The Resilience Reflex


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"It's the author's story on how she overcame obstacles in her life to build resilience. It also shows her 3-step system of building resilience."--




Reconstructing Identity After Brain Injury


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Reconstructing Identity After Brain Injury tells the remarkable story of Stijn Geerinck and his journey from road traffic accident to recovery. After he was hit by a drunk driver whilst cycling, Stijn suffered a traumatic brain injury and had to undergo drastic maxillofacial and neurosurgery. In his own words, this book narrates Stijn’s difficult recovery, focusing on the physical, medical, mental, social and financial changes he had to endure. It lays the groundwork for coping with permanent impairment resulting from TBI, including lifelong lesions and the irreversible physical changes. The testimonial narrative is complemented with philosophical insights, providing key philosopher’s reflections on the experience of brain injury. Stijn also explores the essential human characteristics of resilience, fighting spirit, emotionality, despair, vulnerability, hope, depression, optimism, anxiety, rationality, focus, anger and love, as he looks at the impact of his brain injury and resulting disfigurement on his masculine identity. It is essential reading for any professional involved in neuropsychological rehabilitation, and all those touched by this condition.




The Resilient Child


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If you try to identify the basic qualities of a child "most likely to succeed" as an adult, what words might first come to mind? Independent? Likable? Creative? Disciplined? According to Dr. Joanne Joseph, the essence of a productive and healthy personality is a positive and secure self-image and a solid set of resilient attitudes and behaviors. The Resilient Child: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World successfully integrates the latest information available about healthy cognitive development, self-esteem, and resilience to give parents and teachers practical suggestions for nurturing these qualities in children and adolescents. Dr. Joseph, an esteemed psychologist and child education consultant, skillfully shows how stories, television, nutrition, exercise, parental discipline style, and the child's individual characteristics each play a comprehensive role in the development of a child's self-esteem and resilience. With the author's clearly outlined strategies, parents and educators can guide children to be socially skillful, responsible, disciplined, good problem-solvers, and effective managers of the change and adversity inherent in today's world. Elaborating beyond what others have identified as the elements of a productive personality, Dr. Joseph uses a series of inspiring anecdotes and documented research to discuss the following: what experts do and do not know about the development of self-esteem; how parents and teachers can actively contribute to the natural development of a child's self-esteem; how to promote resilience in children through happy and difficult times; the kinds of characteristics that differentiate children from each other; how to liberate a child's inner strengths to build self-esteem and resilience; how literature and the media can teach resilient and productive values and behaviors; styles of parental discipline and their influence on the development of the child; and more.




The Resiliency Workbook


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This is a one-of-a-kind self-help book for teens and adults based on decades of social science research about how people bounce back from all types of trauma, crises, problems and adversity. It shows how building resiliency builds mental health. The information in this book will help anyone facing any life challenge. Use this book to learn how to: * Unlock your innate capacity to overcome adversity right now. * Identify and strengthen your unique resiliency builders. * Use your resiliency builders that are already operating for you. * Develop solid, transformative self-esteem. * Identify your Achilles Heel and how to overcome it. * Keep going when the going gets tough. Written by a leading expert, this book makes the important findings from resiliency research accessible to everyone. 10 Chapters (plus Index): 1. You Were Born Resilient 2. A Research-Based Plan for Overcoming Life's Challenges 3. Unlock the Power of Your Personal Protective Factors 4. The Resiliency Wheel: Boosting Your Resiliency Every Day 5. Who and What is in Your Mirror? (and Other Life-Support Strategies) 6. The Resiliency Route to Authentic Self-Esteem 7. Listen Within: How to Find and Follow Your Accurate Gut Guidance 8. Identify Your Achilles Heel (and Stop It from Tripping You Up) 9. How to Keep Going When the Going Gets Tough 10.The Resiliency Quiz & Other Resiliency-Building Resources




The Resilience Shield


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'a powerful text that will benefit any reader' - Dr Richard Harris SC, OAM, hero of the Thai cave rescue Life is hard. Rocketing rates of physical and mental health issues are testimony to the immense pressures of our complex world. So how do we become tough and adaptable to face life's challenges? The Resilience Shield provides that defence. In their groundbreaking guide to overcoming adversity, Australian SAS veterans Dr Dan Pronk, Ben Pronk DSC and Tim Curtis take you behind the scenes of special operations missions, into the boardrooms of leading companies and through the depths of contemporary research in order to demystify and define resilience. Through lessons learned in and out of uniform, they've come to understand the critical components of resilience and how it can be developed in anyone - including you. The Resilience Shield explores the hard-won resilience secrets of elite soldiers and the latest thinking on mental and physical wellbeing. This book will equip you with an arsenal of practical tools for you to start making immediate improvements in your life that are attainable and sustainable. Let's build your shield! Praise for The Resilience Shield 'informative and enlightening . . . compelling lessons and advice' - The Hon Julie Bishop 'Clear, approachable insights into resilience' - Merrick Watts 'A blend of raw experience and impeccable science...a brilliant guidebook for our times' - Hugh Mackay AO




Reflex and Bone Structure


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Weaves a mystery in which imagination and fiction become tangled with reality.




Resilience from the Heart


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A fascinating combination of leading-edge science and present-day realities revealing the strategies for embracing stressful change in our lives. In this compelling revised edition of his book The Turning Point, best-selling author and visionary Gregg Braden merges his expertise in leading-edge science with present-day realities to reveal the strategies for embracing stressful change in our lives. This updated edition contains an all-new chapter not included in the original release, featuring material on the surprising discovery of brain-like cells – sensory neurites – located within the human heart, and the role they play in creating personal resilience. The powerful heart-brain connection made possible by these cells is now recognized as a portal to the deepest levels of our intuition, as well as a gateway to the subconscious mind. This book gets to the heart of the fundamental question you have no doubt asked yourself in the face of the complexities and challenges of the modern world: How do I make everyday life better for myself and my family? Through his skillful synthesis of easy-to-understand science and real-life circumstances, Gregg uniquely provides the answer, describing: · State-of-the-art discoveries that are the key to embracing big change in a healthy way · The three shifts that will transform the way you think of your career, lifestyle, and finances · The simple strategies of heart-based resilience that you can learn and use immediately for optimal health in our stressful world · A template of strategies for resilient living for your family and community . . . and much more. Gregg is an optimist, as well as a realist. His lifetime of work with indigenous cultures, combined with his scholarship in science and ancient traditions, gives him reason to believe in our ability to transform in a healthy way. To get to that point, however, we must be honest with ourselves. When the facts are clear, our choices become obvious and something beautiful happens. And it’s the power of this simple truth that is the basis for Resilience from the Heart. Join Gregg on this intimate journey as he unlocks the mystery of the world’s extremes . . . to reveal the power to thrive in life!




The Resilience Breakthrough


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A Guide to Resilience: The Second-Greatest Principle in the World Christian Moore is convinced that each of us has a power hidden within, something that can get us through any kind of adversity. That power is resilience. In The Resilience Breakthrough, Moore delivers a practical primer on how you can become more resilient in a world of instability and narrowing opportunity, whether you’re facing financial troubles, health setbacks, challenges on the job, or any other problem. We can all have our own resilience breakthrough, Moore argues, and can each learn how to use adverse circumstances as potent fuel for overcoming life’s hardships. As he shares engaging real-life stories and brutally honest analysis of his own experiences, Moore equips you with twenty-seven resilience-building tools that you can start using today—in your personal life or in your organization.




The Resilience Way


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The Resilience Way is a book for people who want to overcome their struggles and challenges and build the life they truly desire. In this approachable and engaging book, author Kelly Ann McKnight unwraps the keys to building resilience. She shares the Five Elements of Resilience and Fifteen Factors that you need to consider in order to be ready for anything. Learn how to: - Recognize the things that are getting in your way - Build skills that will help you handle your struggles - Create an action plan for moving forward... with Resilience! By the time you finish The Resilience Way you will be ready to take on those unexpected challenges and find the success you want in your life... on your own terms. Kelly Ann McKnight is an author, consultant and resilience researcher. She has spent the last twenty years coaching and developing people and helping them follow their dreams. Kelly Ann's journey includes a life of challenge and success. She lost her husband to colon cancer at the age of forty-five and was left with four children to raise. Her experience of love, loss and renewal sparked her passion for understanding resilience. Why, for instance, do some people thrive after dealing with the unimaginable while others struggle with much smaller challenges. What can each of us do to better manage our difficulties and create an extraordinary life? The Resilience Way follows the motivational stories of more than twenty people, overcoming their own difficulties and finding happiness. The Resilience Way contains a self-assessment that measures current levels of resilience and provides a path to improved wellness, clarity, health and happiness. This is the self-help book that truly empowers readers to achieve success... on their own terms.




Resilience and Risk


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This volume addresses the challenges associated with methodology and application of risk and resilience science and practice to address emerging threats in environmental, cyber, infrastructure and other domains. The book utilizes the collective expertise of scholars and experts in industry, government and academia in the new and emerging field of resilience in order to provide a more comprehensive and universal understanding of how resilience methodology can be applied in various disciplines and applications. This book advocates for a systems-driven view of resilience in applications ranging from cyber security to ecology to social action, and addresses resilience-based management in infrastructure, cyber, social domains and methodology and tools. Risk and Resilience has been written to open up a transparent dialog on resilience management for scientists and practitioners in all relevant academic disciplines and can be used as supplement in teaching risk assessment and management courses.