Ideal for anyone struggling with fatigue' - Claudia Hammond, author of The Art of Rest
'an exciting journey through human thought and scientific discoveries, encouraging each of us to step back, reflect and discover the pace of life that achieves our optimal energy balance. Pace Yourself is all about taking control so that we can fulfil our potential and, in the process, live happier, healthier lives.' - Prof Russell Foster, author of Life Time
In these times of unprecedented stress, burnout, mental exhaustion, depression and fatigue Pace Yourself offers a powerful lifeline in the form of pacing, a simple, science-based tool, to help restore joy, energy and balance in our lives.
Written by Amy Arthur, an award-winning writer and science journalist, Arthur shares not just the science of pacing and how it works, but also shows how to use pacing in our daily lives to thrive, not just survive. She also shares her own pacing journey, explaining how it helped her manage the chronic, energy-limiting condition called ME that she was diagnosed with as a teenager. Unpacking all aspects of personal energy and how we make, spend and save it, Arthur will help readers go from tired-all-the-time to focused and energised by prioritising what matters and adopting energy-building habits and lifestyle hacks - all with the help of pacing.
Why burn out when you can pace yourself and live a successful, fulfilling life? Amy Arthur is an award-winning writer and science journalist, with by-lines in outlets like Popular Science, BBC Science Focus and LiveScience. After being diagnosed with ME/CFS as a teenager and on the advice of a doctor, she began using an energy management tool called pacing to help her manage her energy and thrive again. Pacing enabled her to go from being unable to get out of bed to being able to graduate from university, live independently, socialise and excel at work. In era when so many struggle to find balance and flourish, Amy is passionate about making this simple tool that helped her so much accessible to everyone. See also www.amyarthur.co.uk. How pacing, a simple, science-based tool, can help you find joy, energy and balance in an age of burnout, stress and fatigue. Written by the award-winning writer and science journalist Amy Arthur who herself uses pacing to live a full life with ME. · First mainstream book on pacing: Pace Yourself brings the emerging health trend of pacing to a wide audience for the first time. Traditionally a tool to manage ME and (more recently) long Covid, she shows general readers how to use it to solve everyday stress, fatigue, burnout and overwhelm. · A simple, science-based solution to global health crisis: post pandemic there has been a massive global surge in burnout, stress and fatigue (in 2022 Westfield Health reported 46% of the UK workers are close to burnout). Pacing offers people a fresh approach to managing their lives and restoring health, balance and energy. Author's expertise stems from her own pacing journey: Amy's powerful pacing journey with ME to reclaim her own energy and life offer genuine hope to readers struggling to manage burnout, ME and long Covid. Author well connected: As an award-winning writer and science journalist (see biog) Amy has a gift for making the science fully accessible and has already secured endorsements from Russell Foster and Claudia Hammond, with more to come. · Pacing is gaining momentum: this recent article in the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/16/long-covid-fatigue-pacing/is a strong indication of the momentum of pacing.
