The Little Book of Resilience

@2@@18@The Little Book of Resilience @19@is about how we can fortify our lives mentally, emotionally and physically. It is @20@not @21@about what happens when we get knocked down but more about what happens when we get up again. It is a book about what resilience is and how we grow and maintain it.@3@@2@ The first step in understanding resilience is accepting what you can and cannot change. You can't change the weather but you can certainly change the way you interact with it; using an umbrella, a jacket or sunscreen. Just as you can't change your history, family, race, or past hurts and events but with the right direction and understanding you can certainly change how you look and feel about them moving forward.@3@@2@ Life doesn't always turn out as we'd expected. It can be complex, harsh, joyful, mean, hilarious and utterly perplexing. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we will be able to cope with whatever life throws our way.@3@@2@ For the majority of life's adversities, there is no magic pill or silver bullet - to get over anything we generally have to go through it - but if we're prepared to learn from that experience, good can certainly come from bad. We can grow to be wiser, more empathetic and understanding and from that we can create greater purpose in our lives.@3@

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A beautifully illustrated book about what happens when we get back up after being knocked down. From the bestselling author of *I Had a Black Dog, The Little Book of Resilience* is about how we can fortify our lives mentally, emotionally and physically.

Auteur
In a former life, Matthew Johnstone was a successful creative in advertising. He worked all around the world and won many coveted industry awards. He has since taken that skill of communicating simply and effectively into writing and illustrating books and public speaking. Matthew has published 9 books many of which have been bestsellers internationally. He gave a keynote to 87 representatives at the World Health Organisation of the power of imagery in understanding difficult to articulate subjects such as mental health, meditation, resilience and stress. Matthew's work has been endorsed by Stephen Fry, Edward de Bono, Google and the World Health Organisation. He is one of six, Australia wide, that have been nominated for the 2018 Australian Mental Health Awards for his outstanding work in the mental health and wellbeing space. His simple motto is 'Flicking Switches with Pictures'.

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Most of us set out quietly hoping, and secretly expecting, that we will live a happy, successful and healthy life. But life doesn't always go to plan.
Resilience is about developing flexibility, acceptance and self-compassion when those plans go awry.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Matthew Johnstone guides the reader to an understanding of how resilience plays a key role in wellbeing. He offers an accessible roadmap to developing and maintaining resilience and how it can help you overcome and learn from difficult life events.