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Cancer Resilience Takes Time to Grow, So Start Now

By Barbara Tako — 2018

Develop resilience for those moments in life where it suddenly becomes your turn to make lemons into lemonade.

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Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges

Most of us at some point in our lives will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, assault, or a natural disaster. Resilience refers to the ability to ‘bounce back’ after encountering difficulty.

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Steven M. Southwick, Dennis S. Charney
2025
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Portraits of Resilience

Photographs and stories of people who have coped with and overcome depression, anxiety, trauma, and other challenges. “In MIT professor Daniel Jackson’s recent book, Portraits of Resilience, being resilient means being vulnerable.

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Daniel Jackson
2025
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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

In 2015 Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at the age of forty-eight. Sandberg and her two young children were devastated, and she was certain that their lives would never have real joy or meaning again.

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Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
2019
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Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past

Renowned French neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik’s parents were deported to a concentration camp during the Second World War. They never returned.

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Boris Cyrulnik
2011
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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.

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George A. Bonanno
2025
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The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life

Over the course of one year, Nakazawa researches and tests a variety of therapies including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture to find out what works.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2013
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.

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Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
2021
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