Taking Control

What if the thing you've been trying to fix was never broken?

What if the story you've been living inside of wasn't written by you?

What if you could begin Taking Control and changing the direction of your life?

For over 25 years, Marc Edwards has watched people walk into a gym wanting a six-pack and walk out having changed their marriage, their career, or the story they'd been telling themselves since childhood. Epitomising physical training, he discovered, is never really the destination, it's the doorway. Taking Control: Body, Mind, Soul. is the book that finally puts that discovery into words, for anyone ready to stop outsourcing their own development and start actually living it.

Structured around three stages, the body as your foundation, the mind as your operating system, and the soul as your furthest reach, this isn't a book you read once and shelve. It's a map, a practical method that turns every chapter into introspection and subsequently something you act on, rather than just something you think about. It draws as comfortably on neuroscience and biomechanics as it does on older, slower contemplative wisdom. It's built for readers who've found pure self-help too thin and pure spirituality too vague.

With a foreword from BAFTA-winning writer Geoff Thompson and an endorsement from Sir Loyd Grossman CBE, Taking Control arrives already trusted by people who don't hand that out lightly. Written by a 6th Dan martial artist who's spent a quarter of a century coaching everyone from first-time gym-goers to every branch of the British military, this is a book built on what actually works, not what sounds good in theory.