Riding the Dragon: 10 Lessons for Inner Strength in Challenging Times

By Robert J. Wicks

Book Overview

"Riding the Dragon gives the reader the chance to look for the lessons that are often hidden in our sorrows."--Goodreads reviewer

Twenty years and 70,000 copies after it was first released, Riding the Dragon--by popular author, speaker, and psychologist Robert J. Wicks--continues to help thousands each year to confront the "dragons" of stress, discouragement, burnout, and unexpected change that everyone struggles with in their daily lives.

Instead of pretending these difficulties don't exist or trying to remove them entirely, Wicks offers ten lessons to help us face them, overcome them, and grow from them. These simple yet profound lessons draw on the wisdom of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions as well as Wicks's experience as a psychologist, and include
pairing clarity with kindness, seeking perspective daily, andbuilding a barrier of simplicity.
Riding the Dragon is a concise, compassionate, and knowledgeable guide for anyone experiencing or supporting someone facing personal or professional challenges. This twentieth anniversary edition features a new preface from the author, highlighting how Riding the Dragon is, perhaps now more than ever, an indispensable spiritual and psychological companion for all of us who are yearning for our lives to be transformed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893732940
• ISBN13: 9781893732940
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Sorin Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

One Way to Find Peace

As a Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity seriously studying Gospel peace as to become an active person of peace, this small, yet full of helpful stories, questions and guidance life manual is a way to reflect on one's own interpersonal relationships. Robert Wick is gifted in coaching any reader in the fine art of living with self and others.

Riding the Dragon great read for caregivers

This is a wonderful book & important for those in helping professions. All of us who work in helping fields should learn to understand more about caregiving & how to help others while preserving our own health & wellness.

Very good book

I read this book during a book study class at my church. It provided a lot of insight that really spoke to me. I had always thought I could handle stress by control or sheer will. Now I jump on the dragon and enjoy the ride. Life will happen, it is up to us to decide whether it happens with us or in spite of us! God bless you all.

I needed this

I read this last year and several others by Dr. Wicks. It helps me to know that I am not the only one going through these things. I try to help people and then forget to take care of myself. This book shows us how we can live both sides of the coin best.