INTRODUCTION What Resilience Is and How We Rewire Our Brains to Recover It
PART ONE How the Brain Develops Resilience — or Doesn’t
CHAPTER ONE How the Brain’s Strategies of Resilience Become Wired In
CHAPTER TWO How the Wiring In of Resilience Can Go Awry
PART TWO Harnessing the Brain’s Neuroplasticity to Recover Your Resilience
CHAPTER THREE Using Mindfulness to Foster Self-Awareness and Flexible Responses
CHAPTER FOUR Using Empathy to Create Connections and Self-Acceptance
CHAPTER FIVE Five Additional Practices That Accelerate Brain Change
CHAPTER SIX Self-Directed Neuroplasticity
PART THREE Recovering Resilience through Resonant Relationships
CHAPTER SEVEN How Bonding and Belonging Nourish Resilience
CHAPTER EIGHT Creating Inner Security and Confidence
CHAPTER NINE Developing Relational Intelligence
PART FOUR Keep Calm and Carry On: Recovering Resilience through Resources of the Body
CHAPTER TEN Losing and Recovering Our Equilibrium
CHAPTER ELEVEN Recovering Our Balance through the Body
CHAPTER TWELVE Developing Somatic Intelligence
PART FIVE Recovering Resilience through Emotional Well-Being
CHAPTER THIRTEEN How Neuroscience Is Revolutionizing Our Thinking about Feelings
CHAPTER FOURTEEN How Positive Emotions Build Resilience
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Developing Emotional Intelligence
PART SIX Shift Happens: Recovering Resilience through Reflection and Response Flexibility
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Using Reflection to Identify Options
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Shifting Gears: Modifying Our Patterns of Response
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Discerning Wise Choices and Responding Flexibly
PART SEVEN Recovering Resilience through Simply Being
CHAPTER NINETEEN Resting in the Wisdom of Being
PART EIGHT Launching into a More Resilient Life