“Another symptom I had was no apparent love for my baby or anyone in fact. I was numb. All the time. I knew he was a handsome baby but I didn’t feel anything for him. I was existing on ‘mothering autopilot’ somehow…
My many years of supporting others with the big juggle of personal, family and business life has lead me to come up with a term I call PEPP® as an indicator for goals, progress towards them and decision making. PEPP® is an acronym meaning Purpose, Energy, Pleasure and Profit…
PEPP® is a tool that helps you think about your values before doing any activity. And I mean any activity. In business or outside of business.”
Be Inspired To Find Your Own Resilience
Jo Hassan did not just ‘arrive’ as the vibrant pink personality she is so well known for. Through her life’s journey, you’ll read of wisdom and strategies that you too could embrace. The Girl from the small English Village, met and married the Man from Cyprus in Far North Queensland, and soon after inherited a 12 year old step-daughter – a very lonely and distressed girl from Turkey.
This resulted in step-parenting in a culturally diverse family unit, with constant troubles along the way led to postnatal depression (PND), and ongoing issues with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when Jo finally had her own baby. And yet Jo found ways to work through these, and business challenges over a 20 year period to become the ‘Queen of Resilience’.
For Jo, the colour pink has long been her ‘go-to happy place’ and became a strong component of her ability to work through her PTSD. In this book she shares the background and how she overcame the struggles to be “the sum of all those parts”… to evolve and now share her how. If you struggle with mental illness or know someone who does, this book may be helpful. And especially so if you or they are a small business owner or leader.
Prepare to be shocked by some of the jagged edges Jo describes, but ready to also laugh at the surprising co-incidences that make up Jo’s delightful story, and how she arrived at creating the PEPP® formula for finding your own resilience in life and in business.
Ultimately, the message that comes through is one of optimism, hope and the value of persistence. Being the remarkable woman that she is, her own observations and experiences have provided her with a unique capacity to offer valuable insights to others facing difficulties be they be in life, relationships or business.This is a book that needs to be read over and over again because you learn something new each time.
A very honest, heartbreaking but at the same time positive read. My sister’s life chronicled… how I wish I was not on the other side of the world. An inspiring book which I hope helps other people who are suffering or who have suffered from PTSD, postnatal depression, depression or other challenges.
