This Week with Introspective

The definition of Resilience from the Strengths Profile:

• You have the ability to overcome adversity and can take setbacks in your stride.

• You can find the resources and strength to pick yourself back up, even in difficult circumstances.

• You know that you have the strength to cope with, and recover from, anything that life throws at you.

Questions to help you bring this strength to life:

• Which of my energizing strengths enable me to feel in control and confident when setbacks occur?

• How can I reframe a current stressor to see it as a chance to grow or build new skills?

• What new ‘tool’ or strategy have I added to my resilience toolkit from a recent challenge?

Resources of the Week

Article

To Handle Increased Stress, Build Your Resilience

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How to manage stress by cultivating personal resilience rather than solely seeking external solutions.

By Ama Marston and Stephanie Marston

Video

Creatively Regulate Your Nervous System in Under 10 Minutes

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Three simple, science-backed tools to help you gently regulate your nervous system.

By Leah Davidson

Article

Resilience: A Guide to Facing Life’s Challenges, Adversities, and Crises

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This guide explores what resilience is and offers practical tools to help individuals and communities adapt, recover, and grow through adversity.

By Katie Hurley, LCSW

Strength Story: Annie

Rooted in Resilience

For Annie, resilience wasn’t a title she claimed, but a truth she lived into over time. Through early loss and family hardship, she leaned on love, faith, and the example set by her mother. Over time, resilience became less about enduring and more about knowing when to pause, adapt, and care for herself and others. Now a leader and a mother, Annie continues to evolve, using life’s hardest moments to fill her toolbox with wisdom worth passing on.

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