While surrendering may seem counterintuitive to resilience at first, it is actually critical in building resilience because it teaches us when to accept life’s realities and adapt to the circumstances.

Our habits turn into routine. And our routines become the blueprint of our lives. Can our habits help us build resilience?

Because so much of our daily actions are driven by repetition, it makes sense that establishing and maintaining healthy habits is an important goal.

Social support network can help you not only overcome adversity, but even thrive. In addition to focusing on tapping into your inner strength in order to overcome hardship, start thinking about embracing connections to other people. Relationships are at the crux of your personal well-being and healthy development.

In this article, we introduce the notion of training your mindset to make it through hard times. You can train your muscles over time to become stronger, more resilient, and more flexible.

Finally, we come to a discussion of “purpose,” or, more specifically, “purpose in life,” in the context of one’s ability to bounce back from adversity. I will start this next series of articles by talking about what we mean by “purpose.”

We have come across quite a few articles that explain how having a purpose in life can help build resilience. In this article, we dig a little deeper into the relationship between purpose and resilience and what it means for those having to cope with adversity.

In the previous article, we addressed the relationship between resilience and connection to others, and how having a social network can help people fare better in the face of adversity. In this article, we take things a little further, explaining the way in which social support can help you become more resilient.

Now that we’ve learned more about the relationship between resilience and having a purpose in life, I’d like to talk about how to “find” that purpose. I turn to Tony Robbins, a global entrepreneur, best-selling author and life strategist.

When I consider how one can possibly recover from a devastating loss, my thoughts inevitably turn to Sheryl Sandberg, who unexpectedly lost her husband after 11 years of marriage. A graduate of Harvard Business School, the former COO of Meta Platforms and the founder of the philanthropic organization, the Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, she is also the author of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead. 

I was very fortunate to attend a talk by Jay Shetty. I loved everything he had to say about resilience. In this article, I try to reconstruct his talking points and put in my own words what I learned.

Finally, I’d like to share with you an article by Daniel Scott on the Entrepreneur website, “Nine Tips for Finding Your Life Purpose.” Scott is a co-founder and CEO of Spotlight Advisory Group, which helps entrepreneurs and creatives discover their life purpose and turn that into a sustainable enterprise that maximizes their impact on society and culture.

Now that we have established that social connections can help you deal with adversity by raising your level of resilience, let’s talk about how to build a support network of your own and adopt new habits in order to make positive changes in your life.

Surrender can be a powerful tool in personal life, particularly in situations where we are faced with challenges or struggles that are beyond our control. Surrender involves

Let’s start with a basic understanding of the concept of gratitude.: Gratitude is “a positive emotion that involves

We all know that experiencing hardship is part of life. We also know that some people bounce back from adversity better than others.

“Gratitude is the most powerful correlate of happiness. When we’re feeling grateful, our body calms, and we feel at peace in all realms of our lives. It’s impossible to feel grateful and stressed at the same time.”

Jason N. Linder, Psy.D., LMFT

In this article, we introduce the notion of training your mind to make it through hard times. You can train your muscles over time to become stronger, more resilient, and more flexible.

“Gratitude is the most powerful correlate of happiness. When we’re feeling grateful, our body calms, and we feel at peace in all realms of our lives. It’s impossible to feel grateful and stressed at the same time.”

Jason N. Linder, Psy.D., LMFT

“Gratitude is the most powerful correlate of happiness. When we’re feeling grateful, our body calms, and we feel at peace in all realms of our lives. It’s impossible to feel grateful and stressed at the same time.”

Jason N. Linder, Psy.D., LMFT