Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit, and Growth After Trauma by Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn
Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit, and Growth After Trauma
by Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn
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My Ratings 4.6/5
Synopsis
Anatomy of a Survivor examines in inspiring detail how survivors used their inner strengths to build resilience, navigate through, and ultimately grow from traumas and major life challenges.
In 1990, after a sudden cardiac event, Joyce Mikal-Flynn was dead for twenty-two minutes. While CPR and determined doctors returned her to life, she came to find that this new life wasn’t her life at all. Faced with depression, personal and professional setbacks, she ultimately recognized that this was not an end point—but a beginning. Over time, she understood that taking control begins with the essential choice to move forward. Her struggles fueled her. You got this, she told herself with every obstacle, failure, and misstep.
Trauma and crisis are inescapable aspects of life. Framed, at times, as something to get over, trauma never fully leaves those who experience it. For over two decades, Dr. Mikal-Flynn has worked with and studied issues faced by survivors. She understands and recognizes their desire to move forward, identifying specific mindsets and behaviors that encourage progress. Making the choice to move forward, fierce determination, and well-researched actions are key for survival and growth.
Interlacing stories with research on genetics, posttraumatic growth, and the neuroscience of resilience and happiness, this book outlines how survivors of trauma structure a positive and productive response. An ingenious strengths-based rehabilitation system—metahabilitation—engages them by uncovering and developing their resilience, grit, and capacity for growth after trauma. This book shows you how survivors are built and presents a unique system guiding them forward.
My Thoughts
Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit, and Growth After Trauma is a book about tragedy and real-life struggles tell fascinating stories, it also help us become better, more empathetic people. This book is an excellent options for any reader who wants to be more informed about the struggles of others.
The world is full of struggle and tragedy.
When we heard the word “trauma”, most people imagined a serious car accident, or something “catastrophic”. Fast forward to the present day, and our understanding of trauma is much more nuanced. And fortunately for our generation, there are endless resources on how to heal and recover. Anatomy of a Survivor: Building Resilience, Grit, and Growth After Trauma by Dr. Joyce Mikal-Flynn is an amazing book, a life experience stories about finding a compass bearing in the midst of personal tragedy.
It gave us a path to travel as another possible point of view. It was hard to see through our tears and heartache but in the end once we understood what was being said and tried to apply the new possibility, slowly but surely the situation began to make sense. It revealed to us new tools of thinking for dealing with these trials and finally to begin to move forward with somewhat fragile but real confidence and certainty and inner healing that confirmed within us , after reading this book will learn and fully understand how to use your challenges and trauma to build resilience, grit, and growth.
This is a great book which gives real insight into the life of people with trauma. I believe it's a subject everyone should read about because it becomes clear how relevant trauma is to our everyday lives and to those we love without even realizing it sometimes. This book also explains why it is such a taboo subject when traumatic events become more personal and what it takes to recover or help others to recover. It's an important book on a crucial subject that needs to be understood and brought into the light.
A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life. Moving and, yes, inspirational . . . Joyce Mikal-Flynn’s unforgettable book . . . deserves pride of place alongside the best works of literature that skillfully covered all the issues survivors and their families go through with tough, traumatic life events.
Highly Recommended!
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