Resilience Building

Summary

Resilience is not a fixed personality trait you either have or lack — it is better understood as the ordinary outcome of a handful of trainable processes (reappraisal, meaning, connection, a regulated nervous system, recovery), so the honest message is *the ingredients are real and worth practising* while the packaged "resilience programme that permanently toughens you up" is sold far harder than its evidence carries, and — read in the recovery register — resilience is about a nervous system that returns to baseline after a hit, not one that armours itself to take more hits. ---