About Emotional Endurance: Faith-Fueled Skills for Bouncing Back
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: July 28, 2026
Learn how to come back stronger and keep going when you experience setbacks and disappointment.
Why do some people bounce back from adversity while others stay stuck? We all face stress and setbacks, but not everyone recovers the same way. What makes the difference? Executive leadership coach, educator, and TEDx speaker Leslie M. Bosserman has spent decades helping people answer that question. Through research, experience, and her own personal journey, she’s identified the key: emotional endurance.
In Emotional Endurance, you’ll develop the mindset and skills to face life’s hardest moments and come out stronger, wiser, and more grounded. Based in psychological research and biblical truth, this practical and hope-filled guide offers a framework for building resilience that lasts. Soon you won’t just survive adversity; you’ll bounce back stronger with the skills to keep going.
Emotional Endurance offers practical tools and transformational results, including how to
- develop inner strength and grit through six core principles and eighteen actionable skills;
- recover from failure, turn it into a source of strength, and use it to fuel your growth;
- build resilience that lasts beyond a single crisis;
- access hope to heal from emotional wounds;
- replace fear and paralysis with courage and clarity;
- learn to manage your energy by anticipating what drains you and making space for what restores you; and
- find strength to endure challenges by standing firm in your clearly defined purpose.
This book is a perfect gift for anyone going through a difficult season, friends facing burnout or transition, graduates stepping into uncertain futures, small groups or book clubs focused on personal growth, or leadership retreats and team-building sessions.
Real strength isn’t about avoiding hard things. It’s about moving forward with emotional steadiness when life gets tough. Emotional Endurance equips you with the mindset and resilience to keep going, keep growing, and come out stronger on the other side. Your bounce-back starts here.
Meet the Author
Leslie M. Bosserman, M.Ed., CPCC, is the founder of Lead With Intention® where she coaches and trains teams on the science of emotional endurance.
She is a TEDx speaker, executive leadership coach, and creative entrepreneur who believes success should be based on fulfillment, not retirement.
Leslie is living her best life in Northern California, where she runs The Makers Place™, an innovative coworking space with onsite childcare.
When she isn’t coaching, writing, or folding endless piles of laundry, you can find her enjoying the perfect cup of local coffee while parenting three young children.
My Thoughts
I think the book blurb above is very well-written and succinct. I don't want to repeat any of it here, so I will share a couple of thoughts. My first impression is that emotional endurance can be achieved because the six principles which lead to it each have three skills that enables the reader to achieve them. Skills are learned behavior. Anyone can learn a skill and be successful with perseverance and practice. This is why I think this book is useful and should be helpful to readers. The principle that intrigues me most is Principle Four: Courage to Change. We are creatures of habit, and sometimes those habits can hold us back and prevent growth from happening. One of the skills in this section is Expand Your Comfort Zone. I think as Christians we are often called to do just that. At the end of each principle's section is a Reflect + Connect guided journaling activity with helpful prompts for reflection and action. This book is a lovely resource for anyone at any stage of life who could use encouragement to let go and move forward. I think it helps put hope into practice.
Disclosure: I received a hardback copy of Emotional Endurance from the publisher via TLC Book Tours in exchange for a fair and honest review.
TLC tour schedule:
Monday, August 24th: The Bookish Dilettante – review
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Monday, September 21st: @beckys_bookshelves – feature
Thursday, September 24th: @nissa_the.bookworm – feature
Friday, September 25th: @musingsofasassybookishmama and Musings of a Sassy Bookish Mama – review
Monday, September 28th: @the.joy.within.every.page – review
Wednesday, September 30th: Laura’s Reviews and @laurasreviews_1 – review
Until next time....
Happy reading!
Ricki Jill
