Three Secrets of Resilient People
Lucy Hone is co director at the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience and a research associate at AUT University in Auckland.
What you need to know …
Three strategies. Pretty simple. They’re readily available to us all, anytime, anywhere.
#1 Resilient people know that suffering is part of every human experience.
#2 Resilient people have a habit of realistically appraising situations, focusing on the things that they can change, and accepting the things that they can’t. They make an intentional, deliberate, ongoing effort to tune into what’s good in their world.
#3 Resilient people ask themselves, “Is what I’m doing helping or harming me?”
Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid
Guy Winch is a psychologist, author “Emotional First Aid Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure”.
What you need to know …
- We sustain psychological injuries even more often than we do physical ones, injuries like failure or rejection or loneliness.
- Research confirms that when your self-esteem is lower, you are more vulnerable to stress and to anxiety; that failures and rejections hurt more, and it takes longer to recover from them.
- Take action to change your response to failure, protect your self-esteem, battle negative thinking, you won’t just heal your psychological wounds, you will build emotional resilience, you will thrive.