As an extension of the global movement The Percolate Peace Project, The Peace Guidebook offers a practical, transformative roadmap for individuals, leaders, and organizations seeking to cultivate personal and collective peace, while also creating positive change in the world.

In a world that often feels divided, noisy, and uncertain, The Peace Guidebook is a soul-stirring invitation to return to what truly matters: a quieted soul, a love that reaches outward, and a life guided by collective compassion. This is more than a book—it’s a call to action. A blueprint for change. A spark for a global peace movement.

Rooted in authors Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino’s and Dr. Katie Eastman’s decades of work helping people through grief, change, and transition, and inspired by the Percolate Peace Project, the book delivers Ten Principles of Peace that will help you:

• Heal what’s unresolved within you
• Navigate conflict with courage and grace
• Create partnerships rooted in values and vision
• Lead from love, even when the world forgets how
• Build real, resilient, peace-filled communities

With practical tools for real transformation—including reflective prompts, authentic stories, and accessible daily practices—The Peace Guidebook becomes more than just a read. It’s your steady companion, a well of wisdom you’ll return to again and again as you uncover your most peaceful, purpose-driven self.

"In this self-help book, two experts on personal development highlight ways to practice peace daily.
“Peace is not something we wait for,” life coaches Hamilton-Guarino and Eastman point out in the  book’s introduction, adding that it is instead “something we practice—every day, in every interaction, in every breath.” The authors challenge popular misconceptions of peace that relegate it to an abstract ideal, reduce  it to passive inaction, or defer its value onto others, and they argue that it begins inside oneself and in one’s interactions with family members, colleagues, and communities. Central to the  book’s convincing premise is that peace starts with compassion (“When you commit to practicing  compassion,” they write, “you promote peace”), and that actively choosing compassion not only helps  bring inner peace, but is also a contribution to global peace movements. As a guidebook, the volume  provides pragmatic advice, often in bulleted lists, on how to embrace its central concept, while emphasizing that it requires constant vigilance and patience. A wealth of practical ancillaries  includes journaling prompts (included on lined paper throughout the book), real-world exercises to help break an “autopilot cycle” in stressful situations and prompts for  group discussions. There are memoiristic vignettes from the authors’ own lives, as well as inspirational stories contributed by people they’ve encountered as life coaches, licensed therapists, and motivational speakers. Hamilton-Guarino, a bestselling author of nearly a dozen  works, joins Eastman, whose academic background is in clinical psychology, for this book; the pair,  who previously worked together on Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through (2014), are  particularly adept at blending a welcoming, personable writing style with a solid understanding of  best practices in contemporary psychology and peace theory that’s backed by scholarly references. 

Although the authors’ overall goal of a more peaceful world is admirable, they’re also careful to 
emphasize that the book “doesn’t ask for perfection.” Instead, it effectively encourages readers to contribute to this goal—one small change and action at a time.

A practical and engagingly written guidebook to embodying peace in one’s daily life.

 " - Kirkus Reviews