The Tale of Mr Leopard, Mr Jackal and The Lady Dragon: Book One. This item is unavailable.The Tale of Mr Leopard, Mr Jackal and The Lady Dragon: Book One

In the quiet spaces between the noise of ambition, loss, and reinvention, the moments that truly matter often arrive unnoticed-until they reshape everything.

Moments That Matter is a raw, luminous memoir of unbecoming. Born in Bandung, Indonesia, to a Peranakan Chinese father and a German mother, Geraldine Hardy grows up navigating cultures, continents, and the invisible threads of ancestral survival. From the disciplined world of classical ballet to the high-stakes arenas of corporate life in Monaco, Dubai, Singapore, and beyond, she traces a path marked by intuition ignored, patterns repeated, and the slow, courageous return to herself.

This is not a story of dramatic reinvention sold as triumph. It is an honest reckoning with the subtle contractions of fear, the weight of over-giving, the quiet betrayals of self, and the profound liberation that begins when we finally choose to observe our own cycles instead of unconsciously living them. Through the lens of her own life-shaped by East-West heritage, the discipline of dance, the ache of repeated abandonments, and the eventual embrace of nervous-system wisdom-Geraldine invites readers into the earliest phases of healing: awareness.

Written with unflinching clarity and deep compassion, Moments That Matter reveals how sovereignty is not found in perfection but in presence. It is a mirror for anyone who has ever felt the pull between who they were taught to be and who they truly are. It is a gentle yet powerful reminder that healing does not begin with arrival-it begins the moment we stop running from the quiet signals inside us.

Whether you are standing at the edge of a life transition, recovering from burnout, or simply longing to remember your own inner knowing, this book offers a compassionate companion on the path of conscious interruption. Book Two will go deeper, but this is where it begins: with the moments we almost missed-and the remembering that changes everything.