What Doesn't Kill You

A stellar cast of writers and thinkers Nathan Filer An explorer spends a decade preparing for an expedition to the South Pole; what happens when you live for a goal, but once its been accomplished, you discover its not enough? A successful broadcast journalist ends up broke, drunk and sleeping rough; what makes alcohol so hard to resist despite its ruinous consequences? A teenage girl tries to disappear by starving herself; what is this force that compels so many women to reduce their size so drastically? In this essay collection, writers share the struggles that have shaped their lives loss, depression, addiction, anxiety, trauma, identity and others. But as they take you on a journey to the darkest recesses of their mind, the authors grapple with challenges that haunt us all.