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The Psychology of Resilience: Building Mental Toughness Resilience, the ability to bounce back from adversity, is a key factor in maintaining good mental health. Psychologists have long studied resilience and identified several factors that contribute to its development, including social support, optimism, and problem-solving skills. Research suggests that resilient individuals are better equipped to cope with stress, trauma, and setbacks in life. They possess a growth mindset, viewing challenges as opportunities for growth rather than insurmountable obstacles. Psychologists emphasize the importance of cultivating resilience through various interventions, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, resilience training programs, and mindfulness practices. By building mental toughness, individuals can enhance their well-being and thrive in the face of adversity. In an increasingly uncertain world, resilience is a crucial skill that can help us navigate life's ups and downs with grace and resilience.

Instead of laying blame, it's about acknowledging the interconnection between our experiences, perceptions, and the intricate workings of the nervous system 📍It's important to explore the dynamic relationship between external stimuli and our internal responses, recognizing the intricate interplay between mind and body 🙅🏻♀️No, nervous system restoration doesn't guarantee that you will never feel triggered or emotionally overwhelmed again For Example Without restoration there maybe ⬆️Increased Sensitivity: your nervous system may be hypersensitive to stressors, leading to frequent emotional overwhelm. ⚙️Limited Coping Skills: you may rely on maladaptive coping mechanisms, exacerbating feelings of distress and increasing emotional dysregulation. 🦾Heightened Reactivity: Unrestored nervous systems often react impulsively to triggers, automatic reactions are an attempt to avoid and resist what feels uncomfortable or painful intensifying emotional responses and perpetuating cycles of stress. 🤯Persistent Stress: impairs nervous system function, making it challenging to regulate emotions and navigate daily challenges effectively 😞Limited Resilience: makes it difficult to recover and bounce back from adversity, leaving you feeling drained and depleted Nervous System Restoration: fosters greater self-awareness leading to more skillfully navigation to emotional cues With restoration you build 🙌Improved Regulation: and access to a wider range of coping strategies and tools for regulating emotions, reducing the frequency and intensity of overwhelm. 📈Increased Flexibility: more adaptability, allowing you to navigate stressors with greater ease and resilience. 🏋🏻Greater Empowerment: to take proactive steps to care for your nervous system, fostering a sense of agency and control of your emotional well-being. 🫶Deeper Self-Compassion: for oneself and others, recognizing that experiencing triggers or overwhelm is a normal part of the human experience, while offering kindness and understanding in difficult moments. While nervous system restoration doesn't guarantee immunity from triggers or emotional overwhelm, it equips you with valuable skills, awareness, and resources to navigate life's challenges It's a journey of growth and healing that supports you in living a more balanced and fulfilling life. 🚦When you feel ready to join The RISE Nervous System Restoration Program 💚You will rebuild your internal home upon a foundation of 4 solid pillars 1.Education for Regulation 2.Empowered Embodiment 3.Experiential Learning 4.Engagement and Belonging From dysregulation to healing; are you seeking to break free from survival mode and restore a conscious love for living again? 🛑Pick up more information in the links below ⬇️ Live more connected and authentic even with life’s challenges, past, present & future #nervoussystemhealing #nervoussystemhealth #roseannereilly #nervoussystemregulation

if you know any young people who could benefit, I encourage you to get them along to ATHENIE’s ANGELS A Mental Health Promotion Charity. We are excited to announce our upcoming Emotional Resiliency Program, and we would like to extend a warm invitation for your students and/or members to participate. This program is designed to equip individuals with valuable tools and strategies to enhance emotional well-being and build resilience in the face of life's challenges. Who we are. ATHENIE’S Angels was created from the lost our daughter to suicide. The moment they took her away we sat there wondering… how did we get here and what can we do to help other young girls in that state of mind? Our Resiliency Building program brings young people together with professionals to teach them skills on how to cope with mental stress, how to survive mental challenges and the emotional rollercoaster that they will experience. Being able to support themselves and navigate themselves through these tough situations is the purpose of our Resiliency Building Programme. Program Details: WHAT: Emotional Resiliency Building programme. WHO: 20 young people ages 18-30 (group setting) WHY: To provide individuals the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to navigate challenges, adapt to change, and thrive in the face of adversity WHEN: 13 Week program / One 2-hour session per week (Monday eves starting April 1st, 2024. WHERE: Carlton, Vic HOW: Taught by 2-3 FACILITATORS (1 licensed professional and 2 psychology students. During this program, they will have the opportunity to engage in various interactive workshops, discussions, and practical exercises led by experienced mental health professionals. The program will cover topics such as stress management, coping skills, self-care practices, fostering positive relationships and more. By participating in this program, they will gain valuable insights and practical techniques to navigate life's ups and downs with greater emotional strength and resilience. Additionally, they will have the chance to connect with like-minded individuals who are also on a journey towards improved mental well-being. We believe that investing in our emotional well-being is crucial, especially in today's fast-paced and challenging world. Participants will learn skills that will stay with them for life, to equip them with knowledge that will help them get through the many life challenges that life will present them. This knowledge is something that will also make them able to listen and be there for their friends in need. To secure your spot in our Resiliency Building Program, please RSVP to [email protected]. Send us your full name, email address and phone number. If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to reach out to our team. We are here to support you every step of the way. Together, let's empower ourselves and our community to thrive in the face of adversity.

Building Resilience: Strengthening Mental Health During Times of Change

Resilience. It’s not only a character trait but it’s also something you can train yourself to be better at. It’s the mechanism, and the result, of you successfully adapting yourself to challenges and trials in your life. It involves flexibility in your emotional response, in your mental discipline, and your behaviours.  The world is demanding, and depending on your own psychology you may be demanding to yourself. People have expectations of you, and there are a number of stressful or difficult experiences you will have in any given day. Dealing with that and working out ways in which you can be resilient is an important life skill. Unfortunately, I’ve noticed that it seems to be in pretty short supply amongst folks today. First and foremost, it’s important to know that things happen and sometimes life dumps more than your fair share on you and you can be overwhelmed. You should recognise when this happens and have strategies to cope with these circumstances — generally it will mean that none of your normal processes of dealing with things will work and you’ll have to reset. It is extremely important in a challenging world to be able to bounce back and continue to operate after a setback (or several.) The world does not owe you anything, and life doesn’t always play fair. I’ve observed over time that the people who can rebound, regroup, and move on are the happiest, the most successful, and the admired. Train yourself in resilience. Learn how to pick yourself up and clear your mind. You don’t need to run away from the problem or situation, and if you find yourself needing to take time off or in a state where you can’t do your regular job even after a setback, that should be a sign that you need to work on your resilience skills. The APA has a bunch of great resources (https://lnkd.in/ghDARZK4) on resilience, and I’d recommend incorporating these tactics into your regular mental health training regime. 

Resilience is key in sports

Where do athletes develop the ability to speak like this? Clearly Tom Brady is a smart guy, but the cynic in me thinks that it is possible it's deliberate that we are so far behind in the ability to communicate like this in Australian sport. There are smart people everywhere you care to look in sport, likely with strong messages that would do well to be heard. But are they availed the platform to do so? Do we even want to hear it? Does the media want us to hear it? Or have we resigned ourselves to only hearing the obligatory pre/post match interview, press conference, and occasional tear filled apology following an indiscretion? It feels that we are missing a significant opportunity to promote our sport (whichever it may be) to wider audiences, as words such as these apply across your whole life, not to a particular sport. Admittedly athletes in America are held (and paid) in much higher regard, so they must learn these skills or fall behind in some aspects of their career. Regardless, it is a video worth watching and sharing with young athletes about the importance of resilience, which is so important today.

𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 Tom Brady spoke about the importance of resilience and how you respond to failure: "𝑌𝑜𝑢'𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑,𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙." 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲? Liu et al. (2020) argued that there is 'no current consensus' on a definition of resilience. Personally, I like Kalisch et al.'s (2017) focus on resilience as an outcome: "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠" (p.3). 𝗧𝗼 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗱? A recent meta-analysis by Schäfer et al. (2024), of 101 studies, revealed that interventions to enhance resilience yielded a small, but positive impact on mental distress, and resilience factors (i.e., coping). These findings concur with another meta-analysis containing 268 studies, which revealed that resilience interventions have a small, but statistically significant effect Liu et al., 2020). It appears that resilience interventions may be more effective for older people (Schäfer et al., 2024), children/adolescents (Liu et al.,2020), females (Liu et al., 2020), and individuals who were exposed to trauma (Liu et al., 2020). 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲? Liu et al.'s (2020) meta-analysis explored the intervention approach as a moderating variable and identified these three techniques as having the largest effect sizes: 1️⃣Mindfulness (i.e., meditation techniques) 2️⃣ Psychoeducation (i.e., developing knowledge of different coping strategies) 3️⃣ Social Support (i.e., building one's support network) It’s interesting that Brady alludes to the importance of social support in this video: “𝐷𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠? 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼’𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑒” To promote resilience, it appears that offering training mindulness, social support strategies, and maximising social support are very important in facilitating the maintenance and quick recovery after exposure to stress.

Professor Adam Nicholls shares a post on how American footballer Tom Brady speaks about developing resilience to help manage failure in sport. In this post Mindfulness is listed as one of the main strategies to develop resilience. Mindfulness can help in becoming more self aware, help manage stress and cope with challenging thoughts and emotions. Together all of these help in developing resilience, skill that is needed in all sports. #mindfulness #resilence #sportpsychology #mindfulnessinsport

Corporate workplace resilience programs are trending, and for good reason. Tailored for early life resilience training interventions, this article is very relevant to workplace L&D and wellbeing initiatives. https://lnkd.in/g2xtZKws Resilience interventions can boost wellbeing, and are effective at improving the outcomes of people who are at a moderate to high risk of developing a mental illness. Self-awareness, and applying simple steps regularly can help us self-intervene when overwhelm and distress threatens our well-being and performance.  Addressing challenge sooner helps us adapt “in play”, take a proactive stand that reflects our reality, and can result in personal growth opportunities as well. Resilience programs make a difference - for willing and engaged volunteers. Participants who actively volunteer are more like to enjoy the benefits with a clinical difference in positive outcomes, in areas like hope and personal control. To be effective, resilience programs have to have buy-in. Training is less likely to be effective if programs are mandated or do not take into account an individual’s personal circumstance. Get the desired impact by educating your people on why this program is useful for them, and how it offers personal and professional advantage. “The best we can do is equip people with the best possible tools that we know can potentially help to create a more positive overall trajectory,” Dr Jessica Schleider, Associate Professor at Northwestern University in Illinois #resilience #performance #L&D #wellbeing #humancapital #organsiationalpsychology #iopsychology