For the longest time I’ve considered myself very resilient from facing adversity dealing with chronic illness since my teens.
I am, and yet, over the past eight years since my daughter’s chronic illness diagnosis, it’s felt like more than that.
When challenging times happen I don’t necessarily have to take the time to “bounce-back” and I don’t feel knocked down.
I use a personalized, strategic, live-time approach to overcome adversity.
I resilience everyday.
“My most recent “aha” on this topic came from a scholarly article[1] whose authors view resilience through a very different lens. They describe the process by which one form of response to a stressor (for example, a physiological reaction) can lead to another symptom (for example, an emotional response), and then to another (for example, an ineffective or awkward interaction or a feeling of hopelessness). They describe how these connections can become so automatic and tightly linked that they can become self-sustaining—creating spirals of negative outcomes that persist over time. From their perspective, resilience is about reducing, or damping down, these reverberations.
Any strategies and resources that people use to do this for themselves (such as taking a deep breath, applying a “reframing” strategy to view a problem as an opportunity, or drawing on social support) or for others (providing a calming presence, shifting the environment) are active ingredients in the resilience process.
This has led me to a reconceptualization of my own perspective on resilience. I am focusing much more of my attention on resilience as something we do than on resilience as something we are.”
~ Linda Hoopes (https://lnkd.in/gzhyYkTB)
[1] Kalisch et al. (2019) Deconstructing and reconstructing resilience: A dynamic network approach. Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol 14(5) 765-777.
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