Five times 15.
So good evening everyone, thanks for making time to listen to my talk.
And when this box of books arrived at the end of last year,
it was the end of a 10 year journey, which at several points I wondered if I was going to make.
It's 10 years in which I've been focused on some of the stuff that Chris Anderson was just talking about,
the darker side of life.
I've been researching, I've been doing clinical work,
I've been looking at both mental and physical health complaints and how they push us to the edge of ourselves,
how they make us tremble and sometimes break.
And by trembling and breaking,
I simply mean that being pushed to the edge of our ability to cope with what life throws at us.
And it's quite a dark focus to have.
And the book is very much about how we navigate those times.
So although the title is a bit bleak, it is hopeful.
And it wasn't just based on the stuff I saw in the clinic.
It was or in my research.
It was also in my family, my friends, my colleagues and ultimately in myself.
I saw loads of people I know struggle with mental and physical issues during that time.
And so to encapsulate some of the, the key messages of the book,
I'm just going to focus on one story, one case and we're going to call her.