Is There a Link Between Trama and Resilience?

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I've always thought that one of the strangest expressions that we have is that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. And i'm not sure that that's really true at all. It's certainly not true when you've got a lot of layers of hardship. With poverty, if you've got am job, nowhere to go, you know, you can't get out of the house,. certainly it's much, much harder to be resilient. But boy, is at hard work every day to get up and try and make the best of what you've got. That's tough. I reat, she recently taken myself off inste graham because my 29 year old niece said

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