Paul Hanna

On a beautiful summer's day in February 2002, Paul Hanna, Australia's leading motivational speaker, set out to enjoy his passion for bushwalking. Half an hour after entering Sydney Harbour National Park he found himself lying at the bottom of a cliff, surrounded by police and paramedics, with a broken back and blood pouring out of his leg. In the months of recuperation that followed, Paul found himself having to take his own advice to get back on top of his health - and his life - again. In Don't Give Up!, Paul shares the story of how he came back from the brink, and tells the inspiring stories of the many people he has helped to do the same. He shows us that no matter what life throws at us, no matter how bad it gets, we all have it within ourselves to overcome setbacks. He teaches us how to deal with grief and understand its stages, how to rebuild our self-confidence, how to deal with stress and how to set ourselves goals - so that we can achieve the things in our lives that are most important.

Don't Give Up!

Angie Hart

Carl Walker

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embedded within specific historical, cultural, political and economic settings. The authors challenge mainstream understandings of mental health that position a naive public in need of mental health literacy. Instead it is clear that a considerable amount of invaluable mental distress work is undertaken in spaces in our communities that are not understood as mental health treatments. This book represents one of the first attempts to position these kinds of spaces at the center of how we understand and address problems of mental distress and suffering. The chapters draw on case studies from the UK and abroad to point toward an exciting new paradigm based on informal community and socially oriented approaches to mental health. Written in an unusually accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to social science students, academics, practitioners and policy makers interested in community and social approaches to mental health.

Spaces, Places, People and Activities

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health

First you have to believe, then you can achieve! In his no-hype, down-to-earth style, Australia's bestselling motivational author, Paul Hanna, shows you how to focus on your dreams and achieve them. This book is all about getting back to basics and becoming more focused on what you want to achieve in life. It's about not accepting other people's conditioning of you and believing in your goals. More than anything else, Believe and Achieve! is about getting that spark back into your life and achieving your dreams.

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