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Karen
The Author
Karen is not her illness. She is warmth.
She is humour. She is unpredictability and light in the middle of confusion. She is the person who still smiles in moments where others would break. The person who dances in fragments of memory. The person who reminds me—every day—what love really is. There are moments where she forgets names. Moments where the world doesn’t quite make sense. Moments where everything slows down. But there are also moments— beautiful, fleeting, powerful moments— where everything comes back. And in those moments, nothing else matters. This book exists because of her. Because she matters. And because her story deserves to be told.
Maurice
Karens husband
I have spent my life working with leaders. Helping people perform under pressure. Guiding others through complexity, uncertainty, and change. Nothing prepared me for this. This is not theory. This is not coaching. This is life—stripped back to what matters. Being a husband. Being a carer. Trying to hold everything together while quietly falling apart. I didn’t write this book as an author. I wrote it as a man who refused to let this story go untold.
