The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need

By Georgia Holleran

2022 was the toughest year of Georgia Holleran’s life, but she came through it unscathed, strong and even thankful. After 40 years of devouring self-help products and continually searching for answers to her life struggles, but encountering nothing but disappointment, frustration and despair, she suddenly discovered herself to be a pretty capable and confident person.

But she didn’t know why she was so bulletproof. How did she get to be so calm, resilient, resourceful and level-headed, even in crisis? Was it age? Wisdom? Luck? If she had known years back what was going to make this difference in her, could she have got there quicker?

But then it all began to make sense …

• Language: English
• Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Release date: Mar 28, 2024
• ISBN: 9781805147961

Georgia Holleran

Georgia Holleran has spent her life researching how we can make the best of our time on this planet, without letting ourselves get in the way. Her background is in the arts, education, neuro-linguistic programming, cognitive hypnotherapy and a research Masters. This book summarises the best she has learned … so far.

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SECTION 1: Thinking

1. The thing that made all the difference

When I got to about 17 years old I realised that I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I was lucky that I enjoyed art (and still do), so I could put off thinking about what I really wanted to do all the way through art college and university, until I was suddenly out in the real world. Restless, rudderless and searching.

In my 20s I experienced a couple of strange depressive episodes that caused me to seek therapy and counselling. While each therapist or counsellor I encountered was pleasant enough, the sessions were unproductive, and I came away feeling my problems were not important, not solvable or not the same as for other people. None of which helped.

In my late 20s I went into teacher training. Quite soon after I emerged as a new teacher and based myself in east London. The year I started teaching, I was offered a free course designed for beginning teachers which had been devised by two exceptionally wise and altruistic people: Irene and Michael. The course lasted a full year, and in those afternoon sessions I learned about something called neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). I see now how this became the foundation of what gradually unfolded into an amazingly satisfying, albeit unconventional and eclectic, life of learning, realisation and