“Resilience is our capacity to cope. It’s our capacity to respond to disappointments, difficulties, and disasters in our lives in flexible, adaptive, and skillful ways. Often, we have learned ways of responding to life events that are not so adaptive or skillful, but they’re part of our unconscious conditioned repertoire. We’ll do them automatically without thinking. Because the brain has neuroplasticity, because it’s quite capable of creating new neurons, creating new connections between the neurons, creating new circuits and new neural pathways, we can learn new behaviors, even create new habits of behaving well and installing those in our long-term memory so that we can be far more resilient going forward. We can be far more flexible and adaptive.”
Linda Graham, MFT, Psychotherapist,
meditation teacher, and author of
Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain
For Maximum Resilience and Well-Being
