Any Ordinary Day : Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
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Leigh Sales
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Resilience amidst life-changing, unexpected turmoil.
"Any Ordinary Day" rings true for anyone intrigued by our human capacity for resilience. Leigh Sales doesn't just recount harrowing tales; she dives into how people reconstruct their lives after cataclysms. This book could be a beacon of hope and understanding if you've ever pondered the fragility of life or marvelled at our innate strength to rebound from adversity. It's an intimate conversation, a journey through fear and humor, and an exploration of the profound question, "What comes after disaster?"
Any Ordinary Day : Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
by
Leigh Sales
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ISBN: 9780143789963
Authors:
Leigh Sales
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Australia
Date of Publication: 2018-10-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.13
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Description
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories—and a terrifying brush with her own mortality—sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually being struck by one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next?In this profound and layered book, Sales talks intimately with people who’ve faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she instead finds strength, hope, even humour. Sales brilliantly condenses the latest research on the way the human brain processes fear and grief, and poses the questions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own challenges and what she’s learned about coping with life’s unexpected blows.Heartfelt, candid, and empathetic, Any Ordinary Day is about what happens when ordinary people, on ordinary days, are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don’t know we have.
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