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Resilience & self reliancebooks

Below are the best books we could find on Resilience and self reliance.

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Women, Work, and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend!

Women, Work, and Autoimmune Disease is a book for women who live with chronic illness, encouraging them to stay employed to preserve their independence and sense of self. Rich with information and inspiration, it is the voice of warmth, wisdom, understanding, and compassion.

Rosalind Joffe, Joan Friedlander

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How to Starve Cancer . . . Without Starving Yourself

After being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane threw herself into research. Already medically knowledgeable as a Chartered Physiotherapist, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive.

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The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life—and Saved an American Farm

The youngest of her parents’ combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner alongside her brothers.

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Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior

When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale’s early retirement from military life, he had the distinction of being the only three-star officer in the history of the navy to wear both aviator wings and the Congressional Medal of Honor.

James B. Stockdale

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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s...

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Light Magic for Dark Times: More than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis

Having a hard time tapping into the light? Find illumination, resiliency, self-care, and inner magic with Light Magic for Dark Times--an inspired, accessible, and modern collection of practices, rituals, and spells.

Lisa Marie Basile, Kristen J. Sollée (foreword)

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