The First Hard Morning

About this book

Nobody needs another book telling them to be grateful at six in the morning. What people need is something to do when the day has already gone wrong before it started.

This is written for that. Not for a crisis, and not for a retreat — for an ordinary bad morning that you still have to walk through.

Short chapters, because that is all anyone manages on a day like that.

What you will learn

• Tell a bad mood from a real problem before you act on either
• Build a first hour that does not depend on feeling like it
• Stop the spiral that starts with one small failure
• Decide what counts as enough on a low day
• Recognise when the pattern needs more than a book

Contents

1. The first ten minutes
2. What the mood is telling you, and what it is not
3. A routine that survives a bad day
4. The spiral, and how it starts
5. Enough, on a low day
6. When to ask for more help

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