I really struggled to get through this book. I read a lot of self help books, and this one didn't have anything revolutionary, especially when it comes to resiliency. It was slow and bit too fluffy.

Thank you NetGalley and Hachette Books for the ARC.

Interesting and well written I just personally couldn’t get into the story. Difficult to follow at times and a little slow. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This was a refreshing book to read about resiliency in people. The author explains the five practices that highly resilient individuals use and shares practical life experiences. I look forward to implementing these practices. Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for an ARC.

Speaker and leadership coach Taryn Marie Stejskal, PhD, summarizes what she has learned in her original research on and professional experience with resilience. Her five practices provide a framework for living more resiliently, but her rambling writing style didn’t resonate with me. She favors long, compound-complex sentences that I found exhausting to read. I’m also not a fan of the new terms she coins, such as gratiosity (a portmanteau of gratitude and generosity that makes me cringe). Her editors should have helped her improve her readability.

I wish the author had included more discussion of her research on lower-income mothers in rural areas and people who experienced neurological injuries. She mentions that in both studies, access to reliable transportation was the most important factor allowing them to adapt to their adversity. Wow! I wanted to know more about those study results and how that finding fits in with her five practices. It’s not readily apparent to me how practicing vulnerability, productive perseverance, connection, gratiosity, and possibility lead to reliable transportation. I needed help connecting the dots.

The author includes chapters on resilient parenting and resilient leadership that weren’t very relevant to me. If those are topics of interest to you, you might gain more value from this book than I did.

I was provided an unproofed ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review.

What a home run. I don’t have a lot to say about this book because you just need to read it. Dr. Taryn Marie provides a fresh perspective and opens an important dialogue in these pages. Her candor and writing style made me feel like we were having coffee together, and she was conversationally sharing about the life she has built and what got her there.

Of course, that’s the point—sharing her own resilience story is how she models her own method. And the impact is not lost on me. She’s an expert, and her brilliance shines in these pages. But she doesn’t stop there. She clearly provides a path for her readers to soak up all the light so they can shine, too.

I wish this book had existed four years ago, but I’m just so grateful to have read it now. We all can grow in the area of resilience, and I just feel so encouraged to have seen it laid out so practically.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to NetGalley, Hachette Books, and Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Great self help book. Reconfirms what it means to be resilient. I appreciated the connection of the text to life. Sometimes books with research can be too “textbooky” but this one has the right mix of research and applicability.

Taryn makes a strong case for why we all need to take on the practices of Highly Resilient People. Perhaps the most noteworthy is that it’s almost a moral obligation to society and to others.
The book says resilience is a multiplier. Meaning that, as Taryn writes, “people that demonstrate greater Resilience enhance themselves and those around them, Their families, their teams, and communities.”
Imagine if you lived someplace where the whole community around you was resilient, wouldn’t you be more inclined to be this way too when difficulty struck? What is the saying goes, we are all just walking each other home. With all the difficulty of the last several years, this is a book that should be on everyone’s nightstand.

This was a great self-help book. I wanted a little more but the author is interesting and I enjoyed reading this book. Lot's to think about.

I appreciated the images but wish there were more of them. I would have loved more bold/ formatted quotes, questions or steps. Would make it easier to navigate and come back to over and over.

The author of "The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People" worked previously with patients with brain injury, and has studied the science of resilience for the past 20 years. She emphasizes behaviors that define resilience and provides a framework for how to develop practices for resilience in our lives. I found this book intriguing and helpful. Highly recommended. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.