The sculpted soul - 11cm x 16cm
Small enough for a pocket. Kind enough for a difficult morning
If you have ever wanted something small enough to keep in a pocket, and kind enough to meet you on a difficult morning, these books were made for that. Not a programme. Not another version of the life you are supposed to be living. Just a few quiet pages you can pick up when the day tightens — and a journal beside them, for whatever you notice when you do.
£24.00 all six or £4.75 each
Published under The Sculpted Soul
Pocket companions. Brief, practical, meant to be used.
Tiny Manuals on Being Human are not textbooks, and they are not another set of instructions for a better life. Each one takes a single thread of ordinary human experience and holds it gently: calm, thought, gratitude, the morning, emotion. A sixth book, The Tiny Journal, walks quietly alongside them — the place where reading becomes practice.
They share the same 11cm × 16cm portrait format, the same spare typography, the same invitation: use them, write in them, keep them close. You do not need to be perfect. You only need to begin.
the six titles
Welcome to the quiet work of noticing and returning to yourself.
02 Thoughts
01 Calm
Thoughts
Calm
The mind is not the enemy. It is a nervous system looking for safety in the only way it knows. This manual works with thought rather than against it: how to notice the story, loosen its grip, and come back to what is actually here. The quality of a life follows the quality of attention.
A first companion for the days when the system will not settle. Short practices and plain words for signalling safety to the body, so calm is not something you chase, but something you remember how to return to.
04 Emotions
03 Gratitude
Emotions
Gratitude
Feelings are not problems to be solved. They are signals moving through a body. This is the companion for the moments when emotion arrives faster than language - surge, tenderness, irritability, shutdown - and for staying present without being swept away. Regulation is not suppression. It is room enough to feel.
Gratitude, practised small, is not a performance of positivity. It is a way of training the gaze - toward what is already present, already enough. A few minutes at a time, this book helps the mind find richness it had stopped seeing.
06 Journal
05 Mornings
The Tiny Journal
Mornings
The sixth book is not another set of instructions. It is a private, spacious place where the manuals become lived practice. Note sensations, thoughts, practices, small wins and reflections - in whatever way serves you. There are no rules, and no pressure toward perfection. Every small entry helps strengthen new patterns of calm and self-awareness.
£4.75
How you meet the first hour of the day sets the tone for everything that follows. A simple morning sequence for real life: short on time, full of demand, and still capable of a quiet beginning, so the day does not have to start already bracing.
How they are meant to be used
Read a short section. Write a line. Return often.
Read one short section in the morning or the evening. After a practice, open The Tiny Journal and write a line or two — how the body felt, what the mind predicted, where a little more safety appeared. Keep the manuals beside the journal. Circle what works. Return often.
Consistency matters more than intensity. Even one minute a day creates change.
Morning or evening
One short section. Not a Chapter. Not a course
Then Journal
A line or two: the body, the prediction, a little more safety.
Keep them close
Circle what works. The manuals live beside the journal.
the author
Simon Gudgeon
Sculptor, author, and facilitator. He creates retreats, journals, and practices that bring together reflection, nervous system awareness, and lived experience. Sound, breath, silence. Regulation before intensity.
100 Reflections on Life as It Is £16.99
The longer companion. Short pieces on attention, change, and life as it is. Keep it by the bed. Keep a Tiny Manual in the pocket.
The Gratitude & Growth Journal £16.99
Questions
Is this self-help?
It does not give you a five-step system. It gives you a way to look. People who are tired of being coached tend to stay.
how long is each reflection?
A few minutes. Designed to be read standing in a kitchen as easily as in a chair.
Do you ship outside the UK?
International orders through Amazon