Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster

by Linda Graham

"More than 100 evidence-based practices for building the brain's ability to bounce back from adversity, written by a therapist and expert in the neuroscience of resilience"--

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

304 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2018

About the author

Linda Graham is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a senior lecturer and programme route leader in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing at Northumbria University, UK.

Reviews

[Monique · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was easy to read and the exercise practices are great tools.
One learns and continues learning to be more resilient.

[Rodrigues Ursula · Rating 1 out of 5]

The title of the book is very misleading. It is a book that teaches mindfulness techniques to remind yourself of your good traits, without even getting near to helping you bounce back from trauma or disaster. Methods suggested such as, getting a friend to tell you what your good traits are, imagining your future wiser self telling you what are good traits are, bringing to awareness your unlovable traits together with the good ones (really the book just goes on and on about letting yourself be aware of your good traits in 1001 ways) would be good for someone with issues feeling good about themselves fundamentally, but not for someone who wishes to feel better from a real trauma/disaster. This book should be retitled (perhaps "Mindfulness techniques for self-awareness/appreciation"), otherwise the misalignment of expectations inevitably lead to disappointment, the very thing that readers were trying to eradicate by picking up this book.

The author also paraphrases a whole lot. The same idea - that getting to know your good traits help you overcome trauma and disaster gets repeated over and over again in the book, without telling you exactly how the gap is bridged. How does feeling awesome about myself (by having an imaginary self tell me how good I am, or by imagining my good traits and bad traits interacting on an imaginary stage) help me get over the death of someone important?

[Steve Brock · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was voted a Best of the Best book for December, 2018. See more reviews and recommendations at http://forums.delphiforums.com/stevo1.

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid book for mindfulness practices and other scientific-based approaches to reducing anxiety and stress.

[On StoryGraph LizaWren · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars.

[Britt · Rating 2 out of 5]

My rating may be harsh. This is just not what I expected. There are too many practice suggestions and most of them seem hokey.