Tapping Into Your Resilient Self
It is imperative to use strengths-based ways to cope with life stressors. Key Points Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, or various types of stressors. Resilience is important for optimal physical and mental health functioning. Meditation, stress management, and accepting mistakes can help you cultivate resilience. Resilience is important for optimal physical and mental health functioning across a variety of populations and settings, and across the human life span (Tsai and Freedland, 2022; Koliou et.al., 2020). The American Psychological Association defines individual resilience as “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress—such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. As much as resilience involves “bouncing back” from these difficult experiences, it can also involve profound personal growth (APA, 2020). Psychologi...