Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by retired psychologist/ member @Joy Straw.

Resilience is the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties. The stronger our resilience the more easily we come back from adversity. Whether it be mental, physical or emotional difficulties, our resilience helps us.

‘Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.’ — American Psychological Association.

When we build strong, healthy relationships with loved ones and friends, we are able to give and receive needed support and help in good times and bad times.



When we make every day have meaning in our lives, we add to our resilience.

When we do something that gives us a sense of success and purpose every day these are always adding to our resilience.



Low resilience is generally created by major life events, such as divorce, a death, a job change or an illness, by the accumulation of a number of smaller stresses, or by chronic issues such as long-term illness, both mental and physical. People differ in their level of resilience. Some people are constantly trying to build it, while others appear to have an abundance.

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