This resource can help you move from merely surviving your post-secondary experience to actually thriving by helping you build resilience and plan for stressful situations.
Developing a plan to get through potentially stressful situations can have a positive impact on both your personal and academic life.
Developing Personal and Academic Resilience
Many of us juggle personal, family, social, financial, workplace, and school demands. While we try to manage, any of us could be blindsided by an unexpected situation or overwhelmed when too many stressors happen at once.
Stress is a part of life. Stress is not always bad or the result of a negative situation. In fact, stress can help motivate us to develop positive coping strategies or find effective solutions to problems. Stress can be a positive force in our lives but too much stress can have the opposite effect.
Understanding how other people deal with stress can also improve your ability to be objective about how their actions may impact you. If we recognize that we all respond to stressors in our own way, we can also recognize that the behaviors of another person, which may seem inappropriate or problematic, could be that individual’s own struggle to deal with stress or adversity. Having a high level of resilience does not mean you will avoid stress. It means you will be able to adapt to it and recover more effectively from it.
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