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Black Wall Street Today: The Community Was Not Destroyed

By Tanya A. Christian — 2021

White masses, laced with anger and jealousy, armed with white supremacy, propaganda, and the powers afforded to them by the Jim Crow South, did carry out one of the worse incidents of racial violence in U.S. history. But what they could not snatch in the evening hours of May 31 into June 1 was the tenacity, the resilience, instilled in the people of Greenwood.

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The Inner Gym: A 30-day Workout for Strengthening Happiness

One of the biggest myths in our society is that you can simply choose to be happy whenever you want, even in spite of challenging circumstances. Or, that happiness is a byproduct of making more money, falling in love, or being successful. But modern research says this is an illusion.

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Chronic Resilience: 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness

Chronic Resilience provides a complete self-help blueprint for managing the difficulties chronic illness presents.

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It’s Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us About Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff that Really Matters

What if the secret to resilience and joy is the one thing we’ve been taught to avoid? When was the last time you tried something new? Something that won’t make you more productive, make you more money, or check anything off your to-do list? Something you’re really, really bad at, but that...

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Connecting with Nature in a Time of Crisis

Melanie Choukas-Bradley is a naturalist and certified forest therapy guide who leads nature and forest bathing walks for many organizations in Washington, D.C. and the American West.

Melanie Choukas-Bradley

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Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.

Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

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Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilience in a Time of Grief

In Four Funerals and a Wedding, Smolowe jostles preconceptions about caregiving, defies cliches about losing loved ones, and reveals a stunning bottom line: far from being uncommon, resilience like hers is the norm among the recently bereaved.

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Every Day Counts: Lessons in Love, Faith, and Resilience from Children Facing Illness

Every Day Counts chronicles the remarkable stories of the children Maria Sirois worked with on a pediatric oncology ward.

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: From Lemons to Lemonade

From lemons to lemonade; from heartbreak to happiness; from victim to victorious.

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark

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The Value in the Valley: A Black Woman’s Guide Through Life’s Dilemmas

Is it the job you hate but need in order to pay the rent? Is it that relationship that you gave your all to only to end up with a broken heart...again? Perhaps it’s your children, a family member, or a life-long friend doing you in, dragging you down, pushing you to the brink.

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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

“This book will help you flourish.” With this sentence, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is.

Martin E. P. Seligman

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