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City Wellness ____ Newsletter

This week’s topic in the City Wellness Center ____ is resilience, or “the power to overcome.”

Julia Hone, a famous doctor, tells us how we can ____ with difficult times by cultivating our inner strength.

No life is free from ____.

Whatever life path we choose, we all experience ____.

This can take the form of illness, ____, failure in exams, family and relationship issues, or other stresses.

To cope, we all need the ____ to overcome difficulties, which is known as resilience.

Resilience means springing back, just like a bouncy ball after hitting the ____.

If you are resilient, you can bounce back and ____ quickly from the hard times you experience.

Furthermore, you learn and ____ from adversity.

So, resilience is the ability to handle, ____ from, and benefit from difficult life events.

There are countless stories of successful people who not only survived adversity but used it as a stepping stone to ____.

Fairy tale writer Hans Andersen ____ that his childhood poverty, the early loss of his father, and his experience of being disrespected were the sources for his most popular stories.

“The hardship was a ____ blessing that inspired me to write stories like The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, and The Ugly Duckling.”

Athlete Aimee Mullins also ____ her challenges as an opportunity.

She was born with a medical condition that ____ in losing both legs beneath the knee to surgery.

She competed against ____ without disabilities in a national competition and participated in the Paralympics in 1996.

Her career also ____ modeling, acting, and public speaking.

She ____ her physical condition is not a disability but the very thing that opened the door for her amazing potential.

Both people succeeded not “____” adversity but thanks to it.

This is the real ____ back.

You might think “____, these are exceptional people.”

____, we are all born with the potential for resilience.

Just like these people, we all can develop the strength to quickly recover from a crisis that could otherwise ____ lasting damage to our mental health.

The good news is that resilience is ____ a muscle.

You can build it up through practice, by developing thoughts, behaviors, and habits that ____ you to recover from painful or stressful events.

Here are three basic strategies to build up this “resilience ____.”

First, accept and respect adversity as a natural ____ of life.

This doesn’t mean ____ passive, but understanding that some changes in life can cause suffering or stress.

Then, instead of feeling singled ____ and thinking, “Why me?”, you can face whatever happens and focus on what you can change, not what you can’t.

Embracing ____ and unexpected obstacles in your life can help you confront them as a learning process.

____ of all the success stories that could never have happened without adversity!

Second, have “me time,” that is, personal ____ to look after yourself.

Take a break and be in the present moment, neither regretting the past nor ____ about the future.

Walk, meditate, write, draw, listen to music, or ____.

If you don’t know where to start, the STOP technique ____ be a great meditative technique.

It works like this. Stop whatever you are doing. Take a few ____ breaths.

Observe your emotions and thoughts as they are, ____ judging them as good or bad.

Proceed with ____ you were doing.

Or start something different ____ on what you observed.

Now go forward with your ____.

Allow yourself to ____ for help from people whom you can trust, such as friends, family members, or counselors.

Talking about your issues with someone can help you see your situation with more clarity and respond to it with more ____.

Good communication ____ resilience.

This is the reason why resilient people ____ to create good support networks.

I am not saying that ____ strategies are easy or remove all stress and suffering.

Still, I urge you to practice them whenever you can, particularly ____ you are under stress.

Remember that there is no better time to build your “resilience muscle” ____ the moment when you are in the middle of adversity and uncertainty.

Practicing resilience during tough times helps you endure and ____ stronger.

However, you can also apply these strategies to everyday small stresses or ____ challenges.

Then ____ will gradually become more able to deal with big ones.

Resilient people tend to be happier and more fulfilled ____ they are less afraid of failing or challenges.

So, building resilience is the key not only to overcoming adversity but also to ____ a happy life.