I have been an ardent practitioner and facilitator of personal growth and self transformation, in my personal and professional life, for more than 20 years. I draw on my own experiences of healing and awakening as well as more than two decades of integrative study, practice and teaching of transformational psychotherapies, vipassana meditation, life coaching, and facilitating groups and workshops to become a skillful guide interweaving many paths of compassionate, conscious connection.
I’m passionate about integrating the paradigms and practices of modern neuroscience, Western relational psychology and Eastern contemplative practice to help people shift out of old patterns of response to life events – neural “swamp” or neural “cement” – to more flexible, adaptive patterns that lead to more authentic resilience and well-being.
My book, Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being, offers a ground-breaking integration of tools and techniques to help you rewire old patterns of response encoded in your neural circuitry and move into the five C’s of Coping: calm, clarity, connections to resources, competence, and courage. Through using dozens of experiential exercises to rewire your brain, and understanding the neuroscience that explains why these tools and techniques work, you’ll be able to navigate the storms and struggles of life more quickly, more adaptively, more effectively.
Read the Book Review of Bouncing Back, Greater Good Science Center, U.C. Berkeley
Resilience is the ability to face and handle life’s challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry. But science is now revealing that what previously seemed hardwired can be rewired, and Bouncing Back shows us how. With powerful, time-tested exercises, Linda Graham guides us in rebuilding our core well-being and disaster-proofing our brains.
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