CONTENTS

List of Exercises

Foreword by Rick Hanson, PhD

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

CHAPTER TWENTY          Moving Resilience beyond the Personal Self

Acknowledgments

Endnotes

Index

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