Life Is Chaos and All Is Well by Steve Huff

Reviewed by Toni Woodruff

Surf on the chaos, thrive in your world.

Do you live inside a tornado? Or does it feel like it? Things are happening all the time—global ones, local ones, internal ones, interpersonal ones, random ones—that it can feel like we’re in a constant whirlwind. There are things to do and things to panic about. With all this swirling about, how can we stay grounded?

Life Is Chaos and All Is Well by Steve Huff is a feel-good self-help book about transforming your stress and anxiety into calm and contentment. That isn’t to say that everything is going to go smoothly—that the problems you are experiencing aren’t problems and all you need to do is breathe about it (though, it could help!). This book takes special notice to discussing chaos first, acknowledging that your problems are real, valid, and, with this book, possible to overcome. Huff discusses trauma in its various forms and approaches it with a kind, considerate, and informed voice. 

Even while he’s focusing on the chaos, Huff shares practical wisdom gained from personal experience in dealing with the mounting problems weighing on your back every day. From the beginning, he’s offering tasks for you to do in real life alongside the reading of this book. Journaling, walking, breathing, talking—each problem and each person deserves its own healing mechanism. He offers them; it’s up to you to use them.

This is an easy-reading guide that’s effortless to pick up and put down at your leisure. There are also a number of illustrative graphs that can help visual learners process all of the concepts presented.

Life Is Chaos and All Is Well tells engaging, real-life stories to go with the self-help advice too. This helps us relate the ways in which our own chaos can be maneuvered. There’s no escaping the chaos, but there are ways to handle it. 

Readers who are struggling with finding a way forward will gain much from this book. It’s an incredibly reader-friendly guide that breaks down everything it contends with thoroughly. However, sometimes that thoroughness can be the book’s detriment too. Some concepts are discussed at length despite being understood fairly quickly, so some paragraphs go by feeling repetitive. 

The book speaks into existence a concept that can and should be used by many. Sometimes we need a reminder that we’re safe when we are, we’re home when we are, and that we don’t need to panic about the things that aren’t happening right now. 

I wish you all the best with whichever mental and emotional journey you’re on, and Huff does too. If you’re looking for some guidance along the way, look no further than Life Is Chaos and All Is Well.

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