Description
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience is a book about how to deal with the aftermath of a crisis. The book has cases of people who have survived different types of crises, and how their experiences changed their lives.
You have survived the crisis?trauma, disease, accident, or war?now how do you get your life back? The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenns breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldnt just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath.
The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules dont apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves. Drawing on gripping cases across a wide range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales fashions a compelling argument about fear, courage, and the adaptability of the human spirit. Micki Glenn was later moved to say: I dont regret that this happened to me. [It] has been . . . probably the single most positive experience Ive ever had.
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