Dr. Lucy Hone, a resilience researcher and co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing & Resilience, shares her powerful journey after the tragic loss of her daughter. She discusses the essential role of community support in overcoming challenges and the importance of confronting grief openly. Hone emphasizes resilience as a learning process through adversity, encouraging the integration of personal storytelling in healing. With practical strategies for acceptance and reflection, she illustrates how connections with loved ones can aid in cultivating resilience.

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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Lucy Hone, an international authority on resilience, shares her journey from profound personal loss to becoming a leading expert in grief management. She discusses how her research helped her navigate the tragic death of her daughter, challenging common myths about grief. Lucy emphasizes the importance of personalized resilience strategies and open conversations about loss in the workplace. She offers practical advice for leaders to support grieving employees and introduces her successful 'Coping with Loss' program to build resilience in teams.

We’ve all heard about the five stages of grief. But what happens when your experience doesn’t follow that model at all? Resilience researcher Lucy Hone began to question how we think about grief after a devastating loss in her own life. She shares the techniques she learned to help her cope with tragedy.If you like this show, please check out our new podcast, My Unsung Hero! And if you'd like to support our work, you can do so at support.hiddenbrain.org.