"In these changing and challenging times, giving children the gifts of resourcefulness, optimism, confidence, a growth mindset, and resilience are key. This reassuring book offers a logical, easy-to-follow plan born from scientific methods to guide kids to those goals.” —Booklist Help your child face all of life’s challenges with confidence. Based on the innovative Coping Cat program, this book offers a proven-effective “recipe” for raising resilient kids! We live in an age of anxiety. Amidst climate change and natural disasters, a troubled economy, and one of the largest global pandemics in modern history—is it any wonder our kids are anxious and stressed out? Add in the pressures inherent in social media and consumerist culture, as well as the pressure of academic success, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. The good news is that you can help your child manage anxiety and stress—no matter what life throws their way. This book will show you how. Written by two pioneering experts in child psychology and anxiety, The Resilience Recipe offers an evidence-based plan grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help kids build emotional resilience and adaptability, worry less, and thrive—despite the stressors of modern life. With this guide, you’ll learn to help kids feel more in control of their moods and emotions; cope with difficult experiences; and recognize the first signs of stress and anxiety in both their mind and body, so they can find quick relief. You’ll also discover a wealth of tips and strategies to help you manage your own anxiety. Most importantly, you’ll find a solid action plan to help your child feel strong and capable in the face of unprecedented challenges.

A simple, quick-start, evidence-based guide for finding wellbeing that will work for you.

If your life is a movie and you are the hero in your own movie, what story do you tell? This provocative question is at the core of the inspiring book ‘My Resilience Recipe’ by Stevens Chan, a self-seeking businessman who lost his eyesight, wealth, self-worth, and emerges from the rock bottom to serve the disabled community through social activism. In this book, Stevens shares his past mistakes, experiences, thoughts and dives into what it takes to be resilient when life presents him with tough challenges. Make no mistake, this is not a self-help book. Stevens lays out his own ’resilience recipe’ as a reference in the hope to inspire you to develop your own recipe based on your unique life circumstances. If you fee l that life is a constant challenge, or you’re stuck in a difficult situation not knowing how to move forward, this is the book that can shine a light for you.

If your life is a movie and you are the hero in your own movie, what story do you tell? This provocative question is at the core of the inspiring book ‘My Resilience Recipe’ by Stevens Chan, a self-seeking businessman who lost his eyesight, wealth, self-worth, and emerges from the rock bottom to serve the disabled community through social activism. In this book, Stevens shares his past mistakes, experiences, thoughts and dives into what it takes to be resilient when life presents him with tough challenges. Make no mistake, this is not a self-help book. Stevens lays out his own ’resilience recipe’ as a reference in the hope to inspire you to develop your own recipe based on your unique life circumstances. If you fee l that life is a constant challenge, or you’re stuck in a difficult situation not knowing how to move forward, this is the book that can shine a light for you.

For the military veteran or anyone who has experienced a traumatic event, returning to normal living can be a challenge. Be that as it may, even after events such as natural disasters, accidents, or one of intentional human design(e.g. combat, a terrorist attack, a sexual assault, etc.), approximately 70 to 80percent of individuals who are impacted adjust successfully. These individuals demonstrate resilience, and in some instances, even post–traumatic growth. But the remaining percentage will evidence lingering clinical disorders and adjustment problems, such as PTSD, anxiety, depressive, and substance abuse disorders that can result in suicidal acts, aggressive behavior, and divorce. Roadmap to Resilience includes over 100 ways to develop individual and family resilience-bolstering action plans to help those experiencing adjustment problems. In addition, it includes numerous narrative examples of successful coping from resilient individuals, self-improvement activities, and a comprehensivere source guide designed to help the reader locate the exact information they need to address their situation. This guidebook highlights ways that returning service members can successfully reintegrate into civilian life and how other trauma victims can cope with loss. Clinicians will find it an invaluable resource for translating evidence-based interventions into specific guidelines for their clients.

Over 90 percent of US power generation comes from large, centralized, highly polluting, nonrenewable sources of energy. It is delivered through long, brittle transmission lines, and then is squandered through inefficiency and waste. But it doesn't have to be that way. Communities can indeed produce their own local, renewable energy. Power from the People explores how homeowners, co-ops, nonprofit institutions, governments, and businesses are putting power in the hands of local communities through distributed energy programs and energy-efficiency measures. Using examples from around the nation - and occasionally from around the world - Greg Pahl explains how to plan, organize, finance, and launch community-scale energy projects that harvest energy from sun, wind, water, and earth. He also explains why community power is a necessary step on the path to energy security and community resilience - particularly as we face peak oil, cope with climate change, and address the need to transition to a more sustainable future. This book - the second in the Chelsea Green Publishing Company and Post Carbon Institute's Community Resilience Series - also profiles numerous communitywide initiatives that can be replicated elsewhere.