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When life falls apart: How do you keep going through uncertainty? | Sarah McDermott

When life falls apart, how do you find your next step while you’re still frightened, overwhelmed and unsure what’s going to happen? It’s one thing to hear someone explain how a difficult experience changed their life afterwards. It’s another to try to make sense of it while you’re still in the middle of it.

Sarah McDermott, author of Chaos: The Art of Resilience, joins me to share the hospital waiting-room moment that made her question the life she’d built. While being investigated for pancreatic cancer, she was also facing a financial crisis after her business had been defrauded. The cancer…

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