Bounce: Living the Resilient Life

by Robert J. Wicks

Overview

This book is for all of us who care for and about others. It's about being compassionate toward oneself so that you can continue to be compassionate toward others. As a nurse, teacher, mother, wife, and sister, I highly recommend this delightful and therapeutic book. Get your pen in hand; you'll be underlining whole sections that sound just like you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199751099
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/24/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Robert J. Wicks is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Maryland. He has published more than 50 books and has lectured on the importance of resilience, self-care, and maintaining a healthy perspective all around the world as well as at the Mayo Clinic, Yale School of Nursing, Harvard's Children's Hospital and Harvard Divinity School, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the U.S. Air Force Academy, on Capitol Hill to Members of Congress and their Chiefs of Staff.

Table of Contents

Have a Life! An Introduction 3

Navigating Life's Rough Waters: Riding the Crest of Chronic and Acute Stress 23

Personal Renewal: Creating and Tailoring Your Own Self-Care Protocol 49

A Powerful Healing Combination: Friendship, Resilience, and Compassion 73

The First Steps Toward Self-Knowledge: Debriefing Yourself 103

Solitude, Silence, and Mindfulness: Centering Yourself in a Driven World 129

The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart: A Brief Epilogue 163

Appendix A Creating and Reflecting Upon Your Own Stress-Resilience Profile: An Exercise in Strengthening Your Inner Life 167

Appendix B An Individual Reflection Guide 177

Further Reading: Resilience, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, and Contemporary Biographies/Autobiographies of Resilient People 193

Works Cited 201

Permissions 209

Index 211

Editorial Reviews

"In this eagerly awaited second edition of his contemporary classic, Wicks readably synthesizes vast literatures on stress and coping, trauma and loss, positive psychology and posttraumatic growth, to trace a roadmap to resilience that is as refreshing in its clarity as it is remarkable in its comprehensiveness. But more than orienting readers to the rich yield of recent research and timeless wisdom, Wicks orients them to the deeper source of learning arising from taking a fearless inventory of their own interior life and the treasures to be found in its unhurried perusal. One part mentor, one part fellow traveler, he offers his stressed and harried colleagues a cornucopia of questions which, if asked earnestly, will point out a pathway to authentic living." — Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, Director of The Portland Institute for Loss and Transition

"Resilience is a concept and practice that many of us assume we know more about than we do, and yet developing capacities for resilience remains fundamentally important for human wellbeing and flourishing. Robert Wicks helps us develop these capacities and furthers a conversation on resilience that he's led for well over a decade, with new stories, nuggets of wisdom, and a new chapter on posttraumatic growth, among other updates to his previous edition of this book. If I were to recommend a single book on the topic of resilience, this would be it. After reading it, I feel not only more resilient; I feel more human and humane." — Allan Cole, PhD, Dean, Bert Kruger Smith Centennial Professor of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin

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