We are sometimes asked: “can resilience be trained?” As if resilience were a quality that people are born with, like superheroes. To them we respond: “yes, resilience can be trained” - the evidence is irrefutable. How do we know?
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Resilience is crucial to our mental health and overall happiness. Resilient children are able to overcome challenges and “bounce back” from difficult times more quickly and more easily.
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How a family conceptualizes, copes with, and reframes struggles builds their resilience. Resilient families are ones that are able to recover quickly from struggle and adversity. Adversity gives families an opportunity to strengthen their relationships with each other and as a unit. If families are able to come together and intentionally find positive meaning in their struggles, they can emerge on the other side of challenges with a stronger sense of understanding and connection.
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Resilience is one of those qualities that we slap on college applications and resumes, the majority of us simultaneously expecting to possess it while hoping we would never be tested. It is also a word that has been thrown out very often in the last two months, largely by marketers in the name of solidarity or by companies that have assumed the responsibilities of predicting our near futures… but what does it actually mean to have resilience?
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