Michaela Haas, PhD, is an international reporter, lecturer, author, and consultant. She is the owner of HAAS live!, an international coaching company that combines her experience in media with mindfulness training. With a PhD in Asian Studies, she has been teaching Buddhism at the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of the West, and various Buddhist centers in America and Europe. She has been studying and practicing Buddhism for almost twenty years. Since the age of sixteen, she has worked as a writer and interviewer for major nationwide German newspapers, magazines, and TV stations, including hosting her own successful nationwide talk show. Michaela divides her time between Malibu, California, and Munich, Germany. Visit MichaelaHaas.com.
Bouncing Forward is a testament to the strength, resilience, and
hope of the human psyche and spirit. Michaela Haas deftly weaves
interviews with a dozen individuals from across the world combined
with her experiences, ideas, and guidance to help readers
understand that "we are stronger than we think." Bouncing Forward
is a wonderful and entertaining read as well as a reasoned and
reasonable guide to resilient living.--Sam Goldstein, PhD,
co-author of The Power of Resilience and Raising Resilient
Children
Bouncing Forward propels our entire understanding of posttraumatic
growth to a new level. Dr. Haas's integration of the life stories
of survivors-thrivers with the latest scientific research about
discovering the advantages of adversity and finding meaning in the
messiness and her very practical tools for working with
difficulties, even disasters, shows the reader how to cultivate the
mindset of resilience that can catalyze healing and growth from
catastrophe. Brilliant, inspiring, to be read, re-read, and
treasured.----Linda Graham, MFT, author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring
Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being.
This groundbreaking book offers a path to peace and contentment in
the midst of life's most difficult challenges. Michaela Haas shows
us how struggle and trauma can lead to wisdom, growth, and
happiness. Bouncing Forward is a rich collection of inspiring and
heartfelt interviews, personal recollections, and scientific
research. We can train the mind to be resilient and to find life's
blessings no matter what hardships we've faced or are facing. This
is a book to treasure and to read over and over.----Toni Bernhard,
author of How to Be Sick, How to Wake Up, and How to Live Well with
Chronic Pain and Illness
"Michaela Haas' latest book Bouncing Forward breaks through our
great confusion around how to be happy. Full of goodness, this book
shares stories, including her own, of people who have suffered in
many ways and come through it into strength and love. Together,
these varied, living examples reveal an important truth: ultimately
there is no way to avoid pain in life, and turning toward our
challenges, whatever they may be, is the way to real
happiness."----Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real
Happiness
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