Her publishing portfolio consists of five best-selling travel and nursing memoirs set in the UK, Australia, and France. Sarah Jane enjoys a reputation as the roving Florence Nightingale, with a successful career as a registered nurse and nurse educator allowing her to work in UK and Australia. She has a growing family, with four children, three stepchildren, now grown up with children of their own, allowing Sarah Jane to enjoy playing an active role as ‘nanny’. Sarah Jane is a mother, Registered General Nurse, and an award-winning internationally published author. Do you fight back, and if so, at what cost physically and emotionally? Could we maintain our positivity and family values against the odds? This is our story.Īuthor Sarah Jane Butfield is a UK-based author originating from Ipswich, Suffolk. Glass Half Full follows our journey into happy, sad and challenging times.įind out what it takes to survive with the odds stacked against you.

A sequence of life changing events including a close family bereavement, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) following a road rage car accident and the shock of losing the roots to our Australian adventure as a result of the Brisbane floods tested us on many levels. We lived the Australian dream, embracing the adventure until adversity came to test us. As a family, we made the biggest and most difficult decision of our lives part of our family would emigrate to Australia. In 2008, with good times ahead of us, my glass was half-full. This new positive approach helps me to perceive my glass as half-full, with my aim being to achieve a happy and healthy life for my family. I decided not to squander any more of my time or energy on undeserving people.

He helped me to discover how a positive attitude can change everything. At my lowest point, and just in time, I met Nigel. Life changing events, up to 1997 almost destroyed me. Is the glass half-empty or half-full? Ironically, sometimes life influences our view and alters our perception.

As a result, Glass Half Full has undergone a revamp including a professional edit, added photographs from our journey and a professional book cover. 2nd October 2014: Reader feedback is appreciated by all authors.

Glass Half Full by Sarah Jane Butfield