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Peter Charleston
Peter Charleston has spent over 30 years helping people break limitations, overcome self-sabotage and develop the mental skills to thrive personally and professionally. A speaker, author, coach and psychologist, Peter advocates that when people strengthen their psychology, they unlock the ability to create meaningful lives.
Founder of a successful Melbourne psychology practice, Peter combines compassion with a no-nonsense sensibility when helping individuals, couples and businesses create lasting transformation. Through employee assistance programs (EAP), therapy and coaching, he also supports organisations to enhance workplace resilience, emotional intelligence, leadership and team engagement.
One of two experts on Channel 7’s Seven Year Switch relationship series, Peter is passionate about fostering meaningful connections. His first book, Closer, offers a practical guide to building deeper, more fulfilling relationships while his second book, How to Adult, equips people with the tools to live and perform at their best.
A sought-after speaker and university lecturer of over two decades, Peter is an expert on blending personal development (psychotherapy to increase self worth and self respect, reduce stress, anxiety, etc.) and professional development (leadership, engagement, mental strength, emotional intelligence and performance psychology). He has also contributed to national publications which push the boundaries of psychological education and self-development.
Above all, Peter’s compassion for others underpins his mission to help individuals thrive and ultimately elevate the world around them.
How to Adult
by Peter Charleston
You don’t need more motivation, another productivity hack or someone telling you to “think positive”. What you need is for your internal life to catch up with the mask you wear which says, “I’m fine”.
How to Adult is for those who are capable and functional and yet find themselves stuck in old patterns of behaviour, mental habits that don’t stick, confidence that fluctuates, relationships that feel harder than they should.
The world may say it’s laziness or even dysfunction. But Peter Charleston offers a harder-won truth: it’s because you were never taught to psychologically grow up.
Inside these pages, you’ll find the antidote to self-help fluff in the form of actionable strategies founded on core principles:
- Responsibility creates freedom, not shame.
- Emotional and mental strength can be improved
- Insecurities are eliminated by strengthening your ego, not trying to get rid of it or denying its existence
- Self-worth does not come from what you achieve but who you become
Grounded in psychological science and written with clarity, warmth and bite, this book helps you stop self-sabotaging and instead guides you towards maturity by choosing to respond to the world in better ways.
That’s what adulting really means.
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