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

by Linda Graham

Whether it’s a critical comment from the boss or a full-blown catastrophe, life continually dishes out challenges. Resilience is the learned capacity to cope with any level of adversity, from the small annoyances of daily life to the struggles and sorrows that break our hearts. Resilience is essential for surviving and thriving in a world full of troubles and tragedies, and it is completely trainable and recoverable — when we know how. In Resilience, Linda Graham offers clear guidance to help you develop somatic, emotional, relational, and reflective intelligence — the skills you need to confidently and effectively cope with life’s inevitable challenges and crises.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

304 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 27, 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.