How to Find Inner Peace in Everyday Life: Introducing Our Free 12-Lesson Practicing Peace Audio Course
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman introduce Practicing Peace, a free audio course offering practical ways to navigate stress, relationships, life changes, grief, and the everyday challenges that affect our peace.
Finding peace in everyday life isn't always easy. Between responsibilities, relationships, work, health concerns, unexpected changes, and everything else competing for our attention, even the most ordinary day can leave us feeling overwhelmed. We may want to feel calmer, respond more thoughtfully, or stop carrying so much worry, but knowing how to do that in the middle of real life is another matter.
That's one of the reasons bestselling authors Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman created Practicing Peace: A Free 12-Lesson Audio Course, now available through Best Ever You Academy.
The course brings together their decades of experience in coaching, psychotherapy, leadership, personal development, grief, loss, and life transitions, along with the practical principles they explore in their award-winning book, The Peace Guidebook: How to Cultivate Hope, Healing, and Harmony for the Good of Humankind.
Their goal is to help people understand what practicing peace can look like in everyday situations, especially when life isn't going according to plan.
All twelve lessons are completely free, available online, and designed to be enjoyed at your own pace.
What Does It Mean to Practice Peace?
Peace is often described as a feeling of calm or the absence of conflict. We imagine peaceful moments when everything is quiet, our responsibilities are under control, and nothing particularly difficult is happening. Those moments can be wonderful, but they don't represent most of our lives.
Real life includes disagreements, disappointments, uncertainty, demanding schedules, changing relationships, health concerns, grief, and responsibilities that don't simply disappear because we would like a peaceful day.
Practicing peace means learning how to approach those experiences with greater awareness, compassion, and intention. It involves recognizing our reactions, understanding what may be influencing our emotions, making thoughtful choices, and developing habits that support our well-being and our relationships with others.
It also means understanding that peace and difficult emotions can exist together. We can feel frustrated and still choose how to respond. We can experience grief while finding moments of connection and meaning. We can face uncertainty without allowing every unanswered question to determine how we live.
Peace is not about pretending everything is fine. It is about developing the ability to respond to life with greater understanding and care, even when circumstances are challenging.
Why We Created Practicing Peace
Elizabeth and Katie have spent years exploring how people navigate change, success, relationships, grief, personal growth, and the experiences that shape their lives. Their work together includes Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through, published by Hay House in 2014, The Peace Guidebook, and the Percolate Peace Project, an initiative dedicated to inspiring one million people to practice peace.
Elizabeth brings her experience as a Certified Master Coach, business leader, bestselling author, and founder of Best Ever You®, while Katie brings more than forty years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist, licensed clinical social worker, Master Grief & Transition Coach, author, educator, and organizational change consultant. Together, their work combines practical coaching strategies with clinical insight and a shared understanding of the challenges people face.
Through their books, coaching practices, educational programs, and conversations with people from all walks of life, they have seen how often individuals are searching for practical ways to manage stress, improve relationships, navigate difficult changes, and feel more comfortable with themselves.
They also recognize that peace means different things depending on what someone is experiencing. For one person, peace may mean learning to respond differently when angry. For another, it may involve setting healthier boundaries, navigating caregiving responsibilities, accepting a changing body, or finding a sense of purpose after an unexpected life transition.
Practicing Peace was created to explore those experiences in a format that is accessible, flexible, and easy to incorporate into everyday life.
Explore the 12 Practicing Peace Audio Lessons
The course includes twelve audio lessons, with six presented by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and six by Dr. Katie Eastman. Each lesson focuses on a different aspect of practicing peace and offers perspectives and practical approaches listeners can consider in their own lives.
Lessons 1–6 with Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
Lesson 1: How to Be at Peace with Yourself
Being at peace with yourself begins with understanding who you are, recognizing your worth, and developing a healthier relationship with your own thoughts and expectations. This lesson explores practical ways to feel more comfortable in your own skin, reduce unnecessary self-criticism, and approach yourself with greater acceptance and compassion.
Lesson 2: How to Find Peace When Everything Feels Urgent
When every message, responsibility, and decision feels urgent, it's easy to spend the entire day reacting rather than choosing where to place our attention. This lesson explores practical ways to reduce daily stress, recognize what truly needs immediate attention, and create more room for thoughtful decisions.
Lesson 3: How to Practice Peace When You're Angry
Anger is a natural human emotion, but the way we express it can influence our relationships, decisions, and well-being. This lesson examines how to recognize anger, understand what may be underneath it, and develop the ability to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively.
Lesson 4: How to Protect Your Peace in Relationships Without Losing Yourself
Healthy relationships require communication, understanding, mutual respect, and appropriate boundaries. This lesson explores how to protect your emotional well-being while maintaining meaningful connections, addressing conflict, and recognizing the difference between supporting someone and taking responsibility for their choices.
Lesson 5: Finding Peace During Difficult Life Changes
Life changes can affect our routines, relationships, confidence, and sense of identity. Whether a transition is expected or unexpected, this lesson offers practical approaches to navigating uncertainty, adjusting to new circumstances, and finding ways to move forward without demanding that every answer be immediately clear.
Lesson 6: How to Find Peace When You Can't Control Everything
So much of life involves circumstances, decisions, and outcomes that are beyond our control. This lesson explores the difference between what we can influence and what we cannot, and how shifting our attention toward our own choices, actions, and responses can help reduce unnecessary worry.
Lessons 7–12 with Dr. Katie Eastman
Lesson 7: Practicing Peace Through Life's Changes
Finding Peace, Purpose, and Possibility in an Ever-Changing World
Change often involves losses we don't immediately recognize. We may grieve familiar routines, expectations, relationships, roles, or the future we imagined. Katie explores how understanding these experiences can help us approach transitions with greater compassion, recognize what matters, and discover new possibilities.
Lesson 8: Peace Begins When Someone Stays
Finding Peaceful Presence in Caregiving and Relationships
When someone is experiencing illness, grief, uncertainty, or emotional pain, we may feel pressure to find the perfect words or solve the problem. Katie explores the importance of presence, listening, and compassionate connection, and how simply being with another person can become a meaningful expression of peace.
Lesson 9: Living Peacefully Until We Die
Finding Peace with Aging, Health Challenges, and the Changing Body
Aging, illness, and physical changes can challenge our sense of independence, identity, and security. Katie approaches these deeply human experiences with sensitivity, exploring how we can acknowledge difficult feelings, adapt to changing circumstances, and continue finding meaning, connection, and dignity throughout life.
Lesson 10: Finding Peace in Who We Are Becoming
Rediscovering Purpose and Identity Through Work and Life Transitions
Our roles and responsibilities often become closely connected to how we see ourselves. When careers change, children grow up, relationships shift, or familiar responsibilities end, we may find ourselves asking who we are now. Katie explores how to navigate those questions and reconnect with purpose as life evolves.
Lesson 11: Finding Peace Beneath the Conflict
Understanding the Hidden Losses and Stories Behind Our Difficult Relationships
Conflict isn't always about the disagreement happening in the moment. Sometimes unresolved grief, past experiences, unmet expectations, or unrecognized losses influence how people respond to one another. Katie explores how understanding what lies beneath conflict can create opportunities for compassion, clearer communication, and healthier relationships.
Lesson 12: The Peace We Lose When We Forget Our Worth
Reclaiming Self-Compassion, Inner Peace, and the Possibility of Personal Growth
Our relationship with ourselves influences how we experience the world. When self-criticism, shame, or feelings of inadequacy take hold, peace can become difficult to recognize. Katie explores the importance of self-worth, self-compassion, and the understanding that personal growth begins with recognizing our own humanity.
How to Use the Practicing Peace Course
One of the benefits of an audio course is the flexibility it offers. You can listen while taking a walk, enjoying a quiet morning, traveling, or setting aside a few minutes for yourself. You don't need to complete the entire course at once, and there is no required schedule.
You may choose to begin with Lesson 1 and work through all twelve lessons in order, or return to a particular topic when it becomes relevant to something you're experiencing. A lesson about anger may be especially helpful during a difficult conversation, while a lesson about life transitions may offer a useful perspective during a period of uncertainty.
As you listen, consider what stands out to you and how the ideas relate to your own experiences. You might reflect on a question, try a suggested practice, or notice a familiar reaction in a new way. The value of the course isn't measured by how quickly you finish it, but by what you discover and how you choose to apply it.
Pause. Breathe. Choose.
At the heart of Practicing Peace is a message Elizabeth and Katie share through The Peace Guidebook and the Percolate Peace Project: Pause. Breathe. Choose.
These three words offer a simple reminder that we can create a little space between what happens to us and how we respond. Pausing gives us an opportunity to notice what's happening. Breathing helps us bring attention back to the present moment. Choosing invites us to consider how we want to proceed.
This practice doesn't guarantee that a difficult situation will disappear or that we'll always respond perfectly. It offers a way to become more intentional in moments when our reactions might otherwise take over.
The Percolate Peace Project encourages people to bring that awareness into their homes, workplaces, relationships, and communities, with a goal of inspiring one million people to practice peace. The project recognizes that everyday choices matter and that the way we treat ourselves and others can influence the world around us.
Begin Practicing Peace Today
Elizabeth and Katie created Practicing Peace because they believe useful guidance should be accessible to people who want to bring greater understanding, compassion, and peace into their lives. The course reflects their years of professional experience, their shared work as authors and educators, and their commitment to helping people develop practical skills they can use long after a lesson ends.
Whether you're navigating a challenging season, looking for ways to manage everyday stress, working through relationship difficulties, or simply interested in understanding yourself more deeply, you're invited to explore the course.
Practicing Peace: A Free 12-Lesson Audio Course is available now through Best Ever You Academy.
All twelve lessons are free, and you can begin whenever you're ready.
Pause. Breathe. Choose.
Let Your Best Self Filter Through.
About the Instructors
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino is a bestselling, award-winning author, speaker, Certified Master Coach, entrepreneur, and business leader with decades of experience in leadership, personal development, coaching, and organizational growth. She is the founder and CEO of Best Ever You®, a global personal development network established in 2008, and the longtime host of The Best Ever You Show, which has reached millions of listeners worldwide. Elizabeth is the author of the award-winning The Change Guidebook and The Success Guidebook, and coauthor with Dr. Katie Eastman of The Peace Guidebook and the Hay House book Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through. Drawing upon her experience as a corporate executive, coach, author, and educator, Elizabeth helps individuals, leaders, and organizations navigate change, redefine success, develop resilience, cultivate peace, and achieve meaningful personal and professional growth. She is also cofounder of the Percolate Peace Project and Best Ever You Academy, where she continues her commitment to helping people recognize their potential, develop practical life skills, and become their best selves.
Dr. Katie Eastman, Psy.D., LICSW, is a licensed psychotherapist, Master Grief & Transition Coach, organizational change consultant, bestselling author, educator, and speaker with more than forty years of experience helping individuals, families, and organizations navigate grief, loss, illness, trauma, caregiving, and life transitions. She is the author of UPLIFTING: Inspiring Stories of Loss, Change, and Growth and coauthor with Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino of The Peace Guidebook and Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through. Through her psychotherapy, coaching, teaching, speaking, and consulting, Katie helps people recognize the often-unacknowledged losses beneath life's challenges, rediscover meaning, and approach change with greater understanding, resilience, and compassion. She is also cofounder of the Percolate Peace Project and Best Ever You Academy and has been a frequent co-host of The Best Ever You Show since 2012.
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