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Customers find the book provides actionable strategies for living a fuller life. They describe it as an excellent roadmap to help everyone realize and fulfill their life goals. The writing style is well-written with first-hand experiences, providing a comprehensive approach to embracing the struggle. Readers appreciate the original recommendations and say the book is not the typical self-help book.
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Your struggle may come in different forms, and be given one of many different names, such as anxiety, depression, addiction, and/or PTSD. No matter how much you or a loved one is struggling, or what it is called, one thing is almost certainly clear: you aren’t living the life you desire or deserve. Still, there is hope. By embracing the struggle, rather than fighting it, you can stop surviving and start thriving.Ken Falke and Josh Goldberg train combat veterans battling PTSD to understand and achieve Posttraumatic Growth (PTG). PTG helps you discover opportunities from times of struggle, and this book provides actionable strategies for making peace with past experiences, living in the present, and planning for a great future. Through Ken and Josh’s work, thousands have transformed struggle into profound strength and lifelong growth. Now it is your turn. It’s time to learn to Struggle Well.
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing (March 28, 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 348 pages
ISBN-10 : 1544510373
ISBN-13 : 978-1544510378
Item Weight : 15.5 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.87 x 8.5 inches
by Sandy Wright
Roadmap to a meaningful life.
Struggle Well by Ken Falke and Josh GoldbergThis book is an excellent roadmap to help everyone realize and fulfill their life goals; particularly those who are at a perceived or actual roadblock which prevents them from attaining happiness along the journey we call life. As explained in the book there are a myriad of circumstances which prevent or derail people from staying on their desired tracks to living the good life (family, career, health); and Struggle Well outlines a proven path to success in attaining a life which is more desired and meaningful. These principles, if followed, help people get back on track towards a more meaningful life. The authors experienced a variety of roadblocks and interruptions in their respective paths and share them with the reader and encourage all to embrace the struggle using these principles. Their experiences help the reader understand the potential of the principles they espouse. This book will help others follow in their footsteps and attain a renewed interest in their own lives by ââ¦embracing the struggleâ. An outstanding treatise on what it means to STRUGGLE WELL and be well!Charles Krauthammer has a more succinct quote when sympathizing with Rick Ankiel, a canât miss pitcher who suddenly and inexplicably, could not find the plate. When discussing Ankiel Charles said â…the catastrophe that awaits everyone from a single false move, wrong turn, fatal encounter. Every life has such a moment. What distinguishes us is whether â and how — we ever come back.â Struggle Well helps people come back.
by David S.
Suffering sucks, but it can be ennobling
“Struggle Well” is a breakthrough book that deals honestly with the needs of men and women who have been deeply impacted by war and other traumatic events. Pills, unsolicited and thoughtless advice and ill conceived “treatments” have done little to address the deep needs of warriors and first responders. During my time in service during Vietnam I had many clients who struggled to replace horrible memories with good ones, to build a new reality that didn’t deny what they’d been through but they managed to gradually “move on”. As I stayed involved over the years I noted that this was getting harder for returning veterans, Something had changed, perhaps the 24/7 nature of war in a combat zone is what’s different – certainly deployments are longer and more frequent. Whatever the reason I witnessed countless warriors come back only to be trapped in a diagnosis that typecast them and a VA system that medicated them into severe addictions. What Ken has created at Boulder Crest and what he now lays out in “Struggle Well” is by far the best effort currently underway. The approach isn’t new, it builds on deep truths. Suffering sucks, but it can be ennobling. How we respond to trauma of every kind is a choice – our final freedom. This book lays out a practical way how to, quoting Dusty’s colorful phrase, “un-f*** yourself”. We have to do the work and it can’t be done if we have no hope. While reading the opening chapters the scripture from Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” kept running through my head. This is the message we need to hear. I’m grateful that Ken and Josh tell it like it is in their new book. There’s no BS between these covers, no therapeutic gobbledygook and no magic. But there is hope and a roadmap that we all can follow.
by Dr. Bob Dawkins
Highly recommended read for anyone receiving or giving care associated with trauma
The program at Boulder Crest Retreat is an excellent example of how all trauma impacted veterans should be cared for. I have visited the retreat, talked with veterans who both receive program assistance and offer program support. The process (and results) of this program is light years ahead of what the VA provides and is worthy of direct federal funding in order to expand and replicate this form of care with dignity and respect to all veterans. This is a hand-up process that addresses the core issues trauma victims face on a daily basis; not a hand-out effort where trauma veterans can become heavily medicated and receive a few monthly hours of standard counseling sessions. Pills and the standard hour of counseling are steps; Boulder Crest is a process. In Struggle Well, Ken and Josh effectively walk the reader through the Boulder Crest process reflecting an in depth understanding of this multi-faceted/multi layered challenge. Why is this read is so compelling? Ken and Josh have become true practitioners in an area where devoted passion and sincere concern partner with effective holistic methods. And more important than the obvious results of the seminars is the follow on care and support provided which is vital to improving veterans lives in a manner where they can enjoy a more productive future (for both the veteran and his/her family). I would also recommend this read for anyone who deals with anxiety or depression or has a family member/loved one dealing with anxiety or depression.
by Amazon Customer
Very enlightening
Instead of just saying you have to embrace the suck it teaches what that means and how it can empower you
by Chris
An excellent book. I have just finished reading it, cover to cover. It has given me some pointers, some of which I am already using. Helping me through my current struggles. I will be returning to the book to read parts as I need them, and will definitely be reading the whole book over and over. I thoroughly recommend reading this, whether your struggles are minor or more complex and involved.
by Amazon Customer
This explains a unique and potentially life changing model for “post traumatic growth”, an essential for mental health practitioners and military charities. And U love the metaphors..they bring the model to life and make it easy to understand. Congratulations Ken and Josh on a stunning read
by Sam
Easy read practical advice.