It can be a somewhat unexpected source of peace of mind to find just the right word to suit your mood or describe your state of mind. This mot juste proves you are not alone, because someone somewhere, at some point in time, has felt exactly the same as you—to the extent that they had the foresight and wherewithal to come up with a word to describe it.

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The Cabinet of Calm is a unique collection of fifty obscure and unusual words  just like this, each specially selected and described to provide a little solace, comfort, and reassurance in difficult times.

 

Each of the chapters here is dedicated one of the toughest, most challenging, or most worrying times any of us can face—from despair and sadness to loss and grief, homesickness and heartache, exhaustion and a loss of motivation, concern about the state of the world, and how perilously balanced our planet and its environment currently are. But attached to each of these topics is one of our language’s more unusual words or phrases, which it is hoped can provide some much-needed reassurance and optimism when you need it most.​