Bouncing back
Subtitle: rewiring your brain for maximum resilience and well-being
By: Linda Graham, MFT ; foreword by Rick Hanson, PhD
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9781608681297
Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait); Self-consciousness (Awareness); Self-confidence; Neuropsychology
Description: "Advice, exercises, and examples to help readers increase their clarity, connection, competence, calm, and courage, from a clinical therapist, mindfulness teacher, and expert on the neuroscience of relationships. Applicable to relationships, jobs, and everyday life"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction what resilience is and how we rewire our brains to recover it; title: How the brain develops resilience or doesn't; title: How the brain's strategies of resilience become wired in; title: How the wiring in of resilience can go awry; title: Harnessing the brain's neuroplasticity to recover your resilience; title: Using mindfulness to foster self-awareness and flexible responses; title: Using empathy to create connections and self-acceptance; title: Five additional practices that accelerate brain change; title: Self-directed neuroplasticity; title: Recovering resilience through resonant relationships; title: How bonding and belonging nourish resilience; title: Creating inner security and confidence; title: Developing relational intelligence; title: Keep calm and carry on : recovering resilience through resources of the body; title: Losing and recovering our balance; title: Recovering our balance through the body; title: Developing somatic intelligence; title: Recovering resilience through emotional well-being; title: How neuroscience is revolutionizing our thinking about feelings; title: How positive emotions build resilience; title: Developing emotional intelligence; title: Shift happens : recovering resilience through reflection and response flexibility; title: Using reflection to identify options; title: Shifting gears: modifying our patterns of response; title: Discerning wise choices and responding flexibly; title: Recovering resilience through simply being; title: Resting in the wisdom of being; title: Launching into a more resilient life; title: Moving resilience beyond the personal self.