Reviews & Endorsements

Navigating Everyday Life is a richly-crafted book that explores the conditions that shape individual psycho-social development and addresses the experience of everyday encounters that help them thrive or be thwarted. The book centres around three concepts – Finitude, Transcendence, and Fissures – and, as the opening line of the book states, “it seeks to examine the ongoing interplay between finitude and transcendence and the creative capacity to enable fissures”… This is a fascinating, whirlwind of a book that is theoretically informed and conceptually-laden with new ideas but hung on a tapestry of real-life stories. Although solidly academic in its foundations, this is a very accessible book that offers a framework for personal introspection and reflection. The narrative style is deceptively simple. Adams has an uncanny eye for the obscure and unnamed (and therefore unknown) and by highlighting and naming, he allows us a deeper insight into our human selves. To that end, his ideas are breathtakingly empowering. Adams writing is captivating – as a reader, I found myself drawn into the lives of his characters, exhilarated and enthralled along with them as they searched for transcendence, felt defeated by finitude or plunged into the depths of its darker elements – but also as they were enabled to journey to balance and healing… Adams is an internationally respected academic with decades of experience in the fields of addictions and violence. His works consistently exudes a strong optimism in humanity and the possibilities of personal and social transformation. Navigating Everyday Life is no different; it is humane, hopeful, and empathetic. (Review on Amazon website). See full review