Resilience means the ability to adapt – to bounce back – after something difficult has happened.

Based on substantial trauma research, we know that there are five factors that build resilience.

Resilience builds what is needed to release the effects trauma and toxic stress and create the life you want, not the one you are driven to recreate. Resilience allows people to make meaning out of their life experiences, have a life that does not revolve around the trauma, and create the life they want instead of what is familiar.

Watch the videos below to learn about the Five Resilience Factors and how you might focus on these to make a positive difference along a healing journey.