Five tips to develop resilience
Resilience is a valuable skill to learn and practice every day. It helps us manage challenges, adapt to struggles, recover, and grow, ultimately improving our lives. Paula Stephens, Abby's Impact: Realizing Resilience Program Coordinator, shares five tips to help increase your resiliency.
1. Mindset hack: Don’t believe everything you think
Caught in a spiral of ‘what ifs’ or ‘I’m not good enough’? That’s your brain playing tricks. Learn to recognize these thoughts and change your narrative.
2. Treat yourself like a friend: Self-compassion isn’t a weakness—it’s a strength. You will never hear another person's voice more than you hear your own. Learn how to use self-compassion as your super power.
3. When in crisis: Breathe, then choose: Pause. Inhale. Exhale. In that space between stimulus and response—you hold the power to choose your next best move.
4. Gratitude isn’t about sunshine—It’s about anchors: When life gets messy, gratitude helps you notice what’s still solid. It’s not pretending everything’s fine—it’s remembering what’s good when it doesn't feel that way.
5. Resilience isn’t solo work—It’s social: You don’t have to go it alone. Connection builds resilience. Community sustains it.
Sign up for Abby’s Impact, a learner-centered resilience and mental health education program offered at no cost to participants. Abby’s Impact will help you:
Master your mindset.
Explore the power of self-compassion.
Build real-time coping skills.
Practice real-world gratitude (no toxic positivity required).
Connect with others and grow stronger together.