You have the power to recover, rise and thrive!
Resilience is an inborn trait. It is part of your innate survival capacity. This means you can rebound after a setback and even bounce forward with more strength and wisdom. This potential can be nurtured and enhanced. You can proactively and consciously choose to develop your ability to manage stress, recover from burnout and thrive despite extreme challenges by developing a stress-resistant personality. This book will show you how.
In The Top 10 Traits of Highly Resilient People, Dr. Andrea Pennington presents 21 real life stories of people from various backgrounds and cultures who have dug deep within themselves to heal and move forward after facing difficult circumstances. These were sometimes life threatening, and often led to rock bottom or burnout. What these stories all have in common is how they prove that the traits of resilience can be built and enhanced with intention so that we can thrive after trauma, and experience more growth than we thought possible. There is great hope and inspiration to be found here.
This book has 10 sections with stories covering each of the top 10 traits of resilience, giving the reader examples from each of the traits that Dr. Andrea has taught her students and clients alike over the years.
What many people find is that they have 2 or 3 of these resilience traits in abundance, but others were barely on their radar. The aim of this book is not only to inspire hope, but to show the reader where the gaps in their resilience traits might be, so that they can cultivate those traits and become happier and more resilient than ever.
The authors in this book come from all walks of life with a range of life experiences; from the stages of Broadway and the dizzy heights of Dubai’s business world, to understaffed hospital wards, a veterinary clinic, and in places all over the world.
Featuring stories by:
Berit Bosdal
Helga Birgisdottir
Sarah Kate Brandis
Alexsa Covelli
Bruce Cryer
Eric Gerson
Susan Edwards
Rob Goddard
Cynthia Harrison
Malin Hedlund
Lene Kirk
Deri Llewellyn-Davies
Willow Mc Intosh
Catherine Mc Leod
Joana Soares
Gerd Stautland
Jill Stocker
Ashild Tilrem
Mona Winbrant
Ann Marie Wyrsch
Содержание
Introduction
Resilience Trait #1 Insight
Thorn Surrenders to Rose by Gerd Stautland
We Are Born Resilient by Åshild Tilrem
Resilience Trait #2 Flexibility and Adaptability
Resilience 2.0 – Dawn of the Renaissance Human by Bruce Cryer
What’s Ebay? by Eric Gerson
Resilience Trait #3 Persistence
Persistence to Peace by Susan Edwards
When One Door Closes Another One Opens by Berit Bosdal
The Small Voice Within by Cynthia J Harrison
Twelve Steps of a Recovering/Discovering Adult Child by Ann Marie Wyrsch
Resilience Trait #4 Tolerance + Compassion
The Silent Lion by Helga Birgisdóttir
Ownership and the Path to Resilience by Willow Mc Intosh
Recovering from Caregiver Burnout by Andrea Pennington, M.D., C.Ac.
Resilience Trait #5 Optimism
- The Power of Possibility, and One More Time by Jill Stocker, D.O.
Resilience Trait #6 Confidence
CREATE Your Dream Life by Malin Hedlund
Reclaiming My Intuition by Catherine Mc Leod
Triumph of Love in Life by Alexsa Covelli
Resilience Trait # 7 Positive Self-talk
Seeing My Future by Joana Soares
Resilience Trait # 8 Connection to Positive People
From Suicide to Success by Robert Goddard
Lost Connections by Mona Winbrant
Walk Without Purpose by Lene Kirk
Resilience Trait #9 Positive Emotion
The ‘Doing’ Trap and Learning to Feel by Sarah K Brandis
Resilience Trait #10 Purpose + Meaning in Life
Purpose-led Resilience by Deri Llewellyn-Davies