Fully Human

Fully Human is world-renowned family therapist and multi-million bestselling parenting author Steve Biddulph's first personal development book for people all ages that will help us all live better, more fulfilling lives.

A mother of small children trusts her 'gut feelings' and it saves her life.

A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby - using a song.

What if there were parts of our minds which we never use, but if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected and alive? What if awakening those parts could bring peace to the conflicts and struggles we all go through?

From the cutting edge, where therapy meets neuroscience, Steve Biddulph explores the new concept of 'supersense' - the feelings beneath our feelings - which can guide us to a more awake and free way of living every minute of our lives. And the Four-storey Mansion, a way of using your mind that can be taught to a five-year-old, but can also help the most damaged adult.

In Fully Human, Steve Biddulph draws on deeply personal stories from his own life, as well of those of his clients, and from the frontiers of thinking about how the brain works with the body and the wisdom of the 'wild creature' inside all of us. At the peak of a lifetime's work, one of the world's best-known psychotherapists and educators shows how you can be more alive, more connected. More FULLY HUMAN.

From the bestselling author of Raising Boys.

Wise, candid and useful book.

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Steve Biddulph is an Australian author, activist and psychologist who lectures worldwide on parenting, and boys' education. His bestselling books include Raising Boys, Raising Girls, and The Secret of Happy Children.

Steve is one of a group of child development specialists in the UK and elsewhere who argued successfully for the introduction of parental leave. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology and Counselling, Cairnmillar Institute, Melbourne, in March 2011 and is also a Member of the Order of Australia for his work in young people's mental health. He has two grown up children, and lives in Tasmania with his wife and co-author Shaaron.

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We are heart, instinct, and spirit, as much as we are brain. The brain is a bit of a prison really, and its time we broke out. We are a wild creature, loving, connected and powerful and that's just what the world needs us to be.

In this hotly anticipated book, multi-million copy bestselling author and psychologist Steve Biddulph draws on more than forty years' experience in the field to tackle the question: what is a human being?

Becoming fully alive is something that deep down we yearn for. We are so far away from being "the possible human?. We've been robotized by modern life into lonely separate shadows of the wild aliveness that we ought to inhabit, that human beings once were. Neuroscience backs up this message - we just don't use what we've got, waiting there just below the surface. And this book shows you how.

Our problems with anxiety and mental health, our shattered families, our burdens of trauma personal and planetary, the terrible distortions of masculinity we have suffered for centuries, the simple lack of joy and aliveness that defines modern life - all are all swept away with this astonishing toolbox for re-activating the powers of our body-mind system. Neuroscience and therapy have arrived at a new threshold of personal liberation.

A lifetime working with trauma and healing has led Steve Biddulph in his final stage of life, to this remarkable synthesis. Its his best, most shattering and powerful book ever. Deeply personal, straight talking, funny and practical, these insights can be taught to a five year-old, but can transform the most damaged and shut down adult.

Its what the world most needs right now. For us to become Fully Human.