You probably picked up this book because the chaos of everyday life is like a rip current pulling you under. You wake up each morning and juggle work, school, relationships, family, and obligations, all while trying to find your own fulfillment and purpose. Yet each night, you go to bed feeling there are many things undone and that you’re failing to live up to your potential.

There is a way to escape from this sense of overwhelm. The solution is to ask for H.E.L.P.!

The H.E.L.P. method lays out four powerful steps:

• Halt the Panic: Against the stress of life, we tend to panic—picking fights, people pleasing, self-criticizing, and attempting perfection. But it’s possible to stop these unhelpful behaviors.
• Engage Emotions: Instead of “drowning out your feelings”, you can get your head above water by engaging emotions and processing them.
• Look for Help: Getting safety and support from other people will change your life, and is more straightforward than it seems.
• Patiently Float or Parallel Swim: Cultivate peaceful habits and new personal skills that will help you get unstuck and start living your most fulfilling life.

If you practice the H.E.L.P. method diligently, you’ll be able to put your head on the pillow each night and think, “I gave it my best today.” Life’s overwhelming challenges are too big to face alone—start living with peace and meaning by asking for H.E.L.P.!