Jess Baker is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She started her career in healthcare before specialising in business psychology. She has delivered webinars from her loft in Shropshire to global audiences. She is an award-winning coach. Over a thousand women have been through her online Tame Your Inner Critic programme. She speaks at conferences and festivals and is a regular commissioned writer on the subject of wellbeing. She comments on leadership, psychology at work and mental health for magazines, newspapers and national radio. As an expert on the wellbeing of helpers she offers her services on a voluntary basis to charities. Rod Vincent is an Anglo-Irish Chartered Psychologist, a writer and a musician. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and during his previous career as a business psychologist he helped to develop leaders in forty-one countries. He is now doing his best to rebalance that carbon footprint by confining himself to walking the Shropshire hills. His poems and stories have won prizes in competitions and been published in a number of literary journals including Poetry Ireland Review, Stand and The Rialto. His poems are also in the Iron Book of New Humorous Verse (Iron Press). He writes the lyrics and plays bass as one half of O’Reilly & Vincent.
"""I was hooked right from the authors' note; there was such beautiful humanity to it. This book is a powerful catalyst in showing helpers how to help themselves. I loved the prompts bringing deep insight, expertly yet tenderly unpicking the core beliefs that keep us stuck in unhealthy helping habits, followed up with the practical tools to actually do things differently. This book is a game changer"" -- Suzy Reading * author of The Self-Care Revolution * 'Spend any time around most teachers and it probably won’t be long before you start seeing some visible signs of what co-authors Baker and Vincent, both chartered psychologists identify as Super-Helper Syndrome.' * Teach Secondary Magazine * 'If you have ever felt totally exhausted from relentlessly helping other people and putting their needs before yours then this book is a must-read. It's packed with fascinating insights as to why you're helping everyone except yourself and feeling burn out as a result. Read this if you want to redress the balance!' * Motherhood The Real Deal (UK Parenting Blogger) * 'It offers carers tools to set boundaries, realise their own limitations and understand why they often have an unrealistic and overwhelming need to help others.' * The Lady * 'That book is now on my Christmas list…' -- Kaye Adams * BBC RADIO SCOTLAND * 'This book is an essential read for anyone working in health or social care. It can help reveal why people respond in the way they do to the situations of others, the personal cost of doing so and how they can help without paying a high emotional price.' -- Prof Alison Leary PhD FRCN FQNI, MBE"