Dr. Tara Narula

no matter what I get hit with or slammed with, I can still enjoy my life.

I can thrive.

despite all that there is still this well of strength this fight that can be brought out inside you when this happens and when i started to dive into the research psychologically what fascinated me was exactly what you said that i think a lot of people think if i get hit with something i'm going to fall apart and when i interviewed psychologists and they said to me no that that is actually the small fraction of people that develop ptsd in the setting of trauma

The majority of people are going to be okay when something happens.

And I thought, why don't we tell people that?

That's actually really empowering to know that no matter what happens, I'm going to be okay.

And then the second thing they taught me, which is that resilience is a skill.

It is something that is not just fun.

fixed.

You either have it or you don't.

It is something that you can absolutely strengthen and build just like a muscle.

And again, it was like, here's something that's really powerful information that people don't know.

And so it was really important for me to kind of tell people both of those things.

You have this real amazing gift inside you, but also you can practice it.

You can grow it.

You can build it.

And that's a really important, empowering thing for people to understand.

Yeah, and that's another interesting question.

And I think when you listen to or read the psychology research, they all have different definitions.

And so for me, it was important to kind of cultivate my own definition.