Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being by Linda Graham

This book is a mash-up of specific and directed meditative exercises and the neuroscience of why,
biologically, each exercise bolsters psychological health. The goal is to increase resilience–to change the brain to respond to the inevitable twists and turns of life. Author Graham describes what she calls the 5C’s of coping, and describes how different exercises will increase oxytocin and fully activate the calming branch of our autonomic nervous system. Yes, your brain IS neuroplastic!

“Although the initial wiring of our brains is based on early experience, we know that later experiences,
especially healthy relational ones, can undo or overwrite that early learning to help us to cope
differently and more resiliently with anything, anything at all.”

Linda Graham, MFT, Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being