How To Help Kids Gain Resilience And Thrive From Adversity

Resilience is one of the most important traits that helps a person succeed throughout their life and career. How do we set our children up early so they can thrive from adversity?

Dr. Jordan interviewed Meg Jay, Ph.D., author of Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience.

Nearly 75% of people experience adversity by the age of 20 (loss of a parent to death or divorce; bullying; alcoholism or drug abuse in the home; mental illness in a parent or a sibling; neglect; emotional, physical, or sexual abuse; having a parent in jail; or growing up alongside domestic violence).

How fear and chronic, cumulative stress affects the brain.

Why keeping secrets about your adversities is so harmful to kids; what predicts distress after adversity is not the severity of the event but how alone one feels afterward; discussed the value of girls sharing their stories at Camp Weloki and knowing they aren’t alone or crazy.

The benefits of being supernormal (having gotten through adversity).

What qualities/experiences best help kids adjust & become resilient?

Why girls are hardier than boys when subjected to stress & adversity?

The importance of focusing on how you survived vs just about your hardships or how you are broken.

Contact Meg Jay: Supernormal: The untold story of adversity and resilience

Contact Dr. Jordan: www.drtimjordan.com

For more info on the pressures & stressors girls experience & how to support them, read Dr. Jordan’s book, Sleeping Beauties, Awakened Women: Guiding the Transformation of Adolescent Girl