検索キーワード： 著者 "Elizabeth A. Stanley" すべてのカテゴリー

This groundbreaking book examines the cultural norms that impede resilience in America, especially our collective tendency to disconnect stress from its potentially extreme consequences and override our need to recover. It explains the science of how to direct our attention to perform under stress and recover from trauma. By directing our attention in particular ways, we can widen the window within which our thinking brain and survival brain work together cooperatively.

Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in which we feel powerless or lacking agency. Until now, researchers have treated these conditions as different, but they actually lie along a continuum. Dr. Elizabeth Stanley explains the significance of this continuum, how it affects our resilience in the face of challenge, and why an event that's stressful for one person can be traumatizing for another.

Susie Vanderhoof is an outspoken, bright eight-year-old with an imagination large enough to match her heart. She makes the discovery of a lifetime when she finds a talking spider named Tommy Tobotsky Tarantula III has been residing in her sock drawer.