Christa Couture looks at life, loss and lessons learned in memoir How to Lose Everything
is her first book. It is an intimate look at all that Couture has lost over the course of her life: her leg was amputated, her first child died when he was one day old, her second child died as a baby after a heart transplant, her marriage ended in divorce and a thyroidectomy threatened her music career. Yet How to Lose Everything is a look at hope, joy and love — and living a life filled with compassion and understanding. Resilience sucks "Resilience is born of suffering. You will discover your resilience by suffering, by enduring hardship. It's something you don't know about ...