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My First Book Launch – Live Tour – Autumn 2025
What the Book Is About
“LIFE IS KIND!”
Carolin Oder is full of energy, courage, and a deep love for life — yet she knows firsthand what it means to be brought to your knees by crisis and to fight your way back to inner strength.
After profound personal losses and the devastating diagnosis of a rare, life-threatening illness affecting her son, she created the GENAUSO Principle — seven powerful paths to discovering inner strength in life’s darkest moments, whether for yourself or for those you love.
This book is a compassionate guide for navigating uncertainty, building resilience, and choosing a fulfilling life even when everything feels like it’s falling apart. Through thought-provoking reflection questions and practical, real-life tools, you’ll learn how to apply the GENAUSO Principle to your own journey. Because one thing is certain: crises are part of life.
The real question isn’t if they will come — it’s how you choose to meet them.
Are you ready to rise, discover your inner strength, and reclaim your life?


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Voices from Readers
I had the chance to be one of the first to dive into your book, which will be released soon. And let me put it this way: it’s filled with an incredible amount of value. You share so much meaningful content that feels exactly right for this moment in time — a world full of crises and challenges.
And what could be more helpful than learning from someone who speaks from real, lived experience — someone who openly shares what they’ve been through and what can be learned from it? And yes: “Fuck you, universe — enough is enough!” Exactly. Sometimes it’s okay to be fed up, to complain, to let it out. Because what we as human beings carry and endure every single day is enormous.
That’s what makes your book so special: it offers a guide you can actually hold onto — one that gently and clearly shows how to deal with all of this.
Thank you for this powerful source of courage, and congratulations on a book that — even with Edgar and despite the heaviness of the topic — still manages to make you smile.
Carolin’s first book! I have to say — it’s wonderful, gripping, deeply moving, and then ultimately uplifting and incredibly insightful.
I’m absolutely blown away!
Carolin’s story and that of her family touched me deeply, and thanks to her reflection questions and practical implementation tips, the GENAUSO Principle can easily be adapted to anyone’s personal situation.
I’m really looking forward to the book.
A compelling blend of biography and guidebook. Everyone can see themselves in it — or knows someone who has lived through something similar.
It puts your own problems into perspective, fosters compassion and respect, and at the same time evokes a deep sense of gratitude for one’s own well-being.
This book is for anyone going through difficult times — for parents of chronically or seriously ill children, for people working in healthcare professions, and also for young people, offering them valuable strategies for life.
Carolin’s writing style is fluid and easy to read, and I found myself fully immersed in the story. It stirred so many emotions in me — I cried, it made me reflect, yet at the same time it left me feeling hopeful.
It shows that there are ways to survive crises of any kind without losing yourself or your family along the way.
This book is for anyone in a similar situation or going through a life crisis for any reason. Everyone can benefit from the GENAUSO Principle
Who This Book Is For





Featuring a foreword by Prof. Dr. René Prêtre
“I know very few parents who have had to endure as much as they did. And yet — they remained standing. Under the force of these blows, Carolin Oder actively developed her own coping mechanisms. … Her GENAUSO Principle was built with critical pragmatism and great intelligence.”

Prof. Dr. René Prêtre
- One of the world’s leading pediatric heart surgeons
- Specialized in congenital heart defects
- Swiss Person of the Year 2009
- Author






