Life Has Its Own Plan. Self-Support During Times of Anxiety and Change

“Difficulties happen, but they’re as natural as rain or winter.”
We’re used to thinking that everything is under control: we have knowledge, experience, plans. It seems life will unfold the way we intended. But sometimes everything collapses. The scenario feels as if it’s being rewritten without asking—and all that’s left is exhaustion and the sense that you can’t cope. Life has its own plan.
That’s been true for the author of this book, Ekaterina Latukhina. Despite her education and work experience as a psychologist, she herself found it far from easy to endure hardships: internal crises, difficult motherhood, and her partner’s depression. In this book she honestly shares her experience, her knowledge, and her psychological tools that help you get through hard times. And she also reminds you: even when everything doesn’t go according to plan, you can find an inner light and warmth that will light the way to positive change.
This book isn’t about an ideal life. It’s about the real one—and about how to be a support for yourself within it.

From the author
If we had a handbook “How to Live Properly” and everyone followed it, the world would look completely different. In a complicated situation, a person would find the right section, open the needed page, and learn what to do. But such a handbook does not exist.
When we face the need to make a difficult life choice (to stay or move, to create a family or wait, to change professions or not, to marry, to divorce), we need some kind of compass—a kind of foundation. And although this book, unlike a utopian handbook, doesn’t provide an answer to how you “should” or “must” act, it shows a path for where to search for your personal support. What matters specifically for you.
It is exactly your inner support—your inner light, your inner warmth—that helps you cope with difficulties and crises, when you already want to give up. This light makes it possible to become support for yourself and for your loved ones.