By a Thread: Resilience Strategies for the Partially Unraveled

by Nicolette Blanco, Deborah Kevin (Editor), Tracy Harrison (Foreword)

Have you ever pulled on a thread only to have a hem come completely unraveled? Life can be like that, sometimes… One thing after another seemingly falls apart… Then you heed your gut, and the shift hits the fan… What you reconstruct looks different, yet somehow feels completely right…By a Thread offers useful strategies—large and small—for overcoming hardship when everything feels like it’s too much. From deep breathing to grieving, you’ll be inspired to do more than simply “hang on,” and leverage the ideas included in the book to develop your own strategies.It’s a truth that we all face adversity at some point in our lives; it’s how we respond to and recover from it that makes all the difference.

92 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2021

Reviews

[Jill Celeste · Rating 5 out of 5]

In such a topsy turvy world, resilience feels like something that's out of reach—but it doesn’t have to be. Resilience, in fact, is something you can learn. If you need help with this, be sure to read By A Thread by Nicolette Blanco. Told with humor and love, By A Thread contains practical exercises to help you become more resilient, no matter what you’re facing. As Nicolette says in this book, the answers are within us. It’s wonderful to know that By A Thread will help guide us to find these answers.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m not one for self-help books, run from them, in fact; but….By a Thread – resilience strategies for the partially unraveled got me. And held me and taught me some amazing things to try

Nicolette Blanco is a sixties-something counselor, manager, humorist ad a very talented writer. She gets her point across gently but with ideas that you CAN TRY BY YOURSELF. The chapters are short, just long enough for the reader to absorb the message and think about it.

Each chapter begins with a quote and my favorite was the beginning of the chapter titled “Sow Something.” It reads: When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.” From Andrea Gibson.

If you need help with thoughts you might just give this book a shot., It’s small, easy to read, packs a wallop, Go on, try it out.

[Curtis · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author provides a number of interesting strategies designed to help people "hold it together" in an ever more complicated and challenging world. While the strategies are fairly straightforward, the overall plan struck me as a bit shallow and did not really go deep enough in terms of sustaining progress. But this is also something that requires more than reading a book alone to get to a place of resilience. Not a bad read; but it is nowhere near a substitute for professional therapy or coaching.

(Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.)

[Mary Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy read- helpful questions at the end of the chapters! A great resource!