Are you resilient?

The capacity to adjust to changes and heal, both physically and emotionally, in the face of challenges is partly attributed to a person's resilience.

Adapting to life-altering situations involves resilience, which can be less about returning to a previous state and more about adapting, accepting, and living with a new reality.

To truly understand and "test" our resilience, we may need to undergo emotional or physical distress.

Building and enhancing resilience requires time, intention, and a desire to recover and strengthen personal resources.

Supportive factors for resilience include:

• Prioritizing connections with others, the natural world, and oneself.

• Promoting well-being through physical and mental care; positively managing emotions.

• Finding purpose by focusing on what can be done rather than what cannot.

• Engaging with one's inner world to create meaning and understanding; fostering perspective, acceptance, and hope.

• Seeking assistance as a way to acknowledge one's needs and learn to ask for what you need.

• Exercising agency in one's experiences and life by maintaining a sense of internal control (locus of control): choosing how to adjust, respond, and heal.

Additional factors that aid resilience are patience, perseverance, equanimity, compassion, kindness, compassion, adaptability, embracing new self-identities.

Resilience does not mean having to perceive what has happened and how it has altered you in a positive light.

Resilience requires you to learn how to be with all kinds of pain and learn how to soothe, soften, comfort and confront it.

Resilience is a dynamic state as we meet life at different ages, abilities, and opportunities.

Consider the narratives you create around your challenges and the self-identity you embrace, whether it be that of a victim, a survivor, or a hero.

To gauge your resilience, reflect on whether you have goals and aspirations and what actions you take towards them.