The Top 10 Traits of Highly Resilient People

You have the power to recover, rise and thrive!

Resilience is an inborn trait. It is part of your innate survival capacity. This means you can rebound after a setback and even bounce forward with more strength and wisdom. This potential can be nurtured and enhanced. You can proactively and consciously choose to develop your ability to manage stress, recover from burnout and thrive despite extreme challenges by developing a stress-resistant personality. This book will show you how.

In The Top 10 Traits of Highly Resilient People, Dr. Andrea Pennington presents 21 real life stories of people from various backgrounds and cultures who have dug deep within themselves to heal and move forward after facing difficult circumstances. These were sometimes life threatening, and often led to rock bottom or burnout. What these stories all have in common is how they prove that the traits of resilience can be built and enhanced with intention so that we can thrive after trauma, and experience more growth than we thought possible. There is great hope and inspiration to be found here. 

This book has 10 sections with stories covering each of the top 10 traits of resilience, giving the reader examples from each of the traits that Dr. Andrea has taught her students and clients alike over the years.

What many people find is that they have 2 or 3 of these resilience traits in abundance, but others were barely on their radar. The aim of this book is not only to inspire hope, but to show the reader where the gaps in their resilience traits might be, so that they can cultivate those traits and become happier and more resilient than ever.  

The authors in this book come from all walks of life with a range of life experiences; from the stages of Broadway and the dizzy heights of Dubai’s business world, to understaffed hospital wards, a veterinary clinic, and in places all over the world.

Featuring stories by:

• Berit Bosdal

• Helga Birgisdottir

• Sarah Kate Brandis

• Alexsa Covelli

• Bruce Cryer

• Eric Gerson

• Susan Edwards

• Rob Goddard

• Cynthia Harrison

• Malin Hedlund

• Lene Kirk

• Deri Llewellyn-Davies

• Willow McIntosh

• Catherine McLeod

• Joana Soares

• Gerd Stautland

• Jill Stocker

• Ashild Tilrem

• Mona Winbrant

• Ann Marie Wyrsch

Introduction

Resilience Trait #1 Insight

• Thorn Surrenders to Rose by Gerd Stautland

• We Are Born Resilient by Åshild Tilrem

Resilience Trait #2 Flexibility and Adaptability

• Resilience 2.0 – Dawn of the Renaissance Human by Bruce Cryer

• What’s Ebay? by Eric Gerson

Resilience Trait #3 Persistence

• Persistence to Peace by Susan Edwards

• When One Door Closes Another One Opens by Berit Bosdal

• The Small Voice Within by Cynthia J Harrison

• Twelve Steps of a Recovering/Discovering Adult Child by Ann Marie Wyrsch

Resilience Trait #4 Tolerance + Compassion

• The Silent Lion by Helga Birgisdóttir 

• Ownership and the Path to Resilience by Willow McIntosh 

• Recovering from Caregiver Burnout by Andrea Pennington, M.D., C.Ac.

Resilience Trait #5 Optimism

• The Power of Possibility, and One More Time by Jill Stocker, D.O.

Resilience Trait #6 Confidence

• CREATE Your Dream Life by Malin Hedlund

• Reclaiming My Intuition by Catherine McLeod

• Triumph of Love in Life by Alexsa Covelli 

Resilience Trait # 7 Positive Self-talk

• Seeing My Future by Joana Soares

Resilience Trait # 8 Connection to Positive People

• From Suicide to Success by Robert Goddard

• Lost Connections by Mona Winbrant

• Walk Without Purpose by Lene Kirk

Resilience Trait #9 Positive Emotion

• The ‘Doing’ Trap and Learning to Feel by Sarah K Brandis 

Resilience Trait #10 Purpose + Meaning in Life

• Purpose-led Resilience by Deri Llewellyn-Davies