The book · Coming 2027
How I lost the plot at 46, and found my way back.
A funny, honest and sometimes sad story about a girl who grew up at a noisy kitchen table, chased the rat race in heels, lost everything at 46, and slowly found her way home. And what all of us can learn from it about coming back to human.
Inside: a lamppost, an apple pie, a painted wooden spoon, and the day life stopped for me because I wouldn’t stop for it.
FROM THE OPENING
Perhaps we don’t need more.
More information, more apps, more supplements, more rules. More things to track and more things to buy. More ways to improve ourselves.
We are told to optimise our sleep, count our steps, measure our heart rate, hit our protein target, meditate for ten minutes, drink enough water, get enough sunlight, lift weights, stretch, journal, switch off our phones, answer our emails, be present with our children, have meaningful conversations, eat fermented vegetables and somehow still find time to enjoy our lives.
We are exhausted just reading the list.
I know, because for a long time I thought the answer was more. More exercise, more control, more discipline, more achievement. More plans, more holidays, more parties, more of anything that would fill the space. And underneath all of it, I was increasingly lost.
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So I became busy. Busy is a very useful place to hide.
I tottered up to the school gate with my hair done and my heels on and stood discussing whether somebody’s little Lord Fauntleroy had been pushed in the playground, while privately falling apart.
Eventually life did what life sometimes does when we refuse to stop. It stopped for me.
Four parts. One way home.
- ONEHow we got here
- TWOMy reset
- THREEComing back to human
- FOURYour reset
Why so many of us feel lost, told honestly through my own story. Then the six things humans were built for (connect, nature, move, nourish, restore, appreciate), each with a story, the simple science and a reset you can do in 2, 10 or 30 minutes. Not a diet book. Not a rulebook. A way back.
“That table was our therapy. We just didn’t call it that.”
“Frozen peas are not a failure.”
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