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Any ordinary day / Leigh Sales.

Any ordinary day / Leigh Sales.
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ISBN 9781760893637 (paperback)
1760893633
Author Sales, Leigh (author)
Title Any ordinary day / Leigh Sales.
Cover title Any ordinary day : blindsides, resilience and what happens after the worst day of your life.
Publisher and/or associated date/s [Melbourne, Vic.] : Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
©2018.
Description 264 pages ; 20 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories--and a terrifying brush with her own mortality--sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next? In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who've faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she instead finds strength, hope, even humour. Leigh brilliantly condenses the cutting-edge research on the way the human brain processes fear and grief, and poses the questions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own challenges and what she's learned about coping with life's unexpected blows. Warm, candid and empathetic, this book is about what happens when ordinary people, on ordinary days, are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don't know we have.
Subjects Victims of crime
Victims
Disaster victims
Grief
Resilience (Personality trait)
Life change events
Call number 2023.111
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