Emotional Resilience: How to Start Building Your Ability to Adapt

Emotional resilience involves your ability to cope mentally and emotionally—and ultimately, stay in control of any negative emotions. This allows you to “roll with the punches” and ride that wave of life as opposed to being thrown around by it.

So, let’s dig into this topic a bit more. What makes someone emotionally resilient? And how can you become more resilient?

What Makes a Person Resilient?

You might look at your friends or family and wish you could be as resilient as them. You see them gracefully handling life’s adversities, bouncing back after pitfalls, and generally, succeeding in all they set out to do. What gives?

What Are the 7 C’s of Resilience?

Building emotional resilience comes down to seven key pieces, including the 7 C’s:

How Do I Build Emotional Resilience?

Now, let’s get to it. How can you build your emotional resilience?

Inevitably, you can’t just erase life’s difficulties. Thus, it comes down to coping with them. So, how can you do that?

Building Resilience Takes Time!

You won’t hit a home run right off the bat.

This means you’ll probably still get overwhelmed more than a few times. However, pat yourself on the back if you’re starting to do something about it and find ways to quell those feelings of overwhelm.

People who should listen to this show are psychotherapists, mental health workers