With 366 days of guidance, inspiration and positivity, this 5-minutes-a-day journal is the perfect tool to help you traverse difficult times--and remind you that you do possess an inner strength. Life has a way of throwing curveballs. The promotion you wanted went to someone else. That rock-solid relationship suddenly faltered. A family member or friend passes away. A critical illness appears just as you've made positive changes for your health. Or you experience unexpected financial hardship. Whatever the challenges, it is crucial to develop resiliency, so you can face adversity and bounce back better than ever. With 365 days of guidance, inspiration, and positivity, this journal is the perfect tool to offer reassurance, inspiration, or connection. Maria Gamb takes you on a journaling journey informed by nuggets of the latest psychology and neuroscience, with prompts that encourage you to get deeper in touch with what makes you feel self-confident and empowered; enjoy more and stress less; gain optimism; stay connected; offer thanks; find hope; and much more. Let this journal act as a reminder that you possess an inner strength that simply needs to be harnessed in order to feel happy and fulfilled again.

The way children cope with the small things in life builds a foundation for dealing with the bigger problems later on. In ‘Everyday Resilience’, you can learn how to help kids deal with increasing challenges of friendship issues, academic pressure and self-doubt. With rising mental health issues amongst children and young people, it has never been more important to nurture resilience. By focusing on key traits, Michelle uncovers the answers to the age-old questions, such as how can I help my child be more confident? What do I say when my child is rejected by friends? And how do I help a child who is struggling academically? As a teacher, and founder of Youth Excel, she has witnessed first-hand what works. And it's now time for you to learn too. Packed with every day scenarios and practical steps, ‘Everyday Resilience’ provides every parent with tools to nurture strength in young lives. Michelle Mitchell is an educator, author and award-winning speaker with a passion for supporting families. Having left teaching in 2000, Mitchell founded Youth Excel, a charity supporting young people with life skills education, mentoring and psychological services. Bringing hands-on experience in the health and wellbeing sector, she is the author of the bestselling self-help books ‘Self Harm: Why Teens Do It And What Parents Can Do To Help’ and ‘Everyday Resilience: Helping Kids Handle Friendship Drama, Academic Pressure and the Self-Doubt of Growing Up’. She lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband and two teenagers.

A few years ago, resiliency theory was relatively new to the fields of prevention and education. Today, it is at the heart of hundreds of school and community programs that recognize in all young people the capacity to lead healthy, successful lives. The key, as Benard reports in this synthesis of a decade and more of resiliency research, is the role that families, schools, and communities play in supporting, and not undermining, this biological drive for normal human development. Of special interest is the evidence that resiliency prevails in most cases by far -- even in extreme situations, such as those caused by poverty, troubled families, and violent neighborhoods. An understanding of this developmental wisdom and the supporting research, Benard argues, must be integrated into adults' vision for the youth they work with and communicated to young people themselves. Benard's analysis of how best to incorporate research findings to support young people is both realistic and inspirational. It is an easy-to-read discussion of what the research has found along with descriptions of what application of the research looks like in our most successful efforts to support young people.

This book is a pre-teen's personal guide to handling the challenges of everyday life. Inside they will find clever strategies to help with friendships, school work and those dreadful stress-out times. Full of real-life stories and fun journal activities, this book will answer questions like:¿I find maths difficult. How can I enjoy school work more?¿My best friend is really sad. How can I help? ¿Some of my friends are spreading rumours. What should I do if I hear gossip?¿Someone is being mean to me. How can I make them stop? ¿I didn't get invited to my friend's party. How do I handle disappointments?This book is an accompaniment to Michelle's parenting book, Everyday Resilience: Helping Kids Handle Friendship Drama, Academic Pressure and the Self-doubt of Growing Up.

> 1 in 7 primary school kids have a mental illness > 1 in 5 adults will experience mental ill-health throughout the year > 65% of adolescents do not seek help for mental illness THE POWER OF EXPERIENCE Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation- despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were remarkably positive. By contrast, back in Australia Hugh knew that all too many people found it hard to be happy, or suffered from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety. His own little sister had been ravaged by anorexia nervosa. A PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS How was it that young people he knew at home, who had food, shelter, friends and a loving family, struggled with their mental health, while these kids seemed so contented and resilient? He set about finding the answer and in time identified three pivotal traits - gratitude, empathy, and mindfulness - which seemed to underpin the children's resilience. SHARING WISDOM, IGNITING CHANGE In the ensuing years Hugh threw himself into studying and sharing this revelation with the world through The Resilience Project, with his playful and unorthodox presentations which both entertain and inform. Now, with the same blend of humour, poignancy and clear-eyed insight that The Resilience Project has become renowned for, Hugh explains how we can all get the tools we need to live a happier and more fulfilling life. READ THIS BOOK AND YOU WILL- through powerful and touching stories from people Hugh has met and helped during his years on the road. and discover how we can address and cultivate it in our daily lives. in transforming mental health and enhancing overall wellbeing. and obstacles that hinder personal growth and mental health. in helping raise happier children, and learn practical strategies to do so effectively. 'Hilarious, inspiring and heartbreakingly vulnerable, this book has the potential to be life-changing' MISSY HIGGINS

Resilience is the core strength you use to lift the load of life. Resilience skills upgrade and strengthen your neuronal networks by leveraging your brain's ability to change itself with experience. Just as you can learn math, music, and language, you can learn resilience. Enhancing resilience lifts every aspect of your life-physical, emotional, social, occupational, and spiritual. Globally, researchers and therapists have developed several different resilience programs. Each program has a unique focus and therapeutic process. Common among many programs is an approach to improve attention, bring greater gratitude, compassion, and acceptance, align one's life with a stronger sense of meaning, and cultivate courage. This resilience journal has all of these elements and some more. The Resilience Journal is developed by Dr. Amit Sood, an internationally renowned researcher and developer of resilience programs. This journal provides a complete set of skills, with an ability to set intention, assess action, and improve in multiple different aspects of life - physical, cognitive, emotional, social, occupational, and spiritual. It will not only help you develop better self awareness, focus, gratitude, and compassion, but also enhance hope, courage, and inspiration. The journal is designed to be succinct and will likely take less than two minutes a day to complete with an opportunity to explore deeper practices every two weeks.

This thought-provoking treatment of timely topic offers important points of consideration for library administrators and managers, as well as scholars of urban planning, public policy, disaster recovery, and related disciplines.