The Resilience Mindset: How Adversity Can Strengthen Individuals, Teams, and Leaders

by Terry Healey

Overview

An actionable framework to overcome adversity and create a more fulfilling life.

“Finally, a book that provides practical guidance for business professionals and everyday people to find greater success and purpose despite daily challenges.” — Grant Riggs, CEO, Riggs Distributing

Adversity can deliver a blow to our emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health, eroding our self-confidence and self-esteem. Having experienced a harrowing ordeal with a life-threatening cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference at the age of twenty-one, Healey found a way to harness daily inspirations into key turning points that enabled him to create an actionable framework of four key principles to not only manage adversity whenever confronted with it but to learn how to create a better, more fulfilling life — because of it. Healey’s four principles are invaluable to individuals and to those leading teams of people.

Coping with adversity is one thing, but thriving is another. To thrive, we must find happiness, success, and purpose by developing ways to build resilience, embrace change, and strengthen our resolve so that we become unstoppable. Each of us has the capacity to incorporate Healey’s resilience framework into our daily routines and become more empowered and self-confident.

The Resilience Mindset offers evidence-backed research and stories from others who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, including paralysis, traumatic brain injury (TBI), severe dyslexia, burn injuries, and other adversities. Offering more than just inspiration, The Resilience Mindset provides readers with the tools to build their own survival kits to take on the smallest and biggest obstacles, leading to a more fulfilling life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781778525087
Publisher:	ECW Press
Publication date:	09/09/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

A survivor of a life-threatening cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference, Terry Healey is an author, keynote speaker, and business strategist. A graduate of UC Berkeley with a 35-year career as a marketing executive, Healey challenges audiences to face adversity and change and to apply his framework and principles to gain confidence and find joy in their personal and professional lives. Healey lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Editorial Reviews

Resilience is a critical skill for all of us, for our careers but even more so for life. This is a must-buy book as Terry teaches how to build resilience, gain confidence, and embrace change.” — Tracey Newell, board member, past president of Informatica; author of Hers for the Taking: Your Path to the C-Suite and Beyond

“Inspiring and practical, The Resilience Mindset is part memoir, part self-improvement, and weaves the author’s incredible life experience into a guidebook for others to prepare and improve their lives to achieve greater happiness and purpose. This is a must-read for anyone looking to move their life forward.” — Joseph Puthussery, vice president of marketing, Databricks

“This is a must-read for nurses, MDs, and patients. It’s inspiring, and the tools and practical exercises contained throughout will help medical professionals deal with the stressors of our occupation and impart great guidance for our patients to better handle recovery.” — Michael Mann, MD, professor of surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery; director, Cardiothoracic Translational Research Laboratory, UCSF

“With The Resilience Mindset, Healey offers the tools for engineering what a lot of us in Hollywood could use these days — a good comeback story.” — Bill Pruitt, five-time Emmy Award–winning executive producer of The Amazing Race, The Apprentice, and Deadliest Catch

“The Resilience Mindset provides a road map into rebuilding yourself — body, mind, and soul — after hardships. Terry’s phenomenal ReBAR framework is a fresh new take on gratitude that helps others create actionable steps to propel them forward into a healthier, more fulfilling life.”— Jennifer A. Johnson, RN, author of Nursing Intuition: How to Trust Your Gut, Save Your Sanity, and Survive Your Career

“As a surgeon, I’ve seen the physical toll of illness—but this book reveals the mental and emotional path only the patient knows. More than a story of survival, it’s a guide for facing adversity with mindful positivity. It invites readers to reflect, grow, and find strength in the face of life’s toughest challenges.” — Ivan El-Sayed, MD, professor, director, Center for Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery, Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, UCSF

“Finally, a book that provides practical guidance for business professionals and everyday people to find greater success and purpose despite daily challenges. This is an important book to read, and Terry is an important speaker to hear.” — Grant Riggs, CEO, Riggs Distributing

“Terry writes and speaks about his life-changing adversity with great courage and honesty. By sharing his proven methodology to improve self-confidence and build resilience, Terry has created a practical approach that can apply to any of life’s challenges.” — Luanne Tierney, chief marketing officer, Mission Cloud; board director of Crimson Wine Group

“Too many people have excuses. Terry could have had the best one. Now he has taken learnings from his personal transformation, and success as a business leader, and written an exceptional book to help others adopt more efficient approaches to success and happiness.” — Peter Jackson, chairman, Pakked; former CEO of Bluescape, Intraware and Dataflex

“Terry Healey gives a powerful account of the obstacles he has faced in his own life. His positivity is contagious, and the guidebook he provides for readers is spot on. What a fantastic tool kit others can use to help them through their own life challenges and find renewed optimism and purpose.”— Lauren Ventura, head of global partner marketing, Check Point Software Technologies

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