Fight Permanence To Build Resilience
One important tool to help build resilience is a conscious changing of your mindset to recognize the non-permanence of your current situation. In the face of insurmountable adversity, it’s natural to believe that this situation will never improve, which is worsened by a loss of control. Predicting how we’ll feel in the future, called affective forecasting, is often skewed towards these negative outcomes. This can result in unnecessary stress and anguish, as opposed to a non-permanence mindset, which focuses on the good that is sure to come in the future. Sheryl Sandberg, co-author of Plan B: Fighting Permanence, recommends making a conscious choice to replace words like “always” and “never” with “sometimes” and “lately”, even within your own personal monologue.
To learn more about how she has used non-permanence to cope with times of grief and trauma, visit this link by OptionB.org