First and foremost, I am deeply indebted and incredibly grateful to my wife, Carmel, for all her love, support, patience and encouragement; for her many useful ideas and suggestions; and for keeping the family living and thriving when I was so bogged down in my work.
Next, a planet-sized amount of thanks to Steven Hayes, the originator of ACT, for not only introducing this amazing model to the world, but also for all his help and encouragement with my books and my career. And that gratitude also extends to the larger ACT community worldwide, which is always very supportive, giving and caring.
Third, a huge amount of gratitude goes to my agent, Sammie Justesen, for all her continuing good work.
Fourth, my thanks to Joe Ciarrochi and Ann Bailey for allowing me to use the goal-setting materials from our ‘Weight Escape’ programme in Appendix 4.
And last but not least, several truckloads of thanks to the entire team at my Australian publishers, Exisle Publishing — especially Benny Thomas, Gareth St John Thomas, Penny Capp, Anouska Jones and Monica Berton — for all the hard work, care and attention they have invested not just in this book, but also in my earlier works.