Bounce: Living the Resilient Life

by Robert J. Wicks

Stress is a fact of modern life. And as more and more people face greater financial insecurity, longer work hours, and the increasingly complex personal and social demands of our fast-paced, multi-tasking, high-tech lifestyle, finding healthy ways to handle stress is more important than ever.

In Living the Resilient Life , Robert Wicks shows you not just how to manage stress, but how to transform stressful situations into opportunities to live a more meaningful, self-aware, and compassionate life. Wicks makes available to everyone techniques he has used for over 30 years in helping physicians, nurses, psychotherapists, educators, social workers, ministers, and relief workers not only survive but flourish in highly stressful occupations. You'll learn a wide range of methods--normally reserved for those in helping and healing professions--to help you bounce back from stress and live life to the fullest.

Bounce shows you how



· Recognize the insidious nature of denial and avoidance as responses to stress


· Employ psychologically powerful approaches to self-awareness


· Improve self-talk through the use of cognitive behavioral principles


· Apply daily-debriefing techniques


· Utilize a structured reflection guide to uncover areas that require special attention


· Incorporate silence, solitude, and mindfulness into daily life


· Stop the drain of valuable emotional energy caused by toxic life situations and unexamined attitudes and beliefs


· And much more
Most important, Bounce helps you develop your own self-care protocol and personal renewal program, based on an honest assessment of your needs, life situation, and habitual ways of dealing--or failing to deal--with stress.

Insightful, practical, and filled with wise guidance, Bounce shows us all how to live with greater resilience in a world that grows more stressful by the day.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology, Counselling, Spirituality

232 pages, Hardcover

First published August 26, 2009

About the author

There is more than one author with this name. See also: Robert Wicks & Robert Wicks.

Robert J. Wicks (born August 2, 1946 in Queens, New York) is a clinical psychologist and writer about the intersection of spirituality and psychology. Wicks is a well known speaker, therapist, and spiritual guide who has taught at universities and professional schools of psychology, medicine, nursing, theology, and social work for more than thirty years. He a Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Maryland

Reviews

[Love · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was OK. A lot of good quotes a lot of helpful points but very basic. Nothing insightful no psychoeducation.

[Janice · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a good resource for any who are in helping professions,and deal with the many stresses, and sometimes traumas, that impact the lives of those with whom they work. I liked both the author's style of writing, as well as the techniques he recommends. Included are questions to reflect upon, and tips for enhancing resilience.

[Mary Frances · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great resource for finding ways to build self-care and resilience into your life.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent read to learn about mindfulness, specifically for those whose work focuses on helping and caring for others...medical, educational, homecare, parents!

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this book for a grad school class and really enjoyed Wick's message for self-care. It is a super quick read and yet becomes a thought reference for developing self-care over a long period of time. It is practical and motivational at the same time to allow the reader to philosophically move towards personal wellness.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book offered insight into how you can grow from your trauma, whatever that may be, and come out the other side with new skills and strengths. It provides many resources and reflections for taking care of yourself and dealing with life's stresses.

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Kind of dated.

[Kathleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

this wasn't a bad book. i think perhaps i wasn't the right reader for it. for one thing, i already read about and practice eastern spirituality. so the occasional mention of various eastern mystics and their ideas wasn't really fulfilling for me.
same goes with the psychology stuff. i read a lot of social psych. literature, but i never get the chance to read the positive psychology literature. i was so intrigued when he started to discuss that stuff. however, again it wasn't the sustained attention to the topic i would have liked.
this book just felt too scattered to me.
i like focus and depth. and either i was distracted while reading this, or this book lacked those things, or both.

[Gloria]

This nonfiction book is about psychological resilience. Both friendly and concise, it holds many thought provoking questions and has a very helpful list of books to follow up with on various subjects such as stress, meditation, and more. This is good for people who have been knocked down in life and are working to regain their equilibrium. Frequently he refers to buoyancy, a most positive concept.

[Judy]

This seems to be a collection of what is available elsewhere, without anything really new. The author in person offers a personal transparency in sharing his journey which was helpful.

[John Lussier · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very informed read on mindfulness and resilience, and the its importance to life.