Building Resilience

Dr. Maryann Mercer, co-author of Change Your Underwear, Change Your Life, and Spontaneous Optimism—and host of the popular podcast, Positive Life Answers—teaches listeners to use solutions-focused tools and techniques for developing easy optimism habits, with the ultimate goal of creating the life he or she desires!

It’s been proven for many years that guided meditation is one of the most powerful alternative practices for shifting thought patterns and alleviating emotional distress. We all know how hard it is to succeed at something without a certain level of inner strength. Tim Grover, former personal trainer of NBA athletes like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Dwayne Wade, said it like this: “Mental Toughness doesn’t guarantee you’ll win, but playing without it pretty much guarantees you won’t.”

Dr. Maryann Mercer, co-author of Change Your Underwear, Change Your Life, and Spontaneous Optimism—and host of the popular podcast, Positive Life Answers—teaches listeners to use solutions-focused tools and techniques for developing easy optimism habits, with the ultimate goal of creating the life he or she desires!

Part memoir and part pop psychology presentation, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant is about the struggles that Sandberg faced after her 47-year-old husband's unexpected death in 2015. Option A - the life that Sandberg always thought she would have - was to grow old with her husband. Option B was to figure out how to live her best life without him. Sandberg and her husband Dave Goldberg, were on vacation, celebrating a friend's birthday in Mexico when he died.

Resilienz bezeichnet die seelische Widerstandskraft, die es Menschen erlaubt, Krisen zu überwinden und gestärkt aus ihnen hervorzugehen. Damit sind nicht nur schicksalhafte Katastrophen gemeint, sondern auch der alltägliche Stress, der uns zuweilen an den Rand eines Burn-Out bringt. Selbstwirksamkeit, Optimismus und Akzeptanz bilden darunter wichtige Merkmale, die nicht angeboren sind, sondern sich gezielt trainieren lassen. Hier hilft ein vielfältiger Werkzeugkasten, der Tools aus NLP, Selbstmanagement und Achtsamkeitstraining entlehnt.