Sherri Mandell: How to Grow Resilience: The Seven Cs & Why Creativity is Key

After her 13-year-old son Koby was murdered by terrorists, Sherri Mandell was forced to explore the nature of spiritual resilience in the face of overwhelming grief.

In her book The Road to Resilience Sherri outlines seven steps required to face suffering and be enlarged: 

• Chaos
• Community
• Choice
• Creativity
• Commemoration (discussed in bonus episode for supporters)
• Consecration (discussed in bonus episode for supporters)
• Celebration (discussed in bonus episode for supporters)

Andrew and Sherri discuss these seven steps; and also explore the power of creativity to find your inner truth (the subject of Sherri’s latest book, The Kabbalah of Writing).  

Sherri Mandell is a prize-winning author, speaker, lecturer and counselor based in Israel. She and her husband are the directors of the Koby Mandell Foundation, which runs healing groups and camps for bereaved families and children.

If You’re Looking for More….

You can subscribe to The Meaningful Life (via Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts) and hear a bonus mini-episode every week. Or you can join our Supporters Club on Patreon to also access exclusive behind-the-scenes content, fan requests  and the chance to ask Andrew your own questions. Membership starts at just £4.50. 

This week supporters will hear:

⭐️The final three Cs: Commemoration, Consecration, Celebration

⭐️Three things Sherri Mandell knows to be true.

⭐️AND subscribers also access all of our previous bonus content - a rich trove of insight on love, life and meaning created by Andrew and his interviewees.

 

Follow Up

Read Andrew’s new Substack newsletter The Meaningful Life, and join the community there. 

Read Sherri Mandell’s books The Kabbalah of Writing and The Road to Resilience 

Learn more about Sherri Mandell and the Koby Mandell Foundation https://www.kobymandell.org/ 

Follow Sherri Mandell on Facebook @SherriMandell

You might also enjoy Andrew’s interviews with James Hollis on How to be Resilient and with Niamh Fitzpatrick on Tell Me the Truth About Loss

Andrew offers regular advice on love, marriage and finding meaning in your life via his social channels. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube @andrewgmarshall