More on strengthening your resilience: 1. Gain Control after a Failure: Failure distorts our perceptions such that our goals seem more out of reach and our capacities seem less up to the task. Combat defeatist misperceptions. 2. Find Meaning in Loss and Trauma: One of the main factors that distinguishes those who thrive emotionally after experiencing loss or trauma from those who do not, is their ability to eventually find meaning in their experiences and to derive purpose from them. 3. Disrupt the Urge to Brood and Ruminate: When we brood over distressing events we rarely gain insight into them. 4. Nurture Your Self-Esteem: The best way to ‘heal’ damaged self-esteem is to practice self-compassion. 5. Revive Your Self-Worth after a Rejection: The best way to ease emotional pain and revive your self-worth after a rejection is to adopt the habit of affirming aspects of yourself you value, qualities you possess that you find meaningful 6. Combat Loneliness by Identifying Self-Defeating Behaviors: Chronic loneliness is much more common then we realize and it has a devastating impact on our emotional and physical health. 7. Shed Excessive Guilt by Repairing Damaged Relationships: Excessive guilt occurs when our actions or inactions have harmed another person who has not forgiven us for our wrongdoing.
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