Title: Surviving Tough Times by Building Resilience - HelpGuide.org
Headings: Surviving Tough Times by Building Resilience
Surviving Tough Times by Building Resilience
Whether you’re facing a global or personal crisis—or a mix of both—building resilience can help you cope with stress, overcome adversity, and enjoy the better days to come.
Experiencing hardship and adversity
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The role of resilience in times of crisis
Building resilience
Building resilience tip 1: Practice acceptance
Accept the situation
Accept your feelings
Grieve your losses
Tip 2: Reach out to others
Tip 3: Invest in self-care
Manage your overall stress levels
Tip 4: Look for meaning and purpose
Tip 5: Stay motivated

Content: But building resilience can help you to maintain a positive outlook, face an uncertain future with less fear, and get through even the darkest days. Building resilience
If you’re more sensitive to emotional distress and are finding it difficult to cope with hardship or adversity, it’s important not to think of it as some kind of character flaw. Resilience isn’t a macho quality and it isn’t fixed; it’s an ongoing process that requires effort to build and maintain over time. Unless you’ve faced adversity in your life before, it’s unlikely you’ve had the need or opportunity to develop resilience. Drawing on past experiences can help you cope with the challenges you’re facing today. Even if you’ve struggled to cope with adversity in the past, you may at least be able to recognize some of the ways of coping that DON’T help, such as trying to numb your feelings with drugs or alcohol. While it’s often difficult to imagine anything good coming out of traumatic experiences, building resilience can help you find any positives in the difficulties you’ve faced. Surviving hardships can teach you important things about yourself and the world around you, strengthen your resolve, deepen your empathy, and in time enable you to evolve and grow as a human being. Building resilience can also help you to: