Managing Stress and Raising Resilience

Resilience is the ability to adapt to changing and challenging situations. This includes the capacity to overcome and recover from stress.

Read on for strategies to build your resilience.

How to Build Resilience

There are countless ways to prepare for, receive, and adapt to whatever life throws your way. Try starting with these simple strategies.

Keep your personal relationships and professional networks strong

Practice mindful meditation or grounding practices

Use a positive lens to reframe thoughts and situations

Build skills for the future by learning from the past

Create boundaries and personal space to pause, relax, and rest

Understand what drives and motivates you

Be of service to others

Imagine, create, build

Acknowledge your loneliness and plan to connect with others

A few encouraging mantras can go a long way. Keep these affirmations in your back pocket for life’s tougher moments.

I trust my journey.

I have made it this far, and I won’t stop now.

I will love myself unconditionally, especially on the hard days.

It’s okay if not everyone understands my situation.

I was made for a purpose.

I don’t always have to be productive to see the value in myself.

I am enough.

Nothing in nature blooms year-round. I will be patient with myself.