Three Strategies for Resilient People in the Darkest Times

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Three strategies to underpin all of my work, and they're pretty readily available to us all. You can learn them right here to day. Resilient people don't diminish the negative, but they also have worked out a way of tuning into the good. This is a vital learnable skill for resilience. We now live in an era where we are constantly bombarded by threats all day long. Our poor brains treat every single one of those threats as though they were a tiger. The real tragedy is that not enough of a seem to know this any longer. And yet it kind of feels like this is the default state for the world. Like so many people right now are just grieving a

Life can throw curveballs that you feel wholly unprepared for-- just ask Dr. Lucy Hone, a resilience researcher, who tragically lost her 12-year-old daughter in a road accident. While all of us may experience tragedy in our lives, not everyone knows how to manage it. In this episode, Dr. Hone shares the strategies that got her through unimaginable adversity and—in doing so—helped her find meaning through loss. Co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, Hone's research is published internationally and her PhD was acknowledged for its outstanding contribution to wellbeing science at the World Congress of Positive Psychology in 2019. Her grief work now encompasses the best-selling book, Resilient Grieving, alongside other engaging online content. Hone's work has been featured in several documentaries by the BBC, Swedish Television, The Bolt Report Australia and TVNZ. To learn more about "How to Be a Better Human," host Chris Duffy, or find footnotes and additional resources, please visit: go.ted.com/betterhuman

Lucy's Resilient Grieving course will be published this week here: https://new-zealand-institute-of-wellbeing-resilience.teachable.com