Book Review – The Turning Point by Gregg Braden

The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes is more than a doomsday look at the crises of our times, but a practical look at our changing realities with a happy ending twist.  I received this book for free from Hay House Publishing for review purposes, and the opinions are completely my own.

While, I found it a bit difficult to get past the charts, graphs, and scientific discussion at the beginning of the book, but was very happy that in the end, I stuck with it.  Gregg Braden supports a logical argument that if we are waiting for times to change back to the good old days, we may well be waiting in vain.  That instead of waiting, we need to open our eyes and adapt to our new realities, and it is only through this adaptation, that we will be able to move forward.

Rather than only analyzing events that are environmental or economical, Braden expertly weaves individuals’ personal responsibilities together as he explains that we are all in this together.  That it is both our personal, and collective, obligations to address the issues that appear before us.

The strategy of resilience is thoroughly developed both as an aspect of personal resilience as well as the development of collective, community resilience.  The development of resilience, through both habits of mind and action, create the hope and the foundation that turning points are events that we can move forward through, with the appropriate framework of thoughts and actions.

Gregg Braden provides an insightful look at our potential for developing awareness, accountability, and action that will can be applied to worldwide problems and individual dilemmas.  He provides us the possibility of a happy ending.

FTC Disclosure:  I received this book for free from Hay House Publishing for this review. I was not financially compensated for this post.  The opinion in this review is unbiased and reflects my honest judgment of the product.