Enriching the balance and meaning of life by better understanding stress and creating your own self-care protocol, Bounce shows you how to live life to the fullest. People are naturally drawn to information on how to improve self-care, create a richer circle of friends, develop and maintain a healthy perspective, and, especially now, the importance of seeing "alone-time" not simply as forced isolation but a venue for new personality development. This aids self-awareness and understanding and improves emotional intellect so we don't react but instead pause to reflect and process life as it unfolds. The original edition of Bounce addressed these areas but then came Covid-19, intense political strife, and increased divisiveness within countries, families, communities, and even faith traditions. The need to greet, successfully adjust to, and even benefit from, such unexpected and broad-reaching change, personally threatening challenges, and stress is of even greater importance now. In addition, styles of living which were taken for granted, such as adults going to work and children educated in an actual classroom, were also radically impacted. As a result, adults were also expected to quickly adapt in order to deal with the questions raised by the young about their own security and hoped-for normalcy. With updated information and a new chapter on post-traumatic growth (PTG), the second edition of Bounce is designed to enhance the search for balance and new meaning to live life to the fullest.

We are experiencing significant ongoing challenges such as Covid-19, the presence of political divisiveness and violence in the U.S. and around the world, as well as the growing stresses and uncertainties of job insecurity, new routines, and an increase in mental health struggles. In a timely second edition of Bounce, Robert Wicks shows us how to find balance in life with new strategies for self-care and personal growth. His proven techniques show us all how to live a life of meaning and resilience.

Resilience is a concept and practice that many of us assume we know more about than we do, and yet developing capacities for resilience remains fundamentally important for human wellbeing and flourishing. Robert Wicks helps us develop these capacities and furthers a conversation on resilience that he's led for well over a decade, with new stories, nuggets of wisdom, and a new chapter on posttraumatic growth, among other updates to his previous edition of this book. If I were to recommend a single book on the topic of resilience, this would be it. After reading it, I feel not only more resilient; I feel more human and humane.