Life is unpredictable. And Kate Gladdin, a life coach, understands this better than most. In Okay, Now What? she offers pragmatic motivational advice to those trying to cope with the lingering anguish of painful experiences.
Gladdin's own personal testimony drives this inspiring narrative. In 2012, her beloved older sister was killed in a road accident. Then-20-year-old Gladdin spiraled into "a dark fog of grief," and when the driver who caused the accident was not properly charged for her sister's death, Gladdin further struggled with a sense of injustice that spawned even deeper issues of anger and bitterness.
Absorbed by despair and victimhood, Gladdin (Mini Habits for Teens) came across a quote by Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl: "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." This idea became a watershed, lifting the hopelessness that had been paralyzing Gladdin's perspective. It eventually snowballed into a much larger, longer-term quest to help others struggling with depression and anxiety.
Gladdin walks readers through a process to identify deep-seated feelings. Through practical, well-explained examples from her own life and stories from others, Gladdin demonstrates how to manage those feelings by focusing on things that can be controlled in order to live more purposefully. Readers will come away with a greater understanding of how hardships do not have to harden the heart and/or break the human spirit. Rather, via Gladdin's sensible, affirming approach, seekers will grow and cultivate resilience, discovering ways to turn uncertain, painful experiences into "something that makes you fall back in love with life again." --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines