What Next: The Art of Bouncing Back

The pain was excruciating. I realised that my years of military training were not of much help.The pain wasn’t just physical it was also mental and emotional. At times I felt I was in anendless abyss.I dreamt and fantasised about different scenarios where the event that brought me to this stagedidn’t happen. I tried convincing myself that one day when I woke up everything would benormal. I felt that I had let down my parents and my future looked uncertain and scary.I was groping in the dark in despair trying to find and hoping for a miracle.As days turned into weeks I had a painful realization:No one was coming to save me.No one was going to show me how to get out of the pit that I was in.I realised for the first time in my life that if I had to move forward I had to depend on the oneperson I had never really counted on before—ME!I had to stand up and face my demons myself. I had to figure out a way to reduce my pain andmisery and more than anything I had to find out from myself—What Next?“What Next” is a 2024 Writefluencer award-winning book that is part self-help and partautobiography. It is an invitation for you to journey with me through the incidents that turned myworld upside down and the strategies I applied to overcome them.Written in a light conversational style my hope is that you experience the lightness of being thatcomes when one can see a light at the end of a dark tunnel.I served in the Indian Navy for 17 years. I am a multi award winning Mind Kinetics PowerCoach NLP Practitioner and International Trainer. Post my Navy days I have also set up threestart-ups.I have had the privilege of going through multiple events in my life where I had to start my lifefrom scratch. WHAT NEXT? highlights the learnings and takeaways from each of these eventsthat upended my life every time I thought I had turned a corner.The book is like my life: humorous gut-wrenching relatable and motivating all at once.