SAYING ‘FUCK IT’ HELPS. IT REALLY DOES.
John & Gaia have been running Fuck It Retreats in Italy for 10 years. They wrote the international bestselling Fuck It books.
They live with their sons near the beach in Italy – spending their time walking on the beach and helping people around the world find freedom through a brilliant profanity.
Some Popular F**k It Videos for Your Delectation
The Original F**k It Video
About ‘F**k It’ being a spiritual way – we created this video for the release of the first book back in 2008.
It gained half a million views pretty quickly.
The Current F**k It Book
This is for the book ‘F**k It – Do What You Love’.
It’s a message from aliens to humankind – encouraging us to do what we love.
Shocking F**k It Retreats Video
We still get complaints about this one – it features our boys (eight at the time) talking about how tough life is and how ‘F**k It helps you survive.
‘Face Your Fear’ Video
This is an extract from the ‘F**k It Therapy’ book, set to one of John’s F**k It tracks.
We all get scared, this is how F**k It can work around that fear.
The F**k It Blogs
The Power of Lazy
It’s a wonder this blog post is getting to you, you know. What, with the state that I’m in at the moment. It’s only really because the latest series of Broadchurch that I’ve just binge-watched in 24 hours came to an unexpectedly early end just now, that I’m even here....
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How To Waste Time
I, John, seem to spend half my time encouraging people to spend their precious time on this planet caring less what others think and doing more what the fuck they fancy. And the other half encouraging very motivated and successful people to relax a little and play...
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The Power of Talking
There was a piece on Radio 4's Today programme recently about the elderly and depression: that half the elderly (in the U.K.) say that they have suffered with depression and/or anxiety. People put the main causes as the loss of someone close to them, or financial...
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What Should I Do?
With the current 'F**k It, Do What You Love' eCourse now underway with a band of thirty Doing What They Lovers, I've been contemplating how we make our decisions about what to do next in our lives. After all, people on our Do What You Love courses often agree with...
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Bye Bye Louise Hay
Louise Hay passed away a few days ago. Many of you will know of her amazing work. She's inspired millions of people around the world with her books (the first was 'Heal Your Body' published in 1976) and her healing, loving messages - primarily through the medium of...
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At peace with Monday
A theme has emerged in the last couple of retreats we've been teaching - an interesting way to look at acceptance. It involves the difference between being 'At Peace', and 'Peaceful'. And, even on this, a Monday, you may soon see that, even if you're not particularly...
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Happy Resurrection Day
We wanted to share some thoughts around 'resurrection' and looked up 'Easter'... and alternative names for today are 'Pascha', which sounds like our Italian 'Pasqua' (as it has a Latin root) and 'Resurrection Sunday'. So, Happy Resurrection Sunday. And, for the many...
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The Top Way to Sort Stress
In this series of blog posts, we've looked at the effects of our stress response on our health and our Top 3 Anti-Stress techniques. But to trump even those, this last post is about the TOP WAY to sort stress. So here’s a truism that may not surprise you – You tend...
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Top 3 Anti-Stress Techniques
In the last blog post we looked at how harmful our stress response can be to us (very harmful!). So let's look at the Top 3 Anti-Stress Techniques. Straight in at Number 3... What are you stressing about? Make a list. Everyone’s list is different. Something that...
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The Top 3 Effects of Stress
As you shake off the stress of the week, here's a little reminder of the effects of stress and why it's worth trying to experience less in the first place. We’ve called this ‘the top 3 effects of stress’ as if it’s something you’d like, something that it would be...
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Prepare to Laugh your Socks Off
Oh my, if you haven't seen this clip already, you must... CRINGEY HILARIOUS BBC LIVE INTERVIEW CLIP I watched it several times yesterday, cringing and giggling. Then when Leone (one of our sons) woke up and told me to watch this video with these kids, blah blah, I...
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Are You Mentally Well?
Mental health is talked about a lot more than it used to be. Celebrities will now talk about depression and mental health issues in a way that they wouldn't have before. Who is in that photo? This boy became a famous and much-loved man who's been very open about his...
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