When life gives you lemons, how exactly do you make lemonade?

Well, how about with a little secret ingredient called resilience?

This is the ability to adapt and bounce back after adversity.

Welcome back to Savi Psychologist, I'm your host, Dr. Jade Wu.

Every week I'll help you meet life's challenges with evidence-based research, a sympathetic

ear and zero judgment.

Today, we dig into resilience as a skill that you can actually learn.

But before we get to resilience, I'm excited to tease a little bonus segment for today

and for the next few weeks. At the end of these next few episodes, we'll have a short Q&A

with Dr. Chloe Carmichael, author of the new book, Nervous Energy, Harness the Power of Your Anxiety.

If you identify as a high achiever who's always striving for perfection and you struggle with

the anxiety that comes along with it, stick around. You won't want to miss Dr. Carmichael's

explanations about nervous energy and whether we can harness it for success.

Destiny's Child told us what it's like to be a survivor. Taylor Swift knows how to shake it

off and Elton John is still standing. What's the common thread? A little thing glinting in the

eye of the tiger called resilience. Resilience is the ability to adapt and bounce back after

experiencing stress and adversity, like bamboo canes that bend in the wind but don't break.

Think of a small mom-and-pop bookstore that's close to bankruptcy because, well,

Amazon has become such a giant competitor. The owners might show resilience by shifting their

marketing strategy and finding a creative way to build a loyal local following.

Or think of a child falling off her bicycle and scraping her knee. She might show resilience

by getting back on that bike the next day and practicing again. Both the bookstore owners

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