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As a Kite Falls: A Voyage Through Descent

Author(s) : Richard Tyler

Reviews and Endorsements

In a world that is awash with success messaging, it is refreshing and inspirational to read such a beautifully written account on how to overcome and find acceptance in the dips and pitfalls of this life. Richard is spreading a vital, motivational and hopeful message which will nestle into your soul vision and work its way into your heart, if you let it.
Donna Ashworth, author of The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Wild Hope

Richard writes in such a way that you feel as though you are a friend going on his journey with him […] there will be something in Richard’s writing that will resonate with everyone. It is one heck of a journey but you will be grateful to read it and grateful Richard has shared it.
Gail Porter, TV personality

Richard beautifully encapsulates both the drama and mundanity of living with a cancer and its treatment. His book takes us through a sometimes-brutal depiction of illness and treatment and how that felt like a ‘descent’ following what he describes as a life of achievement and privilege. […]
While the book is about Richard’s descent from his former success to his new life as a person with cancer, I found it to be a hopeful read about how cancer, despite all its darkness, can bring with it new beginnings, a fresh perspective and stronger relationships with those you love and who love you back.
Dame Laura Lee, Chief Executive, Maggie’s

Richard Tyler peels away the layers of his life to reveal the rawness and vulnerability that we all face as humans.
As a triple amputee and having been pronounced dead not once, but twice, I have seen the effects of my own world coming to a crashing halt. But with enormous will, support and a deep belief that we are limitless, I continue to thrive and win at life.
Richard so elegantly reminds us through his use of haiku, that when we are stripped back to our nakedness, an extraordinary quality of resolve and determination is unleashed. This is not available to just a gifted few, it is available to us all.
Mark Ormrod, MBE

As an Olympic boxing medallist, I knew what it was like to be pushed to achieve more, punch harder and be stronger. But with all of that comes the fall – the moments where our world crashes.
Through his words, Richard has captured the essence of not only his own story, but the universal one that most of us were taught as we grew up: go faster, go harder, go bigger. He provides us with an important lesson – we must support our future generations to not only climb higher, but to also find ways to be with our own crashing descent. Descent is an opportunity to learn, build awareness and to adapt. It’s not what happens to you, it’s how you choose to face it.
Anthony Ogogo, Olympic boxing medallist

As the old liturgy has it, in the midst of life we are in death. We all wish for ascent without its necessary companion descent. Richard Tyler shares his experience of both. One cannot come away from reading his account without a deeper consideration of life’s paradox: that there is no ascent without descent as well. What matters is not the venue for our appointments with descent; what matters is how we go through the fire, how we come to accept the unacceptable, and how the depth, dignity, and degradation of this journey is accompanied by grace, hope, and occasionally even love.
James Hollis, PhD, Jungian analyst, Washington, DC, and author

Richard Tyler gives us a fearless account of what it is like to truly be human! A soul journey of the heart that transports you into his ever fluent world. His engaging humour and true transparency is gut wrenching, heartbreaking, and courageous. No stone is left unturned but nor could it be when one has walked a path such as his. His creative honesty allows us to truly see inside of ourselves at the same time. To not be alone, an outsider, or a bystander. We walk, cry, laugh, and dance with him. Yet as he plays the game of life, we are left on the edge of our seats wondering outcomes. What will happen next? Where will he take us? A real story, a true story and yet everyone’s story in some way or another. He brings humanity together with one voice.
Nadine Benjamin, professional opera singer, leadership