How Will I Ever Get Through This?

‘Dr Lucy’s unpacking of the grief that comes with living losses was a lightbulb moment for me.’ Ellidy Pullin

‘The best work I know on positive psychology and grief is Lucy Hone’s.’ Martin Seligman

‘Lucy’s insights are practical, wise, and deeply human – they stay with you long after you read them.’ Chelsea Pottenger

From bestselling author and TED speaker Dr Lucy Hone comes a timely and much-needed guide to surviving the silent epidemic of living loss – the kind that follows divorce, illness, estrangement, redundancy, infertility or any other life upheaval.

Grief is not confined to bereavement. Yet society rarely recognises these non-death losses, leaving many feeling isolated and unseen. In this deeply compassionate book, Hone draws on her own experience of multiple losses, decades of resilience research, and the voices of others navigating profound change, to offer a unique lifeline to readers.

Structured around twenty key questions, How Will I Ever Get Through This? gently assists readers to move from initial overwhelm (Why do I feel so physically exhausted? Why do I feel so lonely? Who am I now?) to hopeful reengagement (Who and what is still good in your world? Who and what do you want to live for?).

How Will I Ever Get Through This? will leave readers more resilient, empowered and better equipped to face the future than ever before.

Author Biography

Born and raised in London, Dr Lucy Hone now divides her time between New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the US. Adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Canterbury, she is an internationally sought-after professional speaker, a bestselling author, and award-winning/ internationally published ‘pracademic’. Her clients range from Apple and Amazon, to the United Nations and the armed forces. Regularly featured in international media, including the Guardian, the Hidden Brain, the Washington Post, the BBC, the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, CBS and ABC, she is also a columnist for Psychology Today. Her bestselling book Resilient Grieving was recently updated in a second edition, with rights sold to the USA/UK, the Ukraine, China and Indonesia. The Covid pandemic saw her TED talk go viral, putting it in the Top 20 of 2020. Viewed over 9 million times, it has been translated into 23 languages.