Throughout this blog, we will explore how to build resilience and self-esteem after experiencing setbacks. Let’s talk about what resilience is!

Resilience is how we adapt in the face of tragedy, significant sources of stress, and adversity. This could involve several challenges, such as within the workplace, health issues, financial struggles, or relationship problems. Resilience involves being able to ‘bounce back’ from difficult experiences, but it also entails profound personal growth. Resilience takes time and can empower us to learn and withstand hard experiences. But how do we build and increase our resilience, especially after setbacks?

1. Foster wellness

Fostering wellness means taking care of our bodies. While you might have heard of the buzzword, self-care, it’s a legitimate strategy to help build resilience and is significant for our mental health. Why is this? It’s because stress and hardships are just as physical as it is emotional and mental. When we promote healthy and positive lifestyle factors in our lives, such as hydration, sleep, exercise, and nutrition. We can also practice mindfulness, such as yoga and journaling, to help restore hope, which is important for us to cope with setbacks that require resilience.

2. Embrace healthy and positive thoughts

How are speak and think about ourselves plays a vital part in how we feel and behave, especially in how resilient we are when we are faced with setbacks or obstacles. By trying to identify negative self-talk and work towards more positive, healthy self-talk, we can change how are respond to setbacks and build resilience.

3. Build Connections

Building and prioritizing connections can help remind us that we aren’t alone in setbacks. When we experience painful events, it can lead us to isolation. However, it’s essential to seek support and help from those we trust. Finding trust in others and those who are empathetic and compassionate can help support the skills to build resilience. We can join a group, whether this be a faith-based community, a local organization, or a group workout class.

Now, how do we build our confidence and self-esteem after setbacks? It’s important to have high self-esteem and be confident in ourselves. This is vital to our well-being and our future.

Acknowledging the pain. Acknowledging that this setback might have caused us can allow us to notice that setbacks do hurt. Acknowledge this hurt, give yourself self-compassion, and allow yourself to feel upset, angry, and frustrated. However, we often get too stuck in this loop, and it can set us back even further. Through this, acknowledging our feelings, understanding them, and then trying to move on. This can help us gain our confidence and self-esteem.
Leverage Your Strengths. Focusing on our strengths rather than our weaknesses is important, as we can focus more on building our existing skills and focus on what we excel at. While recognizing our weaknesses and limitations is important and involves a balanced approach. Focusing on strengths can lead us to greater success, fulfillment, and foster personal growth and improved well-being.
Make it a learning opportunity. Make your setback something you can learn from. Being ready and willing to fail, learn from our failures and setbacks, and move forward can help us build resilience, self-esteem, and confidence. Take time to reflect on what you learned from this setback, what went wrong, what went right, and know that this will help you grow in many areas of your life.
Believing in yourself and putting it into action. Doing this will help your beliefs become a reality. Acting as if you’ll achieve and hit all your goals, you will most likely achieve them. Maintaining a hopeful outlook can be beneficial to empower you to expect good things. Visualizing what you want, instead of worrying about what you fear, can help to stay positive, even when life isn’t going your way. Set small, achievable goals to create momentum. These small wins can help rebuild confidence and self-esteem. The key here is consistency.

Remember, building resilience and gaining confidence and self-esteem after a setback is not a destination; it’s a journey. This is a process involving ongoing self-assessment and proactive action. Your value is not defined by a setback, it’s how you respond to it. Your ability to rise, adapt, and continue to push forward will help restore confidence and self-esteem and propel you to greater things.

Thomas Edison once said, “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Keep pushing; the world is waiting for you to persevere

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