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Bounce: Overcoming Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
Bounce offers short, sound-bites of stand-alone readings designed to help you cultivate resilience and awareness amid the challenges of daily living.
More than a collection of thoughts for the day, Bounce: Overcoming Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy offers a progressive program of holistic—mental, emotional, physical and spiritual—study, guiding you through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the path to well-being, joy, and happiness.
The teachings are gently humorous, sometimes challenging, occasionally provocative, but always compassionate and kind, and, I hope, seemingly infinitely wise.
All that I share are strategies that have worked for me personally through many of my own life challenges, and for my clients in my professional work as a holistic psychologist and empowerment coach.
Bounce: Overcoming Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy features the most essential and stirring passages from my previous books, exploring topics such as: meditation, mindfulness, positive health behaviors, and working with fear, depression, anxiety, and other painful emotions. Bounce expands upon my previous books in that it encourages a more playful approach to the seriousness of life and the ever-present stressors we all face.
Through the course of this book, you will learn practical, creative and simple methods for heightening awareness and overcoming habitual patterns that block happiness and joy and hold you back.
My hope is that next time you are faced with a setback or face adversity one simple word will come to mind: ‘Bounce.’ And then, having been reminded that bouncing back from setbacks in a lively manner is the test of your power, that you will then go quickly into resilience mode and apply the strategies you have learned in this book.
If when next faced with a challenge your default thoughts are ’bounce’, and ‘how can I bounce?’ then I will consider this book a success.
Are you ready to bounce?
Let’s get jumping…
More than a collection of thoughts for the day, Bounce: Overcoming Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy offers a progressive program of holistic—mental, emotional, physical and spiritual—study, guiding you through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the path to well-being, joy, and happiness.
The teachings are gently humorous, sometimes challenging, occasionally provocative, but always compassionate and kind, and, I hope, seemingly infinitely wise.
All that I share are strategies that have worked for me personally through many of my own life challenges, and for my clients in my professional work as a holistic psychologist and empowerment coach.
Bounce: Overcoming Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy features the most essential and stirring passages from my previous books, exploring topics such as: meditation, mindfulness, positive health behaviors, and working with fear, depression, anxiety, and other painful emotions. Bounce expands upon my previous books in that it encourages a more playful approach to the seriousness of life and the ever-present stressors we all face.
Through the course of this book, you will learn practical, creative and simple methods for heightening awareness and overcoming habitual patterns that block happiness and joy and hold you back.
My hope is that next time you are faced with a setback or face adversity one simple word will come to mind: ‘Bounce.’ And then, having been reminded that bouncing back from setbacks in a lively manner is the test of your power, that you will then go quickly into resilience mode and apply the strategies you have learned in this book.
If when next faced with a challenge your default thoughts are ’bounce’, and ‘how can I bounce?’ then I will consider this book a success.
Are you ready to bounce?
Let’s get jumping…
186 pages, Paperback
Published December 6, 2017
About the author
Cassandra Gaisford
131 books28 followersCassandra Gaisford is an award-winning artist and #1 Amazon best-selling author.
A corporate escapee, she now lives and works from her idyllic lifestyle property overlooking the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.
Cassandra is also an author of historical art-related fiction. She loves all the arts, travelling, orchids and anything that is inspiring, uplifting and beautiful.
Under her pen name, Mollie Mathews (www.molliemathews.com), she also writes love stories and romantic fiction.
A corporate escapee, she now lives and works from her idyllic lifestyle property overlooking the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.
Cassandra is also an author of historical art-related fiction. She loves all the arts, travelling, orchids and anything that is inspiring, uplifting and beautiful.
Under her pen name, Mollie Mathews (www.molliemathews.com), she also writes love stories and romantic fiction.
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December 6, 2017
Cassandra has mastered the art of speaking in clear and simple terms and has presented Bounce as an easy to read, concise yet completely comprehensive guide to overcoming all the obstacles that stand between yourself and your passion. She presents Bounce is such a casual conversational tone which allows you to take in all the information provided and not once does she speak down to you. She has taken a truly holistic approach and leaves no stone unturned. She lays out all the facets of overcoming your obstacles in a no nonsense fashion and covers everything ... Mind, body and soul ... the physical, the spiritual and the scientific. She evens touches on topics that may be considered 'airy-fairy' with believable and inspiring confidence. While Bounce is a concise presentation, do not be fooled by its quick two hour read, it is incredibly comprehensive and astoundingly holistic.
I have been working on a website project for most of this year and over the last couple of months I have been saying that I am almost ready to get on with it, but I keep finding obstacles and excuses to not get real with it. These obstacles and excuses simply amount to allowing myself to listen to the the voices of self doubt that choose to argue in my head. But within days of finishing reading Bounce I now have scoured my domain name, have my draft website ready to go and I now know that I will be launching it before the end of the year, maybe even within the next few days.
As well as being inspiring, motivating and confidence building, Bounce also comes with useful activities and numerous helpful resources to assist you to overcome your obstacles and follow your passion. Cassandra definitely holds your hand but ultimately it is finally up to you to take action. I did, will you? Thank You Cassandra
I have been working on a website project for most of this year and over the last couple of months I have been saying that I am almost ready to get on with it, but I keep finding obstacles and excuses to not get real with it. These obstacles and excuses simply amount to allowing myself to listen to the the voices of self doubt that choose to argue in my head. But within days of finishing reading Bounce I now have scoured my domain name, have my draft website ready to go and I now know that I will be launching it before the end of the year, maybe even within the next few days.
As well as being inspiring, motivating and confidence building, Bounce also comes with useful activities and numerous helpful resources to assist you to overcome your obstacles and follow your passion. Cassandra definitely holds your hand but ultimately it is finally up to you to take action. I did, will you? Thank You Cassandra
January 1, 2018
Passionate, Practical and Easy to Follow
Bounce by Cassandra Gaisford is as bouncy as its title. Full of positive energy, guidelines, suggestions, and practical step by step process to help you bounce back into joy and success, this book is a gem that I would recommend to anyone looking for a way to get out of the rut.
Cassandra's enthusiasm is contagious. This is a great little book. Follow her advice 100% and see your life change for the better.
Bounce by Cassandra Gaisford is as bouncy as its title. Full of positive energy, guidelines, suggestions, and practical step by step process to help you bounce back into joy and success, this book is a gem that I would recommend to anyone looking for a way to get out of the rut.
Cassandra's enthusiasm is contagious. This is a great little book. Follow her advice 100% and see your life change for the better.
August 22, 2018
Her own biography would be more interesting
Just okay. Nothing terribly new here. Read it to get some new ideas for myself. But did find author’s biographical information intriguing.
Just okay. Nothing terribly new here. Read it to get some new ideas for myself. But did find author’s biographical information intriguing.
April 16, 2018
Good, a little new agey but generally good.
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