Dr. Lucy Hone - Resilient Grieving: What Abi Taught Us

BRAVE JOURNEYS with TAMMI FARADAY

My next guest, Dr Lucy Hone is a global authority and celebrated Ted Speaker in the area of resilience.

Lucy is an Adjunct Senior Professor at the University of Canterbury, a co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, a published academic researcher and best-selling author and blogger for Psychology Today.

Having been trained at the University of Pennsylvania, Lucy went on to attain her PhD in public health at AUT University in Auckland and now assists organisations - from government departments, to leading law firms and schools - to design and implement wellbeing and resilience initiatives that create sustained and meaningful change.

But in 2014, Lucy's life was turned upside down, when her beautiful 12-year-old daughter, Abi, was killed in a freak car accident. In the blink of an eye, one of the world’s leading resilience experts found herself flung to the other side of the equation, waking up with a whole new identity. Instead of being the resilience expert, she was suddenly thrust into the heinous and unfamiliar world of being the grieving mother whose life had been smashed to smithereens.

Lucy’s best-selling book “Resilient Grieving” which was originally titled, “What Abi Taught Us” has helped countless people get through their darkest days and her TED talk, The Three Secrets of Resilient People, has had over 3 million views and been recognised globally as one of the top 20 TED Talks of 2020.

She is the living example that it’s possible to grieve and live at the same time.
This is Lucy’s story…

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CREDITS:

Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday

With thanks to my special guest: Dr Lucy Hone

Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso

With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson

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