E119 - Lucy Easthope: Advice from an expert on overcoming disaster

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4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Easthope has been working in disaster management and recovery for 22 years. She has worked on every major indident that has affected the U.K since the start of her role; 9/11, the July bombings, Grenfell Tower, the Covid-19 Pandemic and she is currently working on the war in Ukraine.

In this episode Lucy shares the techniques she uses to deal with disasters that we can utilise within our own lives; breathing techniques, being present, embracing a healthy work/life balance. Although Lucy has witnessed some of the biggest traumas in the world she describes herself as continually positive and hopeful. She discusses whether we should involve children in discussions about major disasters and how to address world issues as a parent.

Lucy shares the importance of living “still with pain, still with memory… but there is hope and there is humour”

Listener guest Myles Edwards - Gathimba Edwards Foundation links

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Build houses as a volunteer in Kenya - https://gathimbaedwardsfoundation.org/kenya-house-building-trip

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1:16.4	In disaster planning, you're like a Paris fashion house. You're always two seasons ahead of maybe
1:20.8	three. You're well into 2023. The hardest part for me in March 2020 was saying to government
1:28.8	departments, so that's mainly civil servants. Let's talk about this for five years and then we'll
1:34.5	say, what do you mean? This is six to eight weeks and then it's over. As I know, this is the global
1:39.2	pandemic. It's the most planned for risk in the UK history and this is a five to ten year initial
1:45.5	disruption. And then ten years, you'll see that this is a, you will be able to bookmark this,
1:51.6	but there's no evidence in history that this is six to eight weeks. But almost the point of
1:57.0	you were breaking news of terminal illness, they could not adjust the idea that this would be with them.
2:03.6	Sometimes it's doing the very best that you can do for people at the very worst time of their lives.
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