Emotional Resilience

The future can feel scary and uncertain.

Questions about safety, stability, and what lies ahead can feel constant and overwhelming. 

But the good news is that humans have a remarkable capacity for resilience. Emotional resilience isn’t a fixed trait, but rather a set of skills that can be strengthened with intentional practice.

In this guide by Dr. Larissa Dooley, we offer tools and practices for building emotional resilience — individually and in community with others — so we can face what’s to come with strength, and still live lives full of meaning, joy, and connection.

These are the stages of developing emotional resilience. This framework is based on resilience research and the work of Dr. Rick Hanson.