Build Your Resilience: CBT, Mindfulness and Stress Management to Survive and Thrive in Any Situation (Teach Yourself)

The great thing about Donald Robertson is that he distills complex philosophies and therapeutic approaches into simple, easily applicable strategies. If you are looking for strategies for dealing with anxiety, uncertainty, turbulent circumstances, etc. this book is for you. Reading this was better than one hundred therapy sessions.

The format of the book is superior to other self-help books and includes many useful tools and references to other resources. Take your time and you'll learn how to become more resilient.

good content overall

This book helped me focus on true core values and get in touch with why emotions seem to rule too often. "Resilience"gives me helpful practical tools to stay in touch with the moment I'm in. We don't have anything else except this moment. The book makes complicated therapy techniques available for the reader to use without going to a therapist.

Amazing book. Very thoughtfully written. Extremely helpful, an undercovered gem.

Such a good good. I so recommend it!

A quote from Marcus Aurelius near the start of the book sums it up for me:"The human soul degrades itself above all, when it does its best to become an abscess, a kind of detached growth on the world. To be disgruntled at anything that happens is a kind of secession from Nature".It might seem reasonable to be worried or stressed or overwhelmed, but humans are designed to withstand almost any kind of pressure or setback.The American entrepreneur Ping Fu's world was thrown upside down when as a young girl Mao's Cultural Revolution began. But just before she was told:"There are three friends of winter: the pine tree [strength], the plum blossom [courage], and bamboo [resilience]. When you are like the three friends of winter, you take everything in your stride with grace".Robertson's book provides useful ideas, tips and strategies for actually being able to achieve this.

just a repackaging of the usual self-help pablum. clarify your goals, break them down into smaller chunks, etc. And I have never encountered a more heavily padded book. Disappointed.

A very learned but practical book which covers tested solutions to psychological problems in an academic but very readable way. One of the best self help books I’ve read and will read again and again.

Excellent

Inhaltlich recht interessant und bestimmt hilfreich, aber leider sehr langweilig geschrieben. Habe mich nicht durchringen können, es zu Ende zu lesen.

This book is a clear guide to building resilience in your life and thus having a better life. It should be taught in secondary school. It's what we all need to know and practice to have a better life. Highly recommended reading.

There are a number of self help books and programs designed to build and maintain resilience. Donald Robertson's 'Build Your Resilience' draws upon established resilience training programs but is perhaps the first to also offer a powerful toolkit of therapeutic techniques and strategies from ancient stoic philosophy right the way though to the cutting edge new wave cognitive behavioural therapies of acceptance and commitment and mindfulness meditation. If you think this sounds dry and overly academic think again.I found the book to be practical and action orientated. It starts with a thorough explanation of resilience then goes on to teach the reader how to build and maintain it.Early on in the book Robertson emphasises that resilience does not mean completely eliminating anxiety, stress, worry or any of the other common emotional problems that we all experience at some point in our lives. In fact struggling to control unpleasant thoughts and feelings can backfire. Most resilient people will experience strong emotions but cope well with them. Build your resilience will teach the rest of us how to accept unpleasant thoughts and strong emotions while moving on with healthy goals and personal values.The book also covers ..*Progressive and applied relaxation*Worry postponement*Problem-solving training*Assertiveness and social skills*Stoic philosophy and resilience.The book will appeal to the general reader as well as to therapists and coaches who may wish to recommend it to there clients. We all have some resilience or at least the potential for resilience. This book teaches the reader how to put that into practice. I highly recommend it.Michael Cohen author ofIdentifying,understanding and solutions to stressThe power of accepting yourself