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Lisa Forrest

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Lisa Forrest is an author, TV and radio broadcaster and Olympian.

Her first career, as a teenager, was swimming backstroke for Australia. In 1978 when she was 14 she won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada; she captained the women's swim team to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow; and in 1982 won gold medals at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia.

For almost twenty years she worked as a TV and radio journalist/presenter before writing her first novel in 2000, Making the Most of It, a coming-of-age story loosely based on her own teenage experiences:

Forrest has so many arrows in her quiver it seems almost obscene she should add novelist to the CV. Yet she has done it very well. This story for teenagers ...i ...more

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Lisa Forrest The idea for my most recent book Glide – taking the panic out of modern living came from being at a low point in my own life back in 2013 after my fan…moreThe idea for my most recent book Glide – taking the panic out of modern living came from being at a low point in my own life back in 2013 after my fantasy novel, Inheritance, was published.

I went looking for answers to a few questions including, ‘why no matter what I achieve am I never enough for myself’ and ‘how can I stop my thinking taking me down into very dark, unhelpful places’.
I was astonished to find not just the answers but a renewed sense of optimism and joy in the practices of mindfulness and self-compassion – which I initially approached with deep scepticism.

On becoming a convert, I then used mindfulness and self-compassion as the lenses to look back at my career, starting with my years of swimming for Australia when I was a teenager and progressed into the media in various forms and featured a repeated cycle of love, hard work and burnout. How and why had I been convinced (along with everyone else in the world these days) that all those unforgiving mottos that abound in sport like, ‘when the going gets tough the tough get going’ could be more helpful than gentle words of encouragement like those used by the women who ran my first swimming club, the Dee Why Ladies, ‘Come on, sweetheart, you can do this.’ The result is Glide.

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Average rating: 3.55 · 215 ratings · 41 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	Inheritance (Inheritance #1) 3.54 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glide Taking the Panic Out of Modern Living 3.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DJ Max 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boycott Australia's Controversial Road to the 1980 Moscow Olympics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glide: Taking the panic out of modern living 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who's Toni Rice? it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Place to Pause: A Gentle Journal for Clearing Your Mind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars