Building and maintaining resilience

In this episode, Nat talks about the importance of being intentional about developing our resilience and shares ideas for how we can achieve this. We're all forced to navigate difficult situations throughout our lives, often with little warning, and the better prepared we can be, the less negative impact these testing times can have on us.

Increasing our self-awareness and making the effort to seek out opportunities that challenge us forces us to learn and evolve and can better prepare us for future hardship by clarifying our current skills and strengths, and also the areas of ourselves that we can improve on.

Nat makes reference to a fantastic TED talk 'The three secrets of resilient people' presented by Wellness and Resilience Expert, Dr Lucy Hone, in which the suggestion is shared that we make time to reflect and identify when we're not thinking or acting in ways that support our ability to be resilient. Dr Hone suggests we ask ourselves the simple, yet effective question, "is what I’m doing right now helping or harming me?" to trigger us to make necessary adjustments to our thoughts and actions to ensure we’re adequately armoured to take on life’s challenges.