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Helen Duyvestyn 15/06/21 Helen Duyvestyn 15/06/21

Seven Ways to Improve Resilience

Improving your mental resilience

If you are suffering from low mood, stress, anxiety or simply not feeling as well mentally as you feel you should be – there are a number of avenues you can pursue to help improve your mental well-being. Building resilience ideally needs to take a multi-pronged approach. There isn't just one factor that contributes to mental illness, feeling stressed or mental well-being - and likewise the best forms of treatment use a number of modalities to support recovery.

Helen Duyvestyn 30/04/17 Helen Duyvestyn 30/04/17

How to find your Best Self

We all think and perhaps even daydream about our future – how it all might look – and try to hope for the best. Many times we can’t see a clear path from now to that gleaming future.

The ‘Best Possible Self’ exercise was developed to help us visualize what we might be in the future and through increasing optimism and improving mood, help us get there. The best possible self is a researched and studied approach to changing our mindset, improving coping skills and elevating levels of happiness.

To understand how to implement the Best Possible Self Exercise in our daily routine, we will first discuss the origin of this approach and then move on to the instructions and step-by-step guide.