My Story & The Science of Resilience
A week after my 50th birthday, and just as our family was about to move home, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo a double mastectomy. It changed the way I looked at life and forced me to reassess everything. It was a hard-fought road to recovery, so I sought out others who had rebuilt their shattered worlds after very different personal traumas, to see how they’d done it and why they felt stronger than before.
Their lessons are in this book, along with my personal diaries, and I hope you’ll find them honest, uplifting, and helpful. They’re woven together with the latest science on resilience and my research on how to make psychology, sleep, diet, and activity work for all of us, to get us through the toughest of times.
The power of resilience and growth exists within everyone – we just need a helping hand to find it. This book says it’s possible not just to survive difficulties, but to thrive. To rise.
What Readers Are Saying
AMAZON READER
‘Highly recommended to anyone, but those among us who are in the midst of trauma will find they have a friend in Sian Williams and her excellent book’
@raffcirillo (via Twitter)
‘My book arrived Sian Williams Rise, about surviving trauma. Can’t put it down, different cancer, same story. It’s a must read’
@claudia_tanuggi (via Twitter)
‘Bought your book and can’t put it down. Well written and so very honest. Thank you, it’s helping’
AMAZON READER
‘Absorbing book. I can’t put it down. Her psychology background makes it even more informative’