Am I resilient?

How resilient are you?

While that answer depends on how flexible you are in six categories, the good news is that resilience is not static. It is a skill that can be learned!

Emotional Regulation

Are you able to stay calm under pressure? Is your thinking style optimistic and solution-focused? How well do you understand why you feel how you feel and respond, rather than react, to your triggers?

Impulse Control

If you knew you could get double the marshmallows if you wait to eat it, would you eat it now or later? How many unused purchases are sitting in your closet right now?

Optimism

How deeply do you believe that things can change for the better? How much do you believe the world has your back?

Causal Analysis

When bad things happen, is that an indicator that nothing will ever go your way? When you hit an obstacle, is it your fault, someone else’s fault, or just life? When you fight with your partner, how much do you begin to think that you will never have the relationship you want?

Empathy

How well are you able to read other people’s emotional and psychological states from their body language? How much are you able to see things from another person’s point of view and feel what they must be going through?

Self-efficacy

How much do you trust yourself to solve problems? How much faith do you have in yourself to succeed? Would you pick yourself as a partner?

People who are resilient use skills in the six areas above to flexibly bounce back from adversity. If you are resilient you can do things like ask for help, forgive, empathize even when you are hurt, stop buying what you don’t need, believe you can do it, or enjoy spending time alone.

Complete a questionnaire based on the Nicholson-McBride assessment.

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