The Resilience Mindset: Transforming Any Adversity into Learning and Growth

Resilience – bouncing back from adversity – is a complex, dynamic skillset developed over years of dealing with the hard things in life – losing one’s health, losing a relationship, losing a job, losing one’s purpose. Clients become resilient, and come to know that they are, by learning to meet the inevitable disappointments, difficulties, even disasters of life skillfully, gracefully, effectively, finding the lessons in the losses and the growth in their sense of self.

[Published in Therapy Today, December 2019, by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy]