'In nature, things are allowed to break down and regenerate and build back up again. But as humans, it feels trickier. Life is busy. You can’t really schedule in a breakdown’

Sometimes it’s all a bit too much.

Have you considered doing nothing about it?

For years, Emma Gannon has written about work, wellbeing and productivity. Then she was struck by chronic burnout and could barely get out of bed.

Something had to change.

Returning to TPP with A Year of Nothing, the author gives a moving account of why she had no choice but to switch off, go underground, and find joy and wisdom in mundane pleasures.

Split over two books and four seasons, Emma writes with warmth about dog borrowing, dopamine dressing, learning how to swim (again), choosing to be child free, tuning into nature and much more.