Everyday Vitality

Turning Stress into Strength

By: Samantha Boardman

Narrated by: Samantha Boardman

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“If you would like to live a more fulfilled life, Samantha Boardman has exactly what you need. Everyday Vitality is one part memoir, one part wisdom from years of experience as a psychiatrist, and one part cutting edge scientific evidence. Brilliant, warm, and best of all—an actionable guide to a life well-lived.”
—Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Science-backed, research-driven, actionable strategies for countering stress and building your resilience

“A great deal of everyday wellbeing lies beyond what is happening inside a person’s head. Everyday opportunities and activities that foster growth and build positive resources are not 'icing on the cake,' but the active ingredients of everyday resilience.” —Samantha Boardman, Everyday Vitality

In Everyday Vitality, psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Boardman shows readers how to find strength within their stress and how to transform full days into more fulfilling days. Drawing from scientific research and her own clinical experience, she shares strategies for cultivating vitality—the positive feeling of aliveness and energy that lies at the core of well-being and at the heart of a good day.

You will discover how increased vitality boosts productivity, builds coping skills, and enhances your ability to manage negative emotions. Dr. Boardman demonstrates how to override counterproductive responses to the onslaught of daily hassles and to respond with flexibility and fortitude instead of fear and rumination. Rather than disengaging from the world while you "find yourself," she shows you how to boost your vitality by living well within the world.

As Dr. Boardman explains, the three main wellsprings of vitality are: meaningfully connecting with others; engaging in experiences that challenge you; and contributing to something beyond yourself. These activities foster resilience by boosting emotional stamina and generating uplifts—the counterparts to daily irritations and annoyances. Whether it is having a good conversation, doing a favor for someone, going for a walk, or reading an interesting article and then calling a friend to talk about it, commonplace experiences and micromoments serve as the building blocks of everyday resilience. Everyday Vitality explains how to identify them in your life, develop them, and use them as a foundation on which to thrive.

Whether you are twenty or eighty, Everyday Vitality will give you the tools you need to get the most out of each day and to live your life to the fullest.

Everyday uplift

What a great listen. Thank you for making the topic easy to listen to and implement a change or two. Glad I learned of you and this book from the daily stoic interview.

Some golden nuggets

This could regrettably be an article because there are some golden nuggets hidden among a too-long conversational narrative, i nonetheless feel comfortable recommending this book

Inspirational and practical guide

I enjoyed the inspirational and practical examples to live everyday. It helped me set the mindset to develop habits and connect with people.

Relatable and practical guide to having more fulfillment in everyday

As someone who has not been in therapy I found d this book a useful perspective of a psychiatrist on the common daily stresses, their effects on mental health and practical strategies to cope, find “uplifts” in our surroundings and becoming more robust abs vital overall.

Actionable advice

Really enjoyed listening to this. The book gives actionable advice that I think could benefit nearly anyone. Worth a listen!