When you're falling, dive - Mark Matousek

When You're Falling, Dive is a beautifully written guide to putting the pain we all experience in life to positive use. Based on interviews, accounts and his own hard won experience, Mark Matousek uncovers the power of drawing passion, beauty and wisdom from the unlikeliest of places. Discover your own inner strength and start living a life of effortless grace.

When You're Falling, Dive features contributions from Joan Didion, Elie Wiesel, Isabel Allende, Eckhart Tolle, Jon Kabat Zinn and Sogyal Rinpoche as well as many other incredible stories from sources known and unknown of life's incredible power to renew.

Mark Matousek was born in San Francisco to an abusive mother and an AWOL father. He used drink and drugs to escape until he was diagnosed as HIV positive. This led to a dramatic change, and he is now a contributing editor of O, The Oprah Magazine. He is also the author of numerous bestsellers, including Sex, Death and Enlightenment.

Filled with remarkable stories, illuminating insights and enduring lessons this gorgeously written book makes the impossible, transformational. Matousek has found a way to live by listening, by going to the darkest and most beautiful places, and gratefully he takes us with him.
Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues

Thank God someone has finally written a spiritual book with an edge. In this boisterous collection of true stories, Mark Matousek takes us from Himalayan peaks to sit-down with Andy Warhol, from a homeless shelter to Joan Didion's Upper East Side. Matousek knows everyone, tells all and writes sentence that reverberate like zen koans.
Pagan Kennedy, author of The First Man-Made Man

A guide to keeping the psyche intact when you're being spun on life's roulette wheel.
O Magazine

A truly remarkable memoir.
The Sunday Times Style

Each interview is inspiring, and the truth that glitters behind each story is the dazzling sense that survivors, perhaps more than anyone else, are truly aware of the everyday miracles of being alive.
The Sunday Times Style