When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably …

- Philippa Perry

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.

- Philippa Perry

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. The…

- Philippa Perry

Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, a…

- Philippa Perry

If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a…

- Philippa Perry

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions o…

- Philippa Perry

I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off…

- Philippa Perry

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

- Philippa Perry

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

- Philippa Perry