Stronger Than You Think: Building Lifelong Resilience

Sherry Hamby, Ph.D. is an award-winning distinguished research professor of psychology at the University of the South. She is also the director of the Life Paths Research Center and founder and co-chair of Resiliencecom, a conference on strengths-based approaches to overcoming trauma. Dr. Hamby has authored or coauthored more than two hundred scholarly articles and five books, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, and HuffPost, and on CBS News. Stronger Than You Think draws on her own resilience journey, as well as her experiences as a researcher, therapist, teacher, and community advocate. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, two children, and two rescue dogs, Flopsy and Slim.

The old ideas about resilience being mostly down to individual toughness turn out to be wrong, and you might be surprised to learn what actually helps people overcome adversity and thrive. The resilience portfolio approach helps people wade through the avalanche of advice out there and figure out what each of us needs to put together the pieces of a good life.