Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity

The question of being crippled by adversity; the answer lies in the ability to be resilient; meeting the eight themes of resilience, which include core values and purpose, finding meaning in adversity, equanimity, self-care and healthy coping skills.

Chances are the adversity in one's life causes them to walk the hero's journey; discovering what that journey entails, from the initial call to adventure to the rebirth; stepping into a new truth in a world that no longer seems ordinary.

Learning how humans nurture a spirit of resilience for thousands of years, studying these practices, scientists now confirm and promote some of these techniques as ways to process adverse experiences and return to harmony.

Humans experience periods of acute stress; the sympathetic nervous system; how the parasympathetic nervous system relaxes the body after the cause of stress has passed; the fight-flight-freeze response; the consequences of stress.

The skills that are needed to recover from physical stress, illness, or injury; physical strength and fitness is a part of the body's resilience; how to build physical resilience; why it is important.

Exploring some coping mechanisms for regulating mechanisms; emotions are simply individual responses to situations; how to accept, pay attention to and learn from all of them; it is the single most vital aspect of resilience.

The value of psychological flexibility; the foundation of mental resilience; relationships between your thoughts and core values; the mind has the power to make or break the ability to recover from adversity; how to control reactions to thoughts.

The importance of self-care; it is a crucial component of resilience; the Wheel of Life exercise; how to determine gaps in self-care; how to create and manage a Self-Care Journal to improve resilience.

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

How trauma affects the mind and body; it causes specific changes in the brain and genetics of reproduction; the mind and body can get stuck in the loop of the sympathetic nervous system's trauma response; how, the mind and body can heal.

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

Enjoy an enlightening conversation between your instructor and Suzi Landolphi, a well-known leader in the post-traumatic growth movement who currently works with combat veterans.

Human beings are wired for connection to others. In this episode, learn how to develop quality connections with others that will help you thrive and increase resilience.

Here, learn how to increase your number of protective factors not to eliminate the risk of danger, but rather to have as much control over it as possible.

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

A gentle yoga practice; building awareness of the body and beliefs; step-by-step instructions which can be modeled both standing and sitting; a deep relaxation pose, resting in the stillness that is always available.

How to control breathing; it is the only function of the autonomic nervous system one can control; the three-part yogic breath; relaxation breath, energizing breath, and alternate-nostril breathing; the mind affects the breath and vice versa.

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life

In "Building Your Resilience: Finding Meaning in Adversity," learn how to create greater resilience, whether you’re a trauma survivor or simply reaching for a more fulfilling and joyful life