"Advice, exercises, and examples to help readers increase their clarity, connection, competence, calm, and courage, from a clinical therapist, mindfulness teacher, and expert on the neuroscience of relationships. Applicable to relationships, jobs, and everyday life"--Provided by publisher.

Foreword -- Introduction what resilience is and how we rewire our brains to recover it -- How the brain develops resilience or doesn't -- How the brain's strategies of resilience become wired in -- How the wiring in of resilience can go awry -- Harnessing the brain's neuroplasticity to recover your resilience -- Using mindfulness to foster self-awareness and flexible responses -- Using empathy to create connections and self-acceptance -- Five additional practices that accelerate brain change -- Self-directed neuroplasticity -- Recovering resilience through resonant relationships -- How bonding and belonging nourish resilience -- Creating inner security and confidence -- Developing relational intelligence -- Keep calm and carry on : recovering resilience through resources of the body -- Losing and recovering our balance -- Recovering our balance through the body -- Developing somatic intelligence -- Recovering resilience through emotional well-being -- How neuroscience is revolutionizing our thinking about feelings -- How positive emotions build resilience -- Developing emotional intelligence -- Shift happens : recovering resilience through reflection and response flexibility -- Using reflection to identify options -- Shifting gears: modifying our patterns of response -- Discerning wise choices and responding flexibly -- Recovering resilience through simply being -- Resting in the wisdom of being -- Launching into a more resilient life -- Moving resilience beyond the personal self -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.