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“If you would like to live a more fulfilled life, Samantha Boardman has exactly what you need. Everyday Vitality is one part memoir, one part wisdom from years of experience as a psychiatrist, and one part cutting edge scientific evidence. Brilliant, warm, and best of all—an actionable guide to a life well-lived.”
—Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Science-backed, research-driven, actionable strategies for countering stress and building your resilience
“A great deal of everyday wellbeing lies beyond what is happening inside a person’s head. Everyday opportunities and activities that foster growth and build positive resources are not 'icing on the cake,' but the active ingredients of everyday resilience.” —Samantha Boardman, Everyday Vitality
In Everyday Vitality, psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Boardman shows readers how to find strength within their stress and how to transform full days into more fulfilling days. Drawing from scientific research and her own clinical experience, she shares strategies for cultivating vitality—the positive feeling of aliveness and energy that lies at the core of well-being and at the heart of a good day.
You will discover how increased vitality boosts productivity, builds coping skills, and enhances your ability to manage negative emotions. Dr. Boardman demonstrates how to override counterproductive responses to the onslaught of daily hassles and to respond with flexibility and fortitude instead of fear and rumination. Rather than disengaging from the world while you "find yourself," she shows you how to boost your vitality by living well within the world.
As Dr. Boardman explains, the three main wellsprings of vitality are: meaningfully connecting with others; engaging in experiences that challenge you; and contributing to something beyond yourself. These activities foster resilience by boosting emotional stamina and generating uplifts—the counterparts to daily irritations and annoyances. Whether it is having a good conversation, doing a favor for someone, going for a walk, or reading an interesting article and then calling a friend to talk about it, commonplace experiences and micromoments serve as the building blocks of everyday resilience. Everyday Vitality explains how to identify them in your life, develop them, and use them as a foundation on which to thrive.
Whether you are twenty or eighty, Everyday Vitality will give you the tools you need to get the most out of each day and to live your life to the fullest.
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- ISBN: 9780735222281
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- ISBN: 9780735222281
- File size: 3205 KB
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- English
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June 14, 2021
Psychiatrist Boardman (Everyday Resilience) offers advice for cultivating happiness and vigor in this convincing guide. A sense of vitality, or feeling mentally and physically up to a task, she posits, is critical for healthy aging and overall well-being. She poses reflection questions to help one “understand oneself and one’s inner conflicts” and suggests activities such as helping others out, learning something new, and exercising to increase vitality. Boardman’s most successful argument is that society’s focus on self-care does more harm than good, as building community and finding supportive friends and family is crucial to well-being, while focusing too much on the self can increase rumination and, ultimately, depression: “Self-care might be all the rage,” she writes, “but it’s important not to forget ‘other-care’ as a source of vitality and resilience.” A passive lifestyle of “allowing in-the-moment feelings to take precedence” can also contribute to feelings of unhappiness, she opines, and recommends readers take charge of their lives through making decisive actions: “Fantasizing about being successful without actually pursuing it also undermines motivation. Dreaming turns out to be devitalizing.” By encouraging readers to “override the urge to do what’s easy but empty,” Boardman’s helpful suggestions rise above the standard self-help fare.
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