Transforming Bill
Transforming Bill: Sharing a Path Through the
Madness of Full Catastrophic Living
A raw, honest memoir about one man’s journey from academic burnout and rage to becoming a mindfulness teacher and therapist. Bill Paterson’s story shows how ancient practices can help us navigate modern life’s chaos—not by escaping reality, but by learning to meet it with curiosity, compassion, and courage.
This isn’t another comfortable middle-class mindfulness memoir. This is a working-class Scottish man’s journey through rage, shame, and breakdown to becoming someone who can hold space for others in their darkest moments. It’s Buddhism without calling it Buddhism. It’s therapy in forests. It’s standing in busy roads screaming and learning to sit still. It’s being told “you’re surplus to requirement” and finding out you’re actually a diamond covered in mud.
For anyone in crisis, anyone angry, anyone who thinks mindfulness is just corporate wellness bullshit: I see you. I’ve been there. Here’s what helped me. Maybe it can help you too.
Not because I’ve got it figured out.
But because I’m still learning.
Just like you.
