Turning This Thing Around

Turning This Thing Around is an inspiring memoir of overcoming personal struggles. This brutally honest, deeply personal account of redemption takes readers on a moving spiritual journey.Confronted with a myriad of obstacles#xE2;#xAC;#x1C;a debilitating arthritic disease, narcolepsy, anxiety and depression#xE2;#xAC;#x1C;the author was outwardly happy, but inwardly miserable. Pushed to the lowest point of his life, he discusses how he gradually turned things around and used his experiences to grow as a person.Supplemented by quotes from Gandhi to Dr. Wayne Dyer to Eckhart Tolle, Turning This Thing Around has universal themes that speak to nearly everyone, as we all must face challenges as part of being human. It is a self-help memoir of sorts: The author discusses not only what he had to overcome, but how he did so#xE2;#xAC;#x1C;and how others can, too.Unlike many popular memoirs on the market, this is a story that more people can relate to. The author didn#xE2;#xAC;"t grow up in an eccentric family (Jeannette Walls in The Glass Castle, memoirs by Augusten Burroughs), nor did he travel to Italy, India and Indonesia, as Elizabeth Gilbert did in Eat, Pray, Love. Rather, Turning This Thing Around is a story of a normal young man#xE2;#xAC;"s resiliency when battling extraordinary circumstances.