"Step by step, we get further than we can even imagine."
Every single line of "One step per day" offers a truth that we intuitively know but have buried deep down in our souls, just to fit in with what society tells us. As you read this book, you will go through a range of emotions, some of which you might not have allowed yourself for a long time. My recommendation is that you allow yourself to feel it all, to soak it in, to acknowledge yourself, your right to feel, to laugh, cry, and vent. You can be sure that you will never be embarrassed as you will realise that all of your feelings are valid and what’s more, they’ve been felt by at least one other person.
We all put on masks, a face we show the world that brings us respect, validation and maybe even love. With "One step per day", you can be at your most vulnerable outside the office of a therapist. You get to open up the innermost parts of you to yourself, forgive yourself, and start your journey to healing.
This is more than a book of meditations; it is not a list of cute affirmations designed to make you feel good. It is an autopsy of your innermost fears, a ripping apart, a close examination of internal parts. But unlike the literal autopsy done on the dead, when you are through with this one, you start to live again.
Writer, author of "My Morning Pages: Chronicles of living through Burnout" and creator of the Global Burnout Awareness Week.
Born in Porto Alegre and living in the Netherlands, Carol speaks, writes and studies mental health in our relationship with work and the power of writing as therapy.
In 2020, Carol released her first book, "My Morning Pages", a collection of chronicles about her experience with anxiety, depression and panic caused by Burnout, the physical and emotional exhaustion caused by excessive stress at work.
The book has already been sold in more than 10 countries, in English and Portuguese.
Her purpose is to increase awareness about mental health at work and Burnout, sharing the cure that exists through the written and spoken word.