She offers practice advice on how to invest in your mental well-being so you can be your best self in the workplace. She grew up in the infamous Children of God cult and so her first-hand experiences of trauma, struggle and overcoming make her uniquely positioned to highlight the importance of mental wellbeing both at work and in our personal lives. It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.

Laura, on the other hand, was exposed to boundaries set far too distant for an infant and growing child.I found myself nodding along to the chapters, totally agreeing with Petra's view but I found it hard to understand how I could effect change on my own.

Petra's keynotes are uplifting, moving, funny and challenge audiences to cultivate mentally healthy cultures that promote innovation and sustainable performance for the future of work. A childless woman conceives in her old age; a fearful, self-conscious shepherd becomes a leader of millions; and a prostitute becomes a wife and mother in the lineage of Christ. Were it not so, when we sat down, we’d pass right through the chair (and the chair through us) and be sprawled on the floor. Petra Velzeboer draws upon her personal experiences of trauma and hardship to offer insights on how you can overcome difficult periods and develop a positive outlook.

The author also highlights how many organisations view success as a collective win, but failure as an individual's problem. Indeed, a lot of talk of mental health in organisations seems to be about managing crisis, harm prevention, etc. But, in my experience, companies do not want to deal with it all and just brush it under the carpet while trumpeting their Dignity at work policy to all and sundry.