Pt 2: How to Stay Hopeful When the World Feels Heavy | Professor Lucy Easthope
Stompcast14 Okt 2025

Pt 2: How to Stay Hopeful When the World Feels Heavy | Professor Lucy Easthope

In part two, Professor Lucy Easthope gives some valuable advice for finding hope in times of hardship, unpacks her concept of ‘the lasagne effect’ and explains why it’s important to live ready, but not scared.


Plus, Lucy and Dr Alex George challenge ideas about toxic positivity that arise within grief, and Lucy shares how we can prepare ourselves for power outages and cyber attacks.


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