The Resilient Life: Manage Stress, Prevent Burnout, & Strengthen Your Mental and Physical Health

by Susan Biali

The world is experiencing unprecedented levels of burnout, stress, and mental health challenges. This comes with the inevitable fallout: poorer health, chronic exhaustion, strained relationships, and decreased satisfaction and performance at work. You’re so tired of being stressed and tired, but how can you tell the difference between run-of-the-mill stress, burnout, and serious mental health issues like depression or anxiety? And what can you do about it? Throughout the pages of The Resilient Life, you’ll learn how to identify, address, and protect yourself from burnout; easy neuroscience-based techniques that can “rewire” your brain, reduce stress hormones, decrease anxiety, and help restore your sense of calm and control; and how to reconnect with and make time for what matters most, allowing you to reclaim meaning, purpose, and passion in your life. Filled with easy-to-apply tips, straight-talking advice, practical wisdom, and stories from Dr. Susan Biali Haas’s life (and the lives of her clients), The Resilient Life can truly help you to finally break free from overwhelm, get unstuck, and move forward with renewed clarity, energy, well-being, and purpose.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology, Personal Development, Ebooks

224 pages, Paperback

Published October 25, 2022

About the author

Author also writes under Susan Biali Haas

Dr. Susan Biali Haas, M.D., is an award-winning medical doctor, internationally recognized for her expertise in mental health, stress management, burnout prevention and resilience.

She has provided education on these topics to a wide range of organizations including the United States Navy, Google, McKinsey & Company, Deloitte, The Coca-Cola Company and MIT.

In addition to her twenty years of primary care experience, she also coaches a broad range of clients — from senior executives to physicians and other health professionals — to take control of their mental and physical well-being.

Dr. Susan’s popular Psychology Today blog has over 10 million views, and she has been featured in media such as the Today Show, Forbes, BBC World Service, Oprah.com, and others.

Reviews

[Jozsef · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book covered many valuable hints and ideas on coping with stress and becoming more resilient. Those hints are rooted in studies. Therefore you can rely on them.

The author doesn't expect you to wake up at 5 o'clock, work out in the gym for 1 hour a day, meditate 1 hour a day, make a side hustle, have six-pack abs and invest in cryptocurrency while having a social media presence with one million followers.

She often mentioned that you should consider your situation when adding new, good habits. For example, if you are a single mom, a mother of three, or a nurse or a doctor with a tremendous workload.
You might already have a meaningful, valuable life in those situations, not necessarily measured in money. However, you might need gentle changes in diet, sports and sleeping habits to cope better with those challenges.

It would be best if you read this book with curiosity and flexibility, and you will see what hints apply to your life.

[Sanja · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book more than I expected to, I’m not typically a non fiction reader as I tend to lose steam but I felt this book had a lot of great real suggestions on how to make life changes and it had the scientific information on why that helps which was really interesting.

[Lindsay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you to Beaufort books for the opportunity to review The Resilient Life: Manage Stress, Prevent Burnout, & Strengthen Your Mental and Physical Health by Dr. Susan Biali Haas, M.D.

While these books tend to verge on one long brag about the author's credentials, I will say that Dr. Biali does a good job of keeping it constructive and thesis-based. I enjoyed learning some of the science behind everyday decisions we make. "Nutritional psychiatry" in particular was one concept that I had never read about explicitly. Great read!

[Frances Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am half way through the book " The Resilient Life" by Dr Susan Biali Haas MD, and getting so much out of it. One way I have found to "turn the tide" is to work on my Relaxation Response ,( mentioned in the book), allowing myself to relax diminishes fear ( and most of us have a lot of that these days!, money, time etc). I have found that as I relax more deeply and more often, I am more easily able to resist being driven by fear and am starting to be able to be driven by love, creativity and health a lot more, allowing Life force to replace Fear force. Very well researched, with lots of coaching exercises to guide you.

[Emily Parkany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for work book group. I hadn’t heard of this but there are a lot of nuggets in here to use. Lots from author’s own experiences and her coaching clients. Lots on differences between burnout and depression. Lots of ways to cope: from breathing to prioritizing to sleep, food, and exercise. Hopefully all of us can adapt something from here. Good conversation starter.

[David Fosco · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr. Haas does an excellent job providing tools to the reader in order to build resiliency. The first half of the book starts slow with lots of hints towards actual information in the second half.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

[Marianne Mullen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good all around book for practical things to do for reducing stress! Like how there are sections addressing suggestions at home vs. work. Many ideas are ones known to reduce stress but I did like how the author provided context and other facts with practical advice.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent source for preventing or recovering from burnout, focusing on one's overall health. A great resource for how to live your best life. And a pretty quick and easy read with a free workbook to help you get clear about what you want and how to get there.

[Kiley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty generic. Brief references to faith, god, prayer.

[Elizabeth Goad · Rating 4 out of 5]

will probably reread to take better notes over some sections. it was a nice eye opener to things I can improve on

[Jordyn McBride · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5