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Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead companion reading for resilience
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items Books that deepen the core themes of Rising Strong, from vulnerability and self-compassion to everyday courage and habit change. Each pick reinforces the practice of getting back up after setbacks and living with greater intention in work, love, and ...
Ideal for readers ready to explore a structured process for getting back up after emotional or professional falls. Brown lays out the “reckoning, rumble, and revolution” framework, helping you examine the stories you tell yourself and rewrite them wi...
Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms
For those who want the prequel to Rising Strong's ideas about recovering from setbacks. Brown argues that vulnerability is the most accurate measure of courage and the birthplace of love, belonging, and creativity, grounding her claims in years of re...
Daring Greatly: Courage to Be Vulnerable
Great for readers who sense perfectionism is undermining their ability to rise after failure. Brown introduces the concept of wholehearted living and shares ten guideposts for cultivating worthiness and authenticity, based on a decade of research on ...
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go & Live
Best for readers wrestling with loneliness, polarization, or the cost of authenticity. Brown reframes true belonging as the courage to stand alone in the “wilderness” rather than fit in, drawing on stories of courage, civility, and integrity in divid...
Braving the Wilderness: Reese's Book Club
Perfect for readers who want a deeper emotional vocabulary to support Rising Strong-style work. Brown maps 87 emotions and experiences and explains how naming feelings more precisely can transform connection and self-understanding. It's especially us...
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection
A strong fit for readers coping with grief, major loss, or life after a sudden change. Sandberg and Grant blend personal story with research to explore resilience, the “three P's” of trauma (personalization, pervasiveness, permanence), and ways to fi...
Option B: Facing Adversity & Building Resilience
Ideal if you want a research-backed deep dive into the perseverance side of Rising Strong's “get back up” message. Duckworth shows that long-term passion plus persistence predicts achievement better than talent alone and offers evidence-based ways to...
Book Summary - Grit: Power of Passion
Best for readers who love Rising Strong's mindset but want very tactical tools for daily behavior change. Clear presents a simple, science-based system for building small habits and dismantling unhelpful ones, emphasizing that you fall to the level o...
Atomic Habits: Easy & Proven Way to Build
Great for readers who want a structured psychological toolkit for working with difficult thoughts and feelings. David describes emotional agility as a four-step, science-based approach to noticing emotions, unhooking from them, and acting according t...
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck & Thrive
A strong choice if shame and harsh self-criticism make it hard for you to rise after setbacks. Neff presents decades of research showing that self-compassion-self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness-leads to greater resilience and well-being t...
Self-Compassion: The Power of Being Kind