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We are experiencing significant ongoing challenges such as Covid-19, the presence of political divisiveness and violence in the U.S. and around the world, as well as the growing stresses and uncertainties of job insecurity, new routines, and an increase in mental health struggles. In a timely second edition of
Bounce, Robert Wicks shows us how to find balance in life with new strategies for self-care and personal growth. His proven techniques show us all how to live a life of meaning and resilience.
List of contents
- Have a Life! An Introduction
- Ch. 1 Navigating Life's Rough Waters: Riding the Crest of Chronic and Acute Stress
- Ch. 2 Personal Renewal: Creating and Tailoring Your Own Self-Care Protocol
- Ch. 3 A Powerful Healing Combination: Friendship, Resilience, Positive Psychology and Compassion
- Ch. 4 Points of New Light Amidst the Darkness: Applying Themes from Posttraumatic Growth (PTG)
- Ch. 5 The First Steps Toward Self-Knowledge: Debriefing Yourself
- Ch. 6 Solitude, Silence, and Mindfulness: Centering Yourself in a Driven World
- The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart: An Epilogue
- Appendix A: Creating and Reflecting Upon Your Own Stress-Resilience Profile: An Exercise in Strengthening Your Inner Life
- Appendix B: An Individual Reflection Guide
- Further Reading: Resilience, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, and Contemporary
- Biographies/Autobiographies of Resilient People
- Works Cited
- Permissions
- Index
About the author
Robert J. Wicks is Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Maryland. He has published more than 50 books and has lectured on the importance of resilience, self-care, and maintaining a healthy perspective all around the world as well as at the Mayo Clinic, Yale School of Nursing, Harvard's Children's Hospital and Harvard Divinity School, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the U.S. Air Force Academy, on Capitol Hill to Members of Congress and their Chiefs of Staff.
Summary
Enriching the balance and meaning of life by better understanding stress and creating your own self-care protocol, Bounce shows you how to live life to the fullest.
People are naturally drawn to information on how to improve self-care, create a richer circle of friends, develop and maintain a healthy perspective, and, especially now, the importance of seeing "alone-time" not simply as forced isolation but a venue for new personality development. This aids self-awareness and understanding and improves emotional intellect so we don't react but instead pause to reflect and process life as it unfolds. The original edition of Bounce addressed these areas but then came Covid-19, intense political strife, and increased divisiveness within countries, families, communities, and even faith traditions. The need to greet, successfully adjust to, and even benefit from, such unexpected and broad-reaching change, personally threatening challenges, and stress is of even greater importance now.
In addition, styles of living which were taken for granted, such as adults going to work and children educated in an actual classroom, were also radically impacted. As a result, adults were also expected to quickly adapt in order to deal with the questions raised by the young about their own security and hoped-for normalcy. With updated information and a new chapter on post-traumatic growth (PTG), the second edition of Bounce is designed to enhance the search for balance and new meaning to live life to the fullest.
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Resilience is a concept and practice that many of us assume we know more about than we do, and yet developing capacities for resilience remains fundamentally important for human wellbeing and flourishing. Robert Wicks helps us develop these capacities and furthers a conversation on resilience that he's led for well over a decade, with new stories, nuggets of wisdom, and a new chapter on posttraumatic growth, among other updates to his previous edition of this book. If I were to recommend a single book on the topic of resilience, this would be it. After reading it, I feel not only more resilient; I feel more human and humane.
