2. Learning About Resilience
Read the following flashcards to learn more about resilience. You can do this by hovering over the flashcard.
Once you are done, you can test yourself! Turn the flashcards around and see if you can repeat some of the points you just learned.
What is resilience?
Resilience is the positive way in which a person adapts to the adverse challenges they face in life. Everyone experiences both positive and negative emotions, being resilient means being able to manage these emotions.
Resilience is more than just ‘pushing through’ the hard times in life, it is the ability to adapt to hardship and to building a toolkit of skills to deal with any risks faced in life.
Resilience includes looking after your physical health. Mental and physical health are linked – when you look after one, the other improves too.
You do not have to build resilience on your own. Resilience building not only applies to the individual, but to families, relationships and the wider system, be it schools or communities.
How can we boost resilience?
Resilience includes practising different ways of thinking and challenging thoughts that are negative. For example, challenging ‘thought traps’ like overthinking or thinking the worst is going to happen.
Resilience includes acknowledging our successes, no matter how small they are. Focus on small wins and remember the process of how you got there – then you have a method of how to get there again.
Resilience is practising being kind to yourself and to others. Being selfless and generous is the best way to discover the strength of relationships and your own strengths.
Resilience is recognising your feelings are not facts. You can ‘feel stupid’ without being stupid or ‘feel guilty’ without having done anything you need to be guilty about. Check out your facts and believe those instead.
