Something steady to hold on to, on the days that are difficult.
Short, practical ebooks on resilience, habits, attention and keeping going. Written for the day you are actually having, not the one you meant to have.
If you only read one
Four books people come back to. Each one short enough to finish on a day when finishing anything feels unlikely.
What are you dealing with?
Each shelf gathers the books that deal with the same kind of difficulty.
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Written for a real day, not an ideal one
No one here is going to tell you to wake at five and be grateful.
Short on purpose
A hundred and twenty pages, not three hundred. On a bad day, a long book is one more thing you are failing at.
Two formats, one price
Every title comes as a PDF and an EPUB. Read it on a laptop, a phone or an e-reader — whichever suits you that day.
Updates are included
When we revise a title, the new edition goes out to everyone who already bought it. You never pay twice for the same book.
No miracle promised
None of these books will fix your life, and none of them claim to. They offer something to do next, which on some days is the whole of what is needed.
Growing Hope started from a simple observation: most of the books written for a hard period are written as though the reader is in good shape. Long, demanding, full of programmes to follow.
The days when you most need that kind of help are exactly the days you have the least capacity for it. So everything here is short, and every chapter ends with something you could do in the next ten minutes.
These are not a replacement for professional help, and we say so inside the books as well as here. They are what you read on the ordinary difficult Tuesday that does not warrant a doctor but still has to be got through.
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