Adversity Brings Balance: From Observing Your Life to Creating It

WHAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK FROM ACHIEVING YOUR DREAMS?

There is a particular kind of night that most of us meet at least once. Something has changed. Your health, your work, a person, a plan. And you find yourself awake, wondering how you got here and whether you can find your way back to yourself.

Aké Satia knows that night.

She built a life across three continents. She spent two decades inside some of the world’s largest corporations. And she did it while living with multiple sclerosis, learning the hard way that the life you plan and the life you get are rarely the same thing.

Adversity Brings Balance is what she learned. Not a system. Not a set of rules for people who already have it together. It is a journey in five parts (observe, grow, discover, decide, create) that starts exactly where you are, with the questions you are already asking. Who am I? Who has been writing my story? And how do I take the pen back?

Along the way you will be told some things that are easy to forget. That your uniqueness is not a problem to be managed. That perfect is not on the menu, and never was. That true friends matter more than almost anything. And that adversity, unwelcome as it is, has a way of returning something to us if we let it.

This is a book for anyone who has stopped living and started merely surviving, and suspects there is a difference.

You do not have to be fixed to begin. You only have to begin.

AKÉ SATIA grew up across three continents: Africa, Europe, and North America. Which is one way of saying she has spent her life learning to belong in rooms she was not born into.

She spent two decades inside some of the world's largest corporations. She has also spent them living with multiple sclerosis, a fact she kept quiet for a long time and writes about now because staying quiet did not help anyone, least of all her.

Adversity Brings Balance came out of that. She did not plan to write it. She lived it first, and the lessons would not leave her alone until she put them down.

She believes the empowerment of people, rather than arbitrary goals, is the point of most things. She is a lifelong reader, a lover of art, and a great admirer of anyone who keeps going. She belongs to a very close family and considers being a daughter, sister, aunt, and friend to be among her more serious credentials.