SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MOTIVATION

Once you believe you are strong emotionally, you will unconsciously act stronger than before and begin to take control over your emotional whims. – Senora Roy Life is a series of stories, and each one of us has a  unique story to tell . Billions upon billions of stories and no two are exactly the same. If the story of your life has been filled with more sad moments than happy ones, it’s time to change that. And the best place to start is within your head. You have the power to create the life you want. One crucial skill that will help you get there is learning how to become emotionally strong. The good news is emotional strength is like a muscle: the more you use it, the stronger it becomes. In this article, you’ll learn 17 things emotionally strong people don’t do … so you can start creating the existence you’ve always imagined for yourself. They don’t beg for attention. Emotional strength means confidence, and confident people don’t need to constantly be the cente...

Stress affects people in all different ways – or at least, different people respond to it very differently. For some, it rolls off quickly, and they rebound in a reasonable amount of time. For others, it “sticks” and it takes much longer to recover, if ever. This is because people’s mental “resilience” varies enormously, which itself is based on both genes and environment. For people who aren’t so good at coping with stressors, it may be that they’ve never been particularly good at it—or it could be that they were once good, but the losses and blows of life have worn away their resilience over time. Luckily, it’s possible to build that skill back up. “We all experience terrible loss and hurdles at some point in our lives; the death of a loved one, a divorce or painful breakup, being fired from a job, suffering from an illness, or any number of life events that can be overwhelming and terrifying to confront,” Shannon Kolakowski, PsyD, author of  When Depr...

Would you like to be able to deal with life's ups and downs with strength and grace? Becoming mentally and emotionally strong isn't something that happens overnight. If you can start seeing every curveball life throws as a chance to practice being stronger, you'll begin accruing wisdom and clarity that you can put to the test when things really get hard. Identifying Challenges and Setting Goals 1 Understand what it means to be emotionally resilient.  Being emotionally and mentally strong, or resilient, means adapting well to things like stress, trauma, adversity, or tragedy. [1]  Resilience is not something you are born with — it is a process that can be learned by anyone, and is found in ordinary people. [2] Being emotionally strong doesn't mean you don't experience pain or suffering — resiliency is often learned when one is faced with an extremely painful situation. What it  does  mean is that you learn to rebuild or "bounce back" from these ...