David is a stress management consultant by profession, and the subconscious mind is his area of expertise. In 1987, he turned his pilot practice into an award-winning nationwide franchise. By 1994, the enterprise had grown to 92 consultancies, and David had made his first million pounds.
But then he did something that no stress manager should ever do...
He suffered a stroke that paralysed one side of his body from mouth to foot while still in the prime of life. Three days later, in hospital, he had another stroke; this one was serious.
He lost everything: his business, his house, the jet-set lifestyle, the fast cars and the fast women, but he was not prepared to settle for life in a wheelchair. Adopting stress management techniques that he had once used to help his clients to overcome their psychological problems, he made a full recovery over a four-year period while convalescing in the Cornish fishing village of Polperro.
David’s non-fiction self-help book After Stroke was published in the UK by Thorsons, in the USA by HarperCollins, and in Japan by Sun Choh, notching up UK sales alone of 20,000 copies. David was featured in the Sunday Express Magazine and was interviewed on BBC TV, Channel 5 News, and ITV’s THIS MORNING programme with Richard and Judy. Richard Madeley, live on TV, described the book as “excellent”.
David is the author of a series of professional stress management training manuals for industry and The Little Book of Recovery, as well as Beat Depression, published by Hodder and Stoughton, with an Arabic edition by Jarir. He lives with his wife, Tatiana, a Russian mathematician and teacher, in Plymouth, Devon.