After any trauma or challenging event, it’s not just your body that needs to heal. Beyond the obvious physical toll, a crisis affects us both mentally and emotionally. The initial relief you feel for having survived can be overwhelmed by a myriad of new emotions you didn’t expect and don’t quite know how to manage.

Michael Hesser understands the journey you’re on. After his quadruple-bypass surgery in 2015, he faced the same struggles you’re facing now. During recovery, he began to question who he was before the surgery, who he was after, and who he wanted to become. Along the way, he encountered fear, guilt, anger, and confusion over his purpose in life. And he discovered a simple secret for not just managing the journey, but actually thriving through the process: Gratitude.

In A New and Better Now, Michael shows you how gratitude is more than just something you feel. Gratitude is a method for flourishing in the journey of healing and emerging as a better-than-ever version of you.

In this book, you’ll:

• Study the reasons why specific emotional challenges can arise after a crisis.
• Recognize the circumstances where these peaks and valleys can occur and the impact they can have on your daily life.
• Learn a variety of positive steps you can take to develop a regular practice of gratitude and how to employ them through the areas of life where you need it most.

A New and Better Now combines Michaels’ 30-plus years as a behavioral insights consultant, his experience as a certified wellness coach, and the firsthand knowledge he gained as a crisis survivor to create a one-of-a-kind guide to becoming the person you were always meant to be.