About Life: Notes on staying grounded in unsettled times - The essential guide to living well, from Ireland’s leading voice in psychology

Maureen Gaffney

Oct 2026 · Random House

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This book is about the most important lessons I have learned in my life . . .

Dr Maureen Gaffney has long been admired for her ability to combine rigorous psychological insight with clarity and real-world understanding. Now, in About Life, she has distilled the key insights of her career into an urgent book for the times we are living through.

In About Life, Dr Gaffney brings together research, a lifetime of observation and her own personal experience to explore the question that matters most in uncertain times: how do we stay resilient, purposeful and fully engaged with life when the world feels increasingly unstable?

From relationships, stress and happiness to identity, purpose, ageing and human connection, she examines the habits of mind that help us navigate change, recover from setbacks and build and sustain lives of meaning and substance.

Written with her characteristic intelligence, honesty and empathy, About Life is a wise and essential guide to living well in unsettled times.

This book is about the most important lessons I have learned in my life . . . Dr Maureen Gaffney has long been admired for her ability to combine rigorous psychological insight with clarity and real-world understanding. Now, in About Life, she has distilled the key insights of her career into an ...

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Dr Maureen Gaffney is a leading clinical psychologist, writer and broadcaster. She has had a distinguished academic career and has worked as a consultant, specializing in leadership and organizational change, working with companies around the world to build strong, emotionally intelligent leadership and innovative and resilient work cultures. Among her clients have been multinational organisations in financial services and in the voluntary and community sectors. She has served on numerous state and other boards and is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board of Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Maureen is also a popular columnist and broadcaster and an inspirational and authoritative speaker who has addressed audiences in Ireland, the UK, the US, Sweden, Germany and Spain. Her previous books Flourishing (2011) and Your One Wild and Precious Life (2021) were both No 1 Irish bestsellers. Flourishing was the basis of a major two-part RTÉ TV documentary, and Your One Wild and Precious Life won the RTÉ Audience Choice Irish Book Award and was shortlisted for overall Irish Book of the Year in 2021. She lives in Dublin with her husband, John. They have two grown-up children and five grandchildren.

Dr Maureen Gaffney is a leading clinical psychologist, writer and broadcaster. She has had a distinguished academic career and has worked as a consultant, specializing in leadership and organizational change, working with companies around the world to build strong, emotionally intelligent leaders...

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