Let Go

US: Penguin Life, 2021. Paperback. Near Fine. If ever there was a time for us to be resilient, it was when a deadly virus emerged and engulfed the planet. As death rates soared and lockdowns radic ally altered our lives, the Resilience Project founder Hugh Van Cuylenburg was one of the people Australia turned to for advice on how to cope. Under pressure to deliver good news in a historic crisis, it didn't take long for the Melbourne-based educator to realise he wasn't coping.Like millions of others around the world, Hugh was forced to reassess life during the 2020-2 1 pandemic as Covid undermined our sense of safety, strangled our personal connections and saw levels of happiness plunge. After taking the time to ad dress his own feelings, Hugh recognised he was being hamstrung by the same powerful issues that undermine the lives of many: our feelings of shame, ou r quest for perfection and the toxicity of social media.In this follow-up t o the bestselling The Resilience Project: Finding happiness through gratitu de, empathy and mindfulness, Hugh combines powerful insight with research a nd his own disarming and candid storytelling to show how it is possible to let go of the things that hold us back, and to feel connected, safe and hap py once more.A few years ago Anna Clark saw a series of paintings on a sand stone cliff face in the Northern Territory. There were characteristic cross hatched images of fat barramundi and turtles, as well as sprayed handprints and several human figures with spears. Next to them was a long gun, painte d with white ochre, an unmistakable image of the colonisers. Was this an In digenous rendering of contact? A work of history?Each piece of history has.