Lifeshocks: And How to Love Them by Sophie Sabbage - Non Fiction Self-Help - Paperback

Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781473638020
Publisher: Coronet

Overview

Lifeshocks: And How to Love Them is Sophie Sabbage's powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir The Cancer Whisperer. Drawing on decades of experience in human development and her own life-altering cancer diagnosis, Sabbage explores the unexpected, unwanted moments that jolt us out of our assumptions and invites readers to meet them with curiosity rather than fear. This is a thoughtful, practical guide for anyone facing hardship, change, or uncertainty who wants to turn adversity into growth.

About the Book

We all experience moments when the life we expected collides with the life that actually unfolds — a diagnosis, a break-up, a redundancy, a loss. Sophie Sabbage calls these collisions "lifeshocks," and in this book she argues that how we respond to them, rather than the events themselves, determines the course of our lives. Drawing on candid stories from her own experience of late-stage lung cancer, as well as examples from clients she has mentored through decades of work in mindset transformation and corporate culture change, Sabbage shows how our earliest reactions to disappointment and pain often become ingrained patterns that quietly diminish our lives. She then offers a different path: recognising each lifeshock as an invitation to greater authenticity. The book categorises different types of lifeshocks and the particular "gift" each one carries, offering readers practical tools to access those gifts more quickly and consciously rather than being knocked off course for months or years. Written with warmth, honesty, and hard-won wisdom, Lifeshocks moves beyond simple positive thinking to a grounded, real-world framework for resilience. It is a book for readers navigating illness, grief, career upheaval, relationship breakdown, or simply the ordinary shocks of being human, and who want to meet those moments with more courage and self-compassion.

• Written by Sophie Sabbage, bestselling author of The Cancer Whisperer
• Offers a practical framework for turning life's toughest moments into growth
• Combines personal memoir with decades of professional coaching insight
• Ideal for readers interested in mindfulness, resilience, and personal development
• Ships as a genuine paperback edition, brand new
• A thoughtful, meaningful gift for anyone going through a difficult transition

About the Author

Sophie Sabbage is a writer, speaker, and transformational facilitator who has worked in human development, mindset transformation, and corporate culture change for over twenty years. She co-founded an award-winning consultancy alongside her mentor, psychologist and theologian Dr K. Bradford Brown, a direct student of influential thinkers Carl Rogers, Viktor Frankl, and Alan Watts. After being diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer in 2014, Sabbage drew on her own skills and tenacity to reshape her life and work in response to her illness, becoming a widely respected voice on resilience, transformation, and authentic living, as reflected in her bestselling memoir The Cancer Whisperer.

Why You'll Love This Book

Honest, wise, and refreshingly free of empty platitudes, Lifeshocks gives readers real tools for navigating life's hardest moments. It's a book you'll return to again and again whenever life throws you a curveball.

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