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Resilience is the capacity to withstand traumatic and stressful experiences.

People who are resilient draw on strengths in themselves, their relationships, and their communities to help them overcome adversity. Resilient people often find meaning even in times of trouble and gain confidence from overcoming adversity. In this way, resilience can contribute to a deeply satisfying life.

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8 Ways to Honor Yourself

Although we may think of low self esteem as something that teenagers suffer through, it can impact us at any stage and age.

8 Ways to Move Beyond Jealousy

I know that the fastest way to despair is by comparing one’s insides with another’s outsides.

Accepting Things I Cannot Change & Channeling Temporary Defeat

Life, reality, recovery and other seemingly “no-brainers” more often than not find a way to stop our progress.

Finding a Positive Path Through Life’s Challenges

It is easy to feel happy, content and hopeful when things are going well. What about when life becomes stressful?

The New Presidential Directive

Last year I helped to design, implement, and analyze a survey for military families.

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An Open Book: Letting Recovery Become Reality

“We’ve got to approach that problem or boulder in our lives, acknowledge its existence and realize it’s not worth trying to carry it in moving forward. We need to find the tools life offers us, utilize their purpose, and break through.”

Videos

The Tap Code

Your browser does not support the video tag. Bob Shumaker, a former POW in Vietnam, describes how he and his fellow prisoners developed...

Sorting out the good from the bad

 Your browser does not support the video tag. Dr. John Norcross on the dangers of self-help

We are what we choose to think

 Your browser does not support the video tag. Louise Hay, the best-selling self-help author who claims to have cured herself of cancer through...

A survivor’s story

 Your browser does not support the video tag. Michelle, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, struggles with the changes in her life. In addition to...

Remembering to exhale

 Your browser does not support the video tag. Dr. Michael Baime, director of the University of Pennsylvania Program for Stress Management, tells us...

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