--- title: Emotional Resilience description: Emotional resilience is the capacity to adapt to stressful situations and bounce back from adversity. Learners will understand the cognitive strategies, coping mechanisms, and behavioral habits that build psychological strength and emotional stability. category: health-medicine subcategory: mental-health difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/mental-health-emotional-resilience --- # Emotional Resilience Emotional resilience is the capacity to adapt to stressful situations and bounce back from adversity. Learners will understand the cognitive strategies, coping mechanisms, and behavioral habits that build psychological strength and emotional stability. ## Available Resources 4 Videos • 2 Books • 3 Courses • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. APA - The Road to Resilience The American Psychological Association's topic hub gathers its guidance on building resilience, including the Road to Resilience article, research summaries, and related APA publications. Readers get an authoritative baseline set of habits and supports that research links to recovery. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience **Tags:** resilience, apa, mental-health, stress-management, coping-skills ### 2. Greater Good Science Center - Resilience UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center collects research-based articles, definitions, and practices on resilience to stress, trauma, and everyday difficulty. Readers come away with concrete exercises and an understanding of the evidence behind each one. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/resilience/definition **Tags:** resilience, positive-psychology, well-being, stress-management, berkeley ### 3. brenebrown.com Brené Brown's site provides research-based insights on vulnerability, courage, resilience, and leadership. It features articles, books, talks, podcasts, and online courses (such as Dare to Lead) to help you build grit and courageous, wholehearted living. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://brenebrown.com **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship ### 4. Mind Site of the UK mental health charity Mind, with plain-language guides to conditions such as anxiety and depression, treatments and therapies, self-care and coping strategies, and how to find support. Readers learn to recognise difficulties and identify practical next steps. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://mind.org.uk **Tags:** mental-health, coping-strategies, self-care, anxiety, wellbeing ## Videos ### 1. The gift and power of emotional courage | Susan David Psychologist Susan David's TED talk argues that suppressing difficult emotions undermines wellbeing, introducing emotional agility. Viewers finish able to distinguish avoidance from acceptance and to label feelings in a way that keeps them aligned with their values. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDQ1Mi5I4rg **Tags:** emotional-agility, resilience, ted-talk, psychology, emotion-regulation ### 2. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Angela Duckworth TED) Angela Duckworth's TED talk arguing that sustained effort toward long-term goals predicts achievement better than talent or IQ, based on her studies of cadets, students, and salespeople. Introduces grit as a measurable trait and its link to growth mindset. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H14bBuluwB8 **Tags:** grit, perseverance, motivation, goal-setting, ted-talk ### 3. How to Make Stress Your Friend - Kelly McGonigal TED TED Talk on reframing stress for better performance, recommended in leadership subs. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcGyVTAoXEU **Tags:** stress-management, mindset, health-psychology, resilience, stress-response ### 4. The Power of Vulnerability **Author:** Brené Brown Researcher Brene Brown reports on six years of qualitative work on shame and connection, arguing that people who feel worthy of belonging are those willing to be vulnerable. Viewers get a research account, not a set of techniques. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o **Tags:** vulnerability, shame-resilience, empathy, ted-talk, connection ## Podcasts ### 1. Mental Illness Happy Hour **Author:** Paul Gilmartin Long-running interview podcast in which comedian Paul Gilmartin talks candidly with guests about depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction and difficult childhoods. Listeners hear honest first-person accounts of mental illness and recovery that reduce isolation and shame around seeking help. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://art19.com/shows/mental-illness-happy-hour **Tags:** mental-health, lived-experience, trauma, addiction, depression ### 2. The Anxious Achiever **Author:** Morra Aarons-Mele Interview podcast hosted by Morra Aarons-Mele on anxiety, depression and mental health at work, pairing personal stories from leaders with clinicians and researchers. Listeners gain practical ways to manage anxiety in a career and to lead or support anxious colleagues. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-anxious-achiever-6898999572757041155/ **Tags:** anxiety, workplace-mental-health, leadership, depression, emotional-resilience ### 3. The Hilarious World of Depression **Author:** John Moe Public radio podcast in which host John Moe talks with comedians and other guests about their experiences of clinical depression and related conditions, treatment and recovery. Listeners hear frank accounts that reduce stigma and show how people live with and manage depression. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1181589175 **Tags:** depression, lived-experience, stigma, mental-health, recovery ## Courses ### 1. Less Stress, Better Health **Author:** Kyle Smith An American Psychological Association course on the psychology and physiology of stress: types and sources of stressors, effects on thinking, relationships and the cardiovascular and immune systems, and allostatic load. Learners finish able to apply evidence-based coping and resilience strategies. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/less-stress-better-health **Tags:** stress, stress-physiology, coping-strategies, resilience, health-psychology ### 2. Resilience and Mental Health University of Toronto course, roughly five hours across seven modules, on stress, anxiety, and burnout in clinical work. Participants finish able to apply specific coping interventions used at University Health Network and explain the psychology behind them. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/health-resilience-healthcare-workers **Tags:** courses, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ### 3. The Science of Well-Being **Author:** Laurie Santos Yale course taught by Laurie Santos on the psychology of happiness, covering common misconceptions about what makes people happy, cognitive biases behind them, and evidence-based practices such as gratitude, savoring and exercise. Learners complete weekly rewirement exercises and build one sustained wellness habit. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being **Tags:** positive-psychology, happiness, well-being, habit-formation, behavior-change ## Books ### 1. Option B **Author:** Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant Sandberg's account of grief after her husband's death, interleaved with Grant's summary of research on recovery. Readers finish understanding the three beliefs that slow recovery and practical ways friends and workplaces can help someone through loss. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0753548275?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, health-and-wellness ### 2. The Resilience Factor **Author:** Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte Two Penn psychologists present the cognitive-behavioral resilience training used in their research programs, built on identifying thinking traps and disputing them. Readers finish with seven testable skills and a self-assessment of their own resilience profile. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767911911?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, health-medicine, health-and-wellness --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. 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