Bringing Your Heart to Work: A Seven-Step Journey to Mental Health and Wellbeing
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : May 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 200
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 98104
- ISBN 13 : 9781800133143
- ISBN 10 : 1800133146
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A life-affirming guide to help you reconnect with your purpose, learn to work in alignment with your values, and choose a healthier approach to success. Written by global mental health specialist Hazel Hyslop, her seven-step method to overcoming burnout and discontent will bring clarity and positive transformation to your life.
After 25 years in the mental health sector, Hazel Hyslop found herself feeling lost and depleted. Yet within that difficult chapter, she uncovered a deeper truth: many of her colleagues and clients – particularly successful women – were also disconnected from their true passions and overwhelmed by the relentless demands of their careers. Recognising the familiar patterns of stress, identity loss, and burnout, Hazel developed practical strategies to guide her clients, and herself, back to balance and fulfilment.
Drawing from decades of professional experience and her own personal journey through burnout, Hazel introduces a transformative seven-step method designed to spark lasting change. The challenging path you take will awaken your passions and empower you to move forward with renewed energy, authenticity, and confidence.
At a time when so many are weighed down by overwork, overwhelm, and overthinking, Bringing Your Heart to Work offers a powerful, proven framework to reclaiming your clarity, purpose, and wellbeing.
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This is an impressive book, transformative and making a valuable contribution to current narratives on work and wellbeing. Hazel Hyslop draws on her own and her clients’ experiences as she takes us on a journey through her seven-step model. In so doing, she challenges us to review and rethink our values about success.
Lynne Heseltine, systemic therapist and supervisor
This book is a gem for those of us who work, whether it be in public, private, or corporate organisations or for and within our own families ... This book inspires hope. Whereas we may see roadblocks, Hazel helps us to see opportunities for growth and transformation. The book enables us to reset our personal compass to align with our values, thereby fostering wellbeing for ourselves and those we work with.
Glenda Fredman, PhD, clinical psychologist and systemic psychotherapist
A page-turning account of her journey to wellbeing, this is a must-read for any psychologically minded professional. Hazel Hyslop is as generous with her own story as she is keenly interested in yours. This book takes you on a metaphorical journey, ideal for anyone facing a personal or professional dilemma. She writes as though speaking to a friend, guiding you skilfully through her many years of experience, and always gently, powerfully, bringing it back to you: to your heart and your values. A beautiful and unique addition to the self-help genre.
Kiran Flynn, BEM, psychotherapist and social worker
Bringing Your Heart to Work introduces a seven-step approach to mental health and wellbeing that is brimming with clarity, warmth, and candour. An engaging read, Hazel Hyslop writes in a way that draws the reader in. This is a book that serves as a powerful guide to achieving personal transformation and success.
Ngozi Anuforo, executive coach, management consultant and trainer, NOA Coaching and Consultancy Services Ltd, UK
Table of Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Step 1: PAST – Starting out
1. Looking through the rear-view mirror
2. A different kind of success
3. A frame for success
4. Working from the heart
Step 2: POSITION – Current location
5. Where are you now?
6. Psyche of the current system
7. Creating boundaries
8. Process of change
Step 3: PURPOSE – Who am I?
9. Time to recalibrate
10. Your values and beliefs
Step 4: PROBLEMS – Getting clear
11. Obstacles and roadblocks
12. Effects on our well-being
Step 5: POSSIBILITIES – Creating alternative stories
13. Creating new stories
14. Holding the hope
15. The wise warrior
Step 6: PLAN – A way forward
16. Choose one path and the rest will follow
17. Curiosity and trust
18. Leaping forward
19. Your intuition is your inner tutor
20. Take up space
Step 7: PROMISE – Commit to your journey
21. Your relationship with commitment
22. Vulnerability, trust, and commitment
23. Play and creativity
24. Intentionality, determination, and discipline
Notes
About the Author(s)
Hazel Hyslop currently works as an executive professional leadership coach as well as a systemic psychotherapist, tutor, and supervisor. Her passion is helping organisations invest in and develop their leaders. She has a keen interest in working with women in leadership. Hazel has a background in mental health nursing, psychology, systemic psychotherapy, and coaching. She’s worked in the field of mental health in clinical, leadership, and training roles in the NHS, as well as social services, education, charities, and corporate sectors. Hazel has worked across various multicultural and social contexts in areas such as the London boroughs of Hackney, Westminster, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington & Chelsea, Essex, Kent, and the West Midlands. One of her greatest achievements was to set up the first in-house mental health services for looked-after children in Westminster twenty years ago. Hazel brings extensive knowledge and experience in delivering and leading services across multiple contexts locally, nationally, and globally. Aside from her working life, Hazel enjoys sea swimming, Pilates, walking, dancing, djembe drumming, and writing.
Her podcast, Healing E-motions, is available on Spotify and other podcast providers.
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