How to Be Resilient: Simple Steps to Embrace a Positive Mindset and Build Inner Strength

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Find the strength within-the practical guide to gaining resilience. Build the skills to handle challenges with confidence-your guide to being more resilient every day. "This is good medicine."-Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with Heart "The road map to find your resilience. Buy it and begin your journey." -Carol Kauffman, PhD, ABPP, founder, Harvard Medical School Institute of Coaching Resilience is your well of inner strength and flexibility that allows you to weather the challenges you encounter. And it's something you can grow and fortify with practice! In How to Be Resilient, Dr. Gail Gazelle of Harvard Medical School guides you through supportive advice and exercises that make it easier to deal with difficult times with courage and wisdom. Learn how to be adaptable in the face of change, cultivate connections with others, stay more mindful of your thoughts and feelings, and navigate hardships without unnecessary distress so you can keep moving forward and enjoy life to the fullest. How does resilience work - Learn the psychology of being resilient and how your brain can rewire itself in response to new habits and experiences. Effective strategies - Written by experienced physician Gail Gazelle, these practices are rooted in positive psychology, mindfulness, gratitude, and more, with key takeaways at the end of each chapter. Take action today - Be more resilient in any situation with techniques that encourage you to meditate, journal, deepen your relationships, and prioritize self-care. Your path to resilience starts here.

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"How to Be Resilient 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 book 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

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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.