Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive
Attributes of Resilience Future Orientation
The United States takes in most of the world's refugees.
Resilience is built by attention and intention.
The Ability to Love New People
Attributes of resilience.
We don’t see the world as it is, but rather as we are.
True grief never goes away. We learn to live with it. After a while our friends stop asking and we stop discussing our sorrows. It doesn't help us that much and we realize that almost everyone who we...
Change may be gradual, but our realization of it comes in bursts.
But even with our maturity, we must see our constraints in order to break free from them. Meridel Le Sueur wrote, Survival is resistance.
Desire to heal.
We have the capacity to build happiness into our lives with humor, concern for others, and gratitude.
The Ability to Calm Down
Flexibility
Started the Thrive Project with a group of mental health professionals. We trained mentors from different cultures to be cultural brokers on mental health issues.
Everything interesting happens at borders.
The Ability to Pay Attention
One of psychologist Martin Seligman’s early research projects involved giving students one of two assignments— they could do a good deed or they could give themselves a treat. He asked them to rate th...
My definition of wealth has varied across the years