Linda Graham - Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and even Disaster

Praise for Resilience

Resilience is a truly comprehensive guidebook that shows you that you have everything inside you to skillfully meet all of lifes challenges, great or small, with a wise, kind heart. In her clear, well-researched style, filled with user-friendly exercises and practices, Linda Graham reveals how we can train our brains, our bodies, and our hearts to access our intuitive wisdom not only to get through the tough times but to grow and become more conscious in the process. A real gem!

James Baraz, coauthor of Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to Happiness and cofounding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center

This is a wonderfully comprehensive, hugely informative, engagingly written book. Linda Grahams voice personal, knowledgeable, confident, and inspiring kept me reading as if it were a novel.

Sylvia Boorstein, author of Happiness Is an Inside Job

What I especially love about this book is the kindly and You can do this! way Linda Graham speaks to us readers. She shows us that rich resources of resilience are inside us and that we can easily learn to tap them using her exercises. Beautifully combining mindfulness and neuroscience, Linda has crafted what we always wanted: a guide for sane, serene living.

David Richo, PhD, author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships

Linda Grahams pioneering expertise on cultivating resilience has transformed countless lives. Now, in Resilience, she has compiled a clearly sequenced set of best practices that can guide us in finding freedom in the midst of lifes greatest challenges. Highly recommended!

Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

If you want the practical know-how to strengthen your ability to uncover resilience in any situation, I recommend diving into Resilience! Take your time with this, soak in Linda Grahams practical strategies and wisdom, and make it a part of your life!

Elisha Goldstein, creator of A Course in Mindful Living

Though we cannot control what happens to us, we can learn to respond in a healthier, more adaptive way. Perhaps more than any other book Ive encountered, Resilience offers us the necessary tools to respond effectively to lifes challenges and strengthen the vital skill of resilience. With a treasure trove of practical exercises, this gem of a book provides us with a step-by-step guide to bouncing back from lifes struggles and creating lasting change. Writing with both expertise and immense compassion, Linda Graham has given the field and her readers an immense gift with this book.

Jonah Paquette, PsyD, author of Real Happiness and The Happiness Toolbox

In this powerful book, Linda Graham shares remarkable insights, practical tools, and essential skills to learn how to navigate lifes challenges. She draws on a wealth of research, personal wisdom, and heartfelt compassion from her work as a psychotherapist to show how we can all develop this much-needed quality of resilience. I can think of no better guide for this important work.

Mark Coleman, meditation teacher and author of Make Peace with Your Mind and Awake in the Wild

Even though we want life to be comfortable and pleasurable and even though we often expect it to be so life is often difficult, disappointing, and painful. (Darn it!) When things dont go our way, we need specific skills and strategies to regain our balance and to keep ourselves from spiraling downward. This book is an essential reference and guide to developing those skills in ourselves and also in our kids (for parents) and clients (for coaches and therapists).

Christine Carter, PhD, author of Raising Happiness and The Sweet Spot

What can we do when overwhelmed by lifes challenges? This clear, comprehensive guide offers practical answers. Its chock-full of proven practices from spiritual, psycho-therapeutic, and scientific traditions that anyone can use to respond effectively to the challenges of modern life. Linda Grahams years of experience and deep understanding as a psychotherapist and teacher shine through as she offers effective, easy-to-use tools to not only survive but flourish during difficult times.

Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and author of The Mindfulness Solution

This book draws from a wide variety of empirically proven programs to offer a smorgasbord of ways to cope with lifes difficulties. With over ten dozen practices and exercises, this book has what you need when things get tough, all in one convenient place. Look no further for the help you need to cope.

Kristin Neff, PhD, author of Self-Compassion, coauthor of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook, and associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin

Resilience is a powerful concept because it refers to our underlying capacity to meet challenging times with grace and skill. Its pure denial to say, Dont worry, nothing bad will ever happen. We need skills for coming back from hard times, and thats what this book is all about. So many of us today struggle to find emotional balance and to heal the web of our human connections in the face of increasing anxiety and disorder. This book, with its astonishingly wide range of resources, could not have come at a better time. Linda Graham is the ideal guide to cultivating resilience, a calm, wise voice speaking from the interface of science and compassion. This book has so many valuable tools!

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD, CEO of Focusing Resources and author of The Power of Focusing

In this generous book, Linda Graham offers a cornucopia of practices 133 in all to help people bounce back from hardship and cultivate emotional strength. She clearly understands the difference between a wobble and a wallop and has organized the practices to sensitively address diverse needs. Highly recommended for anyone going through a tough time and for those who care about them.

Christopher Germer, PhD, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, codeveloper of Mindful Self-Compassion training, and lecturer at Harvard Medical School

I offer a deep bow of gratitude to Linda Graham for her book Resilience, which provides us with an array of simple yet powerful experiential tools for growing and strengthening inner resilience our innate ability to skillfully recognize, respond to, and bounce back from whatever life throws at us. Our ability to experience joy, love, and well-being depends on our possessing a robust foundation of resilient responses to the stressors we encounter throughout life. Linda offers us such a guidebook for life, one we should all have in our hands, one I now look forward to passing on to all my friends, students, and clients.

Richard Miller, PhD, author of The iRest Program for Healing PTSD

What a treasure trove of useful and powerful practices to help us thrive! Linda Grahams wise and practical approach to strengthening resilience guides us to recovery and renewed joy. Well organized and simple to learn, Resilience offers a remarkably powerful selection of tools for creating and enhancing our ability to navigate life stresses from minor inconveniences to major tragedies.

Ashley Davis Bush, LICSW, author of Simple Self-Care for Therapists and The Little Book of Inner Peace

Linda Grahams warmth and compassion shine through in this wonderful and informative guide to strengthening resilience. She seamlessly weaves neuroscience into creative, easy-to-follow exercises designed to enhance emotional intelligence, neuroplasticity, social engagement, gratitude, and compassionate self-awareness. Clinicians and clients alike will greatly benefit from tools that include guided imagery, somatic resourcing, mindful meditations, journaling, and reconnecting with nature. I highly recommend this uplifting and inspiring guide! Its a beautiful contribution to the self-help genre and the mental health field.