What would it feel like to wake up with more energy, clarity and confidence?Burnout doesn't happen overnight. It builds quietly through stress, pressure and the habit of putting everything else first.
In Better, Aran Dadswell introduces the concept of mental fitness: the daily practices that strengthen your ability to cope, adapt and thrive. Blending science, lived experience, and practical tools, she offers accessible exercises and reflections to help you build resilience, cultivate meaning, and protect your wellbeing by reducing guilt and overwhelm.
Written for people who want more than quick fixes, this guide offers realistic strategies to understand what makes you tick, care for yourself without guilt, and build the habits that help you feel steadier and more capable every day. Mental fitness is not about perfection. It is about feeling better, thinking clearer, and having the energy to show up fully for your life.
Through five core cornerstones-Togetherness, Meaning, Resourcefulness, Resilience and Wellbeing-you will learn how to strengthen your inner world and create lasting positive change. Along the way, you'll discover 42 practical Mental Fitness Boosters and the Mental Fitness Rocket Booster, a guided framework designed to help you turn insight into action.
Whether you're feeling stretched too thin, navigating change or simply looking for a more sustainable approach to personal growth, Better provides practical tools to help you build a healthier relationship with yourself and the world around you.
Aran Dadswell is a Master Certified Coach and the founder of World Mental Fitness Day, observed annually on April 10. She created Better as an invitation to explore what becomes possible when you invest in your mental fitness.
Discover how strengthening your mental fitness can help you not just survive, but find contentment and fulfillment.
About the Author :
Aran Dadswell is a mental fitness coach, speaker and founder. She holds a master of science degree in Studies in Mindfulness, a diploma in Learning and Development, and is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation.After nearly two decades in corporate roles focused on software testing and quality management, she shifted her focus to helping individuals and organizations build mental fitness. Aran has lived on four continents, worked with people from more than seventy nationalities, and is the creator of World Mental Fitness Day, observed annually on April 10.
Review :
An important new exploration of mental fitness and how we can build a healthier mind, Better is for anyone interested in building resilience, increasing wellbeing, and reducing burnout.
-Dean Mobbs, professor of cognitive neuroscience and principal investigator of the Caltech Affect Lab
Better is a readable and compelling roadmap to mental fitness that takes the practice of self-compassion to another level.
-Choden, coauthor of Mindful Compassion
Better is a valuable distillation of behavioral science into simple, actionable rituals that protect our mental health and fuel our potential.
-Kai Foong Tan, organizational psychologist, executive coach and educator
Practical, punchy and deeply human, Better is the essential manual for anyone looking to master their mental fitness.
-Vinod Kumar, vice chairman of Everstone Group and CEO of Evercloud
Better is a thoughtful and accessible contribution to the field of mental fitness, inviting readers into deeper reflection, self-awareness and meaningful growth. Blending insight with practical application, it offers a culturally sensitive and human-centered approach that supports people to strengthen their inner world and create lasting change.
-Clare Beckett-McInroy, EdD, MCC, founder of BECKETT MCINROY and CoachME
Better is a rare guide that elevates our collective consciousness, reminding us that true performance begins with caring for our internal ecology. Aran Dadswell has written an essential book for every leader who understands that the most important infrastructure in any business is the mental fitness of its people.
-Shifra Cook, CEO of Ayda
What could be more important than to liberate ourselves from anxiety and guilt, and restore our personal power? In Better, Aran Dadswell unpacks practical, evidence-based practices, storytelling and reflective exercises to help build mental fitness for navigating our way through life's daily challenges. Dadswell brings an abundance of inspiring and simple strategies to cultivate clarity, strengthen resilience, enrich energy, and empower living with passion and purpose.
-Linda Burks, psychologist and author of Navigating Transitions
Better is profoundly normalizing and helped me understand I'm not failing or falling behind-I am human. Fostering shifts with real-world consequences, this book offers a particularly valuable resource for people who feel capable yet disconnected.
-Hazel E. Wallace, social impact entrepreneur
Drawing on a lifetime of experience as a high-performance coach, Aran Dadswell has created this practical, energizing, well-researched book as an engaging guide to super-charging your own mental fitness.
-Tiffany Wilding-White, mental performance coach and author of Golfing with Your Eyes Closed
