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Resilience Journal Prompts

  1. What has helped you get through hard times before?
  2. What is the hardest thing you have already survived?
  3. What did that experience teach you about yourself?
  4. What strengths did you use without realizing it?
  5. What keeps you going when things feel heavy?

Resilience Podcasts

  • APA — Building Resilience in the Face of Adversity
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    Psychologist George Bonanno discusses why people respond differently to major adversity and what research shows about adapting after difficult life events.
  • Road to Resilience — Mount Sinai
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    A resilience-focused podcast combining expert interviews with personal stories about trauma, burnout, difficult transitions, families, recovery, and adapting to major challenges.
  • How to Cultivate Resilience and Get Through Tough Times — Lucy Hone
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    Resilience researcher Lucy Hone discusses practical strategies she used after experiencing devastating personal loss and how people can keep functioning during major adversity.
  • The Adversity Psychologist
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    Hosted by psychologist Dr. Tara, this podcast combines psychology with real stories from people who have faced major adversity and had to rebuild.
  • The Resilience Podcast
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    Interviews and practical discussions about resilience, psychology, performance, work, relationships, and responding effectively to stress and setbacks.
  • Notes on Resilience
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    Explores what happens after adversity through conversations about recovery, leadership, personal experience, culture, and adapting when circumstances change.
  • APA — How to Build Kids’ Resilience
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    Psychologist Mary Alvord discusses helping children deal with everyday stress, disappointment, setbacks, and major challenges.

TED Talks About Resilience

  • 3 Secrets of Resilient People — Lucy Hone
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    One of the strongest resilience talks. Hone combines resilience research with her experience of losing her daughter and explains three practical ways people can respond to major adversity.
  • What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience — Jane Marie Chen
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    A personal talk about failure, burnout, rebuilding, and what resilience can look like when life does not return to the plan you originally had.
  • How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are — Andrew Solomon
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    Explores adversity, identity, hardship, and actively finding meaning after experiences that cannot simply be undone.
  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance — Angela Duckworth
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    Focuses on persistence and continuing toward long-term goals despite difficulty, setbacks, and slow progress.
  • How to Make Stress Your Friend — Kelly McGonigal
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    Looks at changing how people interpret and respond to stress, including taking action and reaching out to other people rather than treating every stress response as harmful.

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