Mastering Resilience

How To Build Resilience

At some point in your life, you will have your emotional strength and stability tested when going through a difficult time. For some of us, these hardships come more often than others. It could be the loss of a loved one, an injury or illness, or an unexpected shift in a career. Building resilience gives you the tools to adapt to, manage, and recover from this kind of adversity. Life coaches and wellness coaches can help you develop these tools to help you become mentally stronger and to find balance in your life, even when things are tough. To help yourself bounce back from adversity, try these techniques: 

Stress Reduction Methods

When you are going through a tough time in your life, you can experience a lot of stress. This stress can prevent you from overcoming your hardships. To help reduce stress in your life in a healthy manner, incorporate meditation, yoga, exercise, or visualization. These methods will help you learn to manage unnecessary stressors and minimize necessary ones. 

Learn Healthy Coping Skills

To help build up your resilience, find something that will give you a period of peace and tranquility from negative thoughts during stressful times. Healthy coping skills may include:

• Spending quality time with friends and family
• Therapy
• Spirituality
• Participating in a hobby to occupy your spare time

Be Self Aware

Getting to know yourself will give you insight into your strengths and weaknesses and help you set realistic goals. Self-awareness will allow you to see what you might need to change about yourself or improve upon. Greater self-awareness will give you the ability to keep things in perspective so you can stop overstressing in minor situations while making things better when possible. 

Resilience Factors

There are a number of factors that contribute to building resilience. Life coaches will give you the tools to adapt and encourage you to develop so you can become the strongest version of yourself mentally. Some resilience factors include:

• Problem-solving skills
• Great communication skills
• Better self-esteem and confidence
• The ability to set realistic goals for yourself
• Learning to connect with others
• Successfully manage emotions and impulses
• Accept and adapt to unexpected change

Calgary Life And Wellness Coaching

We build our resilience by learning to cope with challenges. It is a process of adapting well in the face of trauma, significant stress, or tragedy. Many successful people learn not only to overcome these challenges but also embrace them. They understand that each challenge they face is a chance to learn and grow. Resiliency will be able to give you the innate ability to keep getting up when life knocks you down. Look to these challenges as a learning opportunity instead of letting them turn your world upside down. In the long run, you will live a happier and healthier life. 

At Jensen Wellness, our team of wellness and lifestyle coaches will help you design and implement a routine that addresses all of your goals to help you become the best version of yourself both physically and mentally while helping you develop healthy strategies to overcome stress in your life. To learn more about our wellness services, contact our team by calling 1-403-200-0199 or by filling out our online contact form.

FAQ

Q: Does a life coach help me with my personal and work life?
A: A life coach can help you in all aspects of your life both personal and work-related. They will be able to give you the tools to help you overcome challenges in your life while setting you on a path to reach your goals. 

Q: How often do you meet with a wellness coach?
A: This will depend on your own preferences. You can meet with your coach as frequently as once per week or only once every few weeks. 

Q: Can a wellness coach help me build resilience?
A: Yes, they can. A lifestyle and wellness coach will be able to give you the tools you need to better yourself to build resilience to overcome life's hardships.