After the Shock: Getting You Back On the Road to Resilience When Crisis Hits You Head On

If you are in crisis or walking alongside someone in crisis, this book is meant for you. This is more than a book; it is like being with a great friend.

When you hear the word crisis what do you think? A dramatic car wreck. A critical medical diagnosis. Divorce. Job loss. Natural disaster. Death. What about the mini-shocks within those crises or the smaller events that disrupt our lives more frequently? A fender bender in rush-hour traffic. Personal information getting hacked. Being overlooked for a promotion.
When crisis hits, large or small, we are thrown off balance.

In After the Shock: Getting You Back On The Road To Resilience When Crisis Hits You Head On, Becky Sansbury introduces a sustainable model to help you stabilize and move toward resilience.

After decades of working with people in crisis, she determined that four factors give us balance, strength and support throughout our lives, but especially in shocking times. Like the four tires of a car, comfort, control, community, and connection to something bigger than self provide both a base and a cushion for navigating the ruts and potholes of life. But that is not enough to move us on to resilience.

In the overwhelming confusion of crisis we crave a space safe for focusing on our current experience, strengthened by crucial lessons from the past. We make both casual and far-reaching decisions based on assumptions that may no longer be authentic or lead to our desired future. We grasp for resources, often unsure of what we need.
Expanding the car metaphor, in After the Shock the reader learns effective ways to use the frame of experience, the steering capacity of assumptions, and the fuel of resources to lead toward more resilient responses in a variety of crises.

Reach for After the Shock to nurture healing through warmth and wisdom. Written in a conversational style, this book provides practical tools while wrapping you with virtual arms of support as you make your way from reaction to resilience.

Becky Sansbury connects people to hope. She has spent decades doing that professionally and a lifetime doing that naturally. Now she is expanding that connection through her book, After the Shock: Getting You Back On The Road To Resilience When Crisis Hits You Head On (Real Life Communication, 2015).

Becky’s lengthy career as a hospice chaplain, followed by work with professionals in career crisis, provided the clinical basis for this book. Her personal journey through multiple miscarriages, a young husband’s stroke, two marriages, single parenthood, and eventual family reconciliation validated the process she developed.

A seminary graduate and ordained minister, Becky considers the less-traveled road her favorite path. Serving patients and families through a community hospice, she discovered resilient and flourishing people when society would assume the opposite. Concluding that career to serve as a caregiver in her own family, Becky applied principles she learned when she sat on the other side of the bed. After a recession gripped the USA in 2008, Becky joined a team serving professionals stripped of their jobs through no fault of their own. She saw the same resilience-building principles in the attitudes and actions of many of her clients.

With her theories confirmed, Becky wrote After the Shock to serve as a handbook and virtual support for anyone in crisis or walking alongside someone in crisis. She speaks to organizations where bad news is often the order of the day. Becky sheds light on the confusion of crisis and provides effective ways to replace loss with resilience.

Becky lives in Raleigh, NC; but she spends an increasing amount of time in Austin, TX, home of her children and grandson.