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March 3, 2024
A brilliant, inspiring read/listen. Hugh is a natural story teller & this one has some great takeaways.
September 30, 2023
A “must read” for anyone that wants to make this a better world. Or anyone who simply wants to improve themselves.
September 5, 2023
Listening to this audiobook and hearing first hand this man’s experiences and how it shaped his journey from teacher into shaping a reform into how schools teach and approach the topic of mental health was captivating. DIS!
March 8, 2024
Hearing Hugh’s story told by himself was captivating. I really enjoyed hearing about the greatness he has put out into the world.
I think everyone could definitely take something away from this one.
I think everyone could definitely take something away from this one.
February 21, 2024
Hugh is an excellent storyteller and listening to him read his book was moving. I’m so glad I’m engaging in this project.
May 24, 2024
Love this! It was truly a brilliant and inspiring read/listen. Something I know I’ll come back to and read many times over. What an extraordinary story teller.
January 17, 2025
A story about Hugh’s journey which is interesting. It would have resonated better if I’d seen his talk or participated in the Resilience Project.
September 8, 2024
Audio by author is definitely a more worthy ‘read’!
I had the book given to me & had never heard of HVC before…I did a brief research on GR & soon realised he was the voice on audio … I listened via Libby rather than read the actual book.
My partner and I shared content by stopping & discussing it intermittently. In fact, we felt it was more podcast-styled and it even immersed us further as if being part of a real audience!
HVC has an easy listening voice and because it’s personal, perhaps also because it’s his first book, you felt his compassion, energy, empathy, sorrow, love, emotional connection etc
Thus, we listened to this 5 hour book in the car, over a few days & even during the AFL - with the AFL commentary off! You can increase the pace from 1.0 to 1.25 or even 1.75… you can go faster or slower depending upon the author’s natural pace. We even went back over parts at the end.
So we were ‘caught’….totally!
How can you not with the true story of his sister, Georgia, being told, open slather? Her journey with mental illness and its devastating consequences for the family unit was a dreadful experience for them.
That she survived her eating disorder is much to the love and support of their parents. Its effects will be forever though. On all of them.
Indeed, Hugh, as the older teen sibling, could not cope at the time, and, as we discover later, for many years to come.
His response is not unusual and though he, and the readers, will completely comprehend his response mentally….it’s the emotional turmoil that bubbles underneath like volcanic lava which eventually erupts in his next book Let Go…which we listened to immediately after!
(A volcanic eruption occurs. Covid lockdowns & with a young family… burnt out etc adds to the setting).
However, the key to this first, and very powerful book about HVC’s personal journey of gaining resilience is, ironically, all due to his sister’s disease.
He goes overboard to be a household comedian and is exemplary in sport. He disappears too…as a school teen his inability to cope is seen in his behaviour.
He leaves the traumatic household…by going to a girlfriend’s house at times. He was seeking normalcy of some sort. And we get it!!
I don’t know if he had continued counselling other than the family therapy, but it is obvious he required it. And his parents also.
I’d like to hear their perspective….it would add to the way in which parents today can seek help, by drawing on their sad journey and also the inspiration from them too.
How it affected their own relationship also….it would have been horrific, no doubt. As educators, parents and grandparent we are more than aware of the impact of illnesses, trauma, etc….it’s all grieving!
And thus this book is really about how HVC’s family experience shaped who he has become. How he coped with a suddenly dysfunctional family via mental illness, the grieving that they go through and where it leads.
India, cricket, sports, teaching, girlfriends and friends etc are other developing experiences which mould HVC. Crucial are certain people….who point out what makes them happy.
The GEM project of resilience was borne from these experiences but it all was triggered by Georgia’s tragic story… yet thankfully she has grown into a supposedly healthy person but many years later, what caused her illness, is triggered by a therapy session in USA where she now works.
I have wondered about this story of a three year old in her grandparents front yard; first…if they were in the front yard, and then disappeared, who was supervising?? Blame is something HVC talks about in his next book….it is a bit like turning your head away for a few minutes & a child drowns in a pool.
As an older and wiser person, hindsight is easy and it has made us think about all the times we left our young children with a daycare couple and various friends & family etc. … it sends shivers down our back just pondering if…. It has caused me nightmares now as I recall some oddities!!
We were young parents and ignorant of paedophilia in the 70’s/80’s.
Also, was the perpetrator ever known to the family or was he arrested? Did he have a mental illness/disability…. I just hope he didn’t destroy other young children after.
Sadly we have worked with a person who abused schoolchildren via his trustworthy role as a teacher. It has impacted upon us enormously.
Even these resilient talks HVC does in schools needs to be carefully approached. Nonetheless his attitude and total care for the wellbeing of our young, is to be commended! Thankyou Hugh.
I had the book given to me & had never heard of HVC before…I did a brief research on GR & soon realised he was the voice on audio … I listened via Libby rather than read the actual book.
My partner and I shared content by stopping & discussing it intermittently. In fact, we felt it was more podcast-styled and it even immersed us further as if being part of a real audience!
HVC has an easy listening voice and because it’s personal, perhaps also because it’s his first book, you felt his compassion, energy, empathy, sorrow, love, emotional connection etc
Thus, we listened to this 5 hour book in the car, over a few days & even during the AFL - with the AFL commentary off! You can increase the pace from 1.0 to 1.25 or even 1.75… you can go faster or slower depending upon the author’s natural pace. We even went back over parts at the end.
So we were ‘caught’….totally!
How can you not with the true story of his sister, Georgia, being told, open slather? Her journey with mental illness and its devastating consequences for the family unit was a dreadful experience for them.
That she survived her eating disorder is much to the love and support of their parents. Its effects will be forever though. On all of them.
Indeed, Hugh, as the older teen sibling, could not cope at the time, and, as we discover later, for many years to come.
His response is not unusual and though he, and the readers, will completely comprehend his response mentally….it’s the emotional turmoil that bubbles underneath like volcanic lava which eventually erupts in his next book Let Go…which we listened to immediately after!
(A volcanic eruption occurs. Covid lockdowns & with a young family… burnt out etc adds to the setting).
However, the key to this first, and very powerful book about HVC’s personal journey of gaining resilience is, ironically, all due to his sister’s disease.
He goes overboard to be a household comedian and is exemplary in sport. He disappears too…as a school teen his inability to cope is seen in his behaviour.
He leaves the traumatic household…by going to a girlfriend’s house at times. He was seeking normalcy of some sort. And we get it!!
I don’t know if he had continued counselling other than the family therapy, but it is obvious he required it. And his parents also.
I’d like to hear their perspective….it would add to the way in which parents today can seek help, by drawing on their sad journey and also the inspiration from them too.
How it affected their own relationship also….it would have been horrific, no doubt. As educators, parents and grandparent we are more than aware of the impact of illnesses, trauma, etc….it’s all grieving!
And thus this book is really about how HVC’s family experience shaped who he has become. How he coped with a suddenly dysfunctional family via mental illness, the grieving that they go through and where it leads.
India, cricket, sports, teaching, girlfriends and friends etc are other developing experiences which mould HVC. Crucial are certain people….who point out what makes them happy.
The GEM project of resilience was borne from these experiences but it all was triggered by Georgia’s tragic story… yet thankfully she has grown into a supposedly healthy person but many years later, what caused her illness, is triggered by a therapy session in USA where she now works.
I have wondered about this story of a three year old in her grandparents front yard; first…if they were in the front yard, and then disappeared, who was supervising?? Blame is something HVC talks about in his next book….it is a bit like turning your head away for a few minutes & a child drowns in a pool.
As an older and wiser person, hindsight is easy and it has made us think about all the times we left our young children with a daycare couple and various friends & family etc. … it sends shivers down our back just pondering if…. It has caused me nightmares now as I recall some oddities!!
We were young parents and ignorant of paedophilia in the 70’s/80’s.
Also, was the perpetrator ever known to the family or was he arrested? Did he have a mental illness/disability…. I just hope he didn’t destroy other young children after.
Sadly we have worked with a person who abused schoolchildren via his trustworthy role as a teacher. It has impacted upon us enormously.
Even these resilient talks HVC does in schools needs to be carefully approached. Nonetheless his attitude and total care for the wellbeing of our young, is to be commended! Thankyou Hugh.
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