How to Increase Resilience

It’s perfectly normal to feel weak, lost, and unable to cope. Here is a collection of thoughts to remind us of our inner reserves of resilience. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/5CpP4 Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/317n9 The School of Life runs a global online psychotherapy service that assists clients from over 40 countries. To find out more and book a session today, please visit our website: https://t.ly/xP3EL FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects here: https://bit.ly/3wEO9uv “It’s only too easy to get discouraged. Here are a few things to keep in mind: Everyone fails sometimes; some people just hide it better than others. There is always a Plan B. Perfection was never on the cards. You’re allowed to cry uncontrollably sometimes. Some people will love you always - whatever. Those that matter don’t mind; those that mind don’t matter. You could always go and live on an island somewhere far away - truly. You have enough time to give this many more goes. A fear is not a fact. Every good life is a mess - in parts. 3 a.m. alone in bed is not the optimal moment at which to derive a true picture of reality. Wait - always - for the perspective of dawn. The only people we can think of as without regrets are those we don’t yet know very well. Going a bit mad for a time is a very common and ultimately very sane rite of passage. It sounds heartless to say: ‘you’ll get over it’. But you will. Most of what we think will kill us won’t.” MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Watch more films on SELF in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLself SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Drew Casson Title animation produced in collaboration with Vale Productions https://www.valeproductions.co.uk/ Music License FIQDMVI2CCEHXMAC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices