Come What May Life-Changing Lessons for Coping with Crisis
Come What May: Life-Changing Lessons for Coping with Crisis by Lucy Easthope, published by Hodder & Stoughton on May 15, 2025, offers insights into navigating difficult times. This 288-page book addresses the inevitable challenges of life, such as loss, uncertainty, and personal upheaval, drawing on Easthope’s extensive experience as an emergency planner who has supported survivors of major disasters.
In this guide, readers will find a collection of poignant stories and practical wisdom aimed at fostering resilience in the face of adversity. Easthope outlines the recovery journey, providing strategies for managing emergencies and understanding the emotional landscape that follows crises. Topics such as personal growth and coping mechanisms are explored, making this book a resource for anyone seeking to thrive beyond their struggles.
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AN UPLIFTING GUIDE TO NAVIGATING HARD TIMES, PERFECT FOR FANS OF DR JULIE SMITH AND JULIA SAMUEL
‘A shining beacon of sense and wisdom. None of us can avoid life-changing upheavals – but we can all benefit from reading this brilliant book about how to respond with resilience. Fascinating and empowering.’ RACHEL CLARKE
‘An unlikely superhero’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘An amazing woman’ JAMES O’BRIEN
We all know that at some point in life, we will experience pain, uncertainty and loss. Widowhood, redundancy, a life-changing diagnosis, pregnancy loss, or a global pandemic. So how can we weather the storms, and cope with whatever comes next?
No one can answer this better than Lucy Easthope, an emergency planner whose job is to support survivors of major disasters. She has been there after countless earthquakes, fires and floods. Time and again she has watched how people rebuild: the work, the pitfalls and the fragile joy. In Come What May, she distils for us what she has learned about how to carry on during and after terrible times.
Through poignant stories and hard-won wisdom, she offers a roadmap for resilience in the face of adversity. She explains what shape the recovery journey might take, how to triage your life in an emergency, how to plan for ‘the slump’ (also known as the lasagne phase), how to take stock of what has happened to you, how to watch out for ‘learned helplessness’, and what good (and bad) help looks like.
This is a book for all of us existing in ‘the after’ who want not just to survive, but to live and unleash strengths we never knew we had.
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