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Actor, writer and television presenter Ruby Wax has also become a campaigner for mental health – at Downing Street, in a TED talk, 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 funny about her experiences of depression. Her new book, A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled (Penguin Life £14.99), out on 7 January, “reinvents mindfulness for people who don’t have 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, from 19 January to 13 February.
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