Is there a connection between resilience and spirituality? As we travel through life’s joys and sorrows, hopes, and fears, strengths, and adversities, how do we sustain meaning and our sense of self? And how do we respond as we navigate the challenges in our own lives and the world around us?
Why even consider resilience and spirituality in the same sentence? Resilience is about our capacity to adapt, bounce back, or even thrive in the face of challenges, stresses, and adversity. Resilience is a common occurrence, each of us suffers adversities in our lives and responds to them in some way. Similarly, spirituality is also a universal human experience. Spirituality can be understood broadly as a quest for meaning, purpose, the sacred, or something larger than ourselves, offering perspective and a higher vista to view our existence (Manning and colleagues, 2019; Niemiec and colleagues, 2020). Notably, the content of spiritual beliefs, experiences, and practices are as varied as human diversity across this planet.
Spirituality can be secular or non-secular, religious or not about religion at all. According to modern psychology, spirituality is one of 24 character strengths common to humankind—across time, cultures, countries, and beliefs (Niemiec and........