Welcome to Untangle, the podcast from five-star app meditation studio and Muse, the brain-sensing

headband that gives you feedback on your meditation practice.

I'm Patricia Carpest, co-founder of Meditation Studio, and your host on Untangle, along with

my co-host, Muse founder, Ariel Garden.

Today's guest is Dr. Robert Brooks, a clinical psychologist and author

of over 17 books, including the one we discussed today called The Power of Resilience.

He defines resilience as the capacity to bounce back from adversity and share some of the

characteristics of those who take the attitude that we have

control over how we respond to things versus those who become easily overwhelmed.

We are the authors of our own lives.

He shares many tangible actions and even small staffs we can take to become more resilient.

Now, here's Dr. Robert Brooks.

Thank you so much for being with us on Untangle today. It's a pleasure to be on the show. So I want to start with this very broad question

because we're going to talk today about resilience, which is such a huge topic and such an important

one. And I would like for you to define resilience for us.

It's an excellent question because different people have different definitions.

But the definition I basically use is that resilience implies the capacity to bounce back from adversity.

Every one of us is going to experience some challenges, some much greater than others.

But resilient people problems as things to be overcome rather than be overwhelmed by.

They see problems as things to be solved. And thus, they don't feel paralyzed when adversities arises, but rather they tell

themselves, what are some strategies I can use to deal with this particular adversity?

All of us at some point are going to face certain challenges.

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