We know how useful it can be to have a first aid kit to hand. A kit naturally can’t solve everything, but what counts is that it is immediately present and at once highly effective. It contains what’s most ur-gently needed to contain a situation – until calm returns or more substantial help can be called for.

This is a counterpart to that medical first aid kit, an emotional kit that provides a set of useful salves to some of life’s most challenging psychological situations. Hopefully we won’t face them very often (if at all), but knowing how we might respond can lend us an important degree of confidence and resilience. The kit is an artful collection of some of what the wisest and kindest, most experienced and most thoughtful people might say to us if they were beside us in a crisis.

Please note: this game contains adult content.

The School of Life was founded in London in 2008. With branches located worldwide, they are devoted to helping all people think intelligently about their emotions.