Title: Building Resilience: 13 Small but Important Ways to Become More Resilient | SELF
Headings: 13 Small but Impactful Ways to Cultivate Resilience
13 Small but Impactful Ways to Cultivate Resilience
First, what does it mean to build resilience?
1. Lean on your support systems.
2. Or seek out new relationships.
3. Stay up on basic self-care.
4. Beef up your emotional regulation skills.
5. Find ways to laugh.
6. Create things to look forward to.
7. Spend time on things you find meaningful.
8. Don’t mistake resilience with pushing yourself.
9. Reframe your negative thoughts.
10. Practice gratitude.
11. Find ways to help others.
12. Practice self-compassion.
13. Just get through the best you can.
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Content: We’re uncertain about what the future holds—or how we’ll even get there. With all of this at play, it’s become crucial to find ways to support ourselves and each other and do what we can to make it through. According to psychologists, one thing we’ll need to help us get through this is a whole lot of resilience. To be honest, resilience is one of those psychological concepts that are hard to define. You likely have your own idea of what it means—maybe the ability to withstand hardship or to get back up after something knocks you down. Psychologist John Grych, Ph.D., who studies resilience at Marquette University’s Resilience and Relationships Lab, tells SELF that a succinct definition might be: “ doing well in the face of adversity.” But, he notes, that opens up a few rabbit holes: What’s the definition of “well” here? Or “adversity”?