Resilience For Dummies

<p><b>What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger! Activate your natural ability to thrive with <i>Resilience For Dummies</i></b></p> <p>Stress, anxiety, and exhaustion are all-too-common features of our crazy-paced, curveball-throwing contemporary existence, and it’s sometimes hard to see how we can make it from one week to the next intact. But there’s a solution to the struggle: resilience! In <i>Resilience For Dummies</i>, Dr. Eva Selhub&mdash;former Harvard Medical School instructor and director of the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital for six years&mdash;outlines the proven steps we can all take toward optimal resilience to build healthier, more purposeful, and increasingly joyful lives.</p> <p>The six pillars of resilience are: physical vitality, emotional equilibrium, mental toughness and clarity, spiritual purpose, healthy personal relationships, and being an inspiring leader and part of a wider community or team. Dr. Selhub explains why each of these foundations is crucial to flourishing, how fortifying them gives us a base for attacking stress, hardship, and failure head-on, and how this confrontation then develops the strength we need for transformative change within our personal and professional lives.</p> <ul> <li>Know how genetics, education, and culture contribute to resilience</li> <li>Avoid learned helplessness and the victim mindset</li> <li>Harmonize stress and make it work for you</li> <li>Clear negative emotions and find your bliss</li> <li>Build up your physical, mental, and spiritual muscles</li> </ul> <p>Dr. Selhub’s six pillars of resilience show you how to channel your inner strength, face down whatever trouble comes your way, and come out thriving on the other side.</p>