Peace Advocates Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman
Bestselling authors and global peace advocates Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman announce the release of The Peace Guidebook: How to Cultivate Hope, Healing, and Harmony for the Good of Humankind, publishing April 21, 2026 by Health Communications Inc and Simon & Schuster – available now for pre order on major retail platforms.
With a powerful foreword by Rev. Mpho A. Tutu van Furth, the book opens with a compelling invitation to reimagine peace not as a distant ideal, but as a living, breathing presence in our daily lives.
“This book is a call to action and a call to calm. It is a reminder that peace begins within each of us. Every person matters, every voice has value, and no one has to walk this journey alone,” says Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman.
A Practical Guide for Real Peace in Real Life
In The Peace Guidebook, Hamilton Guarino and Eastman challenge the belief that peace is passive or only possible during calm moments. Instead, they present peace as an active, daily practice, one that can be cultivated through grief, change, burnout, and uncertainty.
“Peace is not the absence of pain, it is the presence of alignment,” stated authors Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman. “It is how we live with grace, even when things fall apart.”
The book introduces ten transformational principles, including Presence, Patience, Partnership, and Perseverance, alongside practical tools, real life stories, and guided exercises to help readers integrate peace into their everyday lives.
Peace in Action: From Personal Practice to Global Movement
The Peace Guidebook is part of the broader Percolate Peace Project, a global initiative aiming to inspire one million people to embrace peace as a way of life.
“This is more than a book,” the authors emphasize. “It is a call to action, a blueprint for personal and collective transformation.”
About the Percolate Peace Project – Our Movement for Global Peace
The Percolate Peace Project is a global initiative to help 1 million people cultivate and spread peace—starting from within.
Co-founded by bestselling author and master life coach Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and licensed psychotherapist and grief specialist Dr. Katie Eastman, the project is a direct extension of their groundbreaking work in The Peace Guidebook. At its heart is a simple belief:
Peace is not passive. It’s a personal, powerful, everyday practice.
The Percolate Peace Project encourages people from all walks of life to become intentional “peace percolators”—those who consciously filter their thoughts, words, and actions through the lens of compassion, presence, hope, and healing.
Just like coffee takes time to percolate, peace does too. This project offers a place to pause, reflect, and filter your best self through—one breath, one choice, one interaction at a time.
The Mission: To empower individuals, families, communities, organizations, and nations to:
Practice Peace Daily – through tools, reflections, and the Ten Principles of Peace
Share Real Stories – of healing, courage, compassion, and transformation
Connect Globally – in a supportive, uplifting community dedicated to peaceful living
Amplify Peace in Action – through teaching, coaching, conversations, and leadership
How You Can Join the Movement:
Read The Peace Guidebook and start your own journey
Join the growing community on The Percolate Peace Project Facebook Group
Share your story or testimonial
Host a book club, podcast episode, or local gathering
Practice the Peace Points in your daily life and inspire others to do the same
Why It Matters:
We live in a world where people are hurting, disconnected, and overwhelmed. But we also live in a world where healing is possible—where one act of peace can ripple outward and change everything.
This project is for the caregivers, the leaders, the parents, the teens, the teachers, the grievers, the seekers. It’s for anyone who believes that peace is a choice, not a luxury—and that together, we can make it real.
Join us, and let’s create a ripple effect that reaches far beyond what we can imagine.
Percolate Peace. Share your light. Change the world.https://www.percolatepeace.com/peaceguidebook
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino is the founder of The Best Ever You Network and host of The Best Ever You Show, a top-ranked podcast with over 5 million global downloads. A Master Life Coach and bestselling author, Elizabeth is widely recognized as one of America’s leading voices in personal development, leadership, and mindset transformation.
Through her books, coaching, and global media platform, she has helped individuals and organizations achieve world-class excellence by integrating strategic vision, gratitude-centered leadership, and empowered action. She is the author of The Change Guidebook and The Success Guidebook, and co-author (with Dr. Katie Eastman) of Percolate – Let Your Best Self Filter Through (Hay House) and the The Peace Guidebook. She also co-authored award-winning children’s books with Sally Huss.
A sought-after speaker and media contributor, Elizabeth brings a unique blend of heart, strategy, and soul to everything she does. She and her husband, Peter, split their time between Maine and South Carolina, where they enjoy life with their four adult sons, two dogs, and three beloved rescue cats.
Co-Founder Dr. Katie Eastman is a nationally respected grief and change expert with over three decades of experience helping people turn heartbreak into healing and trauma into transformation. A psychotherapist, master grief coach, organizational consultant, and cofounder of Recreate Coaching and Counseling, Dr. Katie brings deep emotional insight, spiritual awareness, and practical tools to life’s most profound challenges. Trained in the integration of psychology and spirituality, she infuses every aspect of her work with compassion, presence, and purpose. As coauthor of The Peace Guidebook, Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through, and author of Uplifting: Inspiring Stories of Loss, Change, and Growth, she helps others discover that even in the midst of loss, peace and meaning can rise. https://www.besteveryou.com/
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