Award-Winning Books
Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
Resilience is a practical and inspiring guide to overcoming adversity and building inner strength. Drawing on timeless wisdom and real-world experience, it offers actionable tools to help navigate challenges, find purpose, confront pain, and create lasting happiness.
Based on deeply personal letters to a fellow Navy SEAL struggling with PTSD, this book combines discipline and compassion to provide meaningful strategies for living a more purposeful life. Described as “life-changing” and “brilliant,” Resilience is a powerful reminder that strength and growth come from positive action, offering guidance for anyone ready to take control of their journey.
The Education of a Humanitarian,
the Making of a Navy SEAL
This inspiring memoir explores the powerful intersection of compassion and courage. Combining experiences from refugee camps, war zones, and Navy SEAL training, it highlights a unique journey of service. From working with the sick and displaced in global trouble spots to leading elite warriors in combat, this story reveals the paradox that strength and kindness are deeply intertwined.
Rich with vivid accounts of humanitarian work and harrowing combat missions, the book demonstrates how true leadership arises from blending the heart’s compassion with the fist’s resolve. Praised as “glorious” and “compelling,” it’s a call to action for those seeking purpose and a testament to the profound impact of service, both on and off the battlefield.
The Warrior’s Heart
Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage
This inspiring adaptation of The Heart and the Fist brings to life a journey defined by compassion, courage, and service. Through vivid stories, it recounts experiences aiding orphaned children in Rwanda, living among Bosnian refugees, and undergoing the world’s toughest military training as a Navy SEAL.
Blending humanitarian work with military missions, the book highlights powerful lessons of friendship, resilience, and the pursuit of purpose. Designed to inspire readers to lead lives of integrity and bravery, The Warrior’s Heart is a call to act with strength and kindness in the face of life’s challenges.
Strength & Compassion
Photographs and Essays by Eric Greitens
This compelling collection combines award-winning photography with profound essays to explore themes of resilience, dignity, and hope in the face of adversity. Capturing moments from Rwanda, Cambodia, Gaza, and beyond, the book portrays both the devastating impact of war and the enduring strength of the human spirit.
Through powerful images and thought-provoking reflections on courage, faith, and compassion, readers are reminded that even in the darkest circumstances, kindness and action can make a difference. Described as both “brutal and beautiful,” Strength & Compassion is a striking tribute to the dignity of those who persevere and a call to live with empathy and courage.
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