Month: November 2017

Preparing Emotionally for Difficult Times Resilient people do not wait passively for crises to strike, so that they are caught by surprise. Rather, they are prepared and ready for the worst. Crisis preparation includes:...

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...

Spiraling Upward Happiness is good medicine. Growing research shows that happiness strongly and inversely correlates with mental disorders. It is strongly linked to mental health—resilience, self-esteem, optimism, and so forth....

Managing Strong, Distressing Emotions At times, we will all experience strong, negative emotions, such as fear, anger, sadness, guilt, and grief. When extreme, such emotions can degrade health, performance, and...