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What Psychologists Say About Resilient People
Psychologists describe resilience as the capacity to respond to adversity. Resilient people can experience strong emotions yet still adjust well.
Most people think of resilience; they think or assume it means staying calm, positive, or unbothered in the face of stress. But resilience isn’t about being immune to negative emotions. It’s more about how you respond when those emotions show up.
The counterintuitive truth is that the path to being resilient means becoming more willing to experience your emotions. You are not managing your emotions when you suppress them—you're just accumulating…
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