Resiliency is defined as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties or toughness” but when it comes to our psychological health it’s a bit more than that. It’s about our ability to manage any crisis or upset and get back to baseline quickly, meaning that life’s ups and downs don’t throw us off for that long, we have tools and resources and we can bounce back quickly.
I have often used the poker chip analogy to describe resilience, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, I have shared in other videos how we wake up with a certain number of poker chips, and stressful or difficult things cost us some of those chips. Others prefer the spoons analogy, but either way we are talking about resilience.
And I know you are wondering how we know what our resiliency is or how good or bad we are doing with it, and the way to find that out is to notice, or even think back to the last crisis we had and think about how long it took you to get back to feeling like yourself. Was it a quick turn around? Or did we struggle for weeks, months, or even years? If we bounce back easily, we have more resilience, and if we struggle to move past it, we have less. But no matter how much resilience we have we can all benefit from more of it...
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