The Pace of Progress

Progress in mental health is not always swift or easy to see. In The Pace of Progress, thirty-seven years of lived experience provide the foundation for a reflective guide to resilience, adaptation and the role of community.

Rooted in Kenya and attentive to wider global and regional challenges, this book moves from the broader burden of mental health to personal experience and the importance of understanding. The tortoise and the chameleon offer complementary images for a philosophy of healing: patience through difficult periods, alongside the flexibility to adjust when circumstances change.

Across its chapters, the author considers treatment, self-protection, setbacks and the work of sustaining change over time. Ubuntu brings relationships and shared responsibility into focus, recognising how the people around us can matter in the experience of recovery.

Written for adults reflecting on their own mental health or seeking perspective as they support someone close, this is a thoughtful account of progress as an uneven, individual journey. Its gentle approach invites readers to consider patience, practical adaptation and connection without suggesting that every path is the same.