Everyday Resilience - by Gail Gazelle (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Find the strength within-the practical guide to gaining resilience

Everyone relies on a certain amount of stamina and flexibility to overcome life's daily challenges. Everyday Resilience can help you face struggle and adversity with confidence by giving you practical strategies, powerful tips, and expert insights to build inner strength and develop this awesome power within you.

From personal reflection exercises and mindfulness meditation, this practical guide gives you everything you need to find the courage, strength, and wisdom to deal with difficult circumstances. By building resilience and perseverance, you can enjoy life to the fullest and thrive, no matter what comes your way.

Everyday Resilience includes:

• Easy to read, easy to understand-Discover clear, concise information on achieving resilience.
• Proven approach-Explore various research-based psychological and mindfulness practices to guide you, including key takeaways after each chapter.
• Solutions revealed-Get simple science-based strategies and techniques you can use every day.

The path to achieving resilience in your daily life starts with a little help from this simple, straightforward book.

Review Quotes

"Everyday Resilience is just the right blend of depth and accessibility, helping us to embrace this essential practice. A valuable guide for these times." --Marc Lesser, author of Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons From Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen

"Dr. Gazelle helps us see that resilience is something each of has within us and that it can be cultivated through practice. What you practice grows stronger." --Shauna Shapiro, PhD, author of Good Morning, I Love You

"Here is THE road map to find your resilience. Buy it and begin your journey." --Carol Kauffman, PhD, ABPP, founder, Harvard Medical School Institute of Coaching

"In this book, Dr. Gazelle gives you just what you need to be resilient no matter what comes your way." --Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO, and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"Resilience is the core strength we all have but most often don't know how to access and nurture it. Life inevitably throws many obstacles and challenges our way that can easily overwhelm us. Yet it is possible to tap into resilience, and Gazelle skillfully gives us the very tools we need to do just this." --Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Change

"This is good medicine. It offers straightforward and wise ways to be kinder to yourself and caring to others." --Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path With Heart

"We all want to help others learn, grow, and thrive, whether they are subordinates, students, patients, clients, or our children. Because of emotional contagion (direct brain to brain activation), we infect others around us with our own unconscious emotions and thoughts. Dr. Gazelle's book is a marvelous primer on the first step and major building block of helping others--renewing and sustaining ourselves. It all starts with resilience!" --Richard Boyatzis, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, Case Western Reserve University, coauthor of the international bestseller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People Change

About the Author

Gail Gazelle, MD, is a physician with 30 years of experience, a Harvard Medical School assistant professor, and a Master Certified Coach for physicians. Her practice integrates neuroscience, mindfulness practices, and emotional intelligence to help physicians, physician leaders, and hospital networks thrive and combat burnout. Dr. Gazelle lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with her son and puppy