Thriving: Peak Functioning and Adaptive Coping

Although resilience building equips us to succeed generally, this section expands the innate strengths of resilience and applies them specifically to:

• Active coping, which is the opposite of avoidance and passively waiting for things to improve
• Building confidence. Confidence is a gift that permits us to thrive; it must be realistic and based on preparation and experience. How imagery can help.
• Flexibility and Creativity. Flexibility is being open to trying new approaches when old ways are not working. Creativity reveals new possibilities.