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Mental Health Moment 5 - Resilience · Life Lived Better

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  Welcome to another mental health moment brought to you by the
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  Life Live Better podcast. This is the short pause in the
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  day to check in with yourself. I'm Paula, and today we're
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  exploring resilience. Resilience is the ability to
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  bounce back when life throws challenges our way.
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  It's not about never struggling, it's about how we respond when
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  struggles come and they will come.
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  Think of it like a muscle. The more we practice using it,
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  the stronger it gets. Let's talk about some ways we
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  can build and improve resilience.
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  One of the ways is through our perspective.
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  So instead of focusing on only what went wrong, we need to ask
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  ourselves, what can we learn from this?
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  How can we grow through this? Shifting the story that we tell
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  ourselves makes those setbacks feel a lot less permanent.
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  Another tool is through connection.
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  Having supportive people around us, like our friends, our
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  coworkers, our family, that reminds us that we don't have to
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  face hard times alone. Even just one person who listens
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  and understands will make a huge difference.
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  Finally, resilience grows when we care for our bodies and our
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  minds. So sleep, movement, and
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  mindfulness, those may sound simple, but they really do give
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  us the energy we need to cope and adapt when life gets
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  overwhelming. Remember, being resilient
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  doesn't mean that we're unshakable.
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  It means that we can bend and not break.
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  We can recover without giving up means that we can keep moving
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  forward, even if we're just moving one step at a time.
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  The Life Live Better podcast thanks you for joining us for
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  this mental health moment. If this episode helped you,
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  share it with someone you think might benefit from it.
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  And until next time, take care of your mind because it's the
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  only one you've got. And don't forget that knowledge
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  leads to a life lived better.