Holistic Wealth With Keisha Blair
The Holistic Wealth Podcast with Keisha Blair – the weekly podcast that features celebrities, influencers, CEO's, and everyday people. The show will also showcase various experts on the key pillars of holistic wealth such as financial wellness, physical health, emotional wellness, and spiritual health. Hosted by Keisha Blair, Award-winning, bestselling author of Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons To Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity and Happiness and Founder of the Institute on Holistic Wealth. Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.instituteonholisticwealth.com
Holistic Wealth With Keisha Blair
What is Holistic Resilience? The New Resilience Frameworks for the 21st Century
When we talk about resilience, too often the conversation stops at “mental grit” or “pushing through.” But the truth is this: resilience isn’t about grinding harder. It’s about recovery. But in the 21st century, marked by global pandemics, mass caregiving crises, economic instability and high inflation, and unprecedented trauma, this outdated definition no longer serves us. Holistic Resilience reframes resilience as not just surviving adversity but rebuilding from the inside out—biologically, emotionally, financially, socially, and spiritually. It integrates nervous system recovery with identity reinvention, creating a blueprint for sustainable thriving after disruption. It’s about rewiring the nervous system after disruption. And for those who have been through trauma, who spend months or years in a state of hypervigilance, this recovery is both urgent and lifesaving. In this episode of the Holistic Wealth podcast, our topic is "What is Holistic Resilience? The New Resilience Frameworks for the 21st Century".
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Why We Need a New Framework for Resilience
The numbers speak for themselves:
- 70% of adults worldwide will experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. That’s 5.6 billion people alive today (WHO, 2023).
- Roughly 1 in 13 people globally will develop PTSD at some point.
- Long-term caregiving reduces life expectancy by an average of 9 years due to stress-induced telomere shortening (UCSF study).
- Trauma survivors are 2-3x more likely to develop chronic illness, depression, or financial instability.
- A landmark ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study found that people with 4 or more ACEs are 12x more likely to attempt suicide and 3x more likely to develop heart disease.