Developing Resilience

Are you ready to harness the power of empathy without sacrificing your well-being? In "Fearless Empathy," you'll embark on a transformative journey through a comprehensive journal and worksheet, integrating exercises from seven groundbreaking books to help you navigate life's challenges with confidence and compassion.Drawing from "Set Smart Boundaries," learn how to protect your empathy, assert your needs, and build self-esteem to achieve your goals without being used or depleted. From "Master Mindful No," discover techniques to filter distractions, overcome manipulation, and banish fear ...

We have a tendency today to over-parent, micromanage, and underappreciate our adolescents. Dr. John Duffy's The Available Parent is a revolutionary approach to taking care of teens and tweens. The available parent of a teenager is open to discussion, offering advice and solutions but not insisting on them. He allows his child to make some mistakes, setting limits, primarily where health and safety are concerned. He never lectures - he is available but not controlling. He is neither cruel nor dismissive, ever....

While you can’t control the chaos around you, you can control how you respond to it. The solution lies in a powerful ancient philosophy that has stood the test of time… Stoicism offers a practical, grounded path to inner peace, resilience, and emotional clarity — no matter what life throws your way. You don’t have to stay stuck in the storm of modern life. Let Stoicism guide you back to clarity and calm — right where you are.

Tao of Founders is a transformative guide for entrepreneurs navigating the emotional highs and lows of building a business. Offering timeless wisdom and real-life stories, this book offers a roadmap for finding clarity in chaos, cultivating resilience in the face of setbacks, and nurturing authentic purpose through adversity.

Why do some people get stressed while others stay calm, cool, and collected under pressure? According to renowned stress researcher Dr. Derek Roger, the answer lies in resilience - your ability to cope with challenges and thrive under adversity - rather than ruminating and obsessing over them. In lab-controlled studies, he discovered that the key to “managing” stress is to stop it before it starts. To be resilient, flexible, and ready for anything.

Thrive Through the Pivot is your personal resilience blueprint—a powerful, practical guide to transforming adversity into opportunity. Whether you’re feeling stuck, burned out, or simply ready for a new chapter, this book offers a proven path to help you rise, rebuild, and reinvent yourself.

Attachment Theory Explained isn’t just another psychology book. It’s a breakthrough guide praised by real readers for making the science of human connection actually understandable—and useful. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety in love, emotional distance, or want to deepen your self-awareness, this book offers a clear roadmap to emotional growth.

Venture into the fascinating world of human resilience in challenging environments through "Apocalypse Resilience," a book that opens up new realms of understanding in surviving an apocalypse. Throughout its content-rich chapters, this compelling book provides robust insights into the complexities of not just surviving, but thriving during dire times. Starting with a cultural and real-life appraisal of the threat of a zombie pandemic, it voyages through the intricate mind-maze of survival psychology, the importance of emotional preparedness, and the integral role of hope amid despair. ...

Less than three months after retiring from a 30-year law enforcement career, Kim Colegrove's husband chose suicide. Since that day, Colegrove has been helping first responders across the country practice techniques to cope with the stress and trauma that their work brings. And this book continues that mission by offering first responders and their families hope by introducing meditation and mindfulness as viable and practical tools to help reduce stress, regulate emotion, and improve overall health and well-being.

Are you constantly giving in to others at the expense of your well-being? Have you spent countless moments feeling overwhelmed, wondering how to uphold boundaries without compromising your relationships? Are you yearning for a life where you feel respected and at peace in your interactions? You're not alone if you've answered "yes" to any of these questions. Many individuals feel like they are losing themselves in the noise of others' demands and expectations.

The Growth Mindset Workbook offers essential skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to change the way you think about your own talents and abilities. Based on the core principles outlined in Mindset by Carol Dweck, this workbook will help you shed unhelpful and self-limiting attitudes and beliefs, and replace them with a growth mindset that can increase resiliency, boost self-confidence, and form the foundation of a meaningful, values-based life.

Are You Ready to Transform Your Doubts into Strengths? Have you ever lain awake at night, your thoughts racing—a familiar dance of uncertainty and worry? Does even the smallest disagreement with your partner keep you up at night, spiraling into feelings of unworthiness? Do you ever feel as if you are at war with the thoughts in your head, overthinking everything? As difficult as these experiences may be, they are common. Many have felt the weight of doubt and the burden of overthinking as if it were a part of their identity. But there is hope.

Mogel’s sage advice on parenting young children has struck a chord with thousands of readers and made her one of today’s most trusted parenting authorities. Now, in a longawaited followup, Mogel addresses the question she hears most frequently: what to do when those children become teenagers, their sense of independence and entitlement grows, the pressure to compete and succeed skyrockets, and communication becomes fraught with obstacles.

Leadership was never meant to be grounded. It was meant to soar. In Eagle Leadership: Rising Above, Leading Beyond, Michael Sirmon invites readers to rise from the trenches of reactive leadership and take flight with purpose, vision, and resilience. Drawing inspiration from the majestic eagle—a symbol of strength, clarity, and elevation—this book challenges leaders to break free from fear-based management and mediocrity-driven habits, and instead lead with unwavering focus, high-altitude vision, and grounded integrity. This isn’t another leadership book filled with recycled clichés. ...

Where does stress come from? Financial worries? Health issues? Conflicts at work or at home? For more than half a century, we’ve been told that stress is caused by outside pressures and that the best we can do is to breathe, try to relax, and accept that life is hard. In Breaking the Stress Cycle, Bernstein shares solutions for how to stop managing stress and break the cycle of ups and downs at its source.

Drawing on years of experience as a renowned Harvard doctor and nationally recognised stress expert, Dr. Aditi Nerurkar has developed a science-backed approach to help us change our relationship with everyday stress. This book teaches a mindset shift about stress through five simple yet powerful resets – pillars of wisdom that bring together physiological and psychological coping skills and enable you to cope when things get hard.

“This book will help you realize why managing tension by embracing Both/And thinking is the one skill every leader needs to succeed.” Donald Miller, CEO, StoryBrand “Why settle for one value when you can have two? For us, leadership success is all about Both/And thinking!” Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan, HGTV and BBC Television Stars, The Design Duo “Lead with AND is an invitation to bring your whole self to the leadership table, and to make a significant and sustained impact. I hope you accept it!” Allison Alley, President and CEO, Compassion Canada As a leader, you’re ...

Do you often find yourself struggling to build trust, be vulnerable, or nourish fulfilling relationships? Would you like to learn strategies that will empower you to communicate effectively, boost your self-esteem, and overcome your avoidant attachment patterns? If you’ve been looking for a book that will enable you to transform yourself and foster healthy connections, then look no further, this book is for you!

When award-winning ESPN producer Lisa Fenn returned to her hometown for a story about two wrestlers at one of Cleveland's toughest public high schools, she had no idea that the trip would change her life. Both young men were disadvantaged students with significant physical disabilities. Dartanyon Crockett was legally blind as a result of Leber's disease; Leroy Sutton lost both his legs at 11, when he was run over by a train. Brought together by wrestling, they had developed a brother-like bond as they worked to overcome their disabilities.

Explore transformative wisdom in The Katana Mindset, a unique guide that links the ancient art of Japanese sword-making to personal growth and resilience. Based on years of experience in Japan's hospitals, dojos, and monasteries, this book illustrates how forging a katana mirrors our journey toward strength and purpose.