A guide to inner resilience from bestselling author Mark Nepo.

Every day, we must choose between surviving and thriving, managing risk and enhancing it, opening ourselves or closing off. Bestselling author Mark Nepo guides readers in navigating these choices with grace and fortitude while embracing the rhythm inherent to every stage of life--falling down and getting up.

For anyone who has fallen down, this book offers a hand to help them stand and make their way. This book explores how to enlarge your senses when pain and fear make you feel small; how to become skilled in the never-ending practice of course correcting and tuning as we go; and how to embrace your own gifts and wisdom in meeting life.

Mark Nepo is a master teacher who has been convening circles and guiding retreats for fifty years all over the world. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, he has been called "one of the finest spiritual guides of our time," "a consummate storyteller," and "an eloquent spiritual teacher." Filled with humble insights and wise words, Falling Down and Getting Up will encourage and inspire readers from every walk of life.