shaking. This short guided meditation uses a steady 4-2-6 breath, then asks you to name the turbulence rather than be swept up in it...

21 Mai 20256min

Amor fati means "love of fate", and it asks something harder than acceptance. Not just tolerating what happens, but learning to meet every turn of your life, the good and the painful, as if you had ch...

12 Mai 20259min

Ten minutes to start the day with a steadier mind. This guided morning meditation draws on Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus to help you anchor your attention, soften the reactivity that runs on a...

21 Apr 202510min

If you could only ever recommend one book, what would it be? For Donald Robertson, the writer behind How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, the answer is Plato's Apology: Socrates on trial, defending his ...

2 Apr 202513min