How can you maintain your resilience?
Resilience is a person’s ability to recover from difficulties and stressors. It is the ability to be strong and adaptable after something negative happens.
There are many resources that can help you consider your habits and motivators, and assist with the development of strategies for staying strong, optimistic and well.
- Caring for your mental health - created as part of Manulife’s What’s on your mind?® series with Dr. Thomas Ungar, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Chief of Psychiatry at North York General.
- Living with mental illness
- Videos produced by Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's Hospital
- 90:10 - The single most important thing you can do for your stress
- 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?
- The Mood Gym - Learn cognitive behavior therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression
- Positive Psychology and the Science of Happiness website
- Canadian Recovery Inventory - This resource centre created by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) includes more than 1,000 recovery-oriented policies, programs, practices, and research articles, as well as personal accounts. It allows users to search by keyword, resource type, topic, geographic location, and language to find resources relevant to their needs and interests.