Happiness Is You Still Being You

There comes a moment, different for all of us, when the music stops.

Your job ends. Your role disappears. You're on your own. Your diagnosis arrives. Or someone at a party asks what you are doing now, and you hear yourself saying words that do not really sound like you at all.

And suddenly, the structures that held your life in its familiar shape are no longer quite where they were.

This book is about what happens next. Not how to reinvent yourself. Not how to become someone new. But how to find your way back to the person you have always been.

Because here is what Derrick Tuke-Hastings discovered, through retirement, through cancer, through the identity gap nobody warns you about: you cannot lose yourself. You can only lose sight of yourself. And that is a very different problem.

Happiness Is You Still Being You is a warm, honest, practical guide to keeping your identity through life's biggest transitions. It includes a simple five-part method that anyone can use, with nothing more than a pen, some paper and an honest hour or two with themselves.

The smiley guy with the bowtie has been there. And he found his way back.

So can you.