Patrick Regan

Bear Grylls, author of The Greatest Story Ever Told

Patrick is natural and intuitive communicator

If you would like to try “going gently” this book will tell you how. Great explanations, achievable tips and questions that stopped me in my tracks.

Searingly honest, simple yet profound. It is almost impossible not to consider something in these pages that can change your life for good – forever.

Dr Rob Parsons OBE, author of A Knock at the Door

Small Steps for Big Change names something many people feel but rarely articulate: that our distress is often a healthy response to unhealthy rhythms. With compassion and clarity, Patrick Regan offers small, realistic ways to create space, regulate overwhelm and live with greater sustainability. A deeply humane and reassuring book.

Natalia Sarro, workplace wellbeing psychologist

In a world where so many of us follow unsustainable patterns of business that are often harmful to our mental health, Small Steps for Big Change helps us rediscover a more sustainable way of living, offering a thoughtful antidote to the pressures of modern life. Drawing on challenges he has faced himself, Patrick writes with genuine empathy, guiding readers out of the damaging cycles that many of us unknowingly find ourselves trapped in.

Start Small, Create Space, Think Differently. This book does what it says on the tin – deceptively easy to say and equally tricky to do. We need to do all three to win the war within. This book is a realistic, practical and compassionate guide for your journey filled with hard-won nuggets and helpful illustrations.

Dr Rob Waller, consultant psychiatrist NHS in Scotland

As a leader who embodies courageous compassion, Patrick reveals the small simple shifts that have outsize impact on a personal, organisational and societal level. In these turbulent times, compassionate leadership offers a human roadmap for positive change, fostering safety, connection and belonging for all.

Laura Berland and Evan Harrel, Co-founders, Center for Compassionate Leadership

Small Steps for Big Change is written with Patrick’s characteristic blend of authenticity, humour and compassion. Illustrated with stories from his own experience, [it] offers wisdom, questions and exercises that will help all of us consider the life we would like to lead and how to get there. I started the book considering how I could use it to support my clients – half-way through, I was using it for myself.

Clarie Miles, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

A Guide Through Overwhelm

‘It’s the overwhelm and busyness of life that keeps us trapped. We need a radical rethink. What if we could look at this differently? What if our aim wasn’t just how to survive in this world, but was about how to truly thrive?' 
 
In Small Steps for Big Change, award-winning author, speaker, activist and charity founder Patrick Regan OBE invites you to take a breath and begin again – not with grand gestures or quick fixes, but with small, practical and intentional steps that lead to lasting transformation. Drawing on his own experience of burnout and recovery, Patrick shares three simple but powerful principles that have shaped his life: Start Small, Create Space, Think Differently. 
 
Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, searching for balance or longing to live with more purpose, Small Steps for Big Change offers a compassionate roadmap towards a more sustainable way of being – one that helps you not just to survive, but to truly flourish.

Patrick Regan

Praise for Small Steps for Big Change

Powerful truths

Patrick is natural and intuitive communicator

If you would like to try “going gently” this book will tell you how. Great explanations, achievable tips and questions that stopped me in my tracks.

Powerful truths

Patrick is natural and intuitive communicator

If you would like to try “going gently” this book will tell you how. Great explanations, achievable tips and questions that stopped me in my tracks.

Powerful truths

Patrick is natural and intuitive communicator

If you would like to try “going gently” this book will tell you how. Great explanations, achievable tips and questions that stopped me in my tracks.

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