This is an ABC podcast.

Hi, it's All In The Mind on RN. I'm Lynne Malcolm.

This is a bittersweet moment for me and I'm feeling quite sad and unsettled.

After a wonderful nine years hosting All in the Mind

and many years in the ABC, I'm leaving the organisation.

Whilst busily holding back the tears and making my last programmes,

I've been reflecting on how we all cope with changes and challenges in our lives and how our sense of

ourselves is influenced by what happens around us. This has become even more relevant for us

in recent times as we lived through the COVID-19 pandemic. So today we take a look at resilience

and the skills that help us to cope and flourish through

life's changes.

We define resilience as a process of positive adaptation to some sort of adversity or stressful

life event.

So it could be their genes, their environment,

but also the coping mechanisms and the way they deal with

the particular stressor that they're dealing with,

but also external to them.

So things like their social support networks

and the access to community support or financial support,

whatever is needed to deal with that particular stressor.

And we'll hear how a successful Olympic athlete

overcame her many physical and personal hurdles

...