How to Stop Drowning in Good—and Not So Good—Advice |
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To thrive, we don't need to follow every piece of wellness advice.
Understanding your resilience portfolio can point you to where you need to work.
Your portfolio may well promote greater thriving.
We now have many evidence-based approaches to helping people thrive, even after experiencing trauma and adversity. In recent years, we’ve made great strides in figuring out more strengths-based (and less symptom-focused) approaches to resilience.
That’s all great news, but sometimes it can feel like we are drowning in good advice (often mixed in with the not-so-good advice, which may be communicated even more loudly).
What’s lacking is some overarching framework that can help you, your clients, and your students. If you already jog five miles a day, will you get that much of a psychological boost from adding yoga to your routine? Or would you be better off investing in close relationships, developing your sense of purpose, or spending more time in nature?
The resilience portfolio framework provides that kind of guide. Based on studies with more than 20,000 participants in 10 countries from my own lab, as well as reviews of hundreds of papers from other researchers, we have found that people need........